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Breaking News Jewish Extremist Arrested in Attack on Rabbi in West Bank
Israel Police have arrested a Jewish man accused of assaulting a leader of the Rabbis for Human Rights organization. Police on Sunday arrested the man who last month threatened Rabbi Arik Ascherman with a knife while he was helping Palestinians harvest olives near the settlement of Itamar, not far from the West Bank city of…
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Breaking News Rabbi Helping Palestinian Olive Harvest Attacked by Extremist
Israeli police said they were searching for a Jew accused of assaulting a leader of the Rabbis for Human Rights organization near Nablus. The man, who The Jerusalem Post reported was described as a right-wing Jewish Israeli activist, on Friday allegedly lunged while holding a knife at Rabbi Arik Ascherman, who was not injured. Ascherman…
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Recipes Olive Walnut Spread
A protein-rich, filling spread for your vegetarian guests. Photograph by Alix Wall. 1 can of pitted green olives 4 cloves garlic ½ to 1 cup walnuts ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil 1) Purée in food processor and serve as a dip. (The amounts do not have to be exact. Depending on your preference you can…
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Israel News Of Olives, Politics and Palestinians
There’s a Palestinian saying that when two people have a good relationship, they are like the oil in the olive — inseparable unless they’re squeezed. The same might be said of Fawzi Haj Ibrahim Mohammad and his olive groves — squeezed though the two have been. Mohammad, a 57-year-old Palestinian farmer, was born the year…
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Breaking News Extremist Settlers Clash With Rabbis Over Palestinian Olive Groves on West Bank
Jewish settlers clashed with activists of the Rabbis for Human Rights movement near the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday as they protected Palestinians beginning the annual olive harvest. Israeli police and soldiers grappled with settlers who tried to drive off local Palestinians and international supporters of Palestinian rights in the West Bank. “This…
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Opinion It’s Olive War Time in West Bank
It’s Olive War season. Unfortunately, we’re not talking about a gourmet reality television show, but rather a several-week period of clashes where Palestinians and settlers try to hit each other in their pockets, via their olive groves. In recent years, attacks by Palestinians on settler groves and vice-versa have increased significantly. Of course, it’s more…
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Opinion A Statement on Your Seder Plate
Passover always feels both repetitious and fresh. Every year we are asked to tell the story of enslavement and redemption anew, asked to go through the same motions, dip our fingers in the wine again the same number of times. But there is another imperative — not just to remember our own historic moment of…
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