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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

Omer Sharvit

A house with a new reinforced room in Kibbutz Ga'aton, October 2024 (Omer Sharvit)
October 21, 2024, 9:30 am
In the absence of state funding, northern residents build their own shelters
With many in the north living in older homes without reinforced rooms, some residents spend small fortunes to construct fortified rooms as war with Hezbollah intensifies
By Omer Sharvit
The Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, October 3, 2019. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 29, 2024, 3:20 pm
Israel extends period to locate potential heirs for unclaimed assets
Another 90 days allocated to find rightful owners of real estate and monetary assets before they can be taken by state; but latest list published only in Hebrew and not abroad
By Omer Sharvit
Nine-year-old Bena Hagdu holds injera bread at the Hannaton Educational Center at Kibbutz Hanaton, December 2023. (Omer Sharvit/ Zman)
January 15, 2024, 7:31 am
Ignored by the state, Eritreans from Sderot find temporary shelter in northern kibbutz
Asylum seekers find themselves displaced once again following the Oct. 7 massacre; deprived of government assistance due to bureaucracy, they rely on the kindness of others
By Omer Sharvit
Tear gas fumes fill the air as members of the Druze community gather with their flags in a protest against an Israeli wind turbine project near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on June 21, 2023. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)
August 14, 2023, 3:19 pm
Netanyahu lets deadline for resuming work on controversial Golan wind farm slip by
After project sparked massive protests in Druze community, PM’s office told energy firm it could resume work by August 1, but committee has yet to present its findings
By Omer Sharvit
A proposed site for an amphitheater in the Negev's Ramon Crater, next to the Selina firm's glamping site. (Courtesy, Lev Hamidbar)
October 25, 2022, 9:59 am
Plan for amphitheater in Ramon Crater stalled as nobody bids for tender
Council says economic viability of Negev Desert project — opposed by nature authority, ministries and green groups — is impacted by tender’s nature protection demands
By Omer Sharvit and Sue Surkes
A proposed site for an amphitheater in the Negev's Ramon Crater, next to the Selina firm's glamping site. (Courtesy, Lev Hamidbar)
September 14, 2022, 8:56 pm
Desert council again seeking to build amphitheater in Ramon Crater
Mitzpe Ramon Council issues new tender for project in popular stargazing area, despite past opposition from green groups, nature authority and ministries
By Omer Sharvit and Sue Surkes
People walk on the road near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, as they flee fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu, May 24, 2022. Congolese authorities have accused Rwandan forces of supporting armed groups in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where dozens of such groups are active. Rwanda has described allegations of supporting rebels in Congo as baseless. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
September 12, 2022, 10:09 am
Court lifts protection for Congolese refugees, but slams Shaked’s ‘flawed’ decision
Community had been protected for 20 years; state pledges to check each case before deportation, won’t repatriate minors and their families to ‘volatile’ nation
By Sue Surkes and Omer Sharvit
File: An election campaign billboard for Israel's Blue and White opposition party led by Benny Gantz, right, depicting him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud party, hangs in the city of Bnei Brak, on March 14, 2021, ahead of the March 23 general election. The writing in Hebrew reads 'Benny to the Knesset or Bibi forever.' (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
March 16, 2021, 9:59 pm
Blue and White and in the red, Gantz may be hanging in race to pay off debt
By squeaking into Knesset, party would get retroactive state funds to cover 60% of the millions of shekels it has borrowed for its faltering campaign, and it’s not alone
By Haviv Rettig Gur and Omer Sharvit
Illustrative: Religious Jewish activists protest same-sex parenting and LGBTQ families, across from LGBTQ advocates in Tel Aviv, December 16, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 24, 2020, 4:00 am
Gay conversion therapy to fix ‘reverse inclinations’ is alive and well in Israel
The controversial ‘treatment’ hasn’t gone away — it’s just changed its name and branding
By Avner Hofstein and Omer Sharvit
Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)
January 16, 2020, 11:05 pm
Calves survive Australian bushfires just to be shipped to Israel for slaughter
New video footage of cows who made it through the flames and were sent to Eilat draws fresh criticism of intense suffering endured during live shipping
By Sue Surkes and Omer Sharvit
A memorial to murder victim Adel Khatib, 17, from the Galilee town of Shfaram. (via Zman Israel)
December 28, 2019, 1:03 pm
Brutal murder of teen in Shfar’am a symptom of a diseased system, say residents
Reeling from revenge killing of 17-year-old Adel Khatib, northern Arab city’s leaders can’t shake the feeling that Israel sees the Arab sector’s plight but prefers to look away
By Omer Sharvit
The Jordanian border crossing into the Island of Peace, January 29, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
October 14, 2019, 7:54 am
Israeli farmers sweat as land they worked for decades to be given back to Jordan
Jerusalem will soon have to cede control of two parcels of land after Amman refused to extend lease outlined in peace accord; tenants say the government has failed them
By Omer Sharvit
A demonstration protesting rising rent rates in 2012. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
September 8, 2019, 10:13 am
State’s inability to fix the housing crisis leaves many out in the cold
The spike in real estate prices has made millionaires out of homeowners, while renters suffer; solutions exist, but nothing scares politicians more than taxing wealthy voters
By Omer Sharvit
MK Aida Touma-Sliman of the Joint List speaks at the party's Hebrew-language campaign launch in Tel Aviv, August 20, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
August 21, 2019, 12:21 am
Arab MK calls Israeli efforts to encourage Gaza emigration ‘ethnic cleansing’
At Joint List campaign launch, Aida Touma-Sliman says Netanyahu should be put on trial at the ICC ‘for all the crimes he’s committed’
By Omer Sharvit
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against the military draft. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 29, 2019, 4:24 pm
No one really wants to solve ultra-Orthodox enlistment, says Israeli academic
As the issue of Haredi conscription threatens to derail a government, Open University’s Prof. Yagil Levy says neither religious nor secular parties truly desire a compromise
By Omer Sharvit
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