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Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel s military correspondent.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, enters a courtroom at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial, April 5, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)
“The split screen,” in its Israeli context, originally referred to an infamous, surreal 2002 television broadcast in which news coverage of a deadly terror attack in Jerusalem was aired directly alongside an ongoing Haifa-Kiryat Gat soccer match.
But on Monday the term applied to the still surreal, but far less macabre, media coverage of the opening of the evidentiary stage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial, which was intercut with the broadcast of his political allies seeking to convince the president to give him first crack at forming a ruling coalition after last month’s inconclusive elections.
10 Mad Conspiracy Theories About The Middle East
As we’ve mentioned before, conspiracy theories abound just about anywhere on this planet, from America to Asia and everywhere in between. This time, we’ll focus on the craziest conspiracy theories to have come out of the Middle East. In a region beset by political and religious turbulence as well as a general suspicion of outsiders owing to decades of Western dominance, conspiracy theories have found an audience readily willing to accept them as the explanation for seemingly inexplicable problems.
10 The Greater Israel Conspiracy Similar to the world-famous conspiracy theory that the Jews are planning world domination is their alleged plan for the creation of a “greater Israel.” According to this conspiracy theory, this super-state would contain virtually all of the Middle East, with Israel as the capital.
Felice Friedson 01/12/2021
Memoir of a Russian Israeli journalist’s eyewitness account of the demise of Jewish communities and rise of terrorism in the Middle East
Blindfolded in Damascus and separated from her team. Stepping into a Jewish cemetery in Libya. Confronting Sheikh Yassin, Hamas’s founder, in the Gaza Strip.
Fearless and determined journalist Ksenia Svetlova retraces a journey that few men and women have taken through Middle Eastern countries at a time of heightened tension and explosive fear.
Born in Moscow in 1977, Svetlova knew she wanted to be a journalist from a very young age, and was infatuated with the Middle East. In 1991, she emigrated with her mother and grandmother from Moscow in the former Soviet Union to Israel where she earned university degrees in journalism and Middle Eastern studies.
Israeli-Arab couscous, also known as maftoul, with chicken and chickpeas.
The “Knowledge, know-how and practices related to the production and consumption of couscous” have been registered in UNESCOâs Intangible Cultural List, in response to a joint bid from Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia.
According to UNESCO, “The history of this dish of Berber origin is not merely very ancient â as couscous has been eaten since at least the Middle Ages â but also complex and very varied. While it is difficult to be definitive about its history â debates between specialists have been part of the preparations for the application â everyone agreed on the truth of couscous: ‘The best couscous is my mother’s ”