Daniel Estrin

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FILE - in this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, Israeli Yair Lapid, popular former TV anchorman, now Israel's finance minister, delivers a speech in the Ariel college of Judea and Samaria in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. A cultural war has erupted between Israel's rising political star and his ultra-Orthodox archrivals: newly minted Finance Minister Yair Lapid, hugely popular for opposing the longstanding preferential treatment enjoyed by the growing religious minority, is moving swiftly to slash state handouts to large families, compel lifelong seminary students to work and remove funding for schools that don't teach math, science and English. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Culture war in Israel targets ultra-Orthodox Jews

Daniel Estrin · April 25, 2013 4:00 am

Israeli official says drones could replace planes

Israeli official says drones could replace planes

Daniel Estrin · April 21, 2013 5:57 pm

Israel says drones to eventually replace aircraft

Israel says drones to eventually replace aircraft

Daniel Estrin · April 21, 2013 3:21 pm

Israel reopens Gaza border crossings

Israel reopens Gaza border crossings

Daniel Estrin · March 28, 2013 9:25 am

Cigarettes are for sale with a stamp of approval reading in Hebrew, "kosher for Passover" at a kiosk in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March. 25, 2013. For the first time cigarettes have joined the long list of goods stringently checked to ensure they comply with Passover rules on what items are allowed, or kosher for the holiday meaning they have not come in contact with grains or other forbidden ingredients. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israelis get kosher cigarettes for Passover

Tia Goldenberg, Daniel Estrin · March 25, 2013 4:00 am

Official: Barbra Streisand to perform in Israel

Official: Barbra Streisand to perform in Israel

Daniel Estrin · March 17, 2013 8:18 pm

Officials: Israeli government deal to be signed

Officials: Israeli government deal to be signed

Daniel Estrin · March 15, 2013 11:44 am

Israeli army helicopter crash kills 2 pilots

Israeli army helicopter crash kills 2 pilots

Daniel Estrin · March 12, 2013 11:12 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Israeli President Simon Peres speak during a brief ceremony in the president's residence, on Saturday, March 2, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. (AP Photo/Uriel Sinai, Pool)

Netanyahu gets 2 more weeks to form coalition

Daniel Estrin · March 2, 2013 5:00 am

Israeli explosives experts stand by an rocket fired from the northern Gaza Strip that landed near the costal city of Ashkelon, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. It was the first such projectile from the Palestinian territory to hit Israel since Israel-Gaza hostilities last November. The rocket fire came one day after Israeli troops injured two Palestinian teenagers near a holy site close to Bethlehem, during one of the many demonstrations Palestinians in the West Bank have staged in recent days. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

First Gaza rocket in 3 months rattles cease-fire

Daniel Estrin · February 26, 2013 5:00 am

File - In this July 11, 2012 file photo, a South Sudanese migrant worker is comforted by her friends after two of her five children boarded a bus leaving to Ben Gurion airport enroute to South Sudan from Tel Aviv. Israel has quietly repatriated hundreds of Sudanese migrants in recent months, drawing accusations from the United Nations and rights groups that it has coerced the Africans into potentially life-threatening situations and possibly violated international norms for treating refugees. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israel quietly sends migrants to Sudan

Daniel Estrin · February 26, 2013 5:00 am

Israel sheds light on death of suspected spy

Israel sheds light on death of suspected spy

Rod McGuirk, Daniel Estrin · February 13, 2013 5:00 am