By Pablo Duer Umm al-Fahm, Israel, Oct 29 (EFE).- Israel’s Arab minority will play a key role in the November 1 elections the anticipated low turnout and polling could help former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu back to power but his far-right partners might force Arab parties into the opposition, shaking up the parliamentary equation. …
By Pablo Duer Ghajar (Israel), Oct 28 (EFE).- The nearly 3,000 residents of a town on the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights identify themselves as Syrian but hold Israeli citizenship. Ghajar was practically closed off for 22 years until last month, when it opened its doors again. This is their story. …
By Pablo Duer Jerusalem, Jun 9 (EFE).- With the Israeli-Palestinian conflict constantly simmering and often boiling over into bloody violence, Israel has identified a new enemy in the form of the Palestinian national flag, an opponent that does have a name, political affiliation or weaponry, but which does carry enormous symbolic weight. The first major …
By Pablo Duer Tel Aviv, Mar 16 (EFE).- Recently named the world’s most expensive city, the thriving economic and tech innovation hub Tel Aviv is also home to slums where an impoverished minority struggle with rising living costs and gentrification. The neighborhoods of Shapira and Neve Sha’anan are strewn with loose cables, dead rats, people …
(update 1: adds details throughout, minor edits, changes headline) By Pablo Duer Eilat, Israel, Dec 13 (EFE).- India’s Harnaaz Sandhu was crowned the new Miss Universe at the 70th edition of the beauty pageant held in the Israeli city of Eilat early Monday. Sandhu was crowned by her Mexican predecessor Andrea Meza after edging out …