She stopped reporting for the Times soon after the Electronic Intifada reported that Ethan Bronner, the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Times, has a son serving in the Israeli army.
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After it came out that then NYT's Jerusalem bureau chief, Ethan Bronner, had son enlisted in the Israeli Defense Forces, and that the NYT refused to sack him after this was made public, El-Khodary decided to leave her NYT post.