Liora R. Halperin
By Liora R. Halperin
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Opinion The Irony of Erasing Arabic
In late August, a group of Knesset members from the right flank of the Likud party, Yisrael Beiteinu and the Jewish Home party proposed a bill that would make Hebrew the only official language of Israel, annulling a requirement in existence since the British Mandate period that all official documents be published in Arabic as…
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Opinion Israel Misses Point With Ad Campaign
The advertising campaign by Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption aimed at inspiring expatriate Israelis to return to Israel so offended American Jews that it eventually was canceled by Prime Minister Netanyahu himself. One of the ads suggested that a peril of Israelis coming to the United States and raising children here is the likely loss…
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