News by authors & poets

Israeli newspaper Haaretz gave its staff the day off on Wednesday and asked Israel's best-loved poets and authors to write the news for them.

That precious moment, when from beneath the stereotype of the "addict," the "junkie," the face of a youth - almost a child - emerges and something in his gaze beseeches: Look at me, notice me.

Lights out was declared at the Magal rehabilitation center in the Lifta neighborhood of west Jerusalem at 11 P.M. The patients - 12 boys and three girls - lay quietly in their beds, listening to their MP3 players and winding down from the day's tumultuous events. via

I'd be much more in tuned to current events if all the reporters could write like that!

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