Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Israeli Rights Groups Detail Allegations of Army Abuse in Gaza
Tel Aviv — On January 14, Israeli human rights groups issued a detailed report alleging serious human rights violations by Israel’s military in its three-week campaign in Gaza against Hamas. But Israel rejected the allegations and continued to notch up its effort to lay the blame on Hamas for the harm suffered by civilians during…
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News Citing Disloyalty, Knesset Bans Main Arab Parties From Elections
Tel Aviv — In a move that some Israelis are calling a nail in the coffin of Israeli democracy — and others deem an overdue stand against a domestic fifth column — the Knesset has disqualified two Arab political parties from running in next month’s general election. The Knesset Central Election Committee, comprising members of…
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News Gaza Campaign Shifts Focus to Hamas Arms Smuggling, Puts Egypt on the Spot
Tel Aviv — As Israel’s military campaign in Gaza entered its third week, Israel’s leaders were shifting the stated aim of their offensive to preventing Hamas from rearming by smuggling weapons through a series of tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. However indirectly, this meant Egypt, too, had become a focus of the ongoing offensive. Previously,…
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News Building a Bit of America in Beit Shemesh
Beit Shemesh, Israel — Spirituality sells. As developers feel the pinch of the global economic slowdown, building projects across Israel lie half-finished. But at the 400-unit Nofei Hashemesh development in Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem, work is steaming ahead. The prices are not cheap, and the houses are nothing special. So what is its secret to…
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Culture A Bounty of Hidden Gems
Just 20 miles south of the bustling modern city of Haifa lies a spot of Israel that time forgot. Few Israelis, never mind foreign visitors, have heard of Bat Shlomo. Like several other Zionist settlements, it was founded in the 1880s by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who helped residents with their often ill-fated agricultural projects….
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Culture In Prague, Where the Decisions are Easy
It is a common dilemma for Jewish tourists: Do you spend your time on the general sites and risk missing out on parts of your heritage, or do you concentrate on Jewish sites and wonder whether you are being parochial? Go to Prague, and the need to choose disappears. Visitors of all faiths — and…
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News What Happens to Gaza When the Fighting Stops?
Haifa, Israel — The immediate fate of a battered Gaza seemed to hang in the balance, as negotiations for a cease-fire ramped up among Israel, Egypt and Hamas, with the United States and other Arab countries active on the sidelines. As the diplomats negotiated, Gazans — their food supplies depleted, and their access to clean…
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News Rockets From Lebanon Hit Israeli Border Town
Haifa, Israel — Israelis started the day with news that three Katyusha rockets had been fired over the Israel-Lebanon border, landing in the coastal town of Nahariya. One of the rockets hit a nursing home, leaving one resident with a broken leg, one with bruises, and others in shock. The IDF responded with artillery fire…
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