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Julie Bien

December 1, 2013

Jeremy Elster is a Southern Californian native and New Israel Fund/SHATIL Social Justice Fellow working as the International Communications Coordinator for Israel Social TV (ISTV), the leading alternative TV news organization in Israel. Since our establishment in 2006 as a non-profit, independent, online news NGO, ISTV has produced over 1000 stories about Israeli society and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The rest of our English subtitled content can be found online at

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