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Daniel Estrin

The World

Daniel Estrin is an American journalist in the Middle East.

Daniel is an American journalist in the Middle East. He reports for The World, the Associated Press and other media.

Israeli tenth-graders are learning cyber security skills. The military won't allow photos that show their faces because many of them may later be recruited to Israel's version of the NSA.

Israel teaches cybersecurity skills to its high schoolers

Education

A program for gifted 10th-graders teaches them coding, encryption and how to defend a computer network against hacking. Many of the students will end up in Israel’s equivalent of the NSA.

Ivanka Trump Jared Kushner inauguration

Does Israel recognize Ivanka Trump’s Jewishness? It does now.

Global Politics
Proto-Sinaitic script

There’s an intriguing theory that illiterate miners invented the alphabet

Books
The entrance to the room where the tomb of Jesus is located.

Jesus’ tomb was just exposed for the first time in centuries. Here are the photos.

Religion
A young swimmer gets ready to leap off of a diving board at Sommerbad Neukolln, a public pool facility in Berlin. It's located in one of Germany’s most ethnically diverse neighborhoods.

Welcoming refugees to the pool — in a most German way

Culture
Children climb on a construction near a gravestone in the playground of the Sophienkirche day-care center in Berlin, Germany. The day-care is located on the grounds of the Sophienkirche church, and it’s playground occupies a space that was once the parish

Berlin’s graveyards are being converted for use by the living

Culture

Space is at a premium in most big cities — but even then space is usually reserved for the dead. In Berlin, though, many old cemeteries are being converted as public spaces.

Children climb on a construction near a gravestone in the playground of the Sophienkirche day-care center in Berlin, Germany. The day-care is located on the grounds of the Sophienkirche church, and it’s playground occupies a space that was once the parish

Berlin’s graveyards are being converted for use by the living

Culture

Space is at a premium in most big cities — but even then space is usually reserved for the dead. In Berlin, though, many old cemeteries are being converted as public spaces.

Tarek Bakhous is a Syrian Christian refugee. He says he faced harassment from his Syrian Muslim refugee roommates in Berlin.

These Syrian Christians fled Muslim extremist harassment. Then they found it again in Germany.

Conflict

Syrian Christian refugees are living with Syrian Muslim refugees in Germany. And some Christians say they’re being harassed.

Frank Hessenland left Germany's Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party when he realized how far to the right it had moved. But the party continued to haunt him.

This reporter joined a new political party. But he left in horror when it turned ‘almost neo-Nazi.’

Global Politics

When Frank Hessenland joined Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland, he saw it as a center-right political party. Then it moved far to the right. Even though he quit the party, he couldn’t shake its far-right image.

Imam Kadir Sanci holds a model of the House of One in Berlin.

This place of worship would be 3-in-1: Church, synagogue and mosque

Belief

In Berlin, a priest, a rabbi and an imam have come together on a project to create a hybrid church-synagogue-mosque in the German capital. Like the fall of the Berlin Wall, the House of One would tear down the walls between religions.