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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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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
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Danny Zaken
In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Israelis take part in a demonstration on April 25, 2020, in Rabin Square in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, to protest what they consider threats to Israeli democracy, against the backdrop of negotiations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ex-rival Benny Gantz. - The protesters stood two meters apart from each other, thereby respecting the social distancing measures in force to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/04/GettyImages-1211014867.jpg/GettyImages-1211014867.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=jgYtSvV9)
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![Israel's El Al Airlines Boeing 737 are pictured on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 10, 2020 amid major restrictions on travellers from several countries. - Israel imposed a two-week quarantine on all travellers entering the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, toughening already significant travel restrictions. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/04/GettyImages-1206356883.jpg/GettyImages-1206356883.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=0Y03jzh_)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 20: Benny Gantz, Blue and White party leader attends a press conference after failing to form a goverment on November 20, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel may face third election after Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu struggled to form coalition. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/04/GettyImages-1183642285.jpg/GettyImages-1183642285.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=gOLQwLwp)
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![Israeli soldiers deliver food to residents in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town badly affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and which Israel declared a "restricted zone" due to its high rate of infections, near Tel Aviv, Israel April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC2BYF9AZODO](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/04/RTS384XR.jpg/RTS384XR.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=AembTO-C)
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Danny Zaken
In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Palestinian Bedouin pupils ride a donkey on their way to school in the village of Khan al-Ahmar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on September 6, 2018, after Israel's top court upheld an order to raze the village. - Israel's top court on Wednesday upheld an order to raze a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, after debating petitions challenging the decision. "We reject the petitions" against the directive to demolish Khan al-Ahmar, the supreme court panel said in its ruling, adding that a](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/04/GettyImages-1027679480.jpg/GettyImages-1027679480.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=cGfoIOpL)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel