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Photo Bikinis are a matter of routine on Tel Aviv beaches although each section of coastline reveals a different facet of the city. Credit Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times TEL AVIV — Even as France has started an international debate about whether some women cover up too much on the beach, Israel has…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A female Israeli singer refused to halt her performance at an Ashdod beach after being asked to close a shirt she was wearing over her bikini top. Concert organizers ended the performance Friday at a government-sponsored music festival in southern Israel after Hanna Goor declined the request, The Times of Israel reported,…
Listening to candidates address an AIPAC convention in an election year is bound to give anyone a case of vertigo. Republican or Democrat, the candidates haul out the same clichés to prove their devotion to the state of Israel. It’s a stage built for pandering and hyperbole, and that’s okay. That’s part of the show,…
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Speaking today at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest and most influential organization in the so-called Israel lobby, likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton drew a sharp contrast between her own position on the American-Israeli relationship and that of another politician whose more realist approach…
Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance by Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby Pluto, 211 pp., $28.00 (paper) Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi Verso, 319 pp., $26.95 Disturbing the Peace: The Use of Criminal Law to Limit the Actions of Human Rights Defenders in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories…
Israeli riot police have fired stun grenades and water cannon on thousands of ethnic Ethiopian Jewish citizens in an attempt to clear one of the most violent protests in memory in the heart of Tel Aviv. The protesters, Israeli Jews of Ethiopian origin, were demonstrating on Sunday against what they said was police racism and…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a state memorial ceremony for late Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon on January 29, 2015. (Gil Cohen Magen/AFP/Getty Images) The political ramifications are clear: House Speaker John Boehner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a colossal mistake by conspiring behind President Obama’s back, and the move has ricocheted…