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Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator John Feinstein about the Australian Open. This year the tennis tournament saw surprise winners in both the men's and women's brackets. Jennifer Capriati easily beat top-seeded Martina Hingis and Andre Aggasi defeated Frenchman Arnaud Clement.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian leaders have made a joint statement about the status of the ongoing peace negotiations. Both sides say they are very close to an agreement, but the details will not be worked out until after the Israeli election next month.

Likud party challenger Ariel Sharon defeated Prime Minister Ehud Barak in a record-setting landslide in yesterday's election for Israeli prime minister. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem.

With two days to go before the Israeli election for Prime Minister, the candidates - Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon - are using very different advertising strategies in their race to become Prime Minister. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced he will resign effective Sunday. The move is seen as a tactical strike: under these circumstances, his chief rival Benjamin Netanyahu is not qualified to run for the office in elections that must be held in the next 60 days. NPR's Jennifer Ludden speaks to host Lisa Simeone.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Amman, Jordan on the role of the Internet in the Arab world. Cyber-space has been used to play out the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has also become an outlet for all sorts of uncensored information in a world where most of the media is state owned and censored.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden has the second of her reports on Israel's Arab citizens. After Israeli Arabs staged demonstrations and riots in solidarity with the Palestinian Intifada in the occupied territories, Israel's Jews are debating what went wrong and how to respond.

In the first of a two-part series, NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the impact of the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza on Israel's Palestinian citizens. Last month, Israeli Arabs demonstrated and rioted partly in solidarity with their brethren in the occupied territories, but also to protest years of discrimination and neglect by Israeli authorities.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports the Israeli army is calling up large numbers of reservists to deal with the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Some reservists complain that too many Israelis are successfully evading their national duty while others question the morality of serving in occupied territories.

The Schiavo case has made public what is normally a private medical condition. Host Jennifer Ludden talks with Dr. Joanne Lynn, a senior scientist with the Rand Corporation, about the medical and ethical issues that surround feeding tubes.