<![CDATA[Jezebel: israel]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: israel]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/israel http://jezebel.com/tag/israel <![CDATA[Jeers Of A Clown]]>

[East Jerusalem, December 18. Image via Getty]

An Israeli peace activist dressed like a clown and wearing an Israeli army uniform is escorted to a waiting detention van by Israeli policemen during a protest against Jewish settlements and in solidarity with Palestinian families who were evicted from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem on December 18, 2009. Ten activists were arrested during a protest against the eviction of Palestinians in predominantly Arab east Jerusalem, according to an AFP photographer. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Ultra-Orthodox Call Women At The Wall "Nazis" and Accuse Them Of Being Non-Jewish]]> Another monthly prayer session, another confrontation between Women Of The Wall and the ultra-Orthodox at the Western Wall. Today: Shouts that the women were "not-Jews" and "Nazis," according to Israel's Army Radio. [Haaretz]

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<![CDATA[Umbrella/Organization]]>

[Jerusalem, December 18. Image via AP]

Standing under umbrellas, Israeli women of the Women of the Wall organization pray at the Western Wall, Judiasm's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. Since its founding in 1989, Women of the Wall has fought a legal battle asserting a right to conduct organized prayer at the Western Wall. The group has included women reading from the Torah and wearing prayer accessories that in orthodox Judaism are used only by men. (AP Photo/ Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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<![CDATA[No Stone Unturned]]>

[Alon Shvut, West Bank; December 16. Image via Getty]

Israeli settlers rebuild the destroyed illegal West Bank outpost of Alon Shvut on December 16, 2009. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month announced a 10-month construction freeze in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank in the hope it would help kick-start peace talks suspended nearly a year ago. Israel and the Palestinians could clinch a peace deal within six months if the Jewish state halted all settlement growth, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said in an interview. AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[The Road Less Traveled]]>

[Maale Levona, West Bank; December 7. Image via Getty]

Jewish settlers (R) block a road to prevent entry of government inspectors handing out orders to halt construction in the settlement of Maale Levona in the central West Bank on December 7, 2009. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would resume building in settlements in the occupied West Bank when a 10-month moratorium expires next year. AFP PHOTO/DANIEL BAR-ON == ISRAEL OUT == (Photo credit should read Daniel Bar-On/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Daisy Like A Fox]]>

[Hula Valley, Israel; December 6. Image via Getty]

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli poses inside a vintage car during a photo session on December 6, 2009 for a new campaign for the Israeli fashion house Fox at the northern Israeli Hula Natural Reserve, remnant of a once larger lake and wetland and a bird reserve. AFP PHOTO / ANCHO GOSH (Photo credit should read ANCHO GOSH/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Neighborhood Watch]]>

[East Jerusalem, December 4. Image via Getty]

A Muslim girl joins relatives performing Friday prayers near the house of the evicted Palestinian Kurd family in east Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood on December 4, 2009. Israeli settlers took over the house last month and hurled the Palestinian family's belongings into the street, armed with a court order secured after a protracted legal battle with the Palestinian family. In a confidential report obtained by AFP on December 3, the European Union accused Israel of actively pursuing the annexation of Arab east Jerusalem and undermining hopes for peace with Palestinians. The annual report drafted by the EU heads of missions in Jerusalem accused Israel of implementing in 2009 an intricate policy which includes expanding Jewish settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Making A Spectacle]]>

[Sderot, Israel; November 10. Image via Getty]

An Israeli woman from the southern Israeli community of Sderot has her eyes checked at the local sport center by a French Jewish charity giving free spectacles to disadvantaged Israelis on November 10, 2009. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Let There Be Peace On Earth]]>

[Tel Aviv, November 7. Image via Getty]

An Israeli woman with a sticker on her forehead that reads in Hebrew 'Peace' closes her eyes as she attends a mass rally marking the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv on November 7, 2009. About 20,000 people massed in Rabin Square where the late prime minister was killed by a Jewish extremist on November 4, 1995, after attending a peace rally. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[House & Home]]>

[Jerusalem, November 3. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian schoolgirl stands near Israeli security forces guarding a Palestinian house in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah after Israeli settlers took control over the house accompanied with a private security company following an Israeli court order on November 03, 2009. Dozens of Israeli settlers took over the house armed with a court order secured after a protracted legal battle with a Palestinian family, witnesses and police said. embers of the Al-Kurd family demonstrated in front of the house along with other Arab residents and pro-Palestinian activists as the settlers hurled the family's belongings out onto the street, a neighbour told AFP. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON (Photo credit should read GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Their Daily Bread]]>

[Gaza Strip, November 3. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian girl plays with pigeons in front of her family�s destroyed house in the war ravaged Ezz Abed Rabbo district of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on November 3, 2009. The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has successfully test-fired a rocket capable of reaching Tel Aviv from the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli general warned. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[As Horror Looks You Right Between The Eyes]]>

[Tel Aviv, October 30. Image via Getty]

Israeli fans of late US pop star Michael Jackson perform a dance before the opening of Michael Jackson's �This Is It� concert documentary in Tel Aviv on October 30, 2009. Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 after suffering a cardiac arrest, sending shockwaves sweeping across the world and tributes pouring in for the tortured music icon revered as the 'King of Pop.' AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Book Of Common Prayer]]>

[Bethlehem, October 29. Image via Getty]

BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK - OCTOBER 29: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman prays under Israel's concrete seperation barrier where it forms a heavily-guarded enclave protecting the tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel, on October 29, 2009 in the West Bank Palestinian city of Bethlehem. Thousands of Jewish worshiipers converged on Rachel's Tomb on the anniversary of her death. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[The Giving Tree]]>

[Qaryut, West Bank; October 28. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian woman from Qaryut village harvests her olive tree located outside the Jewish settlement of Shvut Rakhel in the occupied West Bank on October 28, 2009. The Palestinian family got a two-day permission by the Israeli army to approach the Jewish settlement area to harvest their olive trees. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Going Ballistic]]>

[Tel Aviv, October 27. Image via Getty]

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 27: An Israeli woman officer (L) chats with her U.S.counterpart as they take part in a joint Israeli-American military exercise at a Patriot missile battery site October 27, 2009 in Tel Aviv, Israel. More than a thousand U.S. troops are in Israel to pratice shooting down ballistic missiles. (Photo by Ziv Koren-Pool/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[No Friend Of A Farmer]]>

[Qaryut, West Bank; October 27. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian farmer from the West Bank village of Qaryut reacts in front of Israeli soldiers on October 27, 2009. Five Palestinian farmers were wounded in clashes with armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank, Palestinian security services and witnesses said. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[No Such Thing As A Free Trip]]> "A new study found that rates of marriage outside the faith were sharply curbed among young Jews who have taken "birthright" trips to Israel, a development that could hearten Jewish leaders worried about assimilation." [WSJ]

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<![CDATA[The Door Stoppers]]>

[Jerusalem, October 25. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian girl and an elderly relative watch from their home's door step clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli riot policemen in Jerusalem's old city on October 25, 2009. Dozens of people were wounded in confrontations between Israeli police and Palestinians in and around the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a flashpoint site holy to Muslims and Jews alike. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Pedal Pusher]]>

[Hebron, West Bank; October 18. Image via Getty]

One of 30 women cyclists from Europe, Asia and the Arab world flashes the v-sign for victory with a Palestinian flag fixed on her bicycle upon the group's arrival in the flashpoint West Bank city Hebron on October 18, 2009. The 'Women for Peace' have peddled through Lebanon, Syria and Jordan before crossing into the Palestinian territories, in a campaign for regional peace. AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER (Photo credit should read HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Salt Of The Earth]]>

[Abu Dis, West Bank; October 14. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian woman gathers fallen olives in the West Bank town of Abu Dis on October 14, 2009. For Palestinians, olives are an important agricultural product and their trees symbolise their attachment to the land. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)
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