The Other Israelis
BY : Andrew Khouri, Albert Sabaté & Mary Slosson
South Tel Aviv is one of Israel’s most diverse neighborhoods, with migrant workers and Israeli citizens of diverse backgrounds living in close proximity.
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Prophecy, Science Converge in Israel's Oil and Gas Boom
BY : Kevin Grant
John Brown first came to Israel in 1983 with visions of striking oil. He didn’t care that geologists had written off that possibility as absurd.
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Retirement Home Supports Impoverished Holocaust Survivors
BY : Jessica Donath
Many Holocaust survivors living in Israel spend what should be their golden years in a state of poverty. A retirement home in Haifa is now lending a helping hand to one of the country's neediest groups.
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Black Among Blacks
BY : Janine Rayford
“Why you come here to show everything is good for Ethiopians?” Abraham Amirha asked, slicing through the music with his grave tone: “We live in Israel in a situation that is not correct.”
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About The Project
In January 2011, USC Annenberg's J585 Reporting on Religion launched an innovative partnership with On Being, American Public Media’s talk show on meaning, religion, ethics and ideas. During Skype sessions with host Krista Tippett and the On Being staff, Diane Winston's graduate students mapped out reporting strategies for coverage of religion and ethnicity among Israelis and Palestinians as well as Jews and Arabs in Los Angeles and in Israel. The class posted photos, audio clips and stories on Tumblr, many of which appeared the On Being blog. Trent Gillis, the program’s online editor, also worked with students on stories for the site. In Jerusalem, Tippett and the On Being production team met up with J-585 for a tour of the Old City and a dinner conversation with author Yossi Klein Halevi. Several students’ stories from Israel subsequently appeared on the program blog.