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Israeli right wing activists block the exit of Ashdod port to stop trucks they claim are carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip, in the coastal city of Ashdod, on February 1, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Oren ZIV / AFP) (Photo by OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images)

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اليمين المتطرف الإسرائيلي يدعو إلى عودة المستوطنين إلى غزة

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

المستوطنون الإسرائليون وأمنهم الوهمي

Mazal Mualem

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech in his Jerusalem office December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Baz Ratner TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2WRPD

هل ترامب هو فعلاً "الرئيس الحلم" بالنسبة إلى نتنياهو؟

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Ayelet Shaked, Israel's new Justice Minister of the far-right Jewish Home party, speaks during a ceremony at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem May 17, 2015. Shaked said on Sunday she would seek a new balance that would rein in the powers of the Supreme Court over parliament and the government, a policy critics fear would restrict judicial oversight. REUTERS/Gali Tibbon/Pool - RTX1DBE4

هل تزيد ديموقراطية إسرائيل إن زادت يهوديتها؟

Mazal Mualem

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

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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