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Most Israelis and Palestinians Oppose Realistic Peace Deal: Poll
JERUSALEM — Most Israelis and Palestinians oppose the kind of peace deal that has been under negotiation in the past, a new poll found. When presented with a permanent status agreement based on previous Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, nearly 60 percent of both Israeli Jews and Palestinians are against it, according to the joint poll by leading Israeli…
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This Trendy Tote Makes a Fashion Statement — About Islamophobia
A simple tote bag created by Haifa designers Sana Jammalieh and Haitham Haddad is sweeping the internet as a commentary on global anti-Arab sentiment. Black Arabic script on the bag reads: “This text has no other purpose than to spread terror in the hearts of those who are afraid of the Arabic language.” Nader al-Sarras,…
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6 Reasons Judo is Israel’s ‘New National Sport’
“Israel is a judo empire,” declared Or Sasson after he and Yarden Gerbi both won bronze medals in judo at the Rio Olympics Game. Sasson and Gerbi’s success isn’t the only reason why some are calling judo Israel’s new national sport. Here are six more reasons: Five of Israel’s nine Olympic medals at Rio have…
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Will Israeli Police Body Cameras Rein In Abuse Against Blacks?
Black Israelis are backing as “historic” a new plan to put body cameras on police in hopes of reining in what they see as a pattern of abuse of ethnic Ethiopians — even though some American Black Lives Matter activists oppose the cameras. After a series of incidents involving police and Ethiopians, including the videotaped…
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Mazel Tov! Israeli Supermodel and Designer Bar Rafaeli Has Given Birth to a Baby Girl
— The Israeli model Bar Refaeli has given birth to a healthy baby girl. Refaeli, 31, gave birth to her first child on Thursday at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, which is also known as Ichilov hospital, Israeli media reported. The baby, weighing seven pounds, was named Liv. Refaeli is considered Israel’s leading female model and was featured…
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Right Wing Israeli Rapper ‘The Shadow’ Joins Ruling Likud Party
Yoav Eliasi, the Israeli rapper known as “The Shadow,” has suggested on his Facebook page that Israel should castrate dead Palestinian attackers in order to deter Muslim “martyrs” who believe they will meet 72 virgins in heaven. He also said that medical teams responding to terror attacks should “cut out the organs” of dead Palestinians…
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The Drive to Make the Perfect Israeli Baby
‘Every mother in Israel wants a perfect baby, no less than that,” said Dr. Avraham Steinberg, the chief medical ethicist at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, at a conference on Jewish genomics in Israel in July. For the past 12 years, Shaare Zedek has been in the business of making a more perfect baby. The…
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Meet the Gazan, the German and 4 Other Athletes Representing Palestine in Rio
This year, the Rio Olympics marks 20 years since Palestinians first participated in the international games in Atlanta. With six athletes competing in swimming, running, dressage (horse training), and judo (a martial art) this is the largest Palestinian delegation ever. Just two of the Palestinian contestants — XXX — actually qualified for their events at…
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Take a Tour with the Graffiti Geek of Tel Aviv — and Learn Hebrew, Too
On a sweltering July afternoon, a group of tourists gathered on a street corner in Florentin, a South Tel Aviv neighborhood cloaked in graffiti. Though street art tours are a popular among travelers in Tel Aviv — one even invites visitors leave their own tag — this was no typical graffiti outing. Wearing blue sneakers…
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6,000 Year Old Israeli Barley Provides Clues to Early Farming
The discovery of 6,000 year old barley in a cave in Israel’s Judean desert has led to an important finding about the origins of human agriculture. A team of German and Israeli scientists sequenced the genome of the barley, and, comparing it to present-day barley discovered that the grain was first domesticated in what is…
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Israeli Builders Behind Gaza Wall See Growth in Europe, Africa — and Trump
The Israeli company that built a fence around Gaza is building up what they call their “border business,” in Europe, the Middle East, Africa — and maybe on the border between the United States and Mexico, if Donald Trump is elected president. Should such a project come to fruition “probably we will know about it…
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