Israel
Netanyahu calls Iran ‘untrustworthy’
JTAMay 03, 2018
JERUSALEM — “Iran lied big time” about the nature of its nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu on Monday, April 30, unveiled...
The 10 teenage victims of flash-flood hiking tragedy
JNSApr 27, 2018
The mood throughout Israel was somber on Friday, April 27, as the name of the last of 10 missing youths killed in a flash flood near the Dead Sea was released, following...
Natalie Portman Genesis Prize snub reverberates
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — Natalie Portman’s statement explaining why she declined to attend a Genesis Prize award ceremony in Israel in her honor was a pointed rebuke, and of a...
Relatives of Israeli spy visit his old haunts
JTAApr 26, 2018
Relatives of the Israeli spy Eli Cohen visited Buenos Aires to discover the places in which the late Israeli spy lived as part of a special mission. In 1960, the...
At 70 years of independence, Israel’s minorities reflect
JNSApr 19, 2018
By Ariel Ben Solomon With Israel’s Independence Day, the battle of the narratives over Israel’s creation begins anew with Muslim Israeli Arabs remaining highly...
Israeli Labor cuts ties with UK Labour
JTAApr 12, 2018
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Labor Party has temporarily suspended “all formal relations” with its British party counterpart because of leader Jeremy Corbyn’s failure...
Jews have ‘moral obligation’ to end Syrian genocide
JTAApr 12, 2018
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi said Jews have a “moral obligation” to end the “cruel genocide” taking place in Syria. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was...
Behind the Gaza border violence
Marcy Oster, JTAApr 05, 2018
JERUSALEM — When the smoke from the rifles of Israeli sharpshooters and the firebombs thrown by Gaza Palestinians cleared in the wake of the Palestinian March of...
Israel confirms 2007 strike on Syrian nuclear reactor
TPSMar 29, 2018
PASSOVER EDITION 5778 SECTION A PAGE 9 By Yona Schnitzer In March, 2007, Israel’s spy agency Mossad obtained information that Syria was building a nuclear reactor in...
White House hosts conference on Gaza crisis
Marcy Oster, JTAMar 15, 2018
WASHINGTON — The human suffering in Gaza has grown over the past year, top US Middle East negotiator Jason Greenblatt told a conference to discuss aid for the coastal...
