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Ari Plachta

The World

Ari Plachta is a reporter with radio station TLV1 in Israel.

A room of people seated at a table listen to a speaker. A man stands at a podium at the front, with his back to the camera.

Can Toastmasters Ramallah stay politics-free?

Conflict

Speakers are asked to avoid controversial subjects like politics, religion and race, and so far Toastmasters Ramallah has followed the custom. But it’s getting harder to do that, members say.

three young men in old city jerusalem

This Ramadan tradition is under threat in Jerusalem

Religion
Hana Mansour-Khatib in her office

Muslim woman breaks century-high glass ceiling as the first female judge in Israel’s religious courts

Justice