Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Brown Finds Warm (If Quiet) Welcome
Haifa, Israel — Barack Obama’s departure from Israel on July 24 marked the end of a summer visiting season during which the Israeli public displayed unusual enthusiasm for its political guests. Just over a month before the Illinois senator’s red-carpet visit, there was a frenzied reception for French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his pop star…
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News Obama Goes on Charm Offensive in Israel
Haifa, Israel — However it may affect American public opinion, Barack Obama’s midsummer Middle East campaign tour had a powerful impact on the nations he visited — though not in the ways that most observers anticipated. Israelis, many of whom viewed Obama with suspicion because of his rumored coolness toward the Jewish state, awoke Wednesday,…
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News Invoking Rosa Parks, Haredi Women Move to Back of the Bus
Haifa, Israel — Leaders of the ultra-Orthodox rabbinate are calling on women to keep out of men’s eyesight whenever they travel by bus — by making their way to the back of the vehicle. The directive, issued by the so-called Rabbinical Transportation Committee, is being distributed to thousands of schoolgirls and seminary students and posted…
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News A Skeptical Audience Awaits Barack Obama in Israel
Haifa, Israel – Of all the stops on Barack Obama’s upcoming swing through Europe and the Middle East, it is his visit to Israel that has received the most attention, but not because of his popularity here. Polls indicate that Israelis evince some of the lowest levels of support for Obama of any country in…
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News New Reality Show Aims To Find Israel’s Most Impressive Immigrant
Tel Aviv — If you’re looking to be the perfect immigrant to Israel, you don’t need to drain swamps or make the desert bloom, but you must look good on camera and know how to charm an international audience that will monitor your every move. Television producer Noam Shalev believes that Westerners arriving in the…
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News Weak Dollar Forces IDT To Hang Up on Jerusalem Call Center
Haifa, Israel – An American company that hoped to turn Jerusalem into the “outsourcing capital of the world” is seeing its dream become a nightmare, with hundreds of desks reportedly empty due to layoffs. The operation has been “killed by the currency market,” said the company’s founder and chairman, New York telecommunications mogul Howard Jonas,…
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News Jerusalem Bulldozer Rampage Rekindles Debate Over Home-Demolition
Tel Aviv — In a nationwide wave of anger over this month’s so-called bulldozer attack, Israel is resounding with calls to revive the discontinued practice of demolishing the homes of terrorists’ families, beginning with that of the perpetrator of the bulldozer attack. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert himself was the first to raise the demand during…
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News Prisoner Deal Scrambles Jewish State’s Politics
Haifa, Israel – As Israel awaited final word on its prisoner exchange with Hezbollah, the country was torn by an unusual debate reflecting the painful dilemma facing the government. Rather than pitting right vs. left or government vs. press and public, like most political disputes, the prisoner swap has pitted the government and the press…
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