Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Recent Arrests Spark Calls for Tighter Screening of Immigrants to Israel
Two high-profile arrests in Israel of immigrants in violent and shocking crimes have prompted calls in the Jewish state for far-reaching changes to immigration procedures. Yaakov “Jack” Teitel, who hails from Florida, allegedly perpetrated a decade-long campaign of terrorist-style attacks in Israel. In late October, Teitel confessed to a long list of crimes, mostly against…
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Life Palestinian Hotels Get a Boost
Is a tourism boon taking hold in Palestinian hotels? According to new numbers from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it would seem so. More people are booking, and when they do, they are staying for longer, the figures show. Some 135,939 guests stayed in Palestinian hotels during the third quarter of 2009. This figure…
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News Israel Poised To Grant Amnesty To Protesters of Gaza Pullout
Even as concern grows about civil resistance to new government construction limits in the West Bank, a Knesset committee has approved a bill to scrub clean the records of right-wingers arrested during violent protests against Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza. Under the bill, approved unanimously in late November by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense…
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News Despite Protests, Mainstream Haredi Leaders Talk About Sabbath Work Deal
On the surface, it looks as though Jerusalem is caught in a battle between old and new, as high-tech companies open factories with coveted jobs, while leaders of the large ultra-Orthodox population are adamant that the plants remain idle on Saturdays in observance of the Sabbath. This was the story widely told in the media…
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News A Celebration for the Mumbai Attack’s Littlest Survivor
Last November, people around the world shed tears over one of the most tragic images of the Mumbai attacks — a newly orphaned little boy crying at the loss of his parents. “Mommy, Mommy,” Moshe Holtzberg wailed during a tearful ceremony held in a Mumbai synagogue days after a terrorist attack in India’s financial capital…
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Life Offbeat Israel: The Promised Land for Antlions?
Are national characteristics catching on? Do you ever find yourself being a little bit less polite when you visit Israel? A new study by the University of Haifa suggests that even rodents seem to act one way in Israel and another way elsewhere. Here is the mystery that researchers set out to solve. The boundary…
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Life Israelis Give Abbas a Chance
It’s the million shekel question in the Middle East at the moment — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will quit politics, but is he serious or bluffing? A 60% majority of Israel’s Jewish public thinks the declaration came from tactical considerations while only 24% believe in its sincerity, according to the latest War and…
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News Ethiopian Jews Celebrate a Festival, Gain Israeli Attention for Their Traditions
It looked like a scene straight out of the Bible. The men at the front wore outfits based on those of the Priests of the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem, and sent out over the hills a wail that could be heard several miles away. And indeed, it was an emulation of a biblical scene. A…
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