I was priced out of spiraling Jerusalem. I got a second lease on life in Haifa
With rising rents and dimming hopes for peace, what if we strove to be good neighbors instead?
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Opinion Israel’s new far-right government is already chilling innovation and causing brain drain
Tech companies are already leaving Israel in response to proposed legislation by the new Israeli cabinet
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News ‘I don’t have a choice’: Israel’s Palestinian workers are staying in squalid shacks
Palestinian workers in Israel are often forced to find makeshift sleeping quarters, and face cold, cockroaches and raids by the police
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Opinion The fall of Israel’s government empowers dangerous conspiracies on the right
There has been a marked rise in poisonous rhetoric against Israeli Arabs by right-wing politicians over the past 12 months
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Opinion Why the Israeli government failed but isn’t a failure
Bennett and Lapid's coalition government will leave a legacy on Arab-Jewish political partnership that should inform future progressive strategies
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Opinion In three funerals, the real spirit of Israel is exemplified
During my years in public office, I attended many shivas for fallen soldiers of Israel. Each of them was emotionally draining. One, though, left an especially profound impression. Hadas Malka, a police officer, was stabbed to death outside Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate in 2017. She had refused to accept a safe desk job in the Israeli…
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Opinion Learning to trust my neighbors again
On a recent Shabbat, my family gathered to celebrate a new bride and groom. 30 of us were all looking forward to spending time together and enjoying ourselves. The highlight of Shabbat was a walking tour of the Abu Tor neighborhood in Jerusalem, one of the few mixed Arab and Jewish neighborhoods in Israel, which…
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Opinion Israeli Arab life has gotten better — why aren’t we celebrating?
The mayor of Nazareth, the largest Arab town in Israel, announced on Feb. 11 that he was backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s March 23 election. Outside of Israel, this landmark development was only sparsely reported on in American media. In a Reuters’ article that highlighted Netanyahu’s anti-Arab history, Arab leaders disparaged the mayor,…
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