Opinion: This Passover, have room in your hearts for Israelis and Palestinians
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— Monday night, as Passover begins, Jews around the world celebrate their ancestors’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt. That liberty was hardly cost-free. Participants in the Seder will recount the 10 plagues by symbolically dipping a finger in their glass of wine and removing a drop, one for each debacle. This recalls the destruction that paved the way to freedom. The Hebrew Bible recounts that after the Israelites made it across the Red Sea, God kept the waters parted to lure the Egyptian...
BBC News—Israeli and Palestinian economies battered by war. Six months of conflict have also taken a heavy economic toll.
Stanford Daily—Palestinian and Israeli leaders call for respectful dialogue. Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, and Tel Aviv University Professor Alon Tal engaged in a productive dialogue on the Israel-Gaza war during a Democracy and Disagreement lecture. Both speakers advised student activists to engage in respectful and intentional debate.
Al-Monitor—The Israelis helping Palestinians hit by settler attacks. In a desert region of the occupied West Bank, Israeli activist Eyal Shani has fitted a tiny camera on his T-shirt to collect evidence of settler violence against Palestinian sheep farmers.Campaigners like Shani have been trying to protect Palestinians from Jewish settlers in the rugged Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, but they say it has become increasingly difficult with attacks soaring following the outbreak of war in Gaza.