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Making Cheese In The Land Of The Bible: Add Myrrh And A Leap Of Faith

In spring, West Bank almond trees bloom white. Dry brown hills turn temporarily green and are dotted with bright wildflowers. The ewes and nanny goats of Bedouin herders that wander the West Bank eat...

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A Hermaphrodite Goat Could Be The Ultimate Scapegoat

The goat trade is a good business in Gaza. Every couple of weeks, Abdel Rahman and his business partner, Jaser Abu Said, buy half a dozen young goats imported from Israel and sell them for meat.Last...

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With Few Choices, Gaza Family Makes Bombed-Out Shell Its Home

In Gaza, reconstruction is happening, but slowly. Months after the war between Israel and Hamas, the main United Nations organization tracking progress, UNRWA, says fewer than half the homes it has...

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And The Fate Of The Hermaphrodite Goat Is...

The male milk-giving goat of Gaza has been turned into meat.Owner Jaser Abu Said sold the goat for the 400 Jordanian dinars (close to $600) that he and his business partner spent on it. He found a...

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Clearing The Tangled Path For Land Ownership In The West Bank

High on a West Bank hilltop, the extended Dissi family gathered on a recent weekend for a day out in the Palestinian countryside.Aunts, uncles and cousins came to see the half-built weekend home of...

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Israeli Dads Welcome Surrogate-Born Baby In Nepal On Earthquake Day

The sperm came from Israel. It was frozen and flown to Thailand, where a South African egg donor awaited. After the egg was fertilized, the embryo traveled to Nepal and was implanted in the Indian...

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Israeli Soldiers: Lax Rules In Gaza War Led To Indiscriminate Fire

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From Israel To ISIS: How A Search For A Safe Haven Took A Wrong Turn

What happened to Tesfai Kidane?The Eritrean migrant came to a tragic end in Libya at the hands of the Islamic State, but his family isn't sure what path he took to get there or exactly where he was...

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With Small Shifts, Israel Eases Restrictions On Some Palestinians

Early one morning a couple of weeks ago, rheumatologist Anas Muhana got into his 2008 tan Mercedes jeep, turned on the ignition and drove from his home in Ramallah to his work at Al-Makassed Hospital...

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Why Everyone's Talking About Israel's New Justice Minister

Among the faces in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new right-wing government, one is drawing particular attention: Ayelet Shaked, the new justice minister.Shaked is secular, lives in...

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Will Israel Charge Soldiers In Gaza Civilian Deaths?

By the end of July during last summer's war in the Gaza Strip, more than 3,000 Palestinians crowded into a United Nations-run elementary school in Jabaliya, a northern Gaza town. They had moved there...

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For Israel, Soccer Becomes A Geopolitical Football

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has moved to the soccer field. Next week, at the annual meeting of FIFA — the international body governing football — its 209 members are scheduled to vote on a...

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Trying To Organize A Marathon, An Arab-Israeli Woman Runs Into Opposition

Haneen Radi learned to run by walking."I used to walk," says the 36-year-old mother of four. "I saw people running and said, I'll try that."Radi took off. In the decade since then she's finished eight...

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Under Cover Of Conflict, Hamas Killed Palestinians, Amnesty Alleges

During the upheaval of last year's war between Hamas and Israel, at least 23 Gazans were deliberately killed by their fellow Palestinians, according to a report out this week from Amnesty...

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Israel Bringing Its Years Of Desalination Experience To California

Taking the salt out of seawater helped Israel move from the constant threat of drought to a plentiful supply of water, but Israel has learned that desalination is not the only answer.Ben Gurion...

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