Prison Privatization in Israel In Israel’s desert town of Beersheva, far from the eyes of the country’s self-proclaimed center, a new 800-bed jail is being built as an experiment in prison privatization. While other nations are having second thoughts about…
Article Author: Preminger, Yonatan
Flexible, All Too Flexible
AS CHANGE SWEEPS through global job markets, a debate is underway about the effect on workers. Are they benefiting? Or is work becoming less secure, with lower wages and the loss of hard-won rights? At the heart of the debate…
Watching IDF Checkpoints
“No one will be able to say, ‘I didn’t know.’” IMAGINE a cold concrete shed, sides open to the elements, divided into stalls by low walls, with metal turnstiles at either end. The cattle gather at one end, lowing and…
Breaking Walls
BREAKING WALLS, a documentary written and directed by Jonathan Ben Efrat, opens with a scene of deceptive tranquility. In the early morning hush, Mus’ab Salameh prepares himself for the day’s work, kisses his sleeping child and steps into the pre-dawn…
A Perfect Subject for Comedy
A Woody Allen lookalike, in his own words, is a fairly accurate description of London Jewish standup comedian Ivor Dembina, who was in Israel/Palestine this month for a tour of the chaos and for three performances of his show “It’s…