Safed

The Beaten Path: Fixing a hole in Safed (part 6)

The deconstructed tourist trail reaches the mystical Galillean town and its many ghosts. Safed is the incredible shrinking city, forever threatened by its own capacity to be more than one thing. Part six of Yuval Ben-Ami’s journey. Safed makes me sick. Literally. As soon as I hop off the bus, take in the obligatory breath of…

By Yuval Ben-Ami November 7, 2014

A Christmas journey part 7: The children of God

<< The Christmas Journey Home Nazareth – Tiberius – Capernahum – Safed, Of war and peace “Peace on Earth.” – When living in the States I would see this statemet/wish/declaration of intent printed on Christmas cards and spelled out in Christmas lights. It seems to be a slogan of the holiday, and to be honest…

By Yuval Ben-Ami December 17, 2011

September journey part 21: Biblical hummus

Staying on the move in Israel and the Palestinian territories through a month of trial. And today: heading north, “for terror from the north will boil out on the people of this land.” (Jeremiah,1:14) There’s a town in northern Israel \ with dreams, comfort, memory to spare \ and in my mind I still need…

By Yuval Ben-Ami September 29, 2011

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Where can Palestinian Israeli live? Protest against house demolition, Lod, Israel, 28/12/2010 (Photo: Activestills/ via Flickr)

Knesset passes segregation law

The Knesset passed a segregation bill today. Palestinian Israelis are not allowed to live in Jewish localities built on land confiscated from them. Government policy also makes sure they cannot build on the little private land that was left in their ownership. How long can Jewish Israelis continue pretending that Palestinians do not exist? In…

By Roi Maor March 22, 2011

Ultra-Orthodox protesting the opening of a parking lot in Jerusalem (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills.org)

On the rise of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel

By Shalom Boguslavsky Over the past decade or so, the religious Zionists and the ultra-Orthodox have joined forces to push for an Arab-free greater land of Israel. The racist ideas of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, once considered marginal, have gained new power as they are expressed by important ultra-Orthodox rabbis with wide authority in…

By +972 Magazine December 11, 2010

50 Israeli Rabbis issue ruling forbidding renting of homes to Arabs

Rabbis signing the public letter are state employees; so far, not one of them was prosecuted or fired The Israeli media is reporting this morning that some 50 rabbis have signed a declaration calling for Jews not to let Arabs hire apartments in their communities. The Rabbis expressed support for Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu of Safed,…

By Noam Sheizaf December 6, 2010

Nov 5-6: High-ranking official blackmailed Israeli government

Hebrew media roundup: Ehud Barak fires back, while the search for someone to replace him continues; Yedioth: Government was blackmailed by high-ranking official > Defense Minister Barak fires back at the Labor insurrection against his leadership (more on the move against Barak here). In their desperate search for a candidate to replace Barak, some MKs…

By Roi Maor November 6, 2010

Front page of Yedioth Aharonoth, 3 November

Nov 3: Intelligence chief expects regional conflict

The Headlines: Bad for Israel > Israel’s outgoing chief of Military Intelligence (and future head of Mossad?), Maj Gen Amos Yadlin, warns Israelis not be fooled by the “unprecedented” security they have enjoyed recently. The IDF’s own Jeremiah predicts that the “next military conflict” will happen on multiple fronts and may incur more fatalities. As…

By Roi Maor November 3, 2010

An act of hactivism: a racist email raises hackles & ends up educating

When racism becomes too ludicrous for comfort About a week ago, the deputy mayor of Carmiel, a man named Oren Milstein, was stupid enough to boast to a Yediot Ahronot reporter that he is operating, along with some shadowy group, a “snitch hotline”, which the good Jewish residents of Carmiel were invited to call and…

By Yossi Gurvitz November 1, 2010