Yardena Schwartz
By Yardena Schwartz
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News In Israel, activists and families push for stiffer sentences for child sex abusers
TEL AVIV — The story is all too familiar. A child is sexually assaulted and the perpetrator either goes unpunished or gets a short prison sentence, even community service. Activists describe a vicious cycle in which victims and their families have such low expectations of the Israeli justice system’s response that victims do not even…
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News An Israeli woman was murdered by her husband. It sparked a national reckoning over domestic violence.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The murder of Diana Raz was almost too horrific to describe. Raz, 35, an Israeli couples counselor who helped women in abusive relationships, got into an argument with her husband, Amir, on Feb. 5, according to the police indictment against her husband. Amir, a police officer, proceeded to tie up three…
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News In Israel, some Netanyahu detractors are refusing vaccinations
TEL AVIV — Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination program has become the envy of the world, reaching a third of the population in just over a month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already trying to leverage that narrative in his campaign ahead of the March 23 election, Israel’s fourth in two years. But behind that curtain of…
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Breaking News American Muslims Brought to Israel To Help Them Understand — Not Agree
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Alejandro Beutel bowed his yarmulke-covered head and pressed his hands and forehead into the 2,000-year-old stones of the Western Wall. After slipping a note into one of the cracks, Beutel whispered a prayer and cried. It’s a scene that unfolds daily at the sacred site in the Old City here — except…
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Breaking News Is Palestinian Model City Sugar-Coating the Israeli Occupation?
RAWABI, West Bank (JTA) — Bashar Masri is not your typical billionaire real estate developer. Born in the Palestinian city of Nablus in 1961, as a teenager Masri was apprehended and jailed by Israel eight times for throwing rocks and organizing demonstrations, the first time when he was 14. During the first intifada, he served…
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Breaking News Israel’s Fax-Friendly Bureuaucrats Shift to Email at Last
(JTA) — Years of public complaints about the slow-moving Israeli bureaucracy seem to have finally reached someone in charge — maybe they were being sent to the wrong fax number. On Sunday, Israel’s Cabinet passed a measure that will require all government ministries to allow documents to be submitted by email. The proposal — designed to…
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News At 92, Shimon Peres Is Very Much Alive — and Busy as Ever
TEL AVIV — Last month, rumors flooded the Internet that former Israeli President Shimon Peres was dead. True to form, the man who tirelessly trumpets his country’s high-tech sector took to Facebook to clear the air. “I wish to thank the citizens of Israel for the support, concern and interest, and wish to clarify that…
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Breaking News New Year’s Day Rampage Punctures Tel Aviv Bubble
(JTA) — Until Friday, this city had been largely untouched by the recent wave of near-daily attacks by Palestinians on Israeli civilians. Several incidents did strike Tel Aviv — a soldier was stabbed with a screwdriver outside Israel Defense Forces headquarters in October and, the following month, two Israelis were killed in a stabbing attack…
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