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Life Bambi Sheleg, Lone Gentle Voice in Israeli Media Wilderness, Dies at 58
Bambi Sheleg, an Israeli journalist who devoted her life to healing the divisions in Israeli society after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, died on August 15 after a prolonged illness at age 58, Haaretz reported. Soft-spoken and humble, Sheleg cut a drastically different figure from Israel’s hotheaded media personalities. It was an ethos she brought…
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Fast Forward 1,800-Year-Old Frescoes Tell Story of Israel’s Ancient ‘Multicultural’ Town
Two archaeological discoveries made in the Galilee over the summer tell a story that differs from the standard description of the devastation in the country following the Great Revolt of the Jews against the Romans. Excavations by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Zippori have revealed frescoes with human and animal images from about 1,800…
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Fast Forward Israel Wants Munich Terror Commemoration at Opening Ceremony of Next Olympics
Israel on Sunday demanded a commemoration for its athletes killed at the 1972 Olympics at each Games opening ceremony, telling the International Olympic Committee “a black flag” will always fly over its multi-sports event. Days after the IOC announced a mourning site at each Olympic village with a minute’s silence in the memory of those…
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Culture In Israel, Internet Comments are Really Vicious — and Powerful
In the United States, “don’t read the comments” is such a common refrain that it’s become shorthand for a generation’s anxiety over abusive internet behavior. In Israel, the comments sections below news article are no less abusive, but people do read them, which is why they play a prominent role in Israeli public discourse. Israelis…
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Fast Forward American Parents of Slain Lone Soldier Mourn — 10 Years Later
JERUSALEM — The parents of Michael Levin, a lone soldier from the United States who was killed in the Second Lebanon War, returned to Israel to mark the 10th anniversary of his death. Mark and Harriet Levin of Philadelphia traveled to Mount Herzl on Thursday to mark their son’s yahrzeit. They were joined by other…
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Opinion In Israel, Let’s Destroy Jewish Fundamentalism Before It Destroys Us
This week we marked Tisha b’Av (the ninth of Av), a date commemorating a series of horrific events throughout Jewish history. According to rabbinic tradition, these spanned from the destruction of the first Temple in Jerusalem in 587 BCE to the 1942 liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. While one common thread binding these calamities is…
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Israel News Mazel Tov! Israeli Supermodel and Designer Bar Rafaeli Has Given Birth to a Baby Girl
— The Israeli model Bar Refaeli has given birth to a healthy baby girl. Refaeli, 31, gave birth to her first child on Thursday at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, which is also known as Ichilov hospital, Israeli media reported. The baby, weighing seven pounds, was named Liv. Refaeli is considered Israel’s leading female model and was featured…
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Opinion I’m a Jew of Color and Accusing Israel of ‘Genocide’ Disgusts Me
I was initially a proponent of the Black Lives Matter movement. As a person of color, I was startled and frightened when I watched video footage of young people of color being shot in the back, choked to death and beaten. It proved that the lives of people of color, particularly of African Americans, were…
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