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Born in Turkey, Ninio made aliyah with his family in 1949. He fought in the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War, before joining the initial group of cameramen and journalists who founded the first channel in 1968.

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One of his career peaks as a cameraman was during the 1977 election, when he covered Menachem Begin and the Likud campaign. He was one of the few at the channel to support a right-wing political party then.

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During the 1970s Ninio was a regular customer at the legendary Ta’amon coffee shop on King George Avenue frequented by journalists, left-wing activists and artists.

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Zoom for whom?

Another hopeful sign that our pandemic journey may be nearing an end is that the Hebrew University has announced that frontal courses will resume in all faculties right after Passover. For now, only those with a green passport or a recent negative test will be granted entry to the campuses. For all other students, the university will provide access through Zoom for compulsory courses only.

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Pandemic pandemonium

A group of Mea She’arim residents has set up a small exhibition near one of the shtiblekhs (synagogues with minyanim all day long) in the neighborhood to commemorate a year of repeated pandemic-related police raids. The group – which includes extremist haredim, many of them members of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement – accuses the police of having used the coronavirus as an excuse to introduce violence into the neighborhood, which resulted in riots.

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The small exhibition, titled “Exploiting the Virus to Use Violence,” includes video footage of police tactics, who at times used shock grenades, horses and more to control the residents, including children.

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