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Daniel EstrinDE

Daniel Estrin

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Daniel is an American journalist in the Middle East. He reports for The World, the Associated Press and other media.
Israeli tenth-graders are learning cyber security skills. The military won't allow photos that show their faces because many of them may later be recruited to Israel's version of the NSA.
Education
Israel teaches cybersecurity skills to its high schoolers
Ivanka Trump Jared Kushner inauguration
Global Politics
Does Israel recognize Ivanka Trump’s Jewishness? It does now.
Proto-Sinaitic script
Books
There’s an intriguing theory that illiterate miners invented the alphabet
The entrance to the room where the tomb of Jesus is located.
Religion
Jesus’ tomb was just exposed for the first time in centuries. Here are the photos.
A young swimmer gets ready to leap off of a diving board at Sommerbad Neukolln, a public pool facility in Berlin. It's located in one of Germany’s most ethnically diverse neighborhoods.
Culture
Welcoming refugees to the pool — in a most German way
Children climb on a construction near a gravestone in the playground of the Sophienkirche day-care center in Berlin, Germany. The day-care is located on the grounds of the Sophienkirche church, and it’s playground occupies a space that was once the parish
Culture
Berlin’s graveyards are being converted for use by the living
Children climb on a construction near a gravestone in the playground of the Sophienkirche day-care center in Berlin, Germany. The day-care is located on the grounds of the Sophienkirche church, and it’s playground occupies a space that was once the parish
Culture
Berlin’s graveyards are being converted for use by the living
Tarek Bakhous is a Syrian Christian refugee. He says he faced harassment from his Syrian Muslim refugee roommates in Berlin.
Conflict
These Syrian Christians fled Muslim extremist harassment. Then they found it again in Germany.
Frank Hessenland left Germany's Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party when he realized how far to the right it had moved. But the party continued to haunt him.
Global Politics
This reporter joined a new political party. But he left in horror when it turned ‘almost neo-Nazi.’
Imam Kadir Sanci holds a model of the House of One in Berlin.
Belief
This place of worship would be 3-in-1: Church, synagogue and mosque
The Jellinek family in their home in Berlin, with their houseguest, Kinan, a Syrian Muslim refugee (second from left). When Chaim Jellinek told Kinan he was Jewish, Kinan said he had no problem with that.
Culture
This Jewish family is hosting a Syrian Muslim refugee in their Berlin home
Deportation stamps used by the German federal police "Bundespolizei" to stamp ID documents of rejected asylum seekers, in Rosenheim, southern Germany.
Global Politics
In Germany, mass deportation is a touchy subject
Milad Khawam performing in Berlin as part of his new music project, "Exilistan."
Music
A Syrian trumpet player in Berlin has a new project called ‘Exilistan’
Avigdor Lieberman (L) and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, after agreeing a new coalition deal last week, which gave Lieberman the Defense Ministry
Global Politics
Who is Israel’s controversial new defense minister?
At a Memorial Day gathering in front of the city hall in Jerusalem. People come together to sing songs of loss and remembrance.
Conflict
Long before karaoke came to Israel, there were public sing-alongs
Novelist Ayelet Waldman and a Palestinian man in Hebron. “For most of my life, I loved Israel, I longed for Israel, I planned to live in Israel,” she says.
Books
Novelist Ayelet Waldman is sending writers to the West Bank to document what they see, 50 years into occupation
Emad Abu Shamsiyeh who filmed the shooting, standing with his camera at the site in Hebron where it happened. Since his video was posted online, he's been threatened and attacked.
Conflict
In the West Bank, a killing and a handshake are caught on tape
Mohammed Shehada sorts a bag of pistachios, weeding out the American-grown nuts from what are supposed to be Iranian-grown ones. American pistachios are bigger and lighter in color, and the shells are slightly pointier.
Global Politics
Pistachios, a love story
Orthodox Jewish men in costume read from a scroll of the biblical Book of Esther for the Jewish carnival holiday of Purim. The story tells the tale of an ancient Persian king whose viceroy hatches a plot to kill the Jews of the kingdom, a plot that is thw
Belief
Iranians and Israelis are in a battle over history — and the holiday of Purim
Asaf Yusufov, who started the "Bernie in Hebrew" Facebook page, holds a Barney the Dinosaur that a friend gave him as a gag gift. (Bernie and Barney are spelled the same in Hebrew.)
Global Politics
Israelis stump for Trump and feel the Bern
Rana Samara says she became interested in painting intimate scenes, post-sex, after visiting a friend in a Palestinian refugee camp where there's little privacy. "I started questioning like, how did people make sex? How did they sleep together?”
Arts
This artist’s work isn’t about the Israeli occupation. She paints Palestinian bedrooms — post-sex.
Palestinian singer Qassem Al Najjar says none of his songs are about the stabbings of Israelis. He doesn't support the stabbings but he says he understands them.
Conflict
In Ramallah, some of the hottest pop tunes are about stabbing Israelis
Anemone coronaria flowers in Shokeda forest, Israel.
Environment
A PSA campaign got Israelis to stop picking flowers in order to preserve them
Israeli ultranationalists (right) protest against alleged interrogation methods used by Israel's domestic security service Shin Bet on suspects in a fatal arson attack last July in a Palestinian West Bank village, during a court hearing in the case held o
Conflict
Israel’s security agency blames Jewish extremist group for deadly arson attack
McDonalds is one of the few places open on a Sunday night in the Paris suburb of Épinay-sur-Seine. (Clockwise from left: Angeline Rochery and former students, Steven dos Santos, Samir Saïfi, Laeticia Rodrigues, Cristina Riscou)
Global Politics
These young people from the Paris suburbs didn’t know the attackers — but they know people like them
Steve Puget, 18, started a Facebook page to help people in Paris find missing friends and relatives after the attacks. In some cases, he had to break the news that a loved one had been killed.
Global Politics
From his bedroom hundreds of miles away, this teenager helped find the missing of Paris
Morgane Bloncourt, 24, lives a few minutes walk away from a cafe that was attacked last Friday. She's now moving to Israel. "I don't feel safe in Paris. It's weird."
Conflict
‘I feel safe in Israel. I don’t feel safe in Paris’
A mosque attendant lowers a candelabra into a narrow shaft on the Muslim side of the shrine to an underground cave. It's revered as the place where Muslims and Jews believe Ibrahim, or Abraham, is buried.
Belief
In Hebron, Israelis and Palestinians share a holy site … begrudgingly
Ahmed Yousef, 25, an editor at Quds News Network, at a sweet shop in Ramallah. A photo of the Dome of the Rock, a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, is on the wall. Tensions around the site helped spark the recent violence between Israelis and Palestinians
Conflict
As violence surges between Israelis and Palestinians, Facebook pages fan the flames with graphic images
A Palestinian worker at Azura in Jerusalem.
Conflict
Amidst rising violence, Israelis and Palestinians have no choice but to depend on each other
A Palestinian youth (L) yells at right-wing Jewish activists (not pictured) as they visit the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City July 28, 2015.
Global Politics
Like so much in the Middle East, the current violence in Israel goes back centuries
A Palestinian teenager checks his Facebook account, keeping tabs on the back and forth violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
Conflict
Escalating Middle East violence helped along by social media
Cantor Chaim Adler looks over the sheet music from the Kol Nidre prayer, sung on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
Culture
The best free concert in Jerusalem takes place on Yom Kippur
Avia Azulay, a youth counselor who works with hilltop youth in the West Bank.
Global Politics
Meet a man trying to bring Israel’s radical youth back from the brink
Jaber Rahil and his wife, Alegra Belo. When they were young, the two fell in love, but Alegra was Jewish, and Jaber was an Arab Christian.
Conflict
A hotel in Israel is named for this pair of star-crossed lovers
Yigal Amir's wife, Larisa Trimbovler, with their son, Yinon from the documentary, Beyond the Fear. Amir got married and fathered a son after he went to prison for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Conflict
A controversial documentary shows the family life of the man who killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Israel issued commemorative stamps last year, featuring Topol's self-portrait as Tevye, for the 50 year anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof's debut on Broadway.
Culture
Chaim Topol is still fiddling after all these years
Author and musician Yuval Ben-Ami, 39.
Music
In Holy Land, a tribute to Lorde gets complicated
David Radznyski is the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's newest concertmaster. He’s a 28-year-old violinist from New Haven, Connecticut, with Israeli roots.
Culture
Israel’s newest concertmaster leads a youth movement at the country’s premier orchestra
Tacos al pastor from Carmela's Mexican Restaurant in Beaumont, Texas.
Food
Thank the Ottoman Empire for the taco al pastor
Lucy Aharish
Media
An Arab newscaster in Israel has a message: ‘This is not your country. This is our country.’
Israel's Ofer Prison, located near Jerusalem.
Justice
Why Israeli courts refuse the death penalty for terrorists
Just in time for Passover, Ben and Jerry's is offering vanilla ice cream with a swirl of charoset straight from the seder table.
Food
Forget Cherry Garcia. How about Ben and Jerry’s Passover ice cream?
Crumpled posters at the headquarters of the center-left Zionist Union, a day after losing to incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's elections.
Global Politics
Their election hopes crumpled, the young Israeli left asks: ‘Should we stay?’
A part of "Galilee Landscape."
Arts
Meet the man who broke into a museum — to hang his artwork
Posters of Isaac Herzog, who heads the center-left Zionist Union coalition. General elections will be held in Israel on March 17.
Global Politics
‘The reason many of you still haven’t decided to vote for me is my voice’
Lifestyle
A ‘stimulating’ film is causing a stir in Israel
A still from Victoria Hanna's video "Aleph-bet (Hosha'ana)."
Culture
The ‘edgiest’ singer on Israeli airwaves is an Orthodox mother of three
Firebrand Israeli politician Stav Shaffir stands with Yitzhak Herzog, the chairman of Israel's Labor Party and fellow member of the Israeli parliament.
Global Politics
You’ve heard of hope and change, but you probably haven’t heard its new Israeli messenger
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Global Politics
Uninvited by Obama, will Netanyahu speak to Congress?
Outside Paris' Le Comedy Club before the performace of comedians Younes and Bambi, aka Younes Depardieuis and Samuel Djian. Younes is Muslim. Samuel is Jewish.
Culture
A Muslim and a Jew walk into a comedy club in Paris — and hilarity ensues
rench soldiers patrol the street in a Jewish neighbourhood near a religious school and a synagogue as part of the highest level of "Vigipirate" security plan after the Islamist attacks in Paris January 20, 2015.
Belief
I never knew how differently France and America value religion
French journalist is upset that her daughter has converted to Judaism. “I have nothing Judaism. I am just against any religion.”
Belief
After her daughter embraced religion, this French woman wonders ‘Did I do something wrong?’
Young bloggers from the suburbs of Paris participate in the Bondy Blog roundtable discussion.
Media
Bloggers from France’s immigrant suburbs provide their own, alternative voice
Amedy Dramé is a French Muslim from a suburb of Paris.
Culture
‘They think we Muslim people hate them. They don’t know us.’
An Israeli government representative discusses Israeli immigration with prospective Jewish immigrants at an immigration expo in Paris.
Global Politics
Israel encourages frightened French Jews to make a move
Cars were trapped for days during last year's snowstorm in Jerusalem.
Lifestyle
It’s snowmageddon time for the Middle East — again
Soldiers in the production booth during a talk show at Galey Tzahal, Israel Army Radio’s news talk channel.
Media
Here’s how Israel gets its music and news — from teenaged soldiers
"Yoram," the hitman of Eilat, shoots at crows. He requested anonymity because his work is controversial and he keeps his identity a secret in the city.
Environment
When the crows attack, who you gonna call? In Eilat, it’s the crow hitman
A man walks past a burning building during rioting after a grand jury returned no indictment in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Conflict
A Middle East correspondent sees familiar clashes unfold in Ferguson