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As a long time resident of the ancient holy city, I have seen first hand the crushing effects of the Israeli occupation
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Food In Palestine, mastering my mother’s riqaq o addas, homemade noodles and lentils
St. Nicholas is one of many saints adored in Beit Jala, my hometown. His church, which is built atop the cave where he lived, has a golden dome that distinguishes Beit Jala from any other town in Palestine. But across the street from Saint Nicolas is a more captivating place: A building that hosts a…
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Israel News If Israel Bans Overnight Trips To Bethlehem, Will Christian Tourism Take A Hit?
Drawn to the Holy Land’s biblical sites, Christian tourists make up over half of all tourists to Israel, compared with the 20 percent that are Jews. Yet Israel is considering making it harder for tourists to visit parts of the West Bank, which could mean Christian tourists would struggle to visit Bethlehem, the birthplace of…
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Fast Forward Trump Will Skip Yad Vashem On Israel Visit
President Trump might skip a stop to Yad Vashem while visiting Israel later this month as part of his first foreign trip as president. That’s just one of the surprises in the itinerary, reported by Israel’s Channel 2 on Tuesday. Another is that Trump will travel to Bethlehem rather than Ramallah to meet with Palestinian…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Was Banksy Spotted At An Israeli Mall?
A woman claims to have captured footage of the elusive British artist Banksy at work on an exhibition in an Israeli mall. The woman said she went into a mall in Herzilya, north of Tel Aviv, and a security guard asked her to sign her name. She noticed an English name on the list and…
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Israel News Welcome To The ‘Wall,’ Banksy Style
Under an army watchtower and across the street from the concrete wall Israel has built in parts of the occupied West Bank, street artist Banksy has opened a guesthouse in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. In the revered birth town of Jesus, the Walled Off hotel stands three storeys high. Its bedroom walls and hallways…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Prankster Artist Banksy Opens Bethlehem Hotel
Elusive British street artist Banksy has opened a hotel in Bethlehem as an art installation, protest and — yes — as place for visitors to stay. Squeezed into a space right next to the separation barrier, the Walled-Off Hotel (riffing on Waldorf Hotel, which sounds the same in a southern English accent) boasts the “worst-view…
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Breaking News Israeli Troops Kill Bethlehem Protester in Arrest Raid, Say Palestinians
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian protester while they were carrying out an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources said. Residents of the Deheishe Refugee Camp said Malek Shahin, 19, was among a group of people protesting against the soldiers who had come to arrest two…
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A conversation with Julia Haart and her son Shlomo, stars of Netflix's 'My Unorthodox Life,' about the new season and much more.