Ha’aretz Lost in Translation: Whitewashing a Stabbing By Aigle Media • November 2012 • Views: 603 Ha’aretz’s translators again downplay Palestinian violence, this time transforming the stabbing of Yael Shalom into an “assault,” her 20-something-year-old Palestinian assailant into an “Arab teen,” and one of his weapons, a crowbar, into a “stick.”