Israel
Facebook cuts page on intifada
JTAMar 31, 2011
JERUSALEM Facebook has removed a page calling for a third Palestinian uprising against Israel, but a new one quickly took its place. Nearly 350,000 people had...
Former Israeli president sentenced
Marcy Oster, JTAMar 24, 2011
JERUSALEM Former Israeli President Moshe Katsavs sentence to prison on rape and sexual assault convictions shows that not even the countrys leaders are above the...
Will Egypt retain its peace treaty with Israel?
Leslie Susser, JTAFeb 03, 2011
JERUSALEM For Israel, the popular uprising against the Mubarak regime raises the specter of its worst strategic nightmare: collapse of the peace treaty with Egypt,...
Inside scoop on Palestinian negotiations
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 27, 2011
WASHINGTON This time there are maps not that they necessarily will help. After the collapse of the Camp David talks in 2000, the Israeli and Palestinian sides...
Still fighting over flotilla
Marcy Oster, JTAJan 27, 2011
JERUSALEM The response was predictable when Israel released the findings of its commission of inquiry into the May, 2010 Turkish flotilla incident: Israels...
Barak abandons Labor Party, reducing yet girding Bibi’s coalition
Leslie Susser, JTAJan 20, 2011
JERUSALEM Was it an act of political self-preservation, a feat of political destruction or a bid to stabilize Israels government ahead of some dramatic move? And...
Israel strategizes against brain drain
Dina Kraft, JTAJan 20, 2011
JERUSALEM It was at a conference 15 years ago in the raw months following Yitzhak Rabins assassination that an unlikely Israeli trio a young Navy officer, a...
Disgrace: Israel’s ex-president convicted of rape, sexual assault and harassment
Dina Kraft, JTAJan 06, 2011
TEL AVIV For years it was considered an open secret in Israeli political and media circles that Moshe Katsav had a habit of sexually harassing women who worked for...
Military conversion passes first reading in Knesset
JTADec 23, 2010
JERUSALEM A bill that would validate conversions to Judaism through Israels military rabbinate passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset. The measure, sponsored...
Brazil and Argentina recognize the state of Palestine in the West Bank
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 16, 2010
WASHINGTON Many in Latin America and around the world were asking one question following the news that Brazil and Argentina had recognized the state of Palestine in...
