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Daily Archives: August 24, 2021

Fatah Central Committee secretary and president of the Palestinian Football Federation Jibril Rajoub speaks during a press conference in Ramallah on Feb. 12, 2014. Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash90.

Watchdog: IOC must take action against PA for urging boycotts of Israeli athletes

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Palestinian Media Watch sent a complaint to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) against the chairman of the Palestine Olympic Committee for his support of boycotts against Israeli athletes. PMW wrote in its letter to the IOC on...
Dani Dayan during a visit to the Oz Vegaon nature reserve in Gush Etzion, Feb. 28, 2021. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Dani Dayan appointed chair of Yad Vashem, meets with Holocaust-survivor staff

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The Israeli government on Sunday confirmed the appointment of Israel’s former Consul General in New York Dani Dayan as the new chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate. Dayan, 65, served as Israel’s consul general in New York...
Esawi Frej of the Meretz Party addresses the Knesset plenum ahead of the swearing-in of the new Israeli government, June 13, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Meretz MK: ‘Why do we need mediators to talk to Hamas?’

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Israeli lawmaker Esawi Frej (Meretz) called on Tuesday for Israel to negotiate with Hamas directly, sans mediator. Speaking with 103 F.M., Frej, who serves as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s regional cooperation minister, questioned the need for...
Effi Eitam speaks during the Gush Katif conference at the Tel Aviv Museum on March 23, 2017. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

‘Allowing Arab Israelis into the government is equivalent to losing a war’

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Effi Eitam cannot seem to stop fighting. At 69, the retired brigadier general says he is now waging war to save his home or, as he puts it, “A war against the mighty forces...
An Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Aug. 23, 2021. Israel struck Hamas multiple Hamas targets in Gaza on Monday in response to cross-border arson attacks earlier in the day. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza in response to arson attacks

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Israeli fighter jets struck several Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday night in response to cross-border arson attacks earlier in the day, the Israeli military said in a statement. Among the sites hit...

Sharon Katz-Music and Mitzvahs

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It is unusual when a person combines great talent with compassion for others, but from personal and perhaps biased experience, I can attest that South African musician, Sharon Katz, has both in spades. Music can...