Dina Kraft is a journalist based in Tel Aviv, she writes for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times where she reports on Israeli and Palestinian politics, culture and society. She can be reached at dinakraft.com and on Twitter @dinakraft.
Dina Kraft
By Dina Kraft
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News As Israel reopens in the wake of the pandemic, people struggle to adapt
This article is adapted from The Branch, a monthly podcast exploring individual relationships between Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians. The Branch is produced by Hadassah and created by Dina Kraft, a journalist based in Tel Aviv. Sign up here to be notified when new episodes are published. Note: Israel is reemerging from its long…
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Israel News Israel employs controversial tracking tool to fight surging COVID
A 27-year-old Pilates instructor was walking home from the beach in Jaffa on Saturday afternoon when she got an alarming text message. According to “an epidemiological investigation,” it said, she had been in contact with a Covid-positive person on the previous Saturday between 4 and 5 p,m., and now was “obligated to go into isolation…
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Israel News ‘I feel sad, helpless:’ 6 Palestinians on the prospect of Israel annexing the West Bank
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set Wednesday as the date when he might begin a process of unilaterally annexing sections of the West Bank — land that Palestinians see as illegally occupied and the heart of their future state. It is more than 2,100 square miles that has been fiercely disputed through decades of…
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News Israel’s schools reopen, then some close, leaving parents flummoxed
“Put on your masks,” a security guard instructed backpack-wearing adolescents Sunday morning as they streamed into their middle school in in northern Tel Aviv. They lined up to show him the signed declarations by their parents that they are fever-free. When one maskless boy said he forgot his, the guard shouted, “Anyone have a spare…
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Israel News Longing for Yesterday: a tribute to the late David Ehrlich of Tmol Shilshom
The bookstore café that David Ehrlich opened as a dream 26 years ago, a place that became a Jerusalem institution for people who appreciated words, was called Tmol Shilshom. It’s Hebrew for “Only Yesterday”, taken from the title of the great Hebrew writer Shai Agnon’s masterpiece. Ehrlich loved the novel, friends say, but also the…
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Life Breaking taboos: Jewish-Arab couples in Israel
This article is adapted from The Branch, a monthly podcast exploring individual relationships between Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians. The Branch is produced by Hadassah and created by Dina Kraft, a journalist based in Tel Aviv. Sign up here to be notified when new episodes are published. Michal Baranes says her mother cried for…
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Culture Bringing Jews and Palestinians together — through art, education and a new web series
As upbeat music plays, a pair of young women who grew up on opposite ends of Jerusalem but became schoolmates in the city’s only bi-lingual school joke, slipping seamlessly between Hebrew and Arabic. They’re introducing “Mish Mish,” a new web seriesabout two topics rarely explored together: Israeli and Palestinian culture. Referring to her Jewish Israeli…
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Breaking News In Israel, Geography Dictates Mood
ASHKELON and TEL AVIV, Israel — In Tel Aviv, the lunch crowd suns itself at bustling sidewalk cafes. But in Ashkelon the playgrounds are deserted, municipal buses run without passengers and stores are shuttered with no customers to even see the notes taped on the doors of “We’ll be back soon.” Just as in the summer…
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