Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Life Israelis Believe Their Country Has Become Safer
One of the most interesting phenomena regarding Israel’s security situation is how differently Israelis perceive it than many who live abroad. A year ago, this writer was sent by a British newspaper to cover the Paul McCartney concert in Tel Aviv. The commissioning editor was not interested in the music or the performance. He just…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Repentance From Beyond the Grave
We’re in the run-up to Rosh Hashanah, which is the traditional time of the Jewish year for righting wrongs. And there can be no stranger story on this theme than that of repentance from beyond the grave. On August 20, Israeli actor and TV personality Dudu Topaz committed suicide in the Ramle prison cell where…
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News Ben-Gurion U. Debates Cost of Academic Freedom
An Israeli academic’s call for an international boycott of Israel has set off threats of donations being withheld from his university and sparked a fierce debate over academic freedom. In an August 20 Los Angeles Times opinion article, Neve Gordon, chairman of the politics and government department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, called Israel…
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News Hey Grover, Can You Tell Me How To Get to Rechov Sumsum?
Many a riot has erupted on the first Friday of Ramadan, and as usual, Jerusalem’s Old City was on a knife-edge this year. But there, weaving through a crowd of police officers, was a familiar, furry blue Muppet with a pink nose and his young tour guide. To say that Grover looked incongruous would be…
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Life Israel’s Education Minister: ‘Ghetto’ Conditions at Petah Tikva Schools.
It is one of the most emotive education stories to hit the Israeli media in a long time. There are 109 Ethiopian immigrants in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv who don’t know where they are going to school when studies start tomorrow, because the local religious schools won’t take them. Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar today…
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Life Will City Bus Service on Sabbath Save Lives?
We’ve seen major secular-religious clashes in Jerusalem this summer. Here’s a heads-up that over the coming weeks you may well be hearing about clashes in Tel Aviv. They are likely to be angrier than past clashes. While in most past clashes, the secular side has been arguing against religious coercion and for public convenience, it…
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Life Netanyahu’s London Visit Flies Under the Radar
He flew in to London on Sunday, as part of a four-day European trip. Many expected lengthy tirades against him in the media, but none have been forthcoming – maybe because he is said to be coming around to a settlement freeze, or perhaps because many journalists are away on their summer vacations. Nobody expected…
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Culture In Druze Genes, a Look Back at the Distant Past
Who knew that Israel’s Druze had been holding a key to understanding an important dimension of human history? A new examination of the DNA of this small and insular Levantine group — which follows a secret religion and hardly ever intermarries — has brought us one step closer to better understanding how the world’s various…
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