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Lauren E. Bohn

Bnei Menashe immigrants arrive at Ben Gurion Airport from India in 2006. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 25, 2012, 4:05 am
Indian Jews from ‘lost tribe’ land in Israel
Dozens of Bnei Menashe members immigrate after years of controversy over their connection to Judaism
By Lauren E. Bohn
Bethlehem’s first female mayor, Vera Baboun is seen in front of the Church of Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West bank city of Bethlehem. Bethlehem’s first female mayor, Vera Baboun, can’t walk through the main square of the biblical town without being stopped by admirers. “This is our new mayor, who is turning Bethlehem into one of the greatest cities in the world,” a tour guide hollered to a group of Christian tourists passing by the Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
December 22, 2012, 5:50 pm
New female mayor gears Bethlehem up for Christmas
Vera Baboun, a Christian, tries to raise hope in city plagued by economic woes, says ‘we’re celebrating birth of Jesus… and of Palestinian state’
By Lauren E. Bohn
An alley in the Arab Israeli city of Nazareth in northern Israel (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 19, 2012, 11:30 am
Still on the fringe of Israeli society, Arabs are unenthusiastic about the elections
Although the Jewish state’s largest minority could capture a fifth of the Knesset seats, infighting and disillusionment may again keep many voters at home
By Lauren E. Bohn
A Patriot anti-missile system in Israel (Shay Levy/Flash90)
November 13, 2012, 10:28 pm
Israel’s new anti-missile system to be deployed in 2014
With an estimated 200,000 enemy rockets around it, country develops defense plan’s third layer
By Lauren E. Bohn
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox and secular Jewish men face off in Jerusalem, 2008. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 11, 2012, 11:34 am
Jerusalem’s secular minority battles to hold its own
Kiryat Yovel neighborhood is latest focus of capital’s culture war between Jewish conservatism and pluralism
By Lauren E. Bohn
A librarian goes through books at the library of the Scientology center in the port city of Jaffa Tel Aviv, Nov. 7, 2012. (photo credit:AP/Ariel Schalit)
November 8, 2012, 11:14 pm
Scientology joins Israel’s religious mix, so far with little resistance
The controversial religion, branded by some as a dangerous cult, is ready to meet and greet at a new center in Tel Aviv
By Lauren E. Bohn
In this Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 photograph, Israeli women work at the Tikkun Olam medical cannabis farm near the northern Israeli city of Safed, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
November 3, 2012, 2:30 am
Israel pushing ahead in medical marijuana industry
Cannabis is administered without much controversy to over 10,000 Israeli patients, among them aging Holocaust survivors who struggle to cope with disease
By Lauren E. Bohn
Students take final exams in Rafah, southern Gaza strip, in June, 2009 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
October 15, 2012, 8:42 am
US nixes scholarships for Gazan students after Israel travel ban
American-funded program, inaugurated by Hillary Clinton two years ago, quietly put on hold
By Lauren E. Bohn
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