Orly Halpern
By Orly Halpern
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News In Jerusalem neighborhoods bound together by terror, anger and trepidation about what comes next
After a devastating terrorist attack, Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem wait to see what happens next
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Israel News LGBTQ Israelis fear setbacks as homophobic parties win a place in Netanyahu’s coalition
“I’m concerned that we will lose all the rights we gained with the recent government and over the last few years,” said one gay Israeli
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Fast Forward A silver lining of Israel’s political turmoil: Naftali Bennett’s neighbors can finally get their driveways back
Bennett never lived at the official prime minister’s residence. That caused more than a little security chaos in his family’s Tel Aviv suburb.
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News Gaza Dispatches: Violence Down, But Crises Loom
The Media War The street fighting in Gaza abated last week, but Hamas and Fatah are still battling it out online and over the airwaves for the hearts and minds of Palestinians. “There are two stories: the Fatah story and the Hamas story,” said Nasser Laham, the frazzled chief editor of the independent Ma’an Network…
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News Burg’s Comments in Interview Make Waves
A stalwart of Zionism caused an ideological earthquake last week when he stated that defining the State of Israel as Jewish is the key to its end. In an interview published in Ha’aretz, Avraham Burg, a former head of the Jewish Agency for Israel and a former Knesset speaker, argued that Israeli society has elements…
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News Arab Vote Decisive in Labor Election
Jerusalem – In the struggle for the leadership of Israel’s oldest political party, it was the non-Zionists and the pioneers who determined the outcome. The Arab and kibbutz vote in the Labor Party primary handed the chairmanship to Ehud Barak, who defeated Ami Ayalon Tuesday, 51.3% to 47.7%. Barak, who led Labor from 1996 until…
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News Ousted, Peretz Could Emerge Kingmaker
Jerusalem – No matter who wins the upcoming runoff between Ehud Barak and Ami Ayalon, this much is clear: Defense Minister Amir Peretz is out as Labor Party chairman — and the leader of Israel’s venerable social democratic movement will once again be an Ashkenazic general. Peretz finished third Monday in the first round of…
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News Amid Rockets and Civil War in Gaza, Israelis Sour on Peace Prospects
Amman, Jordan – Israeli leaders are now scrambling for a strategy to deal with the potential civil war erupting in the Palestinian territories and Hamas rocket attacks on the southern town of Sderot. But even before the latest round of violence, Israeli public opinion was souring on the land-for-peace formula, with Israelis concluding that the…
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