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Linda Gradstein, JTA

Capitalism comes to kosher

JERUSALEM — The Eucalyptus, a restaurant just outside the Old City here, draws in diners by offering “authentic biblical cuisine” — made from ingredients and...

Islamic Jihad member ends hunger strike

JERUSALEM — As his weight dropped and his face grew gaunt, Khader Adnan became the latest Palestinian cause celebre. Israel arrested Adnan, a 33-year-old Palestinian...

Israeli tensions mounting over military exemptions for haredim

JERUSALEM — When Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, granted a few hundred haredi Orthodox Jews an exemption from army service, it’s likely he never...

Shalit, Lapid, shake things up

JERUSALEM — One of the big open questions after Israel’s social protests last summer was whether the one-time mass movement would be able to translate its newfound...

Olmert faces another and a bigger indictment

JERUSALEM — The indictment of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and 17 other Israelis on charges related to one of the largest real estate scandals in Israeli history...

Even as some Israelis worry about the price, Shalit deal sparks joy

JERUSALEM — There was a festive mood among the shoppers running around Emek Refaim Street in Jerusalem’s German Colony doing their last-minute shopping Wednesday...

What is it about Israel — and Jews — that wins Nobels?

JERUSALEM — Dan Shechtman remembers the day he was kicked out of a research group because of the theory that last week won him the Nobel Prize in chemistry....

Can Labor’s new leader revive party?

KFAR SABA, Israel — The Israeli Labor Party’s new leader, Shelly Yachimovich, makes a grand entrance at the annual Rosh Hashanah toast for party activists. Well over...

Embassy attack stokes Israeli fears of a new Egypt

JERUSALEM — Retired Israeli Air Force pilot Uri Dromi remembers the day 34 years ago when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed in Israel to tell the Israeli people...

Shalit — an open wound for Israel

JERUSALEM —— Michal Naamani traveled to Jerusalem from her home near Kfar Saba to hand out yellow ribbons to passers-by and bumper stickers to motorists reading...