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Israel News Occupation Divides Israeli Protest Movement
One year after Israel’s social protest movement was born, activists are battling over its soul. Throughout June, protestors once again started to flow into the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday nights. They all claimed to be reviving the demonstrations held weekly last summer, when tent cities proliferated all over the country. But it quickly…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Mayor Makes World’s Best List
Mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai, may have lost (temporarily?) the support of his more radical and liberal constituents, following the heavy-handed way his municipal inspectors treated the new wave of social protestors in recent weeks, but at least on the pages of the Monocle, the international jet-set’s style bible, he is still one of…
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Israel News Deported Africans Face Struggle at Home
For Benjamin Churi Kariyam, it’s no secret why he’s languishing in a crumbling transit camp outside the South Sudanese capital of Juba instead of working in Tel Aviv. Like scores of other African immigrants just deported, Kariyam blames what he calls the racism of Israeli government for his plight. “This is the reason why we…
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Fast Forward Police Caught Off Guard by Tel Aviv Protests
Officials at the Tel Aviv District Police said Sunday that the district may have been inadequately prepared for Saturday’s social protest, which turned violent as scores of protesters clashed with police, smashed bank windows, and blocked roads. Police officers in the district said that the police failed to correctly anticipate the number of protesters that…
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Fast Forward Thousands Clash With Police in Tel Aviv
More than 6,500 people converged in and around Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Saturday night, protesting the arrest on Friday of Daphni Leef, a leader of last summer’s social protest movement. The protesters blocked Ibn Gabirol Street north to Rabin Square, before moving on to blocking Ayalon highway. Around 20 demonstrators who broke into a…
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News Israel’s African Crackdown Draws Fire
In mid-March, a group of Jewish leaders locked hands with human rights activists and with Hollywood star George Clooney in a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy. Some were arrested, as they called on the United States to increase pressure on Sudan to stop what they and many others charge is a policy of ethnic cleansing…
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News Israel Plans Softer Policy to Africans
Even as a high-profile round-up targets illegal African immigrants, the Israeli government may be laying the groundwork for a softer policy toward the estimated 60,000 undocumented newcomers whom lawmakers have branded “infiltrators” and a “cancer.” Independent human rights groups and academic experts say the government knows it cannot deport the vast majority of immigrants because…
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Fast Forward In Tel Aviv, Life’s No Day at Beach
A labor dispute between the Tel Aviv municipality and lifeguards has brought on the indefinite closure of acity beach, over what city officials say is the lifeguards’ refusal to work overtime. Of the 13 public beaches with supervised swimming, only Hilton beach will be closed all week, with Tzuk Darom beach to be closed on…
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