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Covers:  human interest, women, Israel, Jews, Arabs and Jews in Israel
Reporter @TimesofIsrael. National Jewish Book Award Nominee; novel: A Remarkable Kindness (HarperCollins). In northern Israel. Alive.

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Diana Bletter’s Biography

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Diana Bletter's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The North American Review, Tabletmag, Huffington Post, Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Jewish Week, The Forward, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Seventeen, Kveller, and more.
Winner of Family Circle's First Prize Fiction Contest.
Author, The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, nominated for a National Jewish Book Award.
A Remarkable Kindness (HarperCollins), 2015. This novel, inspired by …

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From Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley Is a Quick Trip

From Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley Is a Quick Trip

Access to this part of the glacier is privately owned, but the rest of the glacier is managed by the state. T…

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Moving Targets in Israel

Moving Targets in Israel

Shavei Zion, Israel On the 14th day of this war between Hamas and Israel, my husband Jonny and I had business…

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Israel's Freedom Riders - Tablet Magazine

Israel's Freedom Riders - Tablet Magazine

It was morning rush hour in Jerusalem and I boarded a crowded bus, Egged No. 56, and claimed one of the last …

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Meanwhile: Two mothers, one battle

Meanwhile: Two mothers, one battle

It was a bright, clear day. Except for an occasional house with shattered windows, you could not tell that a …

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A sixty-year friendship of Muslim and Jew, born on the soccer pitch

A sixty-year friendship of Muslim and Jew, born on the soccer pitch

It's Monday morning and two 83-year-olds are meeting for their weekly coffee. Motke Berkowitz, or Berko, and …

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Preparing the Dead - Tablet Magazine

Preparing the Dead - Tablet Magazine

Illustration by Katherine Streeter The call came when I was cooking dinner, which surprised me. Bad news usua…

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Breakthrough Israeli cancer study finds mutations break DNA when it doesn’t bend

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Israeli scientists have published research upending the long-held assumption that DNA mutations occur at random, a potentially major genetic breakthrough that could eventually lead to customized treatments for cancer and other diseases caused by genetic issues.
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Israeli study fingers Red Sea fish most likely to invade Mediterranean next

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Tel Aviv University researchers say they have found the three Red Sea fish species that are the likeliest candidates to move into the swiftly warming Mediterranean through the Suez Canal in the near future, spotting the potential invaders before they join dozens of other swimmers that have wreaked ecological havoc off Israel’s coast in past years.
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‘There’s plenty of water in the river’: Israelis trickle north amid tourism drought

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UPPER GALILEE — Keren and Nadav Bocobza made the six-hour round trip from the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon with their four children to spend a day in the north and “support local businesses.” They said they hadn’t been in the area since before October 7, 2023, when during the Hamas onslaught, their house was damaged by rocket fire. They were evacuated for six months and then moved back home. “We call on all people in Israel to come and spend their money here in the north,” Nadav said.
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