Asaf Elia-Shalev is a senior reporter with JTA and is based in Los Angeles. He is also the author of “Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth,” which was published by UC Press in 2024.
Asaf Elia-Shalev
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Hadassah and the main organs of the Reform and Conservative Movements oppose the bill; AIPAC and the ADL support it
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The Samaritan tablet, on view in New York starting Dec. 5, disappeared after last going up for sale in 2016
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Dan Tadmor recently led Tel Aviv’s ANU – Museum of the Jewish People through a successful $100 million renovation
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The State Department cited Amana as “the largest organization involved in settlement and illegal outpost development in the West Bank"
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