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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
![Iranian-born Mongolian judoka Saeid Mollaei competes during the finals of the men's under 81kg category of Tel Aviv Grand Slam 2021 in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, on February 19, 2021. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2021/02/GettyImages-1231260683.jpg/GettyImages-1231260683.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=HxD5qdur)
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![An engineer from the Israeli company "Commun.it" uses his expertise in social media commercial analysis to identify networks of fake users during at the group's office in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv on January 23, 2019. - A coalition of Israeli diplomats, programmers and hackers have joined forces to stave off threats -- including from hostile states -- by identifying networks on social media and getting them removed. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2021/02/GettyImages-1091956774.jpg/GettyImages-1091956774.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=gGpzzEJb)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![This picture taken from the Israeli side of the Mitar checkpoint on September 17, 2020 shows Palestinian workers crossing out of Israel a day ahead of Rosh-Hashana (the Jewish New Year) and of a nationwide lockdown aimed at curbing a spike of coronavirus cases. - Israel has the world's second-highest virus infection rate after Bahrain, according to an AFP tally over the past fortnight, and on September 18 it is set to be the first country to impose a second lockdown. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP) (Photo by H](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2021/02/GettyImages-1228562463.jpg/GettyImages-1228562463.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=l5uNY7i6)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![A healthcare worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services, in the ultra-Orthodox Israeli city of Bnei Brak, on January 6, 2021. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2021/02/GettyImages-1230446496.jpg/GettyImages-1230446496.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=xn07BXJf)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![A member of an Israeli tech delegation uses his phone in a video call during an evening meeting with Emirati counterparts at a hotel in Dubai on October 25, 2020. - Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed on October 19 to visa-free travel, an unprecedented arrangement between Israel and an Arab state, signed after the first ever official UAE delegation landed in Tel Aviv. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP) (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2021/01/GettyImages-1229277412.jpg/GettyImages-1229277412.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=2TV5J2ok)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MARCH 20: (ISRAEL OUT) Israeli Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, center, speaks to his media advisor Assi Shariv, left, before he gives an interview to Army Radio personality Razi Barkai at the Ministry of Trade and Industry March 20, 2006 in Jerusalem. One week before Israel's March 28 general elections, Olmert's centrist Kadima party leads its nearest rivals by a nargin of about 2:1 according to opinion polls. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2021/01/GettyImages-57139277.jpg/GettyImages-57139277.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=b8CdNcXo)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Palestinian workers wearing masks against Covid-19 lineup for a security check at the entrance to Israel's Mishor Adumim industrial zone nearby the Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank east of Jerusalem, on July 1, 2020. - The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said it could begin the process to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank as well as the strategic Jordan Valley from today. The plan -- endorsed by Washington -- would see the creation of a Palestinian state, but on r](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2021/01/GettyImages-1223718433.jpg/GettyImages-1223718433.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=ZzTpXQlA)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel