Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Opinion Why Bother Playing Gaza Rocket Blame Game?
Man walks by rocket shelter in Israeli town of Sderot / Getty Images Responding to the new Palestinian unity government yesterday, Israel decided that it will start holding the Palestinian Authority responsible for rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. The security cabinet resolved unanimously to “hold the Palestinian Authority responsible for all actions that harm…
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Opinion Why Is Avigdor Mad at Bibi?
Getty Images Since Israel’s last general election a year and a half ago, the country’s two most powerful party leaders have exhibited surprisingly good relations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman united their parties, Likud and Yisrael Beytenu, before the election and have surprised observers by keeping them together and getting along…
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Opinion Arab Israelis Increasingly Recognize Jewish State
Israeli Jewish youths fix a menorah in Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter / Getty Images There’s a received wisdom that in Israel, everyone is polarizing, and that with a right-wing government and stalled peace process, Arab citizens are feeling increasingly antagonistic towards the state. But a new survey suggests that this isn’t the case. There has been…
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Israel News Settlers Leave West Bank for Israel’s Mixed Arab-Jewish Towns
Ariel Greenbaum insists he’s a settler. But he lives many miles from the West Bank. “Settling the land also applies here,” he said in the Galilee synagogue where he spends his days studying Talmud. This synagogue tells the story better than most places of the “settlement” activity Greenbaum and other young Jews are bringing to…
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Israel News Israel Goes Mad for Hoops Champions — But Few Israelis Make Cut
The excitement was almost enough to kill Israel’s 90-year-old president. Right after Tel Aviv’s top basketball team won Europe’s championship crown in Milan in a nail-biting 96–86 victory that went into overtime, President Shimon Peres told the team’s coach by phone, “I watched the whole game and nearly had a heart attack.” “You are heroes…
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Opinion Coma Case Could Mean Leap Forward for Agunot
A woman gestures at a Jerusalem demonstration to help agunot / Haaretz We’re familiar with the stories of recalcitrant husbands who refuse to give their wives a get, a religious writ of divorce, effectively preventing them from remarrying. But less discussed is the heart-wrenching experience of women whose husbands are alive, but unable to interact…
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Israel News Will Pope Francis Recognize Palestine on Trip to Israel?
Three popes have visited Israel. But Pope Francis will be the first to visit the “State of Palestine.” The official itinerary for his Holy Land trip during the last week in May has him visiting an entity that, as far as both Israel and the United States are concerned, doesn’t exist. In fact, the very…
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Israel News Supreme Court Orders Israel To Involve Palestinians in West Bank Building Plans
Israel’s frequent destruction of Palestinian homes, schools and mosques in the occupied West Bank is about to be put to an important test in the country’s Supreme Court. And for at least some Palestinians, the outcome is seen as even more important than statehood. On April 28, the court gave Israel’s defense and security agencies…
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