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US teen deported, Israeli rabbi wounded as tensions mount for Jewish activists in the West Bank

JL;DR SUMMARY Tensions in the West Bank have escalated between right-wing Israeli authorities and Jewish leftist activists amid the olive harvest season. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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West BankRabbi Jill JacobsIsraeli GovernmentSettler ViolenceJewish ActivismOlive HarvestTruahPalestinian SolidarityLeila Stillman UtterbackAchvat Amim

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Having spent the night in an immigrant detention center in Ramle, Israel, Leila Stillman-Utterback, still handcuffed, began to daven shacharit, the morning prayers, as dawn broke."
Ramle, Central District, Israel
"Having spent the night in an immigrant detention center in Ramle, Israel, Leila Stillman-Utterback, still handcuffed, began to daven shacharit, the morning prayers, as dawn broke."
Haifa District, Israel
"Now, after being deported and banned by Israel for 10 years, she is unsure when she will be able to confuse people in Israel again."
Burin, Central District, Israel
"In mid-October, Israel detained and deported 32 foreign activists who were accompanying Palestinian harvesters near Burin."
Israel
"In two separate incidents this past week, the right-wing Israeli governments conflict with the Jewish left, both at home and abroad, reached new heights as American and Israeli Jews attempted to accompany Palestinians during their olive harvest in the West Bank."

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