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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 497

Majeda El Batsh

Israeli police cars patrol a main street in downtown Jerusalem as people stay in their home, on October 9, 2023. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
October 10, 2023, 4:33 am
Israel-Gaza war fears turn Jerusalem into ‘ghost town’
Stores close, schools shutter and streets empty in capital as shocked Israelis grapple with devastating terror onslaught
By Chloe Rouveyrolles-Bazire and Majeda El Batsh
Demonstrators wave Israeli and Palestinian flags during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, July 22, 2023. The black banner (center) reads: 'There is no democracy with occupation'. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
August 13, 2023, 9:26 am
Sidelined Arab Israelis fear overhaul will further undermine their legal recourses
Activists express concern that government’s legislative plan will worsen rights of Arab minority, deepen control over Palestinians in West Bank
By Majeda El Batsh
An electoral banner is seen in the village of Hura in the southern Negev desert on October 7, 2022 (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
October 25, 2022, 9:41 am
‘Vote or don’t vote, it’s the same’: Arab Israelis despondent ahead of 5th elections
Campaign is somewhat lackluster nationwide, but apathy is especially acute among Arab minority where turnout is feared to be low
By Rosie SCAMMELL and Majeda El Batsh
An aerial view shows the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 29, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
September 2, 2022, 9:58 am
‘It’s a jungle’: Jerusalem neighborhood across security barrier racked by anarchy
Resident whose husband was shot dead says ‘there is no authority, no police, no law’ in Kafr Aqab, a no man’s land caught between Jerusalem municipality and Palestinian Authority
By Majeda El Batsh and Claire Gounon
Arab Israelis and activists protest against the murder of 15-year-old Muhammad Ades in Jaljulia, March 12, 2021 (Flash90)
January 12, 2022, 5:34 am
Deadly crime wave grips Arabs in Israel ‘by the throat’
Experts say part of the violence is driven by a growing loan shark trade among Arab mobsters, who offer fast cash to Arab citizens underserved by banks
By Majeda El Batsh and Ben Simon
Israeli Arabs and activists protest against the murder of teenager Mohammed Adas, in Jaljulia, March 12, 2021. (Flash90)
March 17, 2021, 6:28 pm
Ending violent crime a top issue for Arab Israeli voters in election
According to police, over 90% of shootings in Israel in 2020 were in Arab communities; 24 Arab Israelis killed so far in 2021; PM pledges help, but many are skeptical
By Majeda El Batsh and Claire Gounon
Technicians prepare beds in the underground parking of Rambam Health Care Campus which was transformed into an intensive care facility for coronavirus patients, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on September 23, 2020.(Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
September 24, 2020, 5:43 am
As hospitals overflow, Haifa’s Rambam transforms parking lot into virus ward
Underground facility, which can also serve as bomb shelter during times of war, ready from Thursday to take patients rejected by hospitals pushed to capacity by spiraling pandemic
By Majeda El Batsh
Hamama Jarban (R), 41, a lifeguard angler and surf teacher, gives surf lessons on June 12, 2020 on the beach in the coastal village of Jisr az-Zarqa (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
June 20, 2020, 4:07 pm
Arab Israeli surfing instructor nets visitors for her fishing village
Hamama Jarban teaches children and young adults from the area and elsewhere in north of country; venture brings much needed income to Jisr az-Zarqa
By Majeda El Batsh
Israeli Arab doctor Khitam Hussein, head of the COVID-19 response division at the Rambam Hospital near Haifa in northern Israel, poses for a photo during an interview at the medical center, on April 16, 2020. ( Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
April 28, 2020, 8:04 am
Arab doctor leads Haifa hospital’s anti-virus fight
Khitam Hussein, who heads Rambam Hospital’s outbreak response and has been highlighted as a symbol of coexistence, says her life has been turned upside down by COVID-19
By Majeda El Batsh
An aerial view shows an empty white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, on March 6, 2020. (Bandar ALDANDANI/AFP)
March 6, 2020, 11:05 pm
Friday prayers across Middle East overshadowed by coronavirus fears
In Mecca, Islam’s holiest site empty after reopening following disinfection; in Iraq, for first time since 2003 no one delivered the sermon of top Shiite cleric
By Majeda El Batsh
People wearing masks visit the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 5, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
March 5, 2020, 8:55 pm
Palestinians confirm 7 coronavirus cases, declare tourist ban
Schools, universities, mosques, churches close, and Palestine Marathon postponed after carriers identified in Bethlehem
By Majeda El Batsh
Wild boars gather in a residential area in the northern city of Haifa on December 5, 2019 (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
December 16, 2019, 7:41 am
Brazen boars hog Haifa
After ban on hunting enacted, residents of northern city say wild pigs block traffic, dig up public gardens and overturn large garbage bins
By Majeda El Batsh
Palestinian laborers cross illegally into Israeli areas through a hole in Israel's security barrier on November 20, 2019, near the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
November 23, 2019, 9:33 pm
Through the wire — Palestinians risk jail to work in Israel illegally
Thousands of West Bank residents regularly get past Israeli barrier to find employment in the Jewish state; salaries are far higher, but they risk exploitation and imprisonment
By Majeda El Batsh
An Arabic-language campaign poster of Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz and MK Gadeer Mreeh is seen outside a campaign event in Shfaram on August 26, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
September 14, 2019, 12:31 pm
Arab Israelis, Jews consider voting across ethnic lines
Some Arab voters say they’ll back Blue and White to defeat Netanyahu, while Jewish supporters of Arab parties see their votes as necessary to stop ‘the antidemocratic current’
By Majeda El Batsh and Clothilde Mraffko
An Israeli Arab woman walks past a campaign poster showing Israeli-Arab candidates in Kafr Manda. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
April 5, 2019, 6:34 am
As vote nears, Arab Israelis push for stronger Knesset voice amid boycott calls
Those urging staying away from the polls cite internal fighting and lack of influence, but others say without high enough turnout, community will lose any real representation
By Majeda El Batsh
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