Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News For Ayalon, Israel Has Moved Peace Process Forward; Palestinians Have Not
Daniel Ayalon, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, said his country’s position regarding the peace process has evolved markedly over the past 17 years, and rejected remarks that Israel was interested only in dictating terms to the Palestinians. Ayalon, Israel’s ambassador to Washington from 2002 to 2006, and second in command at the Foreign Ministry since the…
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The Schmooze Tree Stalls Construction of Ashkelon Hospital Wing
Remember the controversy of the emergency room at Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital? It was a saga of politics, war and religion that just a few months ago looked as if it could destabilize Israel’s government. In 2008 engineers started preparing the ground for a new $120 million wing. It would have an underground bunker with wards…
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The Schmooze An Israeli Town’s Campaign To Rename Sodom Street
The residents of Ashkelon in Southern Israel like to think of themselves as good, upstanding folk. Which is why one local street sign has become a cause of great annoyance and embarrassment. For as long as most Ashkelon residents can remember, they have had a Sodom Street. Sodom, if you recall, was one of the…
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News Histories Again Collide On the Hills of Jerusalem
Silwan — known in biblical times as Shiloach — is a sprawling neighborhood a five-minute walk from the Western Wall at the southern entrance to the Kidron Valley. Today it is home to 55,000 Palestinians and 450 Jews who are concentrated in the section of the neighborhood closest to the Old City, Wadi Hilwah. Clashes…
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News Predicting the Future Is All in a Day’s Work
Noticeably mild-mannered and unassuming, David Passig sits down at his kitchen table, pours a glass of apple juice and states matter-of-factly that he will now predict the future: a second term for Obama. Another decade of recession. Two global confrontations (one with America and Turkey facing Russia, around 2020, and another between America and Turkey,…
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News New Restitution Effort for Forgotten Holocaust Heirs
Thousands of American Jews have assets in Israel they don’t know about, according to a new Israeli campaign for the restitution of Holocaust victims’ property. In the early-20th century, Jews from across the world invested in Palestine. They put money in Zionist enterprises there meant to develop the infrastructure for a future state. They bought…
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News Erekat Voices Frustration With Israel’s Unwillingness To Play ‘End Game’
The fourth round of Israeli-Palestinian proximity talks were just getting under way and George Mitchell, the Obama administration’s American special envoy to the Middle East, was a few miles away in Jerusalem, but you wouldn’t have guessed it in the control center for the Palestinian negotiating team. In the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s…
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The Schmooze Israel and Turkey Tensions Affect Tourism
Post-flotilla, Turkey is seething at Israel and Israel is furious with Turkey. Friction between the two nation’s politicians is higher than ever, and in both countries shoppers are boycotting goods from the other (Turkish coffee is currently having a Freedom Fries moment in Israel). But there seems to be one winner in all the tension…
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