The Bitcoin of Israel Is Set to Tackle the Country’s Banking Monopoly
The success of the pioneering Bitcoin has inspired a proliferation of new cryptocurrencies around the globe, and last week, six Israeli developers introduced their own virtual coin in an attempt to counter the concentration of power and wealth within the Israeli economy.
Palestinians Are Being Forced to Destroy Their Own Homes
Occupied East Jerusalem – For the past two months, Hamzah Abu Terr has slept on the floor of his home.
He gave his bed to his three small children whose room he was forced to destroy earlier this year, to avoid large demolition fines issued by the Israeli municipality.
It’s Been a Deadly Winter Along Israel’s West Bank Border
Israel’s aggressive vigilance of its borders has resulted in the loss of another Palestinian life.
On Wednesday, 15-year-old Yousef Nayif Yousef Shawamrah Abu-Akar was shot dead by an Israeli soldier in the south Hebron hills.
According to the Israeli Defense Forces, Yousef was one of three Palestinian teenagers attempting to sabotage the large barrier wall that separates Israel from the West Bank.
Abbas Meets With Obama as Palestinians Vent Frustration
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House on Monday, where he spoke with President Barack Obama about the peace negotiations with Israel that began last July and have continued amid growing violence and expanding Israeli settlement construction in the occupied territories.
The Inconceivable Atomic Legacy of New Mexico
In 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon was detonated at the Trinity site, in New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert.
The massive blast pulled the white desert sand up into an atomic fireball, the heat transforming the granules into green glass that fell back to the desert floor.
Oktoberfest in Palestine
On a fall Sunday in Ramallah, the courtyard in the $60 million Movenpick Hotel swarmed with hundreds of drunk Palestinians.
On a stage at one end of the crowd, the Jerusalem-based band Khallas played their own brand of “oriental metal.”
Meanwhile, groups of young Palestinians did the classical dabke dance to a song that sounded somewhere between early Black Sabbath and traditional Arab folk.
Meeting the Female Street Racers of Palestine
I’m driving around the streets of Ramallah, Palestine, with Noor Dawood, the celebrated Palestinian street racer and the only female drifter in the Middle East.
Noor is one of four members of the Speed Sisters, the first and only female racing team in the Middle East, who have brought international attention to the burgeoning Palestine street-racing scene, pissing off Muslim clerics and dismantling the caricature of Palestinian womanhood as they go.
This Palestinian Taxidermist’s Stuffed Animal Zoo Is Kind of Heartbreaking
Dr Khader lives in the Palestinian city of Qalqilya. It’s a place that’s seen its fair share of hate.
Since 2003, the 40,000 or so people who live there have been encircled by the walls of the infamous Israeli West Bank Barrier.
It’s also home to Palestine’s only zoo, of which Dr Khader is the resident veterinarian and director.