Court rules: museum may keep looted painting
Marcy Oster, JTAAug 27, 2020
A Spanish museum, not the heirs of a Jewish woman fleeing the Holocaust, is the rightful owner of a Pissarro painting now valued at $40 million, a US appeals court...
Netanyahu trial opens; he’s ordered to be there
Marcy Oster, JTAMay 28, 2020
JERUSALEM — After more than three years of investigation, charges in three cases and three national elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered a...
Third time’s not the charm
Marcy Oster, JTAMar 12, 2020
JERUSALEM — Israel held its unprecedented third election in less than a year last week and, yet again, the results raised more questions than answers. At first it...
Can Bibi form a coalition?
Marcy Oster, JTAMar 05, 2020
JERUSALEM — With most of the votes in Israel having been counted from the Monday, March 2, election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has the most...
‘A Field for Ezra’ — in honor of a terror victim
Marcy Oster, JTAJan 30, 2020
JERUSALEM — American teen Ezra Schwartz will never play on the baseball field in Ra’anana that bears his name. But hundreds of Israeli young people, including some...
Israel PM is indicted; Netanyahu bitterly denies charges of corruption
Marcy Oster, JTANov 28, 2019
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu has been charged in three corruption cases, marking the first time a sitting Israeli prime minister has been indicted. The charges,...
Netanyahu indicted for corruption
Marcy Oster, JTANov 21, 2019
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu has been charged in three corruption cases, marking the first time a sitting Israeli prime minister has been indicted. The charges,...
Gantz receives mandate to form government
Marcy Oster, JTAOct 24, 2019
JERUSALEM — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will officially ask Benny Gantz to form a government, with a third election in less than a year looming. It will mark the...
Gunman opens fire near Halle, Germany synagogue on Yom Kippur; kills two
Marcy Oster, JTAOct 10, 2019
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany said the state “must protect Jewish life” in the aftermath of a shooting attack near a synagogue on Yom Kippur. On...
Too close to call
Marcy Oster, JTASep 19, 2019
JERUSALEM — On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the morning after Israel’s second national election in five months, the results were unclear, with some 90% of the votes...
