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Kibbutz Givat Haim celebrates the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.

Redistribution of wealth must begin with Israel’s kibbutzim

Instead of continuing to give benefits to Israel’s richest sector, it is time to redivide the pie and give some of that wealth to the poorest citizens. By Sigal Harush Yehonatan In the span of just one week, two separate headlines managed to demonstrate the intolerable social and economic reality in Israel. The first was…

By +972 Magazine December 18, 2015

Thai workers sitting and listening at their residence in Kfar Varborg. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)

Foreign workers take exploitative employers to court

Many in Israel view the agriculture industry as moral and ethical one – one that symbolizes the infrastructure upon which the country was built. However, the reality portrays a much less attentive and heroic attitude toward foreign workers. By Noa Shauer (translated by Allison Rudy) Kav LaOved – Worker’s Hotline has recently received various complaints…

By +972 Magazine September 4, 2013

Jerusalem encounter: racism seeps into my yard

I’d stepped into the alley to grab a few sage leaves for my tea. In my West Jerusalem neighborhood, the alley is more like a massive, shared garden. Branches loaded with plums, pomegranate, berries, apricots, oranges, lemons and olives bend over fences. Sage and rosemary are everywhere. When I first moved into the neighborhood, I…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat July 8, 2012

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Traces of the Nakba: Book review of ‘Stone, Paper’

Despite attempts to conceal the memory of stones in the village of Hunin, papers in the kibbutz archives left a trail revealing the hidden war. In his bold book, Stone, Paper, Tomer Gardi places history in its present, as a driving political force, while rejecting the practice of historical writing. By Yehouda Shenhav | Translated…

By Haokets March 27, 2012

September journey part 15: A confidence problem

Staying on the road in Israel and the Palestinian territories through a month of trial. And today from the Moshav’s green glens to arid Castillia la Mancha. Two interesting invitations arrived over the past few days. One is to the police station in Hebron, where I am to be interrogated about the events described in…

By Yuval Ben-Ami September 19, 2011

Man to have Jewishness revoked after newspaper interview

The Israeli-born son of a Holocaust survivor told a newspaper he wasn’t Jewish by religious law – and had access to state services temporarily frozen, and his nationality put under review. But this is no isolated incident: Religion plays an increasingly dominant role in the mechanisms of the state. Haaretz today reports of yet another…

By Dimi Reider June 16, 2011