US spying on Israel boosts calls for Pollard’s release
Ben Sales, JTADec 26, 2013
TEL AVIV The disclosure last week that American intelligence spied on former Israeli prime ministers has given new momentum to the effort to secure a pardon for...
Israel shelves Bedouin relocation
Ben Sales, JTADec 19, 2013
WADI AL-NAAM, Israel In this unofficial Bedouin town of 14,000 not far from Beersheva in the Negev Desert, families live in clusters of shanties with intermittent...
Poverty haunts Israeli survivors
Ben Sales, JTANov 29, 2013
TEL AVIV Breakfast costs Dov Jakobovitz $2. Lunch costs him $2.25. Both are served in the public old-age home in south Tel Aviv where he lives. But the food
Anger over prisoner release
Ben Sales, JTAOct 31, 2013
JERUSALEM — Israel’s peace talks with the Palestinians remain mostly shrouded in secrecy, but one thing is certain: The Palestinian prisoner release that...
Israel extends aid to Syrian refugees
Ben Sales, JTAOct 24, 2013
MAFRAQ, Jordan The purple plastic sacks fill two rooms in the otherwise sparsely furnished headquarters of a Jordanian NGO, awaiting distribution to Syrian refugees...
Domestic abuse addressed at shelters in haredi community
Ben Sales, JTAOct 17, 2013
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel It was only when her sons came at her with knives that she realized keeping quiet was not going to work. For nine years, her rabbis […]
Abramowitz bid for Better Place fails
Ben Sales, JTAAug 29, 2013
ROSH HASHANAH EDITIONSECTION B PAGE 3 TEL AVIV It was perhaps the biggest startup failure in Israels history. Five years of bombastic hype. $850 million of funding...
Cairo’s dwindling community proud and determined to stay
Ben Sales, JTAAug 22, 2013
TEL AVIV When Magda Haroun was out on the streets during the unrest now rocking Egypts capital, she saw someone standing over the body of a dead soldier. Not...
Israeli doors closing on Eritreans
Ben Sales, JTAAug 22, 2013
TEL AVIV Hanging by his feet in a torture cell in the Sinai Desert, Dawit Demoz knew he had only one way to escape a nearly certain death: He […]
Praying at the Wall ‘a mess’
Ben Sales, JTAAug 01, 2013
JERUSALEM On the morning of July 8, at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Av, the Western Wall plaza was a cacophonous mess. Women of the Wall, the […]
