Israel

The mother (right) of Abdel Hamid Abu Srour (portrait) mourns with family members as she receives condolences at the Al-Ruwad Center in the Aida Refugee Camp near Bethlehem on Friday.

World News

Is This Week's Jerusalem Suicide Bombing A Warning Of More To Come?

9:56am April 23, 2016

by Emily Harris

Days after the first bus bombing in Jerusalem in years, Israel is investigating whether the young Palestinian man who carried the bomb on the bus acted on his own or as part of an organized effort.

McDonald's is super popular in Israel — the chain even offers potato-starch hamburger buns, like this one, that are kosher for Passover. But now McD's is fighting back against the Israeli health ministry's accusations that it's "junk food."

Israel's Health Minister To McDonald's: 'Not In Our Country'

1:48pm April 22, 2016

by Daniel Estrin

McDonald's is super popular in Israel — the chain even offers potato-starch buns for Passover. But now McD's is fighting back against government accusations that it's "junk food."

Israeli soldiers watch as a machine drills holes on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip, as they search for tunnels reportedly used by Hamas for fighting Israel, on Feb. 10.

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The View Of Gaza, On 24/7 Video

11:24am April 09, 2016

by Emily Harris

At the high-tech center where Israel's military keeps an eye on Hamas-controlled Gaza, soldiers monitor the border using remote-controlled cameras and machine guns.

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A view of Gaza City's Shujaya neighborhood shows this rebuilt home surrounded by others that were destroyed in 2014 and have not yet been reconstructed.

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In Gaza, A Few New, Shiny Homes Rise Amid The Rubble

4:47pm April 05, 2016

by Emily Harris

There's now limited reconstruction in the territory that was badly damaged in the 2014 war with Israel. But it's very uneven, depending on factors like whether money comes from Qatar or Kuwait.

Arab-Israeli colleagues react to the departure of the last Palestinian SodaStream employees from the company's plant in the Israeli city of Rahat. on Feb. 29.

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When 500 Palestinians Lose Their Jobs At SodaStream, Who's To Blame?

8:39am March 27, 2016

by Emily Harris

When the Israeli company left the West Bank amid international pressure, it left behind hundreds of Palestinian employees, too. SodaStream's CEO lays blame for the lost jobs with Israel's government.

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Can Israelis And Palestinians Change Their Minds?

9:24am March 24, 2016

by Emily Harris

The rival positions are so entrenched that change can seem impossible. NPR Jerusalem correspondent Emily Harris talks to two Israelis and two Palestinians who explain why they changed their thinking.

Bassam Aramin, 46, grew up hating Israel and spent seven years in an Israeli prison. But he gradually came to believe that negotiation, not violence, was the only way to resolve the conflict. He has preached co-existence for more than a decade — a posit

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A Palestinian Takes A Different Road In His Fight

6:30pm March 22, 2016

by Emily Harris

Bassam Aramin grew up hating Israel and spent years in prison. Yet he's now a voice for peace, a position that did not change even when his daughter was killed by Israeli police.

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A woman puts a placard at the site of a blast on Istiklal Street, a major shopping and tourist district, in central Istanbul, on Saturday. The sign reads in Turkish, "We are not afraid, we are here, we won't adjust," according to an AFP translation.

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Turkish Interior Minister Says Istanbul Suicide Bomber Was ISIS Member

10:16am March 20, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Efkan Ala said Sunday that the attacker who struck Istanbul on Saturday was a Turkish-born member of ISIS. Four victims died in the blast: three Israelis or Israeli-Americans and one Iranian.

Health & Safety

Once Silent About Their Suffering, Making Baskets Helped Them Open Up

7:18pm March 09, 2016

by Sara Toth Stub

They came from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, seeking asylum in Israel. Many of them were raped and tortured. They didn't want to talk about it — until they came to a basket-making program.

This fence enclosing part of the Israeli settlement of Tekoa was breached by a Palestinian attacker last month. Some Israel settlers want better fences. Other don't want to live inside barbed wire.

In The West Bank, Barriers Don't Necessarily Make Good Neighbors

9:49am February 17, 2016

by Emily Harris

A fence is often thought of as something that provides protection. But even amid recent attacks on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, not all Israelis support more fencing.

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