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Daniella Cheslow

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Daniella Cheslow is a reporter at AFP’s Jerusalem Bureau. Previously, she reported out of Washington, DC, for WAMU and worked as an editor at NPR’s Morning Edition.
The white gated entrance to the Am'ari camp.
Global Politics
US cuts funds to Palestinian refugees, leaving many without essential services
Ramadan Dabash is running for the Jersulam city council.
Global Politics
Most Palestinians living in Jerusalem boycott elections. But one Palestinian is running anyway.
American student Lara Alqasem, 22, appears at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel October 11, 2018. She wants to study at Hebrew University. But Israeli authorities are questioning her politics.
Conflict & Justice
She wanted to study at Hebrew University, but Israel is blocking her
Birgit Bessin poses with a trailer bearing the logo of her party, the AfD
Germany’s anti-immigrant AfD party looks to make inroads in the country’s villages
Firefighters blast water in Berlin in mid-August, providing relief from the heat. This is among the few ways to cool off in a city with little air conditioning.
It’s so hot in Berlin that people are cooling down in an old WWII bunker
Cape Town residents gather to collect water at a spring with makshift spigots ear Table Mountain. It's one of dozens of open springs across the city where residents come to collect extra water to add to their meager daily quota of 13 gallons.
Environment
In drought-stricken Cape Town, parched residents gather at a watering hole
Saya Pierce-Jones records a recent report on Cape Town's water crisis for Smile 90.4FM radio. In more than a year on the full-time water beat, Pierce-Jones helped listeners understand the roots of the crisis and find ways to dramatically cut their water u
Culture
Journalist on water beat helped Cape Town avoid ‘Day Zero’
People queued to collect water as fears over the city's water crisis grew earlier this year in Cape Town, South Africa.
Business
‘Day Zero’ has been postponed, but Cape Town is still scrambling to deal with its water crisis
Technician Alexis Portalatin stands next to rooftop solar panels he is connecting to a new Tesla battery storage system the San Juan suburb of Guaynabo. The storage system will allow the panels to operate separately from the power grid and supply electric
Economics
Hurricanes blew away Puerto Rico’s power grid. Now solar power is rising to fill the void.
Mely Revai in San Juan, Puerto Rico, holding a ritual kiddush cup she brought from her home Caracas.
Belief
A Venezuelan couple found refuge in Puerto Rico. Then the hurricane hit.
Marc Noisette of Westchester County, New York fixes the cables on an electric post opposite the Cathedral of San Juan in the historic quarter of Puerto Rico's capital.
Business, Finance & Economics
In San Juan, they’re going street by street, house by house, turning the lights back on
Protesters interrupt a U.S. government pro-coal event during this year's UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.
Environment
At this year’s climate summit, some Americans declare, ‘We’re still in’ the Paris Agreement
Myrta Kalampoka says investing in her olive trees saved her family from the Greek economic crisis. Now she hopes their olive oil can rescue them from an ongoing drop in tourism to Lesbos.
Economics
Hear how investing in olive trees saved one Lesbos family from economic crisis
Agence France-Presse
Palestinan road to nowhere
Agence France-Presse
Israelis put up a parking lot
Agence France-Presse
The new faces of Israel
Brkitay Gebru wakes every morning at dawn to care for her children. Her husband took off in February and she hasn't heard from him since.
Justice
This Eritrean woman found out her husband had abandoned her when she couldn’t find her bank card to pay rent
Shimon Peres was a proud holder of an Israeli organ donor card.
Belief
Shimon Peres wanted Israelis to be organ donors — like him
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at the Coliseum on August 8, 2016 in St. Petersburg, Florida. A new national poll shows Clinton's lead expanding over Republican rival Donald Trump.
Culture
This is the only photo of Hillary Clinton one newspaper has ever run
Agence France-Presse
West Bank city sees a future in recycling
Agence France-Presse
The new Palestinian green movement
Agence France-Presse
The rise of Jericho
Agence France-Presse
The other West Bank
Agence France-Presse
West Bank: same goal, different weapon
Agence France-Presse
Cinema Jenin reopens in the West Bank
Agence France-Presse
In the West Bank, protests yield little results
Economics
Israel’s gas supply under threat
Lifestyle
Hollyworld: Why are Arabs always the bad guys?
Marwah Maasarani and her husband Omar Awad watching Donald Trump's RNC speech in their New Jersey livingroom on Thursday.
Election 2016
Here’s what a Muslim couple in New Jersey made of Donald Trump’s RNC speech
Baha Nababta in the Shuafat refugee camp in November 2014. He devoted his life to improving the camp before he was shot to death this year.
Conflict
Baha Nababta wanted to live in a place where the roads were paved and the trash picked up. Then he was murdered.
Mendy Cahan in his library, Yung YiDish, at Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station.
Culture
He calls Yiddish a language of life — so translating Oscar-winner ‘Son of Saul’ was an especially dark experience
At a court in Szeged, Hungary, judges have convicted 688 migrants of crossing the border with Serbia illegally.
Global Politics
Hungary is putting hundreds of migrants on trial … for crossing the border
Levinsky Market
Global Politics
To average Israelis, the problem with the Iran deal is ‘politics, not people’
Ofer Portugaly on piano, and his wife Iris (standing next to him), started an Israeli gospel choir in 1999 after a trip to Nigeria. Here, they appear with part of their 15-member ensemble on Israeli TV.
Arts
A gospel choir in Israel? Why not?
Enas Shalodi's home in East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood was demolished last month by Israeli authorities. Her son rammed the family car into a light rail stop in Jerusalem in October, killing two people.
Global Politics
Palestinians feel helpless as their homes are destroyed — at Israeli government orders
"House Elvis," Eran Levron, performs at The Elvis Inn in Neve Illan, Israel.
Music
Elvis lives — in a small town near Jerusalem
Flights from Israel had partially resumed Friday, but there were still plenty of cancellations. The FAA ban on flights to Tel Aviv left many Israelis feeling claustrophobic and isolated — even if only for two days.
Conflict & Justice
The US flight ban left Israelis feeling cut off from the world
The kids at Project Harmony camp mostly do normal summer activities, like sports tournaments, as a way to get to know each other. Here, children compete in a jumping contest.
Lifestyle & Belief
There’s nothing like shared terror to bring kids together at summer camp
On Ramadan, the main roads of Jisr az-Zarqa are speckled with stands selling freshly fried felafel, bright pickles and fluffy pitas. Jewish Israelis who visited on a recent tour came to taste the flavors of the Ramadan month.
Lifestyle & Belief
One casualty of the Israeli-Hamas conflict are Ramadan tours that bring Jews and Muslims together
Mati Milstein and Lihi Yona celebrate their wedding July 11. They planned the wedding months in advance, but had to scramble to adjust the party to the realities of war.
Conflict & Justice
Life goes on in Israel, even if it means dodging rockets at your wedding
Tensions are high in the capital after 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir was was killed in an apparent revenge killing for three slain Jewish teens. Police watch as residents of the east Jerusalem neighborhood Shuafat set dumpsters on fire, throw rocks and
Conflict & Justice
Israel is hunting Hamas members, but the family of a suspected killer says he’s not one of them
Tensions are high in the capital after 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir was was killed in an apparent revenge killing for three slain Jewish teens. Police watch as residents of the east Jerusalem neighborhood Shuafat set dumpsters on fire, throw rocks and
Conflict & Justice
Israel is hunting Hamas members, but the family of a suspected killer says he’s not one of them
Lebanese Maronite Cardinal Bechara Rai looks over the ruins of Kfar Biram from the top of the village's church in northern Israel. Activists have been living in tents on the site for months to pressure Israel to rebuild the destroyed community.
Lifestyle & Belief
Maronite Christians struggle to define their identity in Israel
Rose Fostanes
Arts, Culture & Media
A Filipina caregiver in Israel rockets to fame on X-Factor
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Hitler’s Composer’: Why an Israeli is Rethinking Wagner’s Music and Legacy
Lifestyle & Belief
New Israeli MasterChef a German-Born Convert to Judaism