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Ben Sales

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Ben Sales is news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 27, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Arie Leib Abrams-Flash90)
Posted inNews

‘We will not give up’ on judicial changes, right-wing protesters at Israel’s largest pro-reform rally are told

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 28, 2023
A protester demonstrates at the 2023 Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Tel Aviv as a conference attendee walks past. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of JFNA-A.G.)
Posted inNews

How Israel’s political crisis took center stage at a major American Jewish conference

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 27, 2023May 15, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a Jerusalem Post conference at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem on April 27, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
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Visiting Jerusalem, Ron DeSantis tries out his Jewish stump speech

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 27, 2023
A Tel Aviv protest at the start of Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel's Independence Day, featured a sea of flags, April 25, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Ben Sales)
Posted inNews

On Israel’s 75th Independence Day, its flag has taken on new meaning as a protest symbol

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 26, 2023April 26, 2023
A man holds an Israeli flag with signatures from the Israeli Declaration of Independence during a silent protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a state memorial ceremony for victims of terror, in Mount Herzl military cemetery, Jerusalem, April 25, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Erik Marmor-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Tensions mark Memorial Day ceremonies in Israel as Netanyahu urges unity

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 25, 2023April 26, 2023
Anti-government protesters carrying Israeli flags lined the path between the Tel Aviv train station and the convention center where the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly was taking place, April 23, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Ben Sales)
Posted inNews

At an American Jewish conference in Tel Aviv, protesters are driving the energy

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 24, 2023
The exterior of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the days after a white supremacist murdered 11 people during Shabbat services in October 2018.
(Still from "Repairing the World")
Posted inU.S.

Long-delayed Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial to begin Monday, igniting pain, fear and hopes for closure

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 21, 2023
Nikki Fried, Florida's agriculture commissioner, seen during the 2022 Florida gubernatorial Democratic primary. (Photo/JTA-Drew Angerer-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Jewish chair of Florida’s Democratic Party arrested at abortion rights protest

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 4, 2023
Israelis block the Ayalon highway during a protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, Tel Aviv, March 26, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90)
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Protests and strike rock Israel as future of Netanyahu’s judicial reforms falls into doubt

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 27, 2023
Israeli lawmaker Simcha Rothman, an architect of the judicial overhaul, chairs a session of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on March 20, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Gil Cohen-Magen-AFP via Getty Images)
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‘The gun is on the table’: Both sides of Israel’s debate say that a constitutional crisis is coming

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 22, 2023March 22, 2023

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