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Palestinian Oktoberfest Offers the West Bank in a Beer Glass
Taybeh, a Christian village in the West Bank, celebrated its 11th Oktoberfest on the September 24 and 25. The event, which draws thousands of Palestinians and foreigners every year, is a unique occurrence in the Palestinian Territories, where most Muslims eschew alcohol. Here’s a primer on the West Bank beer festival: The festival is sponsored…
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Answers the Twitterverse with #AskRivlin Hashtag
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who has referred to himself as an “analogue president in a digital age,” took to Twitter to answer questions about politics and religion in Israel on Sunday, September 25. The 77-year-old statesman fielded questions with the hashtag #AskRivlin. Unlike Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s online question and answer session in May, which…
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Ordaining Rabbis for Orthodox, Reform — and Everything in Between
Sixteen of Israel’s newest rabbis were trained in a first-of-its-kind program where religious and secular students study side by side. The new program, a joint project of the Shalom Hartman Institute and HaMidrasha at Oranim, two Jewish education centers, stands apart from most rabbinical schools which are run under a single stream of Judaism. The…
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Ottoman Era Fisherman’s House and Implements Discovered in Israel
Remains of an Ottoman-era fisherman’s house and tools were among the findings of recent excavation in Ashkelon, a southern Israeli coastal city which has been used as a port for thousands of years. The three-room house house was full of fishing implements such as metal hooks, lead weights, a bronze bell and a stone anchor….
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Israeli Spy Eli Cohen Was Hanged by Syria in 1965. Why Is the Video Surfacing Now?
Video footage that apparently shows the execution of Israeli spy Eli Cohen in Syria in 1965 has surfaced online, giving a fuller picture of the mystery-shrouded moments just before and after the secret agent’s death more than half a century ago. The black-and-white video was posted without much explanation on the Facebook page “Syrian Art…
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Israel’s Right Wing-Paper Features Ad With Gay Dads
Israel Hayom, Israel’s right-wing newspaper affiliated with the ruling Likud party, surprised some by printing a full-page ad for a Nissan Sentra with two gay fathers this week. The ad depicted a family of four with two young fathers and their school-age son and daughter with the phrase “Put your family in the Sentra.” Avi…
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Trump’s Shadow Looms Large Over Meeting Between Obama and Netanyahu
Given their long, tempestuous and mostly acrimonious relationship over the past seven-and-a-half years, Wednesday’s meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama, touted as their last, could have been a grand finale. At one extreme, the two leaders might have expressed their true emotions and undergone catharsis, bro-hugging and making up at the end, while at…
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Waze Mishap Leads Israeli Soldiers Into Harm’s Way on West Bank — Again
Two female Israeli soldiers using the navigation app Waze got stranded in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank — and had to be rescued by Palestinian security forces from an angry mob. The two soldiers were driving a military vehicle, and relied on Waze, one of the world’s most popular navigation apps, for…
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ANALYSIS: $38B Israel Aid Deal Is Political Boon for Benjamin Netanyahu — and Barack Obama
When Yaakov Nagel, Israel’s acting national security adviser, was tasked with heading the team negotiating a new 10-year military aid package with the United States, Prime Minister Netanyahu set forth the guidelines: “If you reach $3.5 billion a year, you’ll get a gold medal,” Nagel recalled Wednesday, hours before signing the agreement in Washington. “If…
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Spencer Tunick Photographs Nude Models To Battle Dead Sea ‘Disaster’
JERUSALEM — International photographic artist Spencer Tunick photographed 15 nude Israeli men and women at the Dead Sea to raise awareness of its deterioration. Tunick announced the project on Monday, two days after taking the photograph. He returned with the models to the same place on the shores of the Dead Sea, called Mineral Beach,…
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When Jailed Israeli Mayor Prayed for Donald Trump to ‘Save’ Her City
Last week, on September 7, Israeli police arrested the mayor of Netanya, Miriam Feirberg, on the suspicion that she accepted millions of shekels in bribes from real estate developers involved in city projects. Her arrest came after a Haaretz investigation in July that revealed that the mayor had financially benefited from city hall real estate…
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