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2011 Israel & the Mideast

Haaretz reflects on the year that was and predicts what to expect in the year to come.

2011 was a stormy year in Israel and in the Middle East. After the Arab Spring swept its way through the region, Israelis launched a social protest movement of their own. Meanwhile, new legislation was introduced in Knesset, limiting the freedom of minorities, the judiciary and the media. With the peace process stalled, terrorism continued to rear its head and far off in Pakistan, the Obama administration wiped out Osama Bin-Laden. Ehud Barak left the Labor Party, paving the way for Shelly Yachimovich to become the faction's first-ever female leader, and Moshe Katsav made history as the first Israeli president sentenced jail. With so much history behind us, what can we expect in 2012?

Haaretz bloggers round up
Chemi Shalev
Chemi Shalev / The Gathering Storm: A pessimistic prognosis for 2012 13 comments
Yossi Melman
Yossi Melman / 2012: The year that could bring a U.S. strike of Iran 1 comments
Mira Sucharov
Mira Sucharov / Four individuals who enriched my life in 2011 1 comments
Bradley Burston / If you could see Israel naked 8 comments
Carlo strenger
Carlo Strenger / 2011: The year the two state solution died 63 comments
What can we expect of 2012?
Charles Dickens
Literature / Happy birthday, Mr. Dickens 2 comments
Shopping
Technology / Just cool, or something more? 0 comments
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Philosophy / Awakenings 1 comments
coins - Moran Maayan - Archive
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Immigration and Absorption Ministry
U.S. Jewish groups furious over campaign to bring expat Israelis back home 49 comments
circumcision
U.S. judge strikes circumcision ban from San Francisco ballot 29 comments
pope - Reuters - March 2 2011
Pope exonerates Jews for death of Jesus 64 comments
Glenn Beck Jerusalem 24811
Live blog: Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Courage' rally in East Jerusalem 147 comments
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TheMarker Forecasts for 2012
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Avinat Gottesman - Noa Yaffe - 28122011
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Banking on the boss 0 comments
Project Black Flag
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Dorit Beinisch and Yaakov Neeman - Olivier Fitoussi - 07112011
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Haaretz WikiLeaks exclusive / Netanyahu agreed to join Olmert's government if Israel attacked Iran 69 comments
A year of Arab Spring
Syria Anti-government protesters - Reuters - 22122011
Zvi Bar'el / Arab League mission to Syria has nothing to do with saving lives 11 comments
Al Jazeera announcer - Reuters - December 2011
Akiva Eldar / Al Jazeera: Covering the revolutions or fueling them? 1 comments
Bernard-Henri Levy in Misrata - Marc Roussel - December 2011
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January
Jerusalem segregated bus Emil Salman
High Court: Gender segregation legal on Israeli buses - but only with passenger consent 126 comments
Ariel in the West Bank
Israel Prize laureates join academic boycott of settlement university 98 comments
February
Gideon Sa’ar in Hebron
Education Ministry to sponsor school trips to Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs 0 comments
John Galliano
Dior suspends star designer John Galliano for alleged anti-Semitism 31 comments
ashkenazi - Moti Milrod - December 30 2010
Benny Gantz becomes IDF's 20th chief of staff 8 comments
March
Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan - Reuters - 12.3.11
Israeli medical delegation lands in Japan to aid relief efforts 11 comments
terrorist attack
Five family members killed in suspected terrorist attack at their home in Itamar settlement 42 comments
Tel Aviv Marathon 2010
Days after terror attack, Jerusalem hits the pavement with first marathon 0 comments
April
Doctors' strike - Ofer Vaknin
Israeli doctors declare warning strike for first time in decade 8 comments
Syria funeral - Reuters - April 18, 2011
Thousands in Syria begin sit-in for Assad's ouster 17 comments
Juliano Mer-Khamis
Actor, director and activist Juliano Mer-Khamis gunned down in Jenin 1 comments
wikileaks - AP - December 24 2010
WikiLeaks: The Israel file 0 comments
May
Obama at AIPAC - Natasha Mozgovaya - May 22, 2011
Obama to AIPAC: 1967 borders reflect long-standing U.S. policy 67 comments
osama bin laden - AP - October 1 2010
Killing a terror kingpin / How Osama bin Laden was taken out 80 comments
Barak Atzmaut
Barak officially launches breakaway party Atzmaut 3 comments
June
cheese - Olivier Fitoussi - June 17 2011
Protesters ramp up Facebook protest against cottage cheese price hike 0 comments
2011 Tel Aviv gay pride parade June 10, 2011 (Sara Miller)
Thousands turn out for Tel Aviv's annual gay pride parade 72 comments
Bob Dylan - AP - 2004
2011 in review - surprise of the year: The answer is blowing in the wind 0 comments
July
Tel Aviv protest July 23, 2011
Tens of thousands march in Tel Aviv to protest housing shortage, high rent prices 74 comments
Sudanese in Israel - Daniel Bar-On - July 9, 2011
Israel announces full diplomatic ties with South Sudan 41 comments
August
Tel Aviv protest August 6, 2011 (Tal Cohen)
More than 300,000 demonstrate across Israel to protest high cost of living 86 comments
Bus driver Eilat terror attack - Reuters/Lior Grundman - August 2011
Seven killed in series of terrorist attacks in southern Israel 365 comments
Jerusalem train - Michal Fattal - 19082011
Jerusalem’s light rail system opens to the public after years of delays 6 comments
September
Abbas UN - Reuters - September 19, 2011
Abbas officially submits Palestinian application for full UN membership 6 comments
Spencer Tunick, Dead Sea
1,200 Israelis model in the nude for Spencer Tunick's Dead Sea photo 43 comments
October
kaniuk - Moti Milrod - October 2 2011
Israel court grants author's request to register 'without religion' 66 comments
Shalit family - Yaron Kaminsky - 18.10.2011
LIVE BLOG: The Gilad Shalit prisoner swap as it happens 40 comments
Nobel Prize Committee Shechtman - AP - October 2011
Israel's Daniel Shechtman wins 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry 76 comments
November
Anat Kamm jail
Former IDF soldier enters jail over leaking classified documents to Haaretz 24 comments
Moshe Katsav - Tomer Appelbaum - November 2011
Israel's Supreme Court rules unanimously: Katsav guilty of rape 0 comments
Dead Sea - Gil Cohen-Magen - 19112011
Dead Sea falls short in bid to be a 'New Seven Wonder' 0 comments
frog - Gili Eliyahu - November 17 2011
Second of frog species long thought extinct found in Israel nature reserve 4 comments
December
ultra-Orthodox passenger - Tanya Rosenblit - 18122011
Israeli woman refuses ultra-Orthodox dictate to move to back of bus 245 comments
Former President Moshe Katsav
LIVE BLOG: Former Israeli President Katsav enters prison 6 comments
Joseph Goebbels
Hitler's account book, desk set on the block in U.S. auction 7 comments
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