Israel
Finally, a government in Israel
Gabe Friedman, JTAApr 02, 2020
JERUSALEM — One of the crazier weeks in Israeli politics in recent memory ended on a fittingly dramatic note: Benny Gantz, the former army chief who came close to...
Knesset sworn in, asked to topple Netanyahu
JNSMar 19, 2020
By Dov Lipman The COVID-19 pandemic cast a pall over the swearing in of Israel’s 23rd Knesset on Monday, March 16, with the Knesset’s 120 lawmakers being sworn in...
O the virus, o the guilt
TPSMar 19, 2020
JERUSALEM — Some 15 years after an Israeli stole a ballista stone from the archaeological site in the City of David, he decided this weekend to return the...
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...
Israelies head to the polls — again
JTAFeb 27, 2020
JERUSALEM — On March 2, for the third time in 12 months, Israelis will vote in a national election. The first election, in April, 2019, ended with Prime Minister...
Credibility gap at Yad Vashem
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 13, 2020
JERUSALEM — On one level, the recent event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum was a tour de...
Trump’s peace plan — the components
Gabe Friedman, JTAJan 30, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday, Jan. 28. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined Trump at a...
Greenblatt’s Middle East ‘exit interview’
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJan 16, 2020
TEANECK, NJ — Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former Middle East negotiator, made his first public speech since leaving the White House on Sunday night,...
Nine ‘Special in Uniform’ volunteers inducted
TPSJan 09, 2020
JERUSALEM — The entrance to the Israel Defense Forces’ Bakum induction center witnessed a unique scene on January 2 when nine beaming young IDF soldiers proudly...
