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By: Justin Kenny

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Senior correspondent Margaret Warner leads a PBS NewsHour multimedia team on a reporting trip to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Check back for blog updates from the team and watch the broadcast for more reports, which we will be collecting here.

Warner and the team begin their online and broadcast coverage with Tuesday’s Israeli elections. They also plan to explore the following themes:

The Syria Threat: Israel has at least one thing in common with its neighbors — it, too, is concerned about the unpredictable fallout of the civil war in Syria. The concerns range from the ascendancy of jihadi militants in Syria, particularly in the territory abutting the Golan Heights, to what will become of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s lethal chemical weapons stockpile.

Israel/Iran: If the latest polls hold, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely stay in power. He has indicated that he will put the issue of an attack on Iran back on the front burner after Jan. 22, but many Israelis are not supportive of unilateral action.

Israelis and Palestinians, the Further Divide: Twenty years after the Oslo Accord, which attempted to end the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is largely one of disengagement, disinterest, separation and mistrust. Israel’s demographics are changing with a much more right-wing under-25 population. While in Gaza and the West Bank, there is a further hardening of the population in the wake of the Israel/Hamas conflict.

The Team:

Margaret Warner

Emmy award-winning journalist Margaret Warner leads the PBS NewsHour’s overseas reporting unit. She’ll be filing on-air reports, tweeting and blogging as she travels through Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Over the past two years she has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, France, Britain, Germany, China, Kenya, Iran, Turkey and Syria. Warner, a senior correspondent on the program, joined what was then The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in 1993 after a career in print journalism. She spent a decade at Newsweek as political and campaign correspondent, White House reporter and chief diplomatic correspondent. She is a graduate of Yale University. Follow her at @margaretwarner.

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Overseas Reporting Trip – Israel, West Bank and Gaza