Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

BY CARMIA I'm really not sure, but I think history may have just been made on Galgalatz , a popular IDF-operated radio station. Today at...

Nearly six hours after UNIFIL acknowledged that IDF troops were removing trees on the Israeli side of the border, the Guardian still has a...

An article published today in Hurriyet , one of Turkey's biggest newspapers, strengthens some of the accounts provided by IDF soldiers ...

BY AMOS Yesterday, the English edition of Ha'aretz ran a story that began with the lead: More than half of Jewish Israelis think human ...

It's always amusing to see journalists and academic critics belittling Israeli security concerns, which these know-it-alls dismiss as a ...

Some very impressive reporting in the Times on a firefight in Marja involving at least one talented Afghan marksman and some WWII-era rifle...

I just caught a lecture by Shmuel Rosner, former chief of news at Ha'aretz , as well as their Washington correspondent, and now a high...

I am not sure how new this is, but Google Books has a feature that might be of interest to academics in the humanities. As I will demonstrat...

BY CARMIA Information pamphlet about the exhibit Students for Museum Studies at the University of Haifa have put together an exhibit entitl...

BY CARMIA One of the draws at Haifa's annual International Film Festival is the park in the Carmel Centre, which fills up with little bo...

Photo: Shalem Cente r BY AMOS Ambassador Michael Oren Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu picked Michael Oren (b. 1955) as...

More and more reports are appearing in the international press about dissatisfaction with Hamas in Gaza, though these are balanced by quotat...

Corriere della Sera  reported today that Palestinian civilians are accusing Hamas of having prevented civilians from fleeing areas under att...

The video is not currently up unfortunately: Footage of a presenter on the Arabic language television station  Al-Arabiya apparently confirm...

Two of the posters (" pashkavilim ") shown above are part of the campaign against the gay pride parade in Jerusalem. The one on th...

(Thanks to Geoff for this link) I was watching CNN earlier this morning and saw some coverage of the latest Israeli foray into public relati...

RCI Arabic's flagship program bi la hudud (Without Borders, or Sans Limite in French) is hosted by May Abu-Sa'ab I recently discov...

Israel's latest Arab Minister, Ghaleb Majadle, in a screenshot of his profile on the Arabic language version website of the Israeli Knes...

Since its foundation on March 2002, Radio Sawa , a radio network publicly funded by the American Broadcasting Board of Governors and U.S. Co...

Aravision I'm at home, watching "Aravision 2006" on Israel's leading Channel 2. It's a word play on "Eurovision,...