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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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![Malka Leifer, a former Australian teacher accused of dozens of cases of sexual abuse of girls at a school, arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on February 27, 2018. - Israel on February 12 arrested the Australian woman who is wanted in her home country on child sex abuse charges, police announced. The suspect has been living in a West Bank settlement for the past decade following a complaint filed against her by a former student at a Jewish ultra-Orthodox school she ran in Melbourne. (P](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/12/GettyImages-924810834%20%281%29.jpg/GettyImages-924810834%20%281%29.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=ethCNWfq)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Beitar Jerusalem fans cheer on their team prior to the UEFA Europa League play-off football match between Beitar Jerusalem and AS Saint-Etienne, at the Itztadion Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on August 17, 2016.
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Danny Zaken
In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![A Palestinian girl walks towards an alley leading to the Qaqaa Bin Amr mosque, in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, on September 15, 2020. - Israeli authorities suspended a demolition order on the two-story building in the Silwan neighbourhood, and granted those in charge of it 21 days to challenge the demolition order. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/12/GettyImages-1228526056.jpg/GettyImages-1228526056.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=xehHddiY)
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study in a hall divided with plastic sheets as prevention from COVID-19, at their Kollel, a gathering place for full-time advanced Jewish law studies, in the religious city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv in central Israel, on October 25, 2020. - As Israel entered lockdown in March, a video emerged showing 92-year-old rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the world's most powerful, flanked by his grandson and top advisor Yaakov, professing ignorance about coronavirus and insisting religious sch](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/11/GettyImages-1229388031.jpg/GettyImages-1229388031.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=JXakLEP7)
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![TOPSHOT - Orthodox Jewish yeshiva (religious school) students study separated by plastic cells set up amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, on August 25, 2020 in the southern Israeli city of Sdreot. - Israel has over 92,000 COVID-19 cases to its nine million population, with fewer than 700 deaths. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/10/GettyImages-1228198442.jpg/GettyImages-1228198442.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=_O0v9jXq)
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![A F-35 fighter jet is seen after landing in the Israeli Nevatim Air force base in the Negev desert, near the southern city of Beersheva, on December 12, 2016.
The first two US F-35 stealth fighters bought by Israel landed at an air base in the Jewish state this evening, an AFP journalist at the site said. Their arrival, hailed as a gamechanger by Israeli leaders, came some six hours late after aviation officials in Italy delayed the takeoff for the last stage of their journey because of poor visibility
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Beitar Jerusalem fans cheer on their team prior to the UEFA Europa League play-off football match between Beitar Jerusalem and AS Saint-Etienne, at the Itztadion Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on August 17, 2016.
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In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel
![Tourists sunbathe by the pool of the Al Naseem hotel in the Gulf emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, on July 7, 2020. - With a "welcome" passport sticker and coronavirus tests on arrival, Dubai reopens its doors to international visitors in the hope of reviving its tourism industry after a nearly four-month closure. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP) (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/09/GettyImages-1225248176.jpg/GettyImages-1225248176.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=7Kcv_CNq)
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![A mask-clad policeman loyal to Hamas stands behind concrete barriers painted with messages instructing people to remain at home due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at a checkpoint in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on September 6, 2020. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/09/GettyImages-1228371274.jpg/GettyImages-1228371274.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=KwEN7D7J)
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