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Israeli IDF Soldiers Testimonials Taken Out of Context

Several weeks after the Israeli operation in Gaza, Danny Zamir, director of the Yitzhak Rabin military preparatory academy at Oranim College, organized a meeting of his graduates. There they chatted behind closed doors and shared their experience from the operation. A transcript of their conversation was initially published in the College paper, but was picked [...]

w00t:: My GVO post linked on NYTimes

First of all, I’m stoked that the New York Times indexes and semantically parses Global Voices posts within their Topics pages!! Recognizing the importance of local perspectives in this age of journalism. My most recent piece, found in a popular Israeli online forum, describes a puzzling incident which could have dire consequences for Tzipi Livni’s [...]

GVO in rich media

An interesting thread has been running in the Global Voices List on expanding GVO’s output to include audio content – a daily podcast including a summary of the day’s important posts. What I love about the GVO community is its constant efforts to come up with additional features and possible outputs, all under the big [...]

Obeying the Rules cont’d…

I wrote this post several weeks ago on failing to follow the rules. This topic came up again as I was writing a recent Global Voices post. There, I described a blogger’s opinion on the Israeli teachers union response to the court ruling, placing a deadline for their strike to end by issuing a restraint [...]

My very first GVO article

Very excited to have my first Global Voices Online article up on the site. I’ll be following the Hebrew blogosphere for them. This current article deals with an internet censorship law proposal from the Shas religious party, that is currently in discussion by the Israeli knesset.