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Danny Zaken is a journalist who works for the Israeli public radio station Kol Israel. Zaken has covered military and security affairs, West Bank settlers and Palestinian topics. He was a Knight Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan and completed the BBC Academy's journalism program. Zaken lecturers on media and journalism at the Hebrew University, the Mandel School and the Interdiscinplinary Center Herzliya. He is the former chair of the Jerusalem Journalists Association. On Twitter: @danizaken
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![TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - AUGUST 28: New Jewish immigrants walking down the airplane during a welcoming ceremony after arriving on a flight from Ethiopia, on August 28, 2013 at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. Over 400 Ethiopian Jews arrived on the flight to Tel Aviv, the last of a series of monthly flights that were part of Operation Dove's Wings, an Israeli government initiative to bring to Israel the remainder of the Falash Mura, members of the Ethiopian Jewish community whose ancestors converted to C](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/08/GettyImages-178265281.jpg/GettyImages-178265281.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=aflqQelV)
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![Bedouin women react during a protest against home demolitions on January 18, 2017 in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, which is not recognized by the Israeli government, near the southern city of Beersheba, in the Negev desert.
An Israeli policeman was killed while taking part in an operation to demolish homes in the Bedouin village, with authorities claiming he was targeted in a car-ramming attack. The driver was earlier reported shot dead by police as residents disputed the police version of events, sa](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/08/GettyImages-631953560.jpg/GettyImages-631953560.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=i4G1pqNh)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Israeli security forces stand guard in one of the alleys of Jerusalem's Old City following a knife attack early on May 31, 2019. - Two Israelis were wounded, one critically, in stabbing attacks in annexed east Jerusalem early in the monrning, one near Damascus Gate and the other near Jaffa Gate, according to Israeli police. Police said the attacker had been "neutralised" without specifying whether he had been killed or wounded. The Old City, where the attack took place, has been the scene of numerous stabbi](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/08/GettyImages-1147143857.jpg/GettyImages-1147143857.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=iv7Duj6h)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Participants hold rainbow flags as they take part in Tel Aviv's annual Pride Parade amid the COVID-19 pandemic, on June 28, 2020. - Thousands took part in muted LGBT events across Israel today as the usually larger gatherings were cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions. In Tel Aviv, home to the Middle East's biggest annual Pride parade, revellers gathered at Rabin Square for a concert featuring local stars including transgender Eurovision winner Dana International. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JA](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/07/GettyImages-1223409889.jpg/GettyImages-1223409889.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=WvaM1Osu)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Israeli pupils wearing protective gear make their way to their classroom upon return to school after the COVID-19 lockdown, at Hashalom elementary in Mevaseret Zion, in the suburbs of Jerusalem, on May 3, 2020. - Israeli elementary schools were given the green light to bring back students of first through third grades, as the country looks to gradually transition back into a more normal routine after seven weeks of confinement measures. (Photo by Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Gett](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/07/GettyImages-1211656925.jpg/GettyImages-1211656925.jpg?h=8dfd537e&itok=SxDDyF51)
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![An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, wearing a protective face mask, stands at a checkpoint erected to block entrance to the neighbourhoods of Romema and Kiryat Belz after authorities imposed a lockdown to combat the spread of the Coronavirus, in Jerusalem on July 12, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/07/GettyImages-1226343854.jpg/GettyImages-1226343854.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=tpxtfoSU)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![LONDON - SEPTEMBER 11: The Rafael company logo is pictured during the Defence Systems and Equpment International (DSEi) at the Excel Centre on September 11, 2007 in London, England. The DSEi is the world's largest fully integrated international defence exhibition providing the opportunity for companies to display their full capability at a single exhibition. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/07/GettyImages-76664657.jpg/GettyImages-76664657.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=k12XBBS_)
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![An employee walks on the Expedient regasification ship, anchored off the coast of Israel in the Mediterranean Sea on February 26, 2015, as natural gas began flowing from the vessel, hired by the Israel Electric Corporation, to its power stations. The ship, anchored about ten kilometres from the Hadera coast, was connected the previous week to the marine buoy and as of February 25, natural gas has begun flowing from the LNG (liquid natural gas) ship through an underwater pipeline directly to the company's po](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/07/GettyImages-464507066.jpg/GettyImages-464507066.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=0PyRA8WK)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
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Danny Zaken
In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel