Jessica Israel

Jessica Montell, Executive Director of B'Tselem, leading human rights organization in Israel, will be speaking at the New America Foundation this Monday, July 26, 2010, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM... Montell will talk about B’Tselem's recently published reports: 2009-10 annual report and By Hook and by Crook, a comprehensive report about Israel's settl

She has just returned from 'spiritual journey' in Israel with husband Ashton Kutcher.

Four Israeli human rights groups – The Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), B'Tselem, Rabbis for Human Rights and Yesh Din - Volunteers for Human Rights – sent an urgent letter today to senior Israeli military commanders, in which they called on the commanders to take all necessary steps to ensure that Palestinians and their properties are protected from violence and damage during the current olive harvest season. The letter, signed by Attorney Maskit Bendel of ACRI, Attorney Michael Sfard of Yesh Din, Jessica Montell of B'Tselem and Rabbi Arik Ascherman of Rabbis for Human Rights, was sent to Central Command Chief, General Avi Mizrahi, and to the commander of Israeli military forces in the West Bank Brigadier Nitzan Alon. The letter contains a list of 35 incidents in which damage was caused to Palestinian olive trees or property. The incidents occurred between early September and mid-October – at the start of the olive harvest season. In most of the reported cases, a complaint has been filed with the authorities.

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