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The Mizrahi left at a crossroads
On the verge of closure, a magazine that served as the ideological home of Israel’s Mizrahi left lives another day. But what do its financial woes reveal about the movement’s struggle in Israeli society?
By
Ben Reiff
December 16, 2021
Israel’s housing policy for Arabs is designed to fail
Israel’s housing system is not ‘failing’ its Palestinian citizens. It is working exactly as it was intended: to minimize Arab lands in order to maximize Jewish communities. Half an hour north of Tel Aviv stand several hills offering a natural panoramic view of the bustling Arab towns of Taibeh and Tira, their congested neighborhoods, and…
By
Amjad Iraqi
February 2, 2016
WATCH: No to ‘settlements’ in Jaffa
A developer wants to evict 12 Palestinian families in order to build a Jewish-only luxury housing project in Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood. Can we call it a settlement, or is it just gentrification? Related: Gentrification leaves one Jaffa family caged in their own home Arabs and Jews come together to oppose gentrification in Jaffa WATCH: Violent…
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Social TV
September 19, 2015
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Poverty kills: Survival and struggle in ‘the other Israel’
No matter how much I look, I never seem to find any news items about those whom Israeli society sacrifices on a daily basis, slowly, until they turn to dust. By Yael Cohen-Rimer (translated by Yudit Ilani and Shaked Spier) She is somewhere outside, the 13-year-old girl who was sent by welfare services to step…
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Haokets
April 11, 2015
PHOTOS: Working class neighborhood takes to TA streets ahead of evictions
On the eve of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, 20 families are expected to be evicted from their homes in the Givat Amal neighborhood without just compensation. Neighborhood residents and supporters took to the streets in north Tel Aviv and blocked main roads to protest the imminent eviction. Photos and text: Keren Manor/Activestills Residents…
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Activestills
September 16, 2014
Israel’s economy has problems, but a bubble ain’t one
The concern sparked by claims of an economic bubble in Israel are not supported by data, and could lead to a harmful consequences if interest rates rise and exchange rates are adversely affected. A response to Jesse Colombo
By
Roi Maor
May 14, 2014
Gentrification leaves one Jaffa family caged in their own home
Ismail Shawa never expected that a new luxury apartment building would have such an immediate and dramatic effect on his family’s life — that was until contractors sealed off the entrance to their home with a concrete wall, effectively trapping them inside. By Yudit Ilany To exit or enter his Jaffa home, Ismail Shawa, 62,…
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+972 Magazine
March 5, 2014
From Ramadan ordeals to housing protests: A week in photos – July 18-24
This week, West Bank Palestinians make their way to Jerusalem to pray in al Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan, African asylum seekers protest the country’s Anti-Infiltrator Law outside the attorney general’s home, an Israeli human rights worker is shot by Israeli forces and Israelis demonstrate for housing rights. …
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Activestills
July 25, 2013
From settler reprisals to May Day marches: A week in photos April 25 – May 1
This week: May Day marches from Tel Aviv to Boston, reprisals for the stabbing death of a settler by a Palestinian, protests against domestic violence, demonstrations against settlement expansion, celebrations for hunger striker Samer Issawi, and demolitions of Palestinian properties continue.
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Activestills
May 2, 2013
A week in photos: November 29 – December 5
The Palestinian statehood bid, the ruins of Gaza, nurses strike in Israel, and more: Activestills images tell the stories of the week.
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Activestills
December 6, 2012
A week in photos: November 1-6
Protests in Nabi Saleh, Ma’asara and Kfer Qaddum; Beit Arabiya is demolished; arrest raid on remaining South Sudanese refugess in Israel; and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week.
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Activestills
November 8, 2012
A week in photos: September 27-October 3
Protest theater, media strikes, Palestinian demonstrations, and more: Activestills images tell the stories of the week.
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Activestills
October 4, 2012
Photo essay: The People’s Court for Public Housing in Israel
Text by Miryam Wijler Photos by Activestills Some 150 people gathered yesterday, October 3, in the city of Bat Yam, Israel, to take part in the first “People’s Court for Public Housing.” People’s Courts are a civilian tool, used all over the world when the formal legal systems fail to provide justice for those who…
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Activestills
October 3, 2012
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