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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Raising funds for a soldier of a foreign military is illegal under U.K., the Charity Commission told a London Chabad center
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The building was spray-painting with the word, “Khaybar,” which refers to battles between Muhammed and local Jewish tribes on the Arabian Peninsula at the dawn of Islam.
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A new website quietly launched by the Israeli military lets soldiers anonymously check whether their safety equipment complies with official standards.
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