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The Week in Pictures | May 20 – 26, 2013
FrameworkEach week we bring you the very best in visual journalism. The eyes of the world were focused on Moore, Oklahoma, where a huge tornado roared through an Oklahoma City suburb Monday leaving a devastating path of destruction in its' wake.... -
Review: Transfixing 'Fill the Void' looks at love by arrangement
A mother and daughter anxiously scan the aisles of an Israeli supermarket. They're not looking for fresh produce but rather a clandestine glimpse of a young man a matchmaker has proposed as a potential husband for the daughter. The mother's eye is...
Tags: Family, Israel, Venice International Film Festival, Entertainment, A Separation (movie)
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Photographer captures lost world of Tel Aviv
The Jewish Daily Foreward reporter Renee Ghert-Zand writes about a photographer capturing the faces and places of mom-and-pop shops in Tel Aviv: One morning a week, Assi Haim roams the streets of the old neighborhoods of Tel Aviv with his camera and...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief, Photography Supplies and Services, Arts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Militants release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai
ReutersCAIRO/ISMAILIA (Reuters) - Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi vowed to pursue a crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula. The abduction underlined the...Tags: Egypt, Cairo (Egypt), Israel, Religious Conflicts, Islam
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Syria, Israel exchange fire across cease-fire line
BEIRUT -- Syria said Tuesday that its forces had destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed into Syrian territory from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, an account disputed by Israel, which said that shots were fired at a patrol inside Israeli-controlled...
Tags: Israel, Xi Jinping, Rebellions, Wars and Interventions, Israel Defense Forces
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Kerry visits Oman for arms deal, talks on Syria, Mideast
ReutersMUSCAT (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Oman on Tuesday for Raytheon Co's signing of an estimated $2.1 billion arms deal and to consult on Syria and Iran, U.S. officials said. Oman is expected to sign a letter of intent to purchase a...Tags: Qaboos bin Said al Said, Weaponry, U.S. Congress, Wars and Interventions, Russia
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Robert Rabil: U.S. should flex muscle to help Syria
The Syrian rebellion has become tightly linked to the ongoing shifts in the Saudi and Iranian-led regional axes of powers that have resulted from withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. At the same time, Washington's war-fatigued mentality and wariness about...Tags: Weaponry, Israel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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WRAPUP 2-Hezbollah steps up Syria battle, Israel threatens more strikes
Reuters* Fiercest fighting involving Hezbollah in Syria - activists * Israel threatens more strikes to keep arms from Hezbollah * Assad says planned peace talks won't stop "terrorists" (Updates death toll, adds rebel statement on Qusair battle) By Khaled...Tags: Activism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Religious Conflicts, Rebellions
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WRAPUP 1-Hezbollah steps up Syria battle, Israel threatens more strikes
Reuters* Fiercest fighting involving Hezbollah in Syria-activists * Israel threatens more strikes to keep arms from Hezbollah * Assad says planned peace talks won't stop "terrorists" By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN, May 19 (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah...Tags: Activism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Religious Conflicts, Rebellions
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Protesting Egyptian police block Israel border crossing
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday to pressure the Cairo government to help free the men, security...Tags: Politics, Egypt, Cairo (Egypt), Israel, Armed Forces
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'No surprise Israel tops OECD poverty table'
Globes, Tel Aviv, Israel"No one in Israel should be surprised that Israel tops the poverty rankings. This is the direct result of economic and budget policies which benefit the rich and hurt the poor," Prof. Momi Dahan, the head of the Federmann School for Public Policy and...Tags: Personal Income, Israel, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, National Government, Social Issues
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Palestinians in West Bank's Area C suffer in limbo
MALEH, West Bank — In remote Palestinian villages of the northern Jordan Valley, children read by gas lamp, and water must be purchased from miles away, even when electricity lines and water pipes to Israeli settlements run directly past their...
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Oslo (Norway), Israel, Palestinian National Authority, Israeli Settlements
May 24, 2013
| Los Angeles Times
May 24, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
May 22, 2013
|Story| Reuters
May 21, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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May 20, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 19, 2013
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May 19, 2013
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May 19, 2013
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May 18, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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