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Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff

Amos Harel is the defense analyst for Haaretz. Avi Issacharoff is the newspaper’s Arab-affairs correspondent.

  • Palestinian activists and Israeli security forces at the Kalandia Checkpoint in June.(Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)
    Palestinian activists and Israeli security forces at the Kalandia Checkpoint in June.(Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Anticipating Intifada

    Across the West Bank, rallies are planned to support the Palestinian bid for statehood. Israelis fear what will happen if they turn violent.

    byAmos Harel and Avi Issacharoff
  • A 2007 Tel Aviv gathering on the occasion of Gilad Shalit's 21st birthday.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
    A 2007 Tel Aviv gathering on the occasion of Gilad Shalit's 21st birthday.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
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    News of a Kidnapping

    Israelis are clamoring for the release of Gilad Shalit, the IDF soldier abducted nearly five years ago, but is the prisoner swap demanded by his Hamas captors too high a price to pay?

    byAmos Harel and Avi Issacharoff
  • Ehud Barak(Andy Friedman)
    Ehud Barak(Andy Friedman)
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    Nine Lives

    Grinning through each reversal, the ever-bumbling, deeply unpopular Ehud Barak maneuvers to remain a political force in Israel and its leading voice to the West

    byAmos Harel and Avi Issacharoff
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