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Minister of Interior Affairs Aryeh Deri visits at Interior Ministry office (Misrad Hapnim) in Petah Tikva, July 26, 2016. Photo by Yaakov Cohen/Flash90

‘There’s no such thing as a feminist name-change’

When I reverted my surname back to my maiden name, apparently the Interior Ministry decided I was getting divorced. How do you prove that you’re not getting divorced? My own personal brush with Kafka. I went to the Interior Ministry office in Beit Shemesh to get a passport issued for my adolescent son last week.…

By Samah Salaime January 2, 2018

Palestinians walk along the separation wall in the West Bank. (Activestills.org)

The long road to Bethlehem

After taking a job at a Palestinian university in the West Bank, Jewish journalist Mya Guarnieri feels that the center of her life is increasingly on the 'other side' of the Green Line. Israeli soldiers give her a hard time for being a Jew in 'enemy territory' and it becomes more and more difficult to live in Israeli society.

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat March 28, 2015