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...Nitzan Horowitz, a gay lawmaker from the left-wing Meretz Party, blamed the attack on "years of unremitting incitement from parliamentarians, rabbis and public figures." He added, "I attribute this to the general incitement and hate with which we have been contending for years in this community." Shas, however, was quick to condemn Saturday's killings. "We are shocked and bereaved, and denounce without reservation the murderous incident that targeted Tel Aviv's gay community," the party said in a statement. Israel's chief rabbis described the killings as "an unthinkable, vile crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay vs. Orthodox: A Deadly Turn in Israel's Culture War? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...friends was a rewarding one, he says. “There is the potential for moments of both moral lapses and great pride,” Fredman says. Both Greenvald and Fredman highlight the tension between security and an ethical code of conduct in the complex challenges they faced.For Nitzan Shilon, a former officer in the Israeli and a second-year student at Harvard Law School, the competing claims between securing oneself as a soldier and conducting oneself in accordance with the Israeli military code of conduct led to inevitable conflict. “Whatever you do, you will...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soldiers’ Untold Stories | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...Many settlers waited to negotiate, figuring the government would be under pressure to secure deals before the final evacuation begins, though there's no evidence that the latest deals are better. "With broken hearts," the Angels will move into rental accommodation until their house in the new community of Nitzan, north of Ashkelon, will be ready. This could take two years. "I don't want to go to the caravillas set up by the government (for temporary accommodation), so I'm renting an apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Painful Departure | 8/16/2005 | See Source »

...biggest of these caravilla parks is at Nitzan, a small town north of the Gaza Strip separated by high dunes from the aquamarine seashore. Some of its 350 caravillas are inhabited by the families who have already left the three non-religious Gaza Strip settlements along the north of the fence. These ?secular? settlers moved without a fight because they were for the most part originally drawn to Gaza by the economic incentives offered by the government for living there, rather than by the religious settlers' zeal to ?redeem? the Holy Land. From the sky, we see children's swimming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over Gaza | 8/10/2005 | See Source »

...Nitzan is still north of the main events here. Our helicopter must first cross the "tent city" set up by the Israeli army to house the 10,000 soldiers who'll carry out the evacuation. The rows of tents, separated by bright tarpaulins in blue, green, red to mark the codenames of each unit, look dusty even from the sky. It's quiet down there during the day, as the soldiers train elsewhere in the country. They're readying mainly for verbal abuse from settlers, who are expected to try and create doubt in the minds of the soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over Gaza | 8/10/2005 | See Source »

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