Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Culture The Genes That Affect Indian-Jewish Vision
BEERSHEVBA, ISRAEL — Jews of Indian origin are, for the first time, taking control of a genetic mutation linked to sight problems that can’t be rectified with spectacles. Indian Jews living in Israel have their roots in either Mumbai or Cochin, and 1 in 10 Jews from Mumbai families carries a recessive gene that, when…
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News Israel’s Mixed Couples Try To Maintain Family ‘Bubble’ During Wartime
Fadhi Galine was born in Gaza. But he has limited interest in the latest conflict, which has seen Israel conducting airstrikes and a ground operation in the coastal enclave, generating numerous civilian casualties. “It doesn’t interest me what happens. My life is home-work, work-home,” said Galine, a 29-year-old chef whose family moved to Israel when…
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Israel News Israel Plans to Target Radical Islam Offshoot Once Gaza Is Done
Once Israel completes its latest military campaign in Gaza against Hamas, the government has its sights set on a domestic enemy who shares the Islamist group’s ideology and aims. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced at the end of June that he is working on criminalizing the Islamic Movement, a radical organization based inside Israel’s pre-1967…
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Israel News Israelis Back Gaza Ground War — Despite Risks
Despite fears of significant injuries and deaths among their soldiers, the Israeli public is strongly supportive of Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, and leaders across most of the political pectrum lined up behind the push. Ron Ben-Yishai, the veteran military correspondent, captured the mood of the much of the nation, calling the ground attack a…
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Opinion I Remember Shock of First ‘Price Tag’ Attack
The indictment today of three suspects for the revenge killing of the Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir has put this crime, knocked off the news agenda by the Hamas-Israel violence, back in people’s minds. As I have watched the reaction over the last 12 days to the news that Khdeir does appear to have lost…
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Opinion Who Won in Bibi-Liberman Divorce?
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman / Getty Images Who was the winner in the Liberman-Netanyahu divorce? The ruling party in Israel has just split, with Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman pulling his Yisrael Beytenu party out of its year-and-a-half-old alliance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. Liberman said he was leaving Bibi because the latter…
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Israel News As Israel Mourns Slain Teens, Everyone Wants Someone To Blame
The discovery of the bodies of three Israeli teens kidnapped in early June in the occupied West Bank touched Nissim Ibarith in a way that most other Israeli tragedies haven’t. “They were just boys,” said Ibarith, a Palestinian Israeli from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm. Ibarith heard the news during his shift sweeping the…
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Opinion 44% of Jewish Israelis Say They Don’t Need U.S. Cash
An Israeli observes the Iron Dome system in action / Getty Images Almost one in two Jewish Israelis think that their country could withstand a substantial decrease in American support. In a new poll by the nonpartisan Israel Democracy Institute, conducted in the light of U.S.-Israel tensions over the end of the peace process, 44%…
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