Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Livni’s Rise Sparks Debate on Whether Orthodox Would Back a Woman
Haifa, Israel – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert managed to hang on to power by his nails last week, after persuading the Labor Party to drop a bill to dissolve parliament just hours before the scheduled vote. The price Olmert paid was a promise to Labor leader Ehud Barak that the Kadima party will hold new…
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News Orthodox ‘American Idol’ Scores a Hit With Observant Audiences
Ramat Gan, Israel — You could tell that filming in the studio of Israel’s newest reality show was about to begin: The keyboard player who provides the background music started shuckling, piously swaying back and forth. The program being recorded in a small Ramat Gan studio last month followed the format of such reality shows…
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News Petition Fights Roadblocks That Keep Palestinians Away From Dead Sea Beaches
Haifa, Israel — For all their bitter disputes, there is at least one matter on which Israelis and Palestinians are in full accord: With a sweltering summer now under way, the time has come to indulge in a beach trip. But even this seemingly uncontroversial pleasure has been dragged into the Middle East conflict. In…
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News Knesset Hawks Move To Strip Arabic of Official Status in Israel
Haifa, Israel – In a move that is being condemned for its effect on the already fragile relations between Israel and its Arab minority, right-wing lawmakers are trying to strip Arabic of its status alongside Hebrew as an official language of the state. Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, Hebrew and Arabic have been…
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News As Olmert Totters, Kadima Looks to Livni for Clean Break From Past
Haifa, Israel – As Ehud Olmert’s premiership appeared to be crumbling this week, all eyes in Israel were turning to his likely successor, squeaky-clean Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who is widely viewed as the ruling Kadima party’s much-needed antidote to the corruption-dogged leader. Signs that the end is near for Olmert are surfacing on every…
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News Amid Yet Another Political Scandal, Israelis Register a Collective Shrug
Tel Aviv — As details of the allegations against Ehud Olmert have taken shape this week, the response from the political establishment and the public has ranged from condemnation to disgust, but there has been one notably missing reaction: surprise. Olmert’s fall from grace sped up this past week with the testimony of American businessman…
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News Looking for Knesset Toehold, Oligarch Cozies Up to Pensioners
Haifa, Israel — Ehud Olmert, already struggling with a corruption investigation and criticism from left and right over a troubled peace process, now faces a new, potentially crippling threat to his political survival: squabbling retirees. The Pensioners Party was a powerless splinter from its birth in the early 1990s until the elections of 2006. That…
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News At Grave of Famed Rabbi, Feuding Trustees Find Little Common Ground
Haifa, Israel – In Israel’s answer to the Woodstock Festival, nearly half a million people will gather on a Galilee mountaintop on May 22, where they will pitch tents and engage in 24 hours of feasting, singing and ecstatic dancing. They will be taking part in the annual celebrations held on the yahrzeit of second-century…
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