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Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper's deputy editor. He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper.
Levy was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996.
His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and New York.
Here we have the yardstick for security success: the number of Palestinians killed. As in the most primeval wars, the heads of…
It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights…
George Bush is coming to Israel this week. He will take pleasure in his visit. One can assume that there are few…
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Avi Dichter will not be going to London. The Israeli dream of taking in year-end sales, the new production of Othello or…
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Haim Ramon has made a big comeback. As if renewing the Hebrew language, he has coined the term “infrastructural oxygen” – Israel…
“We have to make you do a little sports,” the Shin Bet interrogator said, launching four successive days of questioning accompanied by…