How a Palestinian shoemaker started the West Bank’s only mask factory overnight
- Suha Arraf سهى عراف סוהא עראף
What started as an experiment days after the coronavirus outbreak in the West Bank is now a factory producing thousands of masks a day.
The only mask factory in the West Bank, in al-Khalil (Courtesy of Amjad Zghayer)
Two days after the outbreak ...
Coronavirus gives Israelis a tiny taste of what life is like for Palestinians
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Will Israelis emerge from the virus with a newfound sympathy for Palestinian suffering? Not likely
Israeli border guards wearing protective masks aim their weapon during clashes with Palestinian youths in a village south of Nablus in the ...
Coronavirus will make Israel pay for neglecting its minorities
- Noa Landau נועה לנדאו نوا لانداو
Israel’s faulty treatment of its ultra-Orthodox population has already emerged as one of its most serious failures in dealing with the coronavirus crisis
Israeli policemen enforce government restrictions placed to curb the spread of ...
During the Coronavirus crisis, Israel confiscates tents designated for clinic in the Northern West Bank
- B´Tselem בצלם بتسيلم
The confiscation this morning in Khirbet Ibziq. Photo by 'Aref Daraghmeh, B'Tselem, 26 March 2020
This morning, Thursday, 26 March 2020, at around 7:30 am, officials from Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank arrived ...
Israel, Corona and Abraham Wald
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
The Jewish state has been taking drastic measures to try to suppress the Corona outbreak within its territory. Tens of thousands of Israelis are isolated in quarantine conditions. So far, hundreds of Israelis have been diagnosed as carriers of ...
The Israeli Army doesn't have snipers on the Gaza border- it has hunters
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
They’re the best of our boys. One is a “musician from a good high school,” another a “boy scout who majored in theater.” They’re the snipers who have shot thousands of unarmed protesters along the Gaza border fence. ...
Israeli election results: The tribe has spoken
We must respect its say – and start a new one
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Israel is a right-wing country, where racism is politically correct and personal corruption is irrelevant. When generals fresh from the army are the alternative, there is none. We must hope a true Jewish-Arab partnership will emerge
A protester holds ...
In Israel, Zionism is a religion, and it is mandatory
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
The Joint List’s impressive, welcome achievement comes tempered with disappointment: The glass ceiling of Jewish voters was not broken. On the eve of the election, in certain circles it seemed that, thanks to Jewish voters, Ayman Odeh would ...
Why does Netanyahu keep winning?
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
A few days ahead of the previous Israeli election, Haaretz’s lead writer Anshel Pfeffer, authored a spectacular analysis of Israel’s current political deadlock: Israelis are going to the polls to decide whether they are ‘ ...
Neither fateful, nor important: Israel's third election will decide little, if anything
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Give the bombastic pathos and drama a rest: The election tomorrow is not fateful, and probably not even important. Like its two predecessors, it too will decide little, if anything about Israel’s image, and not only because the result will apparently ...
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