Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Relationship With Obama Also on Ballot As Israelis Vote
Tel Aviv, Israel — In the final days of Israel’s election campaign, pollsters were calling the Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu “Teflon Netanyahu,” reflecting the common belief that he was riding an unstoppable wave of support. But Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party, trailing, was working hard to give the impression that it had found Netanyahu’s Achilles’…
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Life Joint Ventures: Green Leaf vs. Green Leaf Graduates
You have probably heard the joke about the Jew on a desert island who built two synagogues, so he could attend one and assiduously avoid the other. That’s all the explanation you need as to why there are more than 30 parties running in Israel’s election next Tuesday. Parties here split more regularly then amoeba….
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News For Group of Gaza Children, a Vacation Thwarted
Haifa, Israel — In a reversal of the usual fight over border crossings — with Gaza’s rulers demanding they be opened and Israel refusing — Hamas has stopped a group of children crossing to Israel for a therapeutic vacation. On the evening of January 28, a group of 47 Gaza children age four to 13…
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News Gaza Rebuilding Sparks Contest Among Israel, Hamas and Palestinian Authority
Haifa, Israel — Hadas Balas is an unlikely rescue worker for Gaza. The 25-year-old Israeli student studies at Sapir Academic College in Sderot, an institution where classes are often interrupted by stints in bomb shelters. She has no experience in politics or nongovernmental organizations. And she has never been at all interested in the welfare…
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News In Israel, Right Rising as Elections Approach
Haifa — With the war in Gaza over, Israel is gearing up for an internal battle — the February 10 general election. All parties put overt campaigning on hold during Operation Cast Lead, effectively shortening the campaign to three weeks. But this did not mean that the political map was in freeze frame during the…
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News Gazan Doctor’s Tragedy Opens Israelis’ Eyes to Palestinian Pain
Haifa, Israel — Just after 5 p.m. on January 16, Israeli Channel 10 News correspondent Shlomi Eldar answered his cell phone during a live broadcast — a phone ringing so incessantly, he suspected the call was urgent. It was Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Gaza physician well known throughout Israel’s medical community. Abuelaish had been providing many…
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News Fighting in Gaza Pauses, but Campaign for Captured Soldier Continues
Tel Aviv, Israel — At first glance, the scene in central Tel Aviv the morning after Israel announced it was halting its military drive against Hamas in Gaza looked like one of celebration. Young men were stopping traffic to sell flags for drivers to clip on to their windows — an annual ritual that is…
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Culture Orthodox Institute Launches New Teacher Program
The Jerusalem-based Shalom Hartman Institute is gearing up to challenge the common understanding of the term “rabbi.” Over the centuries, “rabbi” has come to denote a person qualified to make judgments in Jewish law. But the original connotation was meant to describe a teacher. This fall, the Orthodox-run but pluralistic institute will launch a program…
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