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مزال المعلم

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk behind Israeli soldiers at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City February 22, 2012. The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has always been a 'Jewish' army. Its rations are kosher, its chaplains are rabbis, and it operates - with the exception of wartime - around the festival calendar. It has never drafted soldiers from Israel's 20-percent Arab minority. But its Jewish identity has always been more cultural than religious. IDF personnel data suggests

سلسلة فضائح تهزّ الصهيونية الإسرائيلية المتشددة

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a protest against the operation of an Intel plant on the Jewish Sabbath in Jerusalem November 14, 2009. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM BUSINESS CONFLICT RELIGION) - RTXQPS3

خطّة إسرائيل لمنع عمالقة التّكنولوجيا من الهرب

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Windows of the terminal at Brussels national airport are seen broken during a ceremony following bomb attacks in Brussels metro and Belgium's National airport of Zaventem, Belgium, March 23, 2016. REUTERS/Frederic Sierakowski/Pool - RTSBXL3

استغلال السّياسيّين الإسرائيليّين لهجمات بروكسل

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Bibi's Casino: the initiative and the spin

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

هل ستبني إسرائيل جزيرة بالقرب من غزّة؟

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Likud legislator Miri Regev, a former brigadier general and political hardliner of Moroccan origin, looks out a car window during a campaign stop in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv February 25, 2015. Israel's Sephardic community, Jews of Middle Eastern descent, have traditionally been the Likud party's backbone. But political analysts say Sephardim, disproportionately poorer than Israel's Ashkenazi Jews with roots in Europe, may throw their support elsewhere in the March 17 election, angry over the high cost of

هل وزيرة الثقافة الإسرائيليّة مخمورة بالسلطة؟

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JEAN-LUC RENAUDIE - Men read Israeli newspapers, paying daily Yedioth Aharonot (L) and free daily Israel HaYom (R) in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2015. As politicians intensify their campaigning for Israeli snap elections, an equally ferocious battle is playing out between two media tycoons -- a friend and a foe of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

انتصار نتنياهو يقابله إخفاق الإعلام الإسرائيلي

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Israeli Prime Minister and Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive at an election campaign meeting with members of Israel's French Jewish community, at a Jerusalem hotel on February 8, 2015, ahead of the March 17 general elections. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

لماذا تُعتبر الفضائح مفيدة لنتنياهو

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

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اليسار الإسرائيلي يتطلع إلى تلميع صورته

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men take part in the Tashlich ritual near the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the southern city of Ashdod September 12, 2013, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown Friday. Tashlich is a ritual of casting away sins of the past year into the water. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: RELIGION) - RTX13J3K

الأرثوذكس المتطرّفون في إسرائيل مفتاح للسلام

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics