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Sheera Frenkel

Sheera Frenkel appears in the following:

Kafka's Final Absurdist Tale Plays Out In Tel Aviv

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

A self-described cat lady and the state of Israel are locked in a battle over what may be unpublished manuscripts by Franz Kafka. In a story that is, well, Kafkaesque, the papers are in a small Tel Aviv apartment, in the possession of an elderly woman who has refused to let experts see them.

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From An Israeli Kibbutz, A High-Priced Caviar Prized By Top Chefs

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

One of the world's most treasured foods comes from an unlikely source — a sturgeon farm on a kibbutz in northern Israel. The prized sturgeon eggs — or osetra caviar, if you must — fetches a hefty price and has a top-chef following.

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Violent Riots Target African Nationals Living In Israel

Thursday, May 24, 2012

A demonstration held Wednesday night in Tel Aviv in favor of deporting Africans in Israel turned into a frenzied mob. Twelve people were arrested for committing acts of violence and vandalism against Africans. Israel has tens of thousands of African nationals from Darfur and Eritrea. Over the last month, reports have filled the Israeli papers of suspicions that the Africans are responsible for a string of violent crimes, and rapes, though actual evidence only incriminates them in a handful of circumstances.

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Palestinians Bristle At Gingrich Comments

Monday, December 12, 2011

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict invariably comes up in U.S. presidential politics. Now, Republican candidate Newt Gingrich has drawn the ire of Palestinians by calling them "an invented people."

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Israel Today

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Sheera Frenkel, correspondent for NPR and The Times of London in Jerusalem, joins from Israel to talk about protests and political news from the country.

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What Egypt Means to Israel

Friday, February 04, 2011

Neil MacFarquhar, UN bureau chief for the New York Times, and Sheera Frenkel, special correspondent in Jerusalem for McClatchy Newspapers, talk about how the Israeli government is reacting both publicly and privately to the events unfolding in Egypt.

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Israel Nervously Watches Egypt

Friday, February 04, 2011

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It’s a nervous time for all the entire region for all of the current governments and given that Egypt is the cornerstone for Israel’s peace policy in the entire region, Israel’s probably the most nervous of them all, and I don’t think it’s going to something that’s going to be cleared up or resolved on the coming days. I think it’s going to be quite a long process.

— Sheera Frenkel, special correspondent in Jerusalem for McClatchy Newspapers on the Brian Lehrer Show.

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