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Secular-religious tensions in Israel reach boiling point

JERUSALEM — The showdown between the Supreme Court and the parents of students at a haredi Orthodox school found guilty of discriminatory practices against Sephardic...

Should Israel lift its blockade of Gaza?

JERUSALEM — Despite the international outcry following last week’s lethal confrontation between Israeli commandos and militant pro-Palestinian activists aboard a...

Olmert, Lupolianski charged in Holyland bribes case

JERUSALEM — Whether or not he is found guilty of taking bribes in the Jerusalem Holyland corruption scandal, Ehud Olmert’s political career is almost certainly over....

‘Land Day’ highlights Israel’s Arab dilemma

JERUSALEM — A mass demonstration by Israeli Arabs highlighted the core contradiction at the heart of the Israeli-Arab experience: demands for greater equality within...

PA Prime Minister Fayyad building the institutions of a state

JERUSALEM — Pundits and politicians have taken recently to comparing PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to Israel’s founding father, David Ben-Gurion. No less a figure...

‘Mossad chief indispensable on Iran’

JERUSALEM — Israel has not claimed responsibility for the assassination in Dubai of top Hamas arms smuggler Mahmoud Mabhouh, but the killing is raising questions about...

New Israel Fund attacked

JERUSALEM — A campaign against the New Israel Fund — a US-based organization that funds civil society activists in Israel — has sparked a fierce debate over the...

Terrorism drops in West Bank — will it hold?

JERUSALEM–— In Israel and the West Bank, 2009 was the year that ended without a bang — and people were grateful for it. For the first time in a decade, […]

EU tones down demand on Jerusalem

JERUSALEM —The new European Union document on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being interpreted in Jerusalem as a warning to the Israelis: Do more to restart...

US, Israel close gaps

JERUSALEM — Israel and the US seem closer than they have been for months on two key issues: peacemaking with the Palestinians and Iranian nuclear ambitions. The point...