Yvette J. Deane

Yvette Deane is a former breaking news editor for The Jerusalem Post. Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, Deane began her journey in Israel on a Fulbright grant at Hebrew University.

She graduated from the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College with a BA in political science and sociology.

Women wearing traditional Saudi clothing, or an abaya

Saudi Arabia to ease women's travel restrictions

Lafa, a Middle Eastern flat bread

Want your baby to look like a shawarma? Swaddle him in a laffa

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem Theater

Netanyahu: Barak connected with pedophile, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein


White House publishes economic plan in Arabic amid Palestinian boycott

The White House unveiled the plan in English a few days before the Bahrain conference, which took place from June 25-26.

US President's envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

Has glamping come to Israel?

Israel’s Galilee brings glamping, chocolate and the American summer camp experience to the Middle East

Tents at Blum Village

NGOs attempt to hold MasterCard accountable for servicing neo-Nazi group

Mastercard, like other companies, is hesitant to block profit unless a law is being broken.

Illustration photo of a Mastercard logo on a credit card

Rwanda launches inaugural direct flight to Tel Aviv

The flight will open up business opportunities for Rwandans as well, artists and business minded people who took the inaugural flight told CNBC.

A Rwandair commercial passenger jet is pictured in Blagnac near Toulouse

Rwanda and Israel open airways to first-ever direct flight

This development follows an aviation agreement signed on Monday between Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz and Rwandan Ambassador Joseph Rutabana.

President of Rwanda Paul Kagame (C) sits next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during their meeting in Jerusalem July 10, 2017.

Israelis and Palestinians participate in run for peace on Gaza border

Ride for Peace participants had the option to run 10-15 km., bike 9 km. or bike on an off-road route for 20 km.

Bike riding in the Arava region.

Democratic presidential candidates bash Trump following Iran strike report

“Donald Trump promised to bring our troops home,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted in response to Trumps actions. “Instead he has pulled out of a deal that was working..."

An undated U.S. Air Force handout photo of a RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft

U.S. almost strikes Iran: How did we get here?

US President Donald Trump ordered U.S. Military strikes against Iran n Thursday, and then ordered them halted – What could this mean?

A missile that the U.S. Department of Defense says is a "Qiam" ballistic missile manufactured in Iran and that the Pentagon says was fired by Houthi rebels from Yemen into Saudi Arabia on July 22, 2017 is seen on display at a U.S. military base in Washington, U.S.

Israel honors World Refugee Day by celebrating arts, creativity

The event will include a presentation by Adam Ahmed, a Darfurian asylum seeker living in Israel.

Children at a kindergarten for asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv.

World Refugee Day: Israel's contested refugee population

Most of the African asylum seekers in Israel are Eritrean and Sudanese, who illegally crossed into Israel through its border with Egypt.

Eritrean refugees hold placards during a demonstration in support of a recent U.N. report that accused Eritrean leaders of committing crimes against humanity, outside the E.U. offices in Ramat Gan, Israel