Uri Blau is an Israeli investigative journalist based in Washington, D.C. This article was produced in partnership with Shomrim, an Israeli nonprofit investigative newsroom.
Uri Blau / Shomrim
By Uri Blau / Shomrim
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News Sheikh Jarrah is just latest battle for Israeli who has spent 20 years fighting Arabs — and Jews — to “redeem land”
He lives in the controversial Israeli settlement Ofra in the occupied West Bank, having grown up in Beit El, another settlement that has been the object of numerous legal disputes. He was a student and protege of the late Rabbi Benny Elon, a right-wing politician known for leading yeshiva students to seize property in the…
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One of the triggers for the recent conflagration in East Jerusalem, which quickly spread across Israel, was an effort to evict Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Like so many real-estate cases over the so-called Green Line that delineates 1948 Israel from the West Bank territory it has occupied since the 1967 war, ownership…
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