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Menucha Saitowitz

May 28, 2025, 9:38 PM

There’s enough room here for all of us

In 2025, more than 100,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel still live in unrecognized villages across the Negev—without paved roads, electricity, or running water. These are Israeli citizens. And yet, they live with the constant threat that their homes could...

Jan 11, 2025, 8:32 PM

Loss of a dairyman

I am not yet numb to the deaths. The images of soldiers, eager young faces or slightly graying reservists whose children will now grow up without fathers. They could be the sons of my neighbors and friends, each and...

Jan 8, 2025, 5:20 PM

Clinton Bailey, friend of Ben-Gurion and the Bedouin

The prolific researcher, who died this week, was revered by the people whose lives he documented with loving respect

Lisa M. Pollack

Jan 8, 2025, 3:15 AM

Neve Hanna in Turbulent Times

Path to Peace (Nativ LeShalom). Photo: Staff

Mazal Tov! Happy 50th Anniversary, Neve Hanna Children's Home! In the summer of 2023, the leadership decided that a big anniversary celebration somehow would not suit us. Instead, we planned to tell our children more about the unique history of...

David Seidenberg

Nov 21, 2024, 10:50 AM

Genesis v. genocide: Are you a friend of Abraham or a Joshua Jew?

Destruction of the mosque at Um. al-Hiran, detail (Oren Ziv)

By the time Sarah dies, God has promised to give Abraham all the land that he can see and walk on, not once but four times. And yet, when he goes to bury Sarah, Abraham describes himself as having...

Geoffrey Clarfield

Oct 1, 2024, 11:43 AM

I was an Israeli film star (for 45 minutes too long)

Eastern Sinai Desert, 1980 Photo-Geoffrey Clarfield

I had done everything one could have done in Israel during the late 1970s to get away from the hustle and bustle of Israel’s big cities, where most of its citizens live. And so my wife Mira and I and...

Sep 17, 2024, 12:14 AM

Navigating Change in Haredi and Bedouin society

Unexpected collaborations of Haredi and Bedouin women are breaking down walls and addressing challenges in traditional communities. The new documentary film "Rabbi Capoeira" which premiered at this year's Docaviv festival is currently screening across Israel with the two ultra-orthodox (...

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Aug 28, 2024, 2:43 PM

Unbearable joy: The magnitude of hostages coming home

Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi at Beersheba's Soroka Hospital, on August 27, 2024. (Yossi Ifergan/GPO)

On 5 of the occasions (so far) when people returned alive from the hell of Hamas's captivity, I was overcome by a sense of potential for the future

Jul 30, 2024, 10:54 AM

The Birth of the New Palestine Nation – Part II, The Hope of TIANA

Palestinians dancing Dabke - by Sarah Canbel, courtesy of Wikimedia (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palestinian_Dabkeh.jpg).

This is Part II of a two-article series describing how a New Palestine nation will be borne from the current despair in Gaza and the West Bank and the hope of the PEIS Plan, a novel peace plan that...

May 30, 2024, 7:16 PM

The language without words

The day I took off from work to play soccer with the brothers of the Bedouin girl who was injured in Iran's missile attack

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