Israel
Beitar Jerusalem documentary nabs Emmy
TPSOct 04, 2018
By Mara Vigevani “Forever Pure,” an Israeli documentary about the controversial Beitar Jerusalem’s hardcore fan club, known as La Familia, won an Emmy Award in the...
Thousands of women gather to wage peace
TPSSep 27, 2018
By Mara Vigevani Some 4,500 women — Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, all dressed in white and turquoise —made their way from Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old...
Who will be Jerusalem’s next mayor?
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNSSep 20, 2018
JERUSALEM — The late Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek used to say that if one wants to uproot and replant a tree in Jerusalem, it might require the UN Security Council. He...
Ari Fuld, Israel activist, killed by terrorist in Gush Etzion
JNSSep 18, 2018
JERUSLAEM — Ari Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four, and a prolific English-language social-media activist and media pundit, was killed by a 17-year-old Palestinian...
US curtails UNRWA funding
JTASep 06, 2018
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5779 SECTION A PAGE 10 JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the US announcement that it would halt all funding to the UN...
Controversial Filipino leader visits Israel
JTASep 06, 2018
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5779 SECTION A PAGE 11 JERUSALEM — “We remember our friends,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Philippines President Rodrigo...
Trump: ‘Israel will pay high price’ for embassy
JTAAug 30, 2018
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump said Israel will have to pay a “high price” in peace negotiations with the Palestinians over the move of the US Embassy to...
In West Bank settlements, price matters as much as location
Ben Sales, JTAAug 30, 2018
OFRA, West Bank — Growing up in a Jerusalem apartment, Aaron Lipkin used to marvel at the two-story houses that he would see on weekend drives with his parents. It...
Israeli Arabs protest Nation-State law
JTAAug 16, 2018
TEL AVIV — Tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs, some waving Palestinian flags, gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Aug. 11 to protest the recent passage of...
Druze protest nation-state law
JTAAug 09, 2018
JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of Israel’s Druze community and their supporters rallied in Tel Aviv against the controversial nation-state law. Israeli media...
