Dina Kraft
Correspondent at The Christian Science Monitor
reporting @CSMonitor and https://t.co/915k4iuiK9. co-author with Hannah Pick-Goslar, My Friend Anne Frank @penguinrandomhouse. was editing @haaretzcom op-eds
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3 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
For the smallest of my neighbors, the semiregular trips to our apartment building’s bomb shelter began almost a lifetime ago, on Oct. 7, 2023. That Saturday morning, a 7:30 a.m. siren, backed up by blaring apps on my family’s phones and punctuated by our dog’s barks, took us all by surprise.
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4 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
When in February Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stayed for six days in the guest quarters at Blair House, across the street from the White House, he had ample time to witness up close how President Donald Trump is running his administration. Two days after his return from the United States to Jerusalem, he addressed a meeting of his own Cabinet. “Look at Trump,” he reportedly told his ministers.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
Tomas Visok, like many Israelis a reservist with long service in Gaza, awoke Tuesday to the news that Israel had launched surprise airstrikes across the Gaza Strip just hours earlier. The attack shattered 42 days of a ceasefire he had hoped would hold. On the radio, a steady of stream of updates were coming through. More than 300 Palestinians had been killed, including many women and children, as well as a few Hamas leaders. The number later rose to over 400.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
When Israel completed construction of a $1.1 billion above-and-below-ground fence along its 40-mile border with Gaza – equipped with radar devices, cameras, surveillance sensors, and remote-controlled weaponry – it was hailed as an “iron wall.”It was the ultimate high-tech foil to Hamas’ efforts to attack, in particular via underground tunnels. But three years later, just after sunrise on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas forces launched a surprise attack.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
Pastry chef Yaki Sagi carefully rolls a tray stacked with eight vanilla sheet cakes into place in the Lalush Bakery oven at Kibbutz Be’eri, on the border with Gaza. By day’s end he and his assistant will make dozens more, to assemble 100 chocolate-and-cream layer cakes to be sold across the country. Mr. Sagi, who has the words “I am the screenwriter of my own life” tattooed on his left arm, smiles as he swirls around the kitchen under hanging baking pans and between rows of mixers and cookbooks.
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