Under cloud of secrecy, Kerry tries to revive talks
Ben Sales, JTAJul 25, 2013
TEL AVIV We dont know. Thats the operative phrase in the new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks announced last week and ostensibly set to begin in the...
Holy work or troublemaking? Laying the groundwork for a Third Temple in Jerusalem
Ben Sales, JTAJul 14, 2013
JERUSALEM No praying. No kneeling. No bowing. No prostrating. No dancing. No singing. No ripping clothes. These are the Muslim rules that Jews must abide by when...
Why did Israel’s promising electric car maker fail?
Ben Sales, JTAJun 06, 2013
TEL AVIV It was supposed to be the car of the future, a near-silent, battery-powered vehicle that would wean the West off its dependence on Middle Eastern oil and...
Israel cuts water shortages with huge leaps in desalination
Ben Sales, JTAMay 30, 2013
PALMACHIM, Israel As construction workers pass through sandy corridors between huge rectangular buildings at this desalination plant on Israels southern coastline,...
Conflict at the Western Wall
Ben Sales, JTAMay 17, 2013
JERUSALEM Orthodox youths mobbed the Western Wall plaza by the thousands to protest Women of the Wall as they held their monthly prayer service. The youths, male and...
Syria attacks suggest Israel can act with impunity
Ben Sales, JTAMay 09, 2013
TEL AVIV Twice in three days, Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace and fired on suspected weapons caches bound for Hezbollah and nothing has happened in...
Chief rabbi candidate Stav offers alternative
Ben Sales, JTAMay 02, 2013
TEL AVIV Israelis who chafe at procedures such as proving theyre Jewish in order to get married, have rallied around: David Stav, a modern Orthodox rabbi in the...
Boston’s hospitals learned from Israel
Ben Sales, JTAApr 25, 2013
TEL AVIV Minutes after a terrorist attack killed three at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, doctors and nurses at the citys hospitals faced a harrowing scene...
Western Wall plan faces hurdles
Ben Sales, JTAApr 18, 2013
JERUSALEM Natan Sharansky said the implementation of his plan to expand the non-Orthodox prayer site at the Western Wall could begin in as little as one month. In an...
Ethiopian Israelis take big strides
Ben Sales, JTAApr 04, 2013
TEL AVIV When Yityish Aynaw immigrated from Ethiopia to Israel at age 12, she was thrust into an Israeli classroom. An orphan lacking Hebrew skills, Aynaw says she...
