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Food The Best Dishes in Israel Under $13
That’s it, we’re out of cash. Call it a crisis or a temporary slowdown, most of us have less money in our wallets, but still feel the need to indulge once in a while. Our challenge this week was to find restaurants offering worthwhile dishes that would also give us change from 50 shekels. The…
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Fast Forward Bulgaria Backs Away From Blaming Hezbollah in Terror Aimed at Israelis
Bulgaria said on Wednesday it only had an “indication” that Lebanon’s Hezbollah might have been behind a deadly bus bombing in July and that this alone did not justify any European Union move to list it as a terrorist group. The new Socialist-led government backed away from charges by its centre-right predecessor that the Shi’ite…
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Food Foraging Israel: Lamb-Stuffed Mulberry Leaves
In a dusty field near my apartment in Petach Tikvah, a huge, old mulberry tree stands alone. During a few weeks in May, its leafy branches hide kilos of those delicate deep-purple berries. If I get out early enough in the morning, I can garner some of that fruit, but I’m competing with other pickers:…
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Fast Forward Syria Built Chemical Arsenal to Counter Israel
Syria, defeated by Israel in three wars and afraid its arch enemy had gained a nuclear arsenal, began in earnest to build a covert chemical weapons programme three decades ago, aided by its neighbours, allies and European chemical wholesalers. Damascus lacked the technology and scientific capacity to set up a programme on its own, but…
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Opinion When Gorgeous Israeli Soldiers Go Bad on Facebook
When Israeli female soldiers get saucy, some Israelis can’t help but applaud. Columnist Halleli Jabotinsky published newly surfaced photographs on her blog, and declared that they actually performed an “important service” by humanizing the Israeli military and also looked “cute.” In the photographs, which went viral in social media, new recruits exposed their thongs under…
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Fast Forward Israeli Boy’s Kidney Donated to Palestinian Child
The kidney of a 3-year-old Israeli boy was successfully transplanted to a 10-year-old Palestinian child. The parents of Noam Naor decided to donate his kidneys after their son was declared brain dead nearly two weeks ago after falling from a window in his parents’ apartment. One kidney went to an Israeli child, and the parents…
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Opinion Israel Bonds Are Glue That Bind Jewish State and Diaspora
In 1949, Arthur Hertzberg, a young Zionist who later became a renowned historian and an important communal leader, decided to witness with his own eyes the wonders that were taking place in Israel. He traveled to Israel, but to his surprise, instead of a warm welcome his hosts nagged him with a barrage of demanding…
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Fast Forward 35,000 Eritreans Face Deportation From Israel
An unidentified country has agreed to take in Eritrean illegal immigrants living in Israel, according to Israeli court documents. Humanitarian agencies say many of the 60,000 African migrants who have walked into Israel from Egypt should be considered for asylum. Israel regards most of them as illegal job-seekers, and a national debate on deporting them…
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