Growing up in the American Orthodox Jewish world, spending a post-high school year studying Torah in Israel was simply what one did. I chose to attend a “mechina” – an Israeli military preparatory program — unaware that what I considered my “year in Israel” would actually place me on occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank.
“Mechinat Yeud” operated from Efrat, an illegal settlement in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. Our days there…
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Opapo, Kenya – Perched in the grass alongside the Rongo-Homa Bay Road in Kenya’s Migori County, a rusted sign announces the Melkio St Joseph Missions of Messiah Church in Africa. Beyond it, a sandy path meets big blue and purple gates that barricade the now-deserted grounds from view.
Just more than a month ago, the church in Opapo village was thrust into the spotlight when reports of secret burials and “cult-like” practices emerged.
On April 21, local police stormed the grounds and…
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The Italian government has announced its willingness to receive the …
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Israeli occupation forces arrested a citizen from Nablus at dawn …
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is undergoing a “routine medical …
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By Palestine Chronicle Staff 
Sanaa Daqqa was detained by Israeli forces in Jerusalem after far-right minister Ben-Gvir demanded her deportation.
Israeli occupation forces detained on Thursday Sanaa Salama Daqqa, the widow of late Palestinian intellectual Walid Daqqa, while she was with her daughter Milad in the Bab Al-Amud area of occupied Jerusalem.
The arrest came just hours…
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More than a quarter of eligible South Korean voters have already cast their ballots for who should be the country’s next president.
South Korea is set to break a record in early voting as more than 12 million voters cast their ballot in advance of the country’s upcoming presidential election.
The figure for early voting – as of midday on Friday – represents more than a quarter of South Korea’s 44.3 million eligible voters, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.
Early…
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For decades, civil servant Zayed al-Ghamdi’s social circles in Saudi Arabia were more than predictable, bound by routine and kinship in a country where societal divisions have rarely been challenged. Then came the metro.
A decade after breaking ground, Riyadh’s gleaming new metro opened in December, offering the capital’s eight million residents an alternative to roads chronically clogged by its two million cars.
A quicker commute is not the only difference: for the first time, the wealthy are…
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Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu said the body’s status would be on par with the UN’s International Court of Justice.
The Chinese government has signed a convention establishing an international mediation organisation located in Hong Kong, with Beijing hoping it will rival the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as the world’s leading conflict resolution body.
The Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation for Mediation (IOMed) was signed into law on Friday, in…
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