“If I call today I’ll probably be the first one to get an appointment in one of the prime time slots in that vast, empty schedule the clinic must have.” Jerusalem, October 4 – A resident of Israel’s capital city who ...
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Neither Crate & Barrel nor Fortunoff sell the patterns in question anymore. Jerusalem, September 14 – A husband and wife negotiating the terms under which they will end their marriage have managed so far to avoid acrimony regarding where the ...
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Visitors who did manage to get to the front before despairing still faced several classic hurdles of Israeli bureaucracy, including the old standby of demanding a document that none of the instructions called for. Jerusalem, August 31 – Management of ...
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The virus has trouble determining its host’s politics in non-political settings. Tel Aviv, August 19 – A local pathogen confessed its chagrin today upon realizing that before invading the cells of its current host and hijacking their nucleic processes to ...
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Violent demonstrations occur much more frequently in Israel than does baseball. Jerusalem, August 11 – Israeli officials have decided to take a play from the American playbook: they will leverage the country’s second-ever attainment of an Olympic gold medal to generate ...
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“You have to have some backup plan, some go-to technique to deflect, distract, or delay until they get sidetracked.” Jerusalem, August 2 – With July gone and less than a month remaining until school reopens, a local primary school student ...
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Contrast this with even such untamed locations as the urban jungle of New York City, where almost by default, people waiting at a stop will form a neat line. Jerusalem, July 22 – Users of the electric trolley system in Israel’s capital ...
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Spotting Jews will become a matter of seconds, rather than having to ask around, which can waste precious minutes during an altercation in which a Jew might defend himself. Lod, July 13 – Israeli law enforcement officials told Jewish community ...
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“Our society needs to be shaken up, maybe even burnt down to the foundation, and then rebuilt. Like that place over on Shiloh Street I’ve had my eye on.” Jerusalem, July 4 – An area vandal who bills himself as ...
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Palestine must be ruled by the descendants of those plants, and of course Palestinians are those descendants. Ramallah, June 23 – An advocate for removing Jewish sovereignty from the Holy Land in favor of an Arab Islamic state, who also ...
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