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Social media can be used effectively to highlight the worst mistakes the mainstream press is making in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war – reporting which has gotten worse every day.
With large numbers of war wounded, there is a noticeable shortage of rehabilitation beds, especially in Jerusalem and the North.
A cafe frequented by both Israelis and Palestinians had offered a haven from political tensions – until recent events.
From the blog of Yakir Englander at The Times of Israel
Jerusalem - Holy City, Hills, Valleys: Jerusalem stands on hills at an elevation of 2,575 feet (785 metres). The modern unified city is the largest municipality in Israel or the West Bank and is the heart of an urban agglomeration that spills outside the city limits into adjacent areas of both jurisdictions. At the centre of the modern municipality is the Old City, a walled medieval enclosure of less than half a square mile (roughly one square km), from which the entire city has grown. To the east the city looks down on the Dead Sea and across the Jordan River to the arid mountains of