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Is Hamas trying to change its stripes?

By Mati Wagner · February 7, 2012

With changes roiling the region, Hamas appears to be undergoing a reorientation that this week resulted in the formation of a new unity government with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Read more »

In Israel, composting and recycling programs in new ecology push

By Jessica Steinberg · January 30, 2012

From composting in Modiin to recycling in Jerusalem, Israelis are starting to catch up with the rest of the Western world when it comes to sorting trash. Read more »

In Shimon Peres’ book on Ben-Gurion, a longing for leadership absent in Israel today

By Amir Mizroch · January 25, 2012

Reading “Ben-Gurion: A Political Life” by Shimon Peres, in conversation with David Landau, one thing is certain: If Israel’s founding prime minister were around today, he would cut an incongruous figure amid Israel's current crop of politicians, Amir Mizroch writes. Read more »

Attacks by radical settlers on Israeli army spark debate

By Mati Wagner · December 19, 2011

Attacks by radical West Bank settlers on the Israeli army have sparked intense debate over how best to combat lawlessness in the West Bank. Read more »

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A poster campaign sponsored in part by the Jewish community's Security Community Network urges Jews to keep an eye out for suspicious objects. U.S. intelligence officials are saying the likelihood of an Iranian-backed attack on U.S. soil has increased. (Courtesy Security Community Network) President Shimon Peres has a kiss for an Ethiopian student at the Amit Reishit School in Jerusalem, where he was inspired to write a song in tribute to the Ethiopian Israeli community after listening to the school's choir, Jan. 12, 2012. (Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash 90) The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, part of the 5th Fleet, transits through the Strait of Hormuz, Oct. 9 2011. Iran has threatened to shut off the strait, through which much of the world's oil travels, if it faces new sanctions. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Betsy Knapper) Young haredi men clash with police in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, Dec. 26, 2011. (Kobi Gideon / Flash90) Shlomo Fuchs, a haredi Israeli accused of harassing a female soldier for her refusal to move to the back of a bus, is released on bail in Jerusalem, Dec. 30, 2011. (Miriam Alster / Flash90) An Israeli crowd throngs the H&M store in Tel Aviv's Azrieli mall for a special sale, Nov. 17, 2011. (Meir Partush / Flash90) Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, right, helps affix a mezuzah during the grand opening of the first store by The Gap in Israel, in Jerusalem's Mamilla mall, Aug. 24, 2009. (Abir Sultan / Flash90) Netanyahu adviser Ron Dermer, right, cited a recent column by Thomas Friedman, left, in accusing The New York Times Op-Ed page of anti-Israel bias. (Flash 90: Miriam Alster for Dermer photo; Rebecca Zeffert for Friedman photo) Palestinians from the West Bank village of Burqa view the damage to their mosque from an arson allegedly committed by Israeli extremist settlers in a price tag attack, Dec. 15, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90) Samer al-Issawi spent time in five Israeli prisons for shooting at Israeli soldiers before he was released in the first phase of the swap for Gilad Shalit. (Linda Gradstein)

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  • A poster campaign sponsored in part by the Jewish community's Security Community Network urges Jews to keep an eye out for suspicious objects. U.S. intelligence officials are saying the likelihood of an Iranian-backed attack on U.S. soil has increased.
  • President Shimon Peres has a kiss for an Ethiopian student at the Amit Reishit School in Jerusalem, where he was inspired to write a song in tribute to the Ethiopian Israeli community after listening to the school's choir, Jan. 12, 2012.
  • The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, part of the 5th Fleet, transits through the Strait of Hormuz, Oct. 9 2011. Iran has threatened to shut off the strait, through which much of the world's oil travels, if it faces new sanctions.
  • Young haredi men clash with police in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, Dec. 26, 2011.
  • Shlomo Fuchs, a haredi Israeli accused of harassing a female soldier for her refusal to move to the back of a bus, is released on bail in Jerusalem, Dec. 30, 2011.
  • An Israeli crowd throngs the H&M store in Tel Aviv's Azrieli mall for a special sale, Nov. 17, 2011.
  • Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, right, helps affix a mezuzah during the grand opening of the first store by The Gap in Israel, in Jerusalem's Mamilla mall, Aug. 24, 2009.
  • Netanyahu adviser Ron Dermer, right, cited a recent column by Thomas Friedman, left, in accusing The New York Times Op-Ed page of anti-Israel bias.
  • Palestinians from the West Bank village of Burqa view the damage to their mosque from an arson allegedly committed by Israeli extremist settlers in a price tag attack, Dec. 15, 2011.
  • Samer al-Issawi spent time in five Israeli prisons for shooting at Israeli soldiers before he was released in the first phase of the swap for Gilad Shalit.
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