Rishon Lezion

Palestinian construction workers work at a site in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. (Tali Mayer/Activestills.org)
Who notices when a Palestinian construction worker falls to his death?
Abed al-Harush is the 22nd construction worker killed in a work accident this year. That’s a number you won’t hear in the mainstream Israeli press. By Ruti Feuchtwanger Have you heard of Abed al-Harush from the West Bank city of Yatta? Probably not. And that’s not your fault. Most of us haven’t heard about him or…
By +972 Magazine August 3, 2016
Firing Range 24 in Rishon Lezion (Israel Social TV)
WATCH: Environmental groups fear firing zone will fall prey to developers
For 60 years, the Israeli army has held onto six sought-after kilometers of some of the country’s most beautiful coastline. As some of the area is returned to the public in the coming years, local authorities will be burdened the heavy cost of cleaning up a wasteland of munitions. Environmental groups are gearing up for…
By Social TV February 16, 2014
WATCH: Racist college humor in the Israeli heartland
Student Union members at a large college outside Tel Aviv make a grotesquely racist film, and they don’t understand what they did wrong.    I wish I could say that the young Israelis who made this film and the “thousands” who immediately gave “positive reactions” to it were marginal in this society – that they…
By Larry Derfner May 13, 2013
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