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Palestinian citizens of Israel overlook the Mediterranean sea, in the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. Israel's outgoing coalition was one of its most diverse and with it came a slew of progressive policies on the environment, LGBTQ issues and funding for the country's Arab minority. But the country's most likely incoming coalition is hoping to roll back many of the achievements pushed forward by the outgoing government, sparking concern by Israeli liberals. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

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Israeli liberals fear new government will undo gains
By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press
Tue,11/15/22-12:08AM , 272 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s outgoing coalition has been the most diverse in the country's history, bringing a slew of progressive policies on the environment, LGBTQ issues and funding for the country’s Arab minority.
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In this photo provided by the Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, right, poses for a photo with Israel's next military chief Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi in Jerusalem, Aug. 3, 2022. For the first time, a Jewish West Bank settler is set to take the reigns as chief of staff of Israel's military, the enforcer of the country's 55-year-old military occupation. Halevi’s rise caps the decades-long transformation of the settler movement from a small group of religious ideologues to a diverse and influential force at the heart of the Israeli mainstream. (Haim Zach/Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

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Judges, ministers, now army chief: Settlers rise in Israel
By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press
Mon,10/24/22-1:47AM , 440 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military has long had a cozy relationship with Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Those ties are about to deepen.

For the first time, a settler will serve as chief of staff of Israel's military, becoming the enforcer of Israel's open-ended occupation of the West Bank, now in its 56th year.
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Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir, center, surrounded by right wing activists with Israeli flags, speaks to the media as they gather for a march in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist lawmaker who was once relegated to the margins of Israeli politics, is surging in the polls ahead of November’s parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

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Extremist lawmaker surges ahead of elections in Israel
By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press
Fri,09/02/22-1:09AM , 276 Reads
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir calls his Arab colleagues “terrorists.” He wants to deport his political opponents, and in his youth, his views were so extreme that the army banned him from compulsory military service.
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A Palestinian flag is removed from a building by Israeli authorities after being put up by an advocacy group that promotes coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. In recent weeks, Israeli authorities have gone out of their way to challenge the hoisting of the Palestinian flag. Palestinian citizens of Israel see the campaign against the flag as another affront to their national identity and their rights as a minority in the majority Jewish state. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

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Israeli nationalists wage battle against Palestinian flag
By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press
Mon,06/06/22-1:07AM , 463 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — It’s not a bomb or a gun or a rocket. The latest threat identified by Israel is the Palestinian flag.

Recent weeks have seen a furor by nationalists over the waving of the red, white, green and black flag by Palestinians in Israel and in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.
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