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A man dressed in white stands by the closed door of an airplane.
Historic flight between Israel and the UAE lands in Abu Dhabi
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Parenting Challenges in the Era of COVID-19: Balancing Work and Kids 2020-07-06
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A photo of the West Bank.
Borders
Former US ambassador: Israel would be ‘making itself an international outlaw’ with West Bank annexation
A black and white photo showing a man in a pilot's uniform with a mustache looking at a camera among a crowd of people.
Capt. Michel Bacos, Entebbe hijacking hero, dies at 95
Divide Over Israel Remains After House Passes Generic “Anti-Hate” Measure
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Thousands of Children Complained of Sexual Abuse in Immigrant Detention
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Dr. Mohammed al-Khatib, founder of the Museum of Memories in Beirut. He started the museum with a question for one of his patients: Do you have something from Palestine?
Conflict
Objects from Palestine are now enshrined at a makeshift museum in this Beirut refugee camp
Wealth In America: What Is It? And Who’s Got It?
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Teklit Michael dreamed of running in the London Olympics. But his country, Eritrea, jailed him. So he fled to Israel.
Conflict
A life of statelessness derailed this Eritrean runner’s hopes to compete in the Olympics
Arts, Culture & Media
“Waltz With Bashir”
Arts, Culture & Media
Israeli Pulp
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
South Sudanese disembark from a plane from Israel after getting deported back to Juba, June 18, 2012.
Justice
Hundreds of Israeli rabbis say they will personally hide African asylum-seekers in their homes
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock.
Conflict
Why moving the US embassy to Jerusalem is so controversial
After her third daughter was born, Faten decided to make sure that her fourth child would be a boy. She says she has a career and a family to take care of. She can't keep getting pregnant over and over again.
Medicine
An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy
The dance, The Hill, by Roy Assaf had it's American premiere at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival this summer.
Arts
An Israeli choreographer reflects on the experience of war through dance
“Wake up. You’re a pawn.” A former skinhead’s message to the alt-right.
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Israeli security forces remove metal detectors which were recently installed at an entrance to the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City.
Conflict
Israel removes metal detectors from Jerusalem holy site
Teklit Michael, 29, an asylum seeker from Eritrea
Justice
Israel has developed a system for pushing out refugees it doesn’t want
A White House in Crisis, Inside Immigration Detention, Love Letters to Africa
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People walk past signs bearing the name of U.S. President-elect Republican Donald Trump in Tel Aviv, Israel on November 14, 2016.
Conflict
Israel develops new ties with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir
Trump’s approach to the Middle East
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Israeli tenth-graders are learning cyber security skills. The military won't allow photos that show their faces because many of them may later be recruited to Israel's version of the NSA.
Education
Israel teaches cybersecurity skills to its high schoolers
Ivanka Trump Jared Kushner inauguration
Global Politics
Does Israel recognize Ivanka Trump’s Jewishness? It does now.
Israel: A Fragile Relationship, Food Trafficking in Venezuela, A Solo Pianist Reimagines The Dead
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Israeli Settlements Push Ahead, The Next Step in Cyberdeterrence, The Loss of George Michael
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Brkitay Gebru wakes every morning at dawn to care for her children. Her husband took off in February and she hasn't heard from him since.
Justice
This Eritrean woman found out her husband had abandoned her when she couldn’t find her bank card to pay rent
America’s bond with Israel — its history and its current challenges
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Shimon Peres was a proud holder of an Israeli organ donor card.
Belief
Shimon Peres wanted Israelis to be organ donors — like him
Israel's Space Agency
Business
Israel Space Agency fears launchpad explosion could jeopardize China deal
Baha Nababta in the Shuafat refugee camp in November 2014. He devoted his life to improving the camp before he was shot to death this year.
Conflict
Baha Nababta wanted to live in a place where the roads were paved and the trash picked up. Then he was murdered.
Democratic Split, Comedian Ali Wong, A Defense of Zoos
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Novelist Ayelet Waldman and a Palestinian man in Hebron. “For most of my life, I loved Israel, I longed for Israel, I planned to live in Israel,” she says.
Books
Novelist Ayelet Waldman is sending writers to the West Bank to document what they see, 50 years into occupation
Protestors gathered at a small rally in support of Apple's refusal to help the FBI access the cell phone of a gunman involved in the killings of 14 people in San Bernardino, California in February.
Justice
Did an Israeli digital forensics firm unlock the San Bernardino attacker’s cellphone?
ISIS Battles for Control of Gaza
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Live Free and Vote, Gaming Girls, A Journey Through Music
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Ziyad Abul Hawa came home one day to find this note about "an Arab" — him — living in his Tel Aviv apartment building. So he took a selfie next to it.
Conflict
He came home to find a note about ‘an Arab’ — him — living in his Tel Aviv apartment building. So he took a selfie.
Voices of The Migrant Crisis, Weird Wills & Trusts, The Israeli Psyche
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Video Game Fame, Covering Israel, and Wendell Pierce From ‘The Wire’
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Video Game Fame, Covering Israel, and Wendell Pierce From ‘The Wire’
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US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz addresses a news conference at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna September 22, 2014.
Global Politics
Of course two MIT alums got the ball rolling to the Iran nuclear deal
Israeli emergency personnel carry the body of a victim from the scene of an attack at a Jerusalem synagogue on November 18, 2014.
Conflict
Palestinians kill Israeli worshippers during prayers at a Jerusalem synagogue
"House Elvis," Eran Levron, performs at The Elvis Inn in Neve Illan, Israel.
Music
Elvis lives — in a small town near Jerusalem
Ben and Jerry's ice cream in Israel is labeled "glida," the Aramaic word for frost. In modern Hebrew, it means ice cream.
Arts, Culture & Media
A history of Hebrew, told one word at a time
Dudu Tassa at his concert last week in Tel Aviv playing songs from his album "Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis."
Arts, Culture & Media
An Israeli rocker sets a modern groove to his Iraqi grandfather’s Arabic music
Dudu Tassa at his concert last week in Tel Aviv playing songs from his album "Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis."
Arts, Culture & Media
An Israeli rocker sets a modern groove to his Iraqi grandfather’s Arabic music
Asad Ewaiwi, a Palestinian political activist and university professor of political science.
Global Politics
Of course we’re being spied on by our own government!