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YAY! Very honored and grateful that my book, THE LAND OF HOPE AND FEAR: ISRAEL'S BATTLE FOR ITS INNER SOUL, made it onto The New York Times premier list of 100 Notable Books of 2023 !!!
Isabel Kershner
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Isabel Kershner
@IKershner
Correspondent in Jerusalem for The New York Times. Author of THE LAND OF HOPE AND FEAR: Israel's Battle for its Inner Soul, a NYT Notable Book of 2023.
Joined March 2013
- In a surprise mediation effort, Naftali Bennett, Israel's prime minister of less than a year, flew to Moscow on Saturday to meet with President Putin, then spoke to President Zelensky by phone, before flying to Germany. with @ronenbergman
- Israel's Covid rates are so low that months after pioneering a Green Pass system limiting access to indoor restaurants, cultural and sports events to vaccinated people, the country is now retiring it.
- In a dramatic coda to the Eichmann trial, one of the most seminal events in post-Holocaust history, a new Israeli documentary series exposes Eichmann's long-hidden confessions, in his own voice
- Israel’s advice on school opening for other countries? “They definitely should not do what we have done,” said Prof. Eli Waxman, who advises the government. With the great @PamBelluck nytimes.com/2020/08/04/wor…
- This is a story about humans and their ability to harm and heal, love and hate.
- In the grip of a resurgence of Covid infections and battling signs of waning vaccine immunity over time, Israel is pioneering a mass third booster shot drive, becoming a real world test case again
- Four years later, an Israeli police officer will serve nine months jail time for fatally shooting a teenage Palestinian protester. "You could get a heftier punishment for texting while driving," said an Arab member of Knesset nyti.ms/2vMX6bc
- 'Trump has dominated news cycles and frayed nerves in almost every corner of the earth': A global take on the US election from Jerusalem to Beijing. @halbfinger
- When the country is on the brink of war, the opposition usually rallies around the government. Not this time. For Israel, the Gaza conflict came at a pivotal political moment, as PM Netanyahu was facing the possibility of being ousted from office.
- Meet the particle physicist and mother of 5 at the forefront of Israel's massive protest movement. When leading the march to Jerusalem, somebody noticed that one of her shoes was torn and asked for her shoe size. She soon had seven pairs to choose from.
- Shira Isakov's partner had tried to kill her. She survived against the odds and became an agent of change, initally by deciding to go public with her story as she regained consciousness after six days in intensive care w/pix by @amitelk
- Latest real-world data out of Israel on Monday, while extremely preliminary and with a load of other caveats, suggests that Pfizer vaccine is performing even better than in clinical trials
- Tragedy this morning with the death of a veteran journalist covering an IDF raid and armed clashes in Jenin refugee camp. Thoughts are with Shireen Abu Akleh's family and friends, RIP.
