Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Israel News Israeli Journalists Fear New Restrictions
One of Israel’s proudest claims is that it boasts the only truly free press in the Middle East. But civil rights activists and journalists, including some of the country’s top names, say this could soon become a thing of the past. On November 20, some 500 journalists from competing media outlets attended what was billed…
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The Schmooze Meir Dagan Makes ‘Top Global Thinkers’ List
High-tech geniuses, remarkable thinkers, and Nobel Prize winning scientists — Israel has them all. But seemingly none of them need as much brainpower as one who can put the brakes on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. So says Foreign Policy magazine. Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan ranks number 63 in the list of its “top global…
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The Schmooze Kosher Liver That Tastes Like Pork
Talk about the best of all worlds. Soon, here in Israel, we’ll be able to observe tradition and start our Shabbat dinner with liver, while enjoying the taste of pork. Oh, and all with the blessing of the Chief Rabbi. Confused? Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger has revealed that his rabbinate is looking in to importing…
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Israel News Bedouins Facing Expulsion From Villages
To the Bedouins, the plan for a mass demolition of their villages is a cruel move that would expel them from land they say belongs to them; to the Israeli government it is a bold attempt to remedy this minority’s own complaints about its low living standard and bring it into the 21st century. Israel’s…
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The Schmooze Students: Can Optimism Hurt Your Test Scores?
Think positive — but only if you’re a woman. New research from Ben Gurion University of the Negev concludes that optimism boosts performance for female students. According to a study just made available to journalists, female students who were more optimistic were found to achieve significantly higher grades than their less optimistic course mates. Not…
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The Schmooze Gender-Bending Baby Names Take Off in Israel
It’s hard work keeping up with my four-year-old’s social life — not only because it’s far more lively than mine, with invitations freely exchanged over the sandpit, but also because it’s so difficult to identify his friends. “Can you see Rotem?” he asks during morning drop-off at kindergarten. I look at each of the girls,…
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News Independence Day Wasn’t on West Bank
It was Independence Day on the West Bank, an annual commemoration of the fruitless Declaration of Independence proclaimed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Algiers on November 15, 1988. Even though she got a day off from her job, Riham Rabiya wasn’t celebrating. “We’re celebrating Independence Day, but there’s no independence,” the 52-year-old secretary complained….
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The Schmooze Concerns Over Waning Interest in Rabin Death Anniversary
Wednesday marked the 16th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s death, according to the Hebrew calendar, and people in Israel have been mourning the former prime minister all week. But, as we reported last year, interest in the anniversary is waning, raising concerns among some that the warning against political incitement that is implicit in the story…
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