Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Life Valentine’s Day Exports From Gaza
They say that love conquers all. Well, it can apparently do what neither Palestinian violence nor international diplomacy have managed: lead to a lifting of Israel’s blockade of Gaza. It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and Dutch romantics are seemingly set on giving carnations to their sweethearts (despite the fact the rest of the world pines for…
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Israel News Electoral Gridlock: Livni and Bibi Scramble For a Coalition
Haifa, Israel — When Israelis went to the polls February 10, they expected to make either Tzipi Livini, leader of the Kadima party, or Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu the country’s most powerful political leader. But when they woke up the next morning, the most powerful person in Israeli politics was neither. It was, instead,…
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Israel News Beiteinu Now Big Player
Haifa, Israel — Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party may be vying for victory in the election, but a former nightclub bouncer, famed for his verbal attacks on Arabs, made the most dramatic political gain. Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, now the third largest in the Knesset, regards Israel’s Arabs as a…
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Life In Marzel Case, Israeli Intelligence Put to the Test
If there’s any truth in the stereotype that Jews are smart, then the intelligence held by the Jewish state should be among the most sophisticated in the world. Let’s put that theory to the test. Today, a man named Baruch Marzel was due to supervise polling in the Islamist stronghold of Umm al-Fahm in Northern…
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Life And the Winner Is … the Bowling Alley
More than you could feel a palpable interest in the elections on the streets of Israel today, you could feel a strong sense of desperation from parents — huddling in shop doorways sheltering their offspring from rain showers and searching for an activity that would keep them entertained. Election Day here is a public holiday…
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Life Fruit and the Make-Up of the Knesset
Could there really be a connection between how much fruit is consumed in Israel today and the composition of the next Knesset? Today is the festival of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish arbor day of sorts. And when it was originally mooted that the election could come the day after Tu B’Shevat, the ultra-Orthodox parties were…
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Culture Livni Bobs Around at Tel Aviv Nightclub, Has a Fan in ‘Livni Boy’
Kadima leader Tzipi Livni is known for her rather stuffy and humorless image. This week she attempted to shake it. Literally. She tried her best to dance the night away, or at least the precise segment of it scheduled by her publicity people, at a party organized by young Kadima supporters at the super-trendy Tel…
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Israel News Ariel Sharon’s Shadow Still Looms Large Over Political Landscape
Tel Aviv, Israel — As Israel gears up for its February 10 general election, the man who shaped today’s political landscape perhaps more than any other person enters his fourth year in a comatose state. Ariel Sharon’s term as prime minister ended suddenly on January 4, 2006, when he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that put…
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