Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Bibi and Obama: Could a Clash Be in the Offing?
Are they headed for a diplomatic divorce? Or can this relationship be saved? The growing number of differences between the new Obama administration and the newer Netanyahu government is coming into view at a sensitive time. American envoy George Mitchell seemed, during his recent Middle East visit, to draw attention to the apparent disconnect between…
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Israel News The Last Man To Bear Witness to Independence
On Yom Ha’atzmaut, several million Israelis will celebrate the 61st anniversary of their country’s Declaration of Independence. But only one of them was there for the actual event. Of the 200 Zionist leaders who gathered in Tel Aviv’s Museum Hall to witness the birth of the Jewish state, only Arieh Handler, now a sprightly 94-year-old,…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Why Passover Cakes Are Still Flying Off Shelves
Israel is back to the grindstone this week, with schools open again and many people returning to work after the Passover holidays. But there’s a silver lining — normal “leavened” food is on the shelves again after a week of only “kosher for Passover” products. You see, Passover here takes its toll on the secular…
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Culture Offbeat Israel: A YouTube Mashup Sensation
The stars of the videos mostly live thousands of miles away from each other. They have never met one another or the producer — and they haven’t even been told they would be making an appearance. This is “Thru You,” a quirky homemade creation of 26-year-old Israeli Ophir Kutiel and the latest sensation on YouTube. It…
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News Bibi’s ‘Economic Peace’ Faces Key Test at Quarries
Complaints over Israel’s conduct on Palestinian land are well-known. Less commonly heard, however, is the accusation that Israel is actually removing the land. “How is it that they are taking our land to Israel?” asked Ibrahim Abder, a Palestinian man standing at a stone quarry near his home a few miles south of Bethlehem during…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Happy Passover 3322?
Happy New Year! Yes, it’s a little-known fact that for one of the leading Modern Orthodox rabbis in these parts, the start of Passover is New Year. Rabbi Yaakov Medan, a rosh yeshiva or academy head at Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank — considered the Harvard of modern-Orthodox scholarship — follows an often-overlooked…
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News In Bibi’s Crowded Cabinet, Health Ministry Shelved
Rarely has so much political interest been focused on a single piece of furniture. The extra table now standing in the Knesset chamber has come to symbolize Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government, a supersized — and poorly constructed — behemoth. In fact, wags note, the table is more solidly built than the government that will sit…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Seder v. Soccer
So the Children of Israel made matzo, we are told, because they were in a huge rush to leave Egypt. Well you will never guess where Israel’s largest matzo bakery, Matzot Aviv, has exported matzo to this year. Egypt, a company source tells the Bintel Blog. The shipment has already arrived and Egypt’s Jewish community…
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