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Linda Gradstein

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Linda is a former longtime Israel correspondent for NPR and a frequent contributor to Public Radio International’s ‘The World’ program.

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Palestinian Rocket Kills 1, First in a Year

posted: 1 day 13 hours ago

JERUSALEM (March 18) -- Palestinian gunmen fired a mortar shell from Gaza into Israel today, killing a migrant worker in the first fatality from a rocket attack in more than a year. The attack comes ...

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Palestinian Riots Raise Talk of 3rd Intifada

posted: 3 days 11 hours ago

JERUSALEM (March 16) -- Hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli police at several sites in East Jerusalem today, protesting Israel's rededication of an ancient synagogue in the O ...

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Israel Confronts 'Worst Crisis' in US Relations

posted: 4 days 8 hours ago

JERUSALEM (March 15) -- Israelis woke up this morning to banner headlines trumpeting "the worst crisis in relations with the U.S. for 35 years," quoting Israel's ambassador to Washington, Michael Ore ...

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Biden's Mideast Visit Mired in Controversy

posted: 9 days 8 hours ago

JERUSALEM (March 10) – Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to Israel and the West Bank has become a minefield of perceived snubs in the wake of Israel's announcement Monday that it will build 1 ...

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Biden Blasts Israel for New Building Plans

posted: 10 days 3 hours ago

JERUSALEM (March 9) -- Visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had unusually harsh words for Israel after the government approved 1,600 new homes in an ultra-Orthodox East Jerusalem neighborhood. The ...

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US Mediates in Attempt to Thaw Middle East Tension

posted: 12 days 5 hours ago

JERUSALEM (March 7) --- A new flurry of diplomacy to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and a visit this week by Vice President Joe Biden come after more than a year of a freeze in the discussion ...

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In Hebron, a Common Site Fuels a Holy Feud

posted: 16 days 6 hours ago

HEBRON, West Bank (March 3) -- Leah Stremsky, 66, has traveled more than five hours from her home in northern Israel to pray at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the ancient city. She hopes that her effo ...

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Clashes Erupt at Jerusalem Holy Site

posted: 19 days 5 hours ago

JERUSALEM (Feb. 28) -- Clashes broke out at a site holy to Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem's Old City today, sparking fears of a new wave of violence as the U.S. tries to restart Israeli-Palestinian pe ...

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Israeli Intelligence Burnishes Image at Expense of Hamas

posted: 23 days 7 hours ago

JERUSALEM (Feb. 24) -- It's been quite a week for the much-vaunted Israeli intelligence services. First were accusations that Israel was behind the killing last month of a senior Hamas official in Du ...

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Israeli Doctor Fixes Botched Circumcision on Muslim Man

posted: 23 days 10 hours ago

JERUSALEM (Feb. 23) -- Jews and Arabs aren't always at war. A Jewish Israeli doctor reports he was able to correct a botched circumcision on a Muslim man. Professor Yaron Har-Shai, head of the plasti ...

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