Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Life Sound Bite Comes Back To Haunt Israel’s New Gov’t
Three questions created by the installation of the new government: 1). Just how hawkish will it be? Everyone has had their crack at answering this question, but the most notable attempt must be that of the London-based Guardian. It got so carried away that it ended up printing this correction in today’s paper: “In an…
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News Pesach Kitniyot Rebels Roil Rabbis As Some Ashkenazim Follow New, Permissive Ruling
In Tel Aviv, shortly before Passover, David Cohen was mulling over his holiday menu. “I’m thinking of making sushi,” he said. His plan reflects more than just growing Israeli enthusiasm for Japanese food; it reflects a new polarization on one of the most controversial of Passover-related issues — kitniyot. Cohen, a beer brewer in his…
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Life Exiled Ayatollah: Iranian Regime on Verge of Collapse
As the country is busy speculating whether the brand new Benjamin Netanyahu-led government will end up going to war with Iran, a former member of Iran’s Khomeini government has said that Israelis are over-estimating the life expectancy of the Iranian regime. “I guarantee that within two years Iran’s regime will collapse,” Ayatollah Dr Mehdi Haeri…
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Culture Offbeat Israel: Heists, Ultimate Frisbee and the Peace Process
At last we have it. An answer to the million-dollar question: How do you bring Israelis and Palestinians together? And it is … crime. A bank in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank city of Ramallah was robbed last week, and the thieves made off with the equivalent of $30,000. Palestinian police have revealed that of the…
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News Rump Group of Labor Lawmakers Buck Barak on Joining New Government
Dissenters may have been unable to block the Labor Party’s recent decision to join the otherwise right-wing government coalition headed by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. But with seven of the party’s 13 Knesset members among those who opposed the move, they are well positioned to make life very difficult for Labor leader Ehud Barak, who…
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Life Offbeat Israel: The Bomb Shelter Thief and the Passover Potato Boom
In countries that were bombed during World War II, those who were alive at the time always saying how being in the bomb shelters brought people together and created a sense of community. Not everyone saw things this way when Israel’s bomb shelters opened during the recent Gaza offensive. A man from Southern Israel was…
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News Orthodox, El Al Tensions
Orthodox Jews are being urged to shun El Al, Israel’s national air carrier, over its in-flight entertainment — a push that is widely viewed as a gambit in a larger struggle with the airline. The Rabbinical Transportation Committee, an influential body representing a cross-section of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, community, has published a guide telling…
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News IDF Lawyers Now Coming Under Fire for Their Counsel During Gaza Conflict
Rarely has the appointment of a law lecturer led to so much controversy. Students will now be learning law “from someone who helped justify the killing of civilians,” a Tel Aviv University lecturer complained to Haaretz after learning that Pnina Sharvit-Baruch is now a fellow faculty member. After her appointment in January, the university came…
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