Dozens of secular residents of the community of Harish were demonstrating on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) in protest of a government plan to build a large haredi city in the area. Katzir-Harish is a municipality near Haifa bordering on the mostly Arab Wadi Ara area. Read More »
Since the birth of the state, Israel has faced the all-too-frequent heart-wrenching dilemma of how to respond when a soldier is captured. Read More »
Trying to nap in my Istanbul hotel. Cannot sleep. Tonight my wife and I are flying to Syria, the “Axis of Evil.” It has been my dream to visit the “other side of the fence” ever since working in the banana fields on a border kibbutz. We have American passports without an Israeli stamp. Our Arab-American friends are bewildered by our plans. Read More »
Campaigners in Germany are challenging the 50-year secrecy order that binds files on Adolf Eichmann’s flight from Germany after World War II, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday. Read More »
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday referred to US and European condemnation of Israel’s announcement to build 1,600 housing units in a Jerusalem neighborhood, saying in the cabinet meeting that the incident was “regrettable and should not have taken place.” Netanyahu said, however, that the announcement was made with no ill will. Read More »
In a joint operation combining the forces of the IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and police, member of the Hamas military wing Maher Ouda was arrested overnight Saturday in Ramallah. According to the IDF Spokesperson’s office, the Ein Yabroud native, born in 1963, founded in 1990 Ramallah’s Hamas military wing. Read More »
The Cabinet is due to vote Sunday on whether to spend NIS 100 million more to change plans for the construction of a fortified emergency room for Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center at the demand of Deputy Health Minister Ya’acov Litzman. Litzman has spoken out against moving ancient bones found on the designated site. Read More »
After years of alliances with Western-leaning politicians and fierce anti-Syrian rhetoric, Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has issued a formal apology to Syrian President Bashar Assad for controversial statements slamming the Alawite regime. Read More »
In a joint operation combining the forces of the IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and police, member of the Hamas military wing Maher Ouda was arrested overnight Saturday in Ramallah. According to the IDF Spokesperson’s office, the Ein Yabroud native, born in 1963, founded in 1990 Ramallah’s Hamas military wing. Read More »
DUBLIN — It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation’s demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe’s many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons. Read More »
LONDON – A new Jewish community initiative to promote understanding and equality for Israel’s Arab citizens is up and running with the announcement last week of its first coordinator. Read More »
NEW YORK – Sometime during Operation Cast Lead, Craig Dershowitz’s graffiti magazine, BOMBIN ’, became something of a forum for pro-Israel views. However unlikely, the graffiti community, touched by 9/11 and smarting from increased police cameras that stopped them from freely painting, sympathized with Israel. Read More »
Palestinian Authority security personnel over the weekend seized a house belonging to Fahmi Shabaneh, the former Palestinian intelligence official who exposed a series of scandals that have seriously embarrassed the PA leadership. Read More »
Israeli defense industries are hoping for multi-million dollar contracts in India after New Delhi recently increased its defense budget for the coming year by 4 percent to a whopping $32 billion. Read More »
The Anti-Defamation League expressed dismay on Saturday evening at Washington’s “public dressing-down of Israel” over new housing in east Jerusalem. Read More »
The furor triggered by the announcement during US Vice President Joe Biden’s trip last week of plans to build 1,600 housing units in northeastern Jerusalem continued to reverberate over the weekend, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling Read More »
The spate of lethal road accidents that plagued the roads last week is primarily the result of reckless and dangerous driving, according to Traffic Police and the Transportation Ministry. Read More »
The Labor Party will leave Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition if serious diplomatic progress is not made by the time the 10-month West Bank construction moratorium ends in September, Labor ministers warned over the weekend. Read More »
The Palestinian Authority is expecting US Middle East envoy George Mitchell to bring assurances that Israel will cancel plans to build homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. PA officials said over the weekend that without such assurances, the PA leadership would “find it very hard” to resume any form of talks with Israel. Read More »
Jailed Fatah official Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms in prison for his role in attacks that killed and wounded several Israelis during the second intifada, has completed his doctorate in political science, his supporters said over the weekend. Read More »
Following a weekend of sporadic clashes between Arab youths and security forces in and around the capital, Jerusalem police chief Cmdr. Aharon Franco decided to extend heightened security measures put into place in the Old City and east Jerusalem for an additional day. Read More »
In an effort to better prepare soldiers for operations in Gaza and southern Lebanon, the IDF Engineering Corps is building a mock Palestinian village in its training base in the Negev that will include booby-trapped homes. Read More »
BERLIN – Hermann Dierkes, a regional Left Party politician in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, terms Israel’s right to exist as “petty,” justifies Palestinian rocket attacks against Israeli civilians, and plays down the severity of the Read More »
Top American Jewish leaders are continuing to express growing concern over a conversion bill currently before the Knesset Law Committee. The bill, which continues to undergo rewrites as negotiations progress among several sponsors and interested parties, may fundamentally change Israeli law related to converts’ eligibility to make aliya. Read More »
In the Negev, far from the hustle and bustle of Tel Aviv or the politics of Jerusalem, two pioneers have found a novel way to support their family and make the desert bloom: breeding camels. Read More »
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened his top ministers for a meeting Saturday evening to discuss the fallout of an announcement on construction in Jerusalem made during the visit of US Vice President Joe Biden. Read More »
Our cellphone service providers are in a tizzy after Interior Minister Eli Yishai last week canceled a waiver that allowed mobile network operators to deploy small base stations without permits from local planning and building commissions. Read More »
The European Union might use its trade ties with Israel as leverage to pressure it into renewing peace talks with the Palestinians, Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy at the EU said on Saturday. Ashton was speaking at an EU foreign minister conference held in Finland. Read More »
Awarding the Wolf Prize for architecture to my brother Peter Eisenman for his splendid Holocaust Memorial in Berlin was a noble gesture. Read More »
WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sharply admonished Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over the Interior Ministry’s approval of new building in East Jerusalem in a phone conversation Friday. Her call came hours ahead of a condemnation of the housing plan issued by the Quartet of the US, UN, EU and Russia. Read More »
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