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Melanie Lidman

@melanielidman

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Chicken raiser, marathon runner, bike commuter, burrito connoisseur. Current @AP , former @TimesofIsrael + @Sistersreport

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Joined October 2009
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10 years
#TelAviv claims this menorah at the port is the world's largest menorah #ifeellikechabadcanbeatthat #HappyHanukah http://t.co/lkSC2n40kD
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7 years
She's here, wearing more diamonds than I've ever seen @MariahCarey in #Israel
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2 years
This evening at Kaplan St in #TelAviv #Israel #judicialreform #protests credit: Gitai Palti/Umbrella Movement
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7 years
Old city of #Jerusalem is completely deserted ahead of @realDonaldTrump visit this afternoon #TrumpInIsrael
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2 years
One of the main themes this week was protesting against MKs such as Ben Gvir who are coming to Memorial Day events across #Israel , despite the oppostion of bereaved families #protests #TelAviv Credit: Or Adar
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6 years
Team Israel Cycling Academy finish a memorial ride at @yadvashem garden of Righteous Among the Nations, honoring Italian champion Gino Bartali who smuggled forged documents to rescue Jews durimg the Holocaust in his bike frame
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9 years
Anti-racism groups gave flowers to #Jerusalem Old City Arabs ystrday to combat fanatics in flagmarch @TimesofIsrael http://t.co/7VPJNWFq2l
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9 years
A lot of bad news in #Israel now. And then this happened.... #MorganFreeman #WesternWall #GodDoesExist @TimesofIsrael
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7 years
A few very confused, very lost tourists in #Jerusalem 's Old City, heremetically sealed ahead of #TrumpInIsrael visit in 3 hours
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8 years
#TelAviv City Hall turned into giant, 3000 sq m interactive #Tetris board. Joystick is 1.5m high @TimesofIsrael
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1 year
This is less than 20% of what the army collected in the past week from #Hamas terrorists, according to #Israel Defense Forces briefing for journalists today in southern #Israel #war #IsraelPalestineConflict
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8 years
Hey #TelAviv , you can hate @realDonaldTrump , but please love our planet and don't litter
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7 years
After 8 hours this is the closest I'll get to @realDonaldTrump 's historic visit to Western Wall, first for sitting US president #TrumpinJLM
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7 years
This was the largest priestly blessing ever held at the Western Wall, with over 100,000 participants in honor of #Sukkot @TimesofIsrael
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6 years
Israel’s moonshot blasts off with a successful launch via @timesofisrael
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8 years
Oh my god. As if this couldn't get any worse, my friend just told me she saw someone eating a burrito with a fork and a knife. #HopeisLost
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6 years
This just fell in my yard. #TelAviv #Globalwarming
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6 years
Large Eritrean cheering section at finish line #TelAviv #Giro101
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8 years
About 300 American-Israelis outside American Embassy in #TelAviv for #WomensMarchOnWashington sister march @TimesofIsrael
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7 years
I'm on my way to Ben Gurion airport to meet the first group of Ethiopian olim to #Israel since October @TimesofIsrael
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10 years
French Jews light memorial candles in #Tel Aviv to remember French terror victims tonight #Israel http://t.co/nrHiT4MQWz
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8 years
Israel ambassador to Ethiopia and Rwanda lays a wreath at #InternationalHolocaustDay commemotion at Kigali Genocide Memorial in #Rwanda
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8 years
I cannot tell a lie: I really love @Chabad 's annual "Kinus Shlichim" class photo of 5,000+ rabbis in Crown Heights @TimesofIsrael #Chabad
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9 years
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9 years
People hang a #Golani flag in honor of one of the victims at the #SimtaBar #TelAviv @TimesofIsrael
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8 years
Crowd has grown to about 500 people #TelAviv #WomensMarchOnWashington
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8 years
Welcome chocolates for new immigrants from #Ethiopia at Ben Gurion @MisradHaklita
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7 years
More than 50,000 people attended the #TelAviv #MemorialDay event in Rabin Square (courtesy) @TimesofIsrael #Israel #YomHaZikaron
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8 years
Largely religious crowd of supporters says special prayers for #Trump as #Clinton win increasingly unlikely #ElectionNight @TimesofIsrael
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8 years
Israel Jacobowitz is pouring shots in honor of a @realDonaldTrump win at Mike's Place in #Jerusalem on #ElectionNight @TimesofIsrael
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6 years
Future #Giro reporter #TelAviv
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6 years
Firefighters trying to save a eucalyptus grove on #gaza_border Beeri Forest #Israel @TimesofIsrael
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9 years
My tzeva adom alert just went off and I couldn't help but think "damn, #Iran , that was fast!" #Israel
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9 years
I'm at GreenWall Israel for a story about vertical gardening for @TimesofIsrael with @luketress #thisisthefuture
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8 years
At Rwanda Holocaust tribute, ‘Never Again’ is a hopeful slogan via @timesofisrael
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2 years
Did you know? #Israel Nature and Parks Authority sets out tons of fresh fish to feed approximately 100,000 migrating pelicans so they don't decimate commercial fish farms in the area
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12 years
Yep, it's really snowing in #Jerusalem !! http://t.co/r2oath5w
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8 years
Cheers at Mike's Place Jerusalem as preliminary results show @realDonaldTrump in lead #ElectionNight @TimesofIsrael
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1 year
Got to try my hand at making bricks the way they did (more or less) 3500 years ago at Tel Gezer for some conservation work with @IsraelAntiquity . The public is invited to join every Thursday in July! Story coming soon in @TimesofIsrael
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10 years
What a lovely way to start the week! #Israel #TelAviv http://t.co/CU31k3N6X2
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8 years
It's 6 am and the "Lock Her Up!" Chants have started. #ElectionDay #Elections2016 @TimesofIsrael
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9 years
Simta Bar, #TelAviv , site of yesterday's deadly attack that killed 2 ppl. Hundreds of candles @TimesofIsrael
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Part of the #Beresheet education outreach was with special needs kids, teaching them to count backwards so they could feel a part of the launch #IsraelToTheMoon
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Holy moly! There are 30 people swimming across the #DeadSea right now to raise awareness of its shrinking @TimesofIsrael #Israel @EcoPeaceME
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7 years
Thousands pray at Western Wall for rain to break drought via @timesofisrael
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8 years
Even #TelAviv #streetart gets dressed up for #Purim @TimesofIsrael (courtesy)
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8 years
I couldn't figure out how to stream the #SuperBowl in #Israel so I video called my parents. Not ideal but better than nothing #AGoodGame
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10 years
Dear #Israel : please, please, please. You cannot "shovel" snow using a hose. That is dangerous. #seriouslypeople http://t.co/5kVE3Weeqd
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8 years
Yuli Edelstein speaker of Knesset lights torch in honor of freedom of expression, Jerusalem, army @TimesofIsrael
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6 years
This area burned in the past 20 minutes #gaza_border #Gaza @TimesofIsrael Beeri Forest. So far 282 fires in area since April 11
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Baby's first #Bamba as Ethiopian aliyah restarts. I cried a bit when they came in, I made aliyah in this room too @TimesofIsrael
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2 years
Not a bad view while on assignment for @TimesofIsrael about a #Hanukkah -adjacent archaeology discover in #Jerusalem ... In a dusty cardboard box behind an old air conditioner
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9 years
A hope, a plea, a promise: At Ethiopian seder, 3,000 long for the Holy Land I'm in #Ethiopia for @timesofisrael
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7 years
Jaffa Gate completely closed, police not even letting residents in to Old City #TrumpInIsrael
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9 years
Streets in #TelAviv starting to fill up after rain stopped. Honking, yelling, dogs peeing, people jaywalking... normal :) @TimesofIsrael
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6 years
Israel Prisons Service: turnout among inmates stood at 44% with 4,222 of 9,290 eligible prisoners voting @TimesofIsrael #Israelvotes #IVoted
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9 years
"No God wants babies to be burned or killed" @YairLapid saying tehilim for Dawabsha family @timesofisrael http://t.co/7PDl9vQLBo
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10 years
Beautiful sunset in Ashkelon on the first day of quiet in six weeks. Ceasefire almost 12 hours old #Israel http://t.co/Il89CXS5mT
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8 years
. @Womenofthewall candle lighting for #Hanukkah at the Western Wall in #Jerusalem . Official candlelightings feature men only @TimesofIsrael
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6 years
Students at high school hosting voting booths in #TelAviv holding a bake sale for their graduation party. Democracy is delicious! @TimesofIsrael #IsraelElections2019
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7 years
#MerryChristmas ! Jaffa lit the annual Christmas tree today with hundreds of people in attendance #TelAviv @TimesofIsrael
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8 years
In #2016 , 27,000 new immigrants made aliyah to #Israel via @JewishAgency @TimesofIsrael
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9 years
Eager for their exodus, Ethiopian Jews prepare world’s largest Seder my latest for @timesofisrael
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9 years
whoo hooo! 1st @Ryanair flight lands in #Israel in #Eilat . Now flights from Kovno, Budapest + Krakow @TimesofIsrael
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Swimmers will cross #DeadSea in 7 hours using special snorkel masks to protect their faces from 36% salinity @EcoPeaceME @TimesofIsrael
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It's been a long road to get here... happy to show off my new office when my parents are in town for a quick visit. @AP
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6 years
New cycling fan for life #giro101
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6 years
Hundreds of flammable kites like this one have fallen in the area @TimesofIsrael
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6 years
I listen to podcasts when I make soup. I make a lot of soup when I'm on deadline + looking for ways to procrastinate. Journalism ain't free, which is why I donated part of my journalist paycheck to @Radiotopia in honor of @realDonaldTrump @romanmars
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7 years
1.5 million people visited the Western Wall in #Jerusalem in the past month during month-long Jewish holidays that (finally) ended last week
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8 years
Protesters chant "Dump Trump Dump Bibi" at #TelAviv #MuslimBanprotest outside @usaembassyta @TimesofIsrael
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7 years
Whoa! Unseasonable hail in #TelAviv #globalwarmingisreal
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9 years
I'm at a conference for #Israeli and #French startups to explore ways technology can help implement #COP21 #ParisAgreement @TimesofIsrael
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8 years
Fleeing to the desert to escape the reality of this week. #Election2016 #ElectionHangover #Israel
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8 years
According to #TelAviv , 1 out of every 17 people have a #dog , 1 of the highest urban concentrations of pet owners in the world @TimesofIsrael
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8 years
Chanting "Love, not hate, makes America great!" In #TelAviv #WomensMarchOnWashington sister demo @TimesofIsrael
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6 years
Israel Water Authority launches new campaign "Israel is Drying Up - Again." Home water use has risen by 6-7% in the past two years. Israel is at limits of desalination due to population growth, increased water usage, and 5 straight years of drought
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8 years
I'm at Evita Bar, a #gay bar in #TelAviv holding a solidarity rally with #Orlando tonight @TimesofIsrael #Israel
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8 years
Dear @FoxNews . It's 2016. You're using a whiteboard? Love, a journalist
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In Israel, booming medical marijuana looks to conquer new highs via @timesofisrael #marijuana #weed
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#MerryChristmas from #Bethlehem 's Manger Square! Preparations already underway for #Santa at…
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7 years
Families waiting for relatives they haven't seen in 13 years
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6 years
Never been in a crowd with so many bike tattoos and grease chain marks. I found my people!! #Giro101
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7 years
It's happening... check out @TimesofIsrael 's new underwater correspondents. Because sometimes the news on land is too depressing @luketress #underwater #Archaeology
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8 years
Soldiers prepare to march in the color guard in #Israel 's 68th Independence Day torch lighting @TimesofIsrael
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100 people in wheelchairs are blocking ibn gvirol St in #TelAviv in protest for accessible streets and #socialjustice @TimesofIsrael
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Getting ready for #Israel Independence Day torch lighting ceremony at Har Herzl #Jerusalem @TimesofIsrael #Happy68 !
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8 years
With Yizkor, moving from mourning to joy, memorial to celebration, past to future. @TimesofIsrael
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9 years
Wanna follow @TimesofIsrael reporters on #Twitter ? @JudahAriGross has just been voted TOI's most successful tweeter #Israel #socialmedia
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