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Breaking News SodaStream Fires 60 Palestinians From West Bank Plant Over Ramadan Dispute
The SodaStream company reportedly fired 60 Palestinian employees from its West Bank plant over a dispute on breaking the Ramadan fast. The workers were fired earlier this month, the WAC-MAAN trade union representing the Palestinian workers told The Marker, a business newspaper associated with the Israeli daily Haaretz. The evening shift workers reportedly received dismissal…
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Opinion I Remember Shock of First ‘Price Tag’ Attack
The indictment today of three suspects for the revenge killing of the Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir has put this crime, knocked off the news agenda by the Hamas-Israel violence, back in people’s minds. As I have watched the reaction over the last 12 days to the news that Khdeir does appear to have lost…
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Israel News Settlers Want Israel Tied to Past — But What About Future?
Jane Eisner’s special report, Across the Green Line, is running in two parts, starting yesterday and continuing today. Read the first part here. Days after the bodies of the three Israeli yeshiva students were found, defiant settlers established unauthorized outposts in their names. This is not a new phenomenon. Deep in the West Bank, Esh…
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Breaking News Palestinian Protester Killed by Israeli Soldiers in West Bank
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man during clashes with stone-throwers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, both sides said, as tensions mounted over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. Israel also detained dozens of Palestinians overnight in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, said activists, part of a crackdown on suspected militants stepped up…
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Israel News What Kind of Israel Do Settlers Want?
Jane Eisner’s special report, Across the Green Line, will run in two parts, starting today and continuing tomorrow. Here’s how Ofra began as a Jewish community. Modern history puts the start date as April 1975. Ofra’s inhabitants will tell you that its real beginning goes back to the Book of Joshua, a lineage that makes…
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Opinion How the Gaza War Started — and How It Can End
The Forward has my latest column on how Israel and Hamas stumbled through a series of accidents and misunderstandings into a war nobody wanted. Because it’s written for print (unlike this blog) it has limits on length, and even though the paper generously lets me run way over my limit every week, there are inevitably…
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Breaking News 3 Kidnapped Israeli Teens Shot 10 Times — Silencer Used
(Reuters) — Three Israeli teenagers who were abducted by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month were shot at least 10 times with a silenced gun in what appeared to be premeditated killings, a U.S. official involved in the investigation said. The disclosure clashed with speculation by some Israeli and Palestinian commentators that the captors…
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Breaking News Rocket From Gaza Hits Jerusalem, Code Red Sirens Sound in Israel
At least one rocket fired from Gaza struck Jerusalem as Code Red warning sirens sounded in the city and throughout Israel’s center and south. The Israeli military confirmed that one rocket hit Jerusalem but did not say where. Among conflicting media reports, one said a home was damaged in the attack. No injuries were reported….
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