Israel
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...
Beginning of the end of the Bibi era?
Ben Sales, JTAMar 01, 2018
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu is in trouble. Maybe. The Israeli prime minister is engulfed simultaneously in four separate scandals, and each day seems to bring him...
Can AIPAC stay non-partisan?
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 01, 2018
WASHINGTON — When candidate Donald Trump spoke at AIPAC’s Policy Conference in 2016 and said Barack Obama may be the worst thing that ever happened to Israel, many...
Bronco Chris Harris Jr. visits Israel
JTAFeb 22, 2018
Seven current and former NFL players just completed a visit to Israel on a trip that was kept under wraps until the players landed in Israel. The group, including some...
US on possible Netanyahu indictment: ‘internal matter’
JTAFeb 15, 2018
JERUSALEM — The Israel Police recommendation to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an “internal Israeli matter,” the US State Department said. “The US...
Israel, Iran, Syria trade blows
Ben Sales, JTAFeb 15, 2018
JERUSALEM — Israel and Iran have been clashing for years. But on Feb. 10, their war of words briefly became an actual fight. In short succession, Iran sent a drone...
