Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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The Schmooze Eli Yishai: Eritrea No Worse Than Sderot
Always diplomatic, Israel’s Interior Minister has come up with another gem. He told Israel Radio today that he questions whether Eritrea is actually more dangerous that Sderot, the town on the Israel-Gaza border that is subject to Palestinian rocket attacks. Eli Yishai, who leads the Haredi Shas party, was on the offensive against asylum seekers…
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The Schmooze CSI Cast Tours Israel
Madonna’s concert in Tel Aviv tonight is requiring a mammoth operation by Israel Police. And it seems that officers also have some pretend cops keeping the country safe too. Purely by coincidence, four TV cops are in Israel today. Detectives Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Adam Ross (AJ Buckley) from CSI:NY are touring Israel, together…
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The Schmooze Israeli Group Mocks Soros and Thomas Friedman
Philanthropist George Soros, New Israel Fund President Naomi Chazan and writer Thomas Friedman are the latest targets of the right-wing Israeli satirists who became famous for mocking the Gaza flotilla. Latma, the group that made We Con The World about the flotilla that approached Gaza two years ago today, have set to music their claim…
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News Breaking The Biomed Glass Ceiling
At first glance, it looked like any other professional conference. But when Israel’s biomedical industry descended on Tel Aviv for its annual gathering May 21, there was one key difference: the gender mix. The biomed industry — which pioneers and produces medical devices, equipment and drugs — is booming in Israel, where there are more…
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Israel News Israeli Anger Over ‘African’ Crime Wave
A crime wave blamed on Africans, including two recent rapes, has stoked long-standing hostility toward the country’s estimated 60,000 illegal African immigrants and sparked an ugly wave of retaliatory violence against them. Tel Aviv police say that on May 15, several African men sexually assaulted a woman. Two days later, authorities announced the arrests of…
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The Schmooze Naomi Campbell and the Palestinian Press
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has found herself at the center of a row over press freedom in the Palestinian Authority. She has just spent her 42nd birthday in Bethlehem, where she lit candles in the Church of the Nativity. “As much traveling as I’ve done, I’ve never come here,” she told a Palestinian television station., going…
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News Haredi Draft Could Cause Gender Issue
After six decades of exempting ultra-Orthodox from the army, the Israeli government appears resolved to draft them. But the plan, widely popular among secular Israelis, may have unintended negative consequences for the tens of thousands of women serving in the military. The planned Haredi draft — a product of the recent deal that Israeli Prime…
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The Schmooze Is Natan Eshel Really Gone?
In most of the world, leaving a job means exactly that — moving on. In this part of the Middle East, however, it doesn’t seem to mean much. Take, for example, two of the most important Palestinian figures. Does anyone recall that the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat actually resigned last year following the leak…
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