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March 19

By Kipp • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Best of the web, Cover Story

Dubai Kiss Court Case Highlights Culture Clash; Friends in Need; How Privacy Vanishes Online; Where Did All the Love Go?; Qatar on the Cusp

Ultra-Orthodox warms to ice cream, but Baskin Robbins it ain’t

By Kipp • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Kipp's Blog

The opening of a kosher ice cream shop may have proved a hit. But many international franchises face opposition when looking to launch operations in Israel.

Egypt court approves gas exports to Israel

By Kipp • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Middle East Business News

A Cairo court cancels an earlier verdict to stop exports.

February 19

By Aarti Nagraj • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Best of the web, Cover Story

A Time to Kill; How to Be a Billionaire; Do Recalls Really Make Us Safer?; Top 10 Assassination Plots; The Hottest New Handsets; 5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2010

First ‘settlers’, now holidaymakers

By Orly Halpern • Feb 10th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, society

Jewish settlers on the West Bank have started using a new tactic in order to win funding and gain legitimacy with secular Israelis over their occupation: tourism.

The ‘Israeli’ keffiyeh: just more petty antagonism

By Kipp • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Kipp's Blog

In the latest tit-for-tat war over cultural symbols, a group of “young, hip US Jews” has created a version of the traditional Arab headdress emblazoned with the Star of David.

Sharp turn on J Street

By Orly Halpern • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: society

American Jews have created a liberal lobby group to campaign for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, reports Trends magazine.

Not your average cartoon

By Kipp • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Media, Regional, politics

Hamas-owned al-Aqsa TV aired the first of many cartoons featuring a spineless Palestinian soldier named Bahlul and a blood-drinking Jew. The pilot episode is a jab against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group and its policies.

Barracking Obama, Part II

By Ben Lynfield • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, International, Regional, politics

Moderates in the Arab world are growing increasingly vocal with their criticism of the US president’s Middle East policy, reports Trends. Part II.

Barracking Obama, Part I

By Ben Lynfield • Dec 30th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, International, Regional, politics

Moderates in the Arab world are growing increasingly vocal with their criticism of the US president’s Middle East policy, reports Trends. Part I.

Israelis accused of stealing Palestinian organs

By Kipp • Aug 20th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Palestine, Regional, social

A published report accuses Israelis of stealing organs from Palestinians who are being treated in Israeli hospitals, reports Arab News.

Grab the land

By Aarti Nagraj • Aug 17th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Regional, The Work, investments

According to reports, Arab investors are buying agricultural land in Israel.

Police hunting for gay club shooter in Tel Aviv

By Aarti Nagraj • Aug 2nd, 2009 • Category: International, Middle East Business News

The man killed…

Iran vows to strike back

By Dana El Baltaji • Jul 25th, 2009 • Category: Iran, Middle East Business News

Iran will strike Israel's nuclear facilities if the Jewish state attacks targets in Iran, according to the Revolutionary Guards' commander-in-chief...