Israel
Olmert faces another and a bigger indictment
Linda Gradstein, JTAJan 12, 2012
JERUSALEM The indictment of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and 17 other Israelis on charges related to one of the largest real estate scandals in Israeli history...
Bill prohibits Holocaust imagery, terms
JTAJan 12, 2012
JERUSALEM A Knesset committee has approved a measure that would prohibit the use of Holocaust and Nazi terms and symbols. The Ministerial Legislation Committee on...
Gilad Shalit’s father to run for the Knesset
JTAJan 12, 2012
JERUSALEM Noam Shalit said he would not involve his son, freed soldier Gilad Shalit, or the rest of his family in his run for the Knesset. Shalit held a […]
Where do Israeli haredim stand on violence?
Uriel Heilman, JTAJan 05, 2012
JERUSALEM The cascade of condemnations started pouring in almost as soon as the Israeli TV report aired. Its subject was an eight-year-old girl harassed by haredi...
After more than a year, Israel and Palestinians talking
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 05, 2012
WASHINGTON Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met this week in Amman for face-to-face talks about how to restart talks. But observers say the two sides showed up...
Haredi protesters slammed over use of Holocaust imagery
JTAJan 02, 2012
JERUSALEM Israeli leaders criticized a haredi Orthodox demonstration in which protesters wore yellow stars to indicate that they are being oppressed like the Jews in...
Woman pressured to back of bus
JTADec 29, 2011
JERUSALEM Israels transportation minister ordered an investigation into an incident in which a woman was pressured to move to the back of a public bus by a haredi...
Religious conflict comes to a head in unlikely Bet Shemesh
Marcy Oster, JTADec 29, 2011
JERUSALEM For several years, the Jerusalem suburb of Bet Shemesh has been the site of on-again, off-again religious conflicts, sometimes becoming violent. But it...
Settlers attack an Israeli army base
Mati Wagner, JTADec 22, 2011
YITZHAR, West Bank Charred tires and boulders pushed to the sides of the road leading to Yitzhar, a West Bank Jewish community near Nablus, were among the signs that...
PLO subpoenas ‘Son of Hamas’
JTADec 08, 2011
JERUSALEM The Palestine Liberation Organization has subpoenaed the research of a former Israeli spy and son of a Hamas leader who gathered information on planned...
