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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Fast Forward El Al offers set prices to four destinations as Israelis face international flight cancellations
The announcement comes after public backlash against what many perceived as deliberate price increases by El Al
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Fast Forward With major airlines scrapping flights, getting to and from Israel has become a costly, often madcap endeavor
The threat of retaliation by Iran has caused weeks of cancelations, with no end in sight
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Fast Forward Canada revokes charitable status from two Jewish nonprofits that work in Israel
The Jewish National Fund has sued after Canada’s tax authority revoked its charitable status and that of the Ne’eman Foundation
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Some say Reses' Jewish identity clashes with the Christian nationalism of many on the so-called New Right, with which his boss affiliates
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Fast Forward Israeli military vows to stop flow of donations to soldiers, even from their parents
At least one nonprofit pledged to cover the legal expenses of soldiers arrested for accepting donations
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Fast Forward U.S. sanctions extremist Israeli group Lehava and several West Bank outposts
According to the State Department, those sanctioned have threatened or attacked Palestinian civilians or seized Palestinian land with impunity, imperiling American aims of quieting the conflict in the West Bank
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Fast Forward New regulations hinder donations of gear to Israeli soldiers, charities say
The donor pipeline that military officers say is critical to their troops’ safety in the field faces another hurdle
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Fast Forward Wikipedia’s operator rejects Jewish groups’ call to override editors on ADL trustworthiness
More than 40 Jewish groups told the Wikimedia Foundation that the decision to label the Anti-Defamation League “unreliable” makes the Jewish community less safe
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