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Fathom Highlight | How to change reality in Gaza and shape the evolution of Hamas / 10 January / 2017

This week’s Highlight is Col. (res) Grisha Yakubovich, former senior officer in the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), speaking to Calev Ben-Dor on what the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority leadership can do to help alleviate the worsening situation in Gaza and prevent the Strip becoming ‘uninhabitable’ by 2020 as the UN fears.

Our voice of the week is first responders at the scene of Sunday’s terrorist attack in the Armon haNatsiv neighborhood of Jerusalem, which killed four soldiers and injured 13 others, who spoke to Times of Israel, 8 January 2017.

Our image of the week is Yair Lapid. While the dog is unimpressed, the voters are running to Lapid according to recent polls that give his Yesh Atid party 26 seats if an election were held tomorrow. Lapid was attending an anti-incitement demonstration at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on 7 January 2017. Photo by Tomer Neuberg.

How to change reality in Gaza and shape the evolution of Hamas: an interview with Grisha Yakubovich

by Grisha Yakubovich

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Col. (res) Grisha Yakubovich spent the majority of his 30 years in the IDF in the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which promotes and implements the policy of the Israeli Government in civilian matters in the West Bank and Gaza. In this interview with Deputy Fathom editor Calev Ben-Dor, Yakubovich argues that the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) need to put aside political arguments in order to advance practical steps that can alleviate the...
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