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WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to assure Israel on Monday that the Obama administration’s commitment to its security and future is “rock solid” despite a severe diplomatic dispute that emerged this month. Read More »
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Shabaneh zooms in on next targets
After getting a top Palestinian official suspended over an embarrassing sex tape, self-styled anti-corruption campaigner Fahmi Shabaneh feels unstoppable. The former Palestinian intelligence agent is already zooming in on his next targets, including his former boss and a top Islamic court judge. Read More »
The Biden incident
Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in US-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. Read More »
Israeli journalist returns from Egypt
Israeli journalist Yotam Feldman, who was detained by the Egyptian military a week ago, was released to Israel overnight Sunday. Read More »
‘Israeli escalation aims to kill talks’
The Palestinian Authority on Sunday stepped up its condemnations of Israel and accused the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of working to “destroy” US efforts to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Read More »
Obama, Democrats secure votes for health care bill
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage. Read More »
Sharp rise in rabies leads to new pet import regulations
Fear of an outbreak of rabies has led the Agriculture Ministry to tighten regulations on the import of pets. The new regulations, which will go into effect on May 1, require pet owners to present blood tests proving the animal’s active immunity before it can enter the country. Read More »
ADL blasts recent Farrakhan speeches
A recent spate of speeches delivered by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan have drawn angry condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League. Read More »
Jerusalem police say calm is returning to the capital
Although sporadic rioting continued to flare up in various parts of east Jerusalem over the weekend, police were viewing those incidents as “minor disturbances” and did not foresee an upswing in violence over the coming days, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. Read More »
Survivors to receive Pessah help
The Holocaust Victims Assets Restitution Company, the official state body charged with locating and returning the unclaimed property of Holocaust victims in Israel, will begin distributing some NIS 15 million to needy Holocaust survivors ahead of the Pessah holiday. Read More »
Three stabbings over the weekend in the Dan region
A fight over a table at a Tel Aviv restaurant Saturday evening led to the stabbing of a 28-year-old man by a second man in his 20s. The incident occurred at the Moses restaurant on Tel Aviv’s Rehov Dizengoff, when the two men began arguing over who should get a table that had become available. Read More »
Racist incidents up 28%, Israeli Arab NGOs say
There was an increase of 28 percent in racist incidents in Israel in 2009, according to an annual report released Sunday by the Mossawa Center and The Coalition against Racism. Read More »
Immune system ‘neutralized’ to accept incompatible kidney
For the first time in Israel, a man with one type of blood has donated his kidney to another person – his daughter – despite her incompatible blood type. Read More »
Likud US bashes Barack Obama
The American Friends of Likud organization released a surprising statement over the weekend criticizing US President Barack Obama. Read More »
Analysis: Is there a humanitarian crisis in Gaza?
Like so many other disagreements between people, the question of whether or not there is a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is primarily a semantic one. There is no authoritative definition of what a humanitarian crisis is, although in some cases it is so obvious that it is indisputable. Read More »
Bar-Ilan professor: No halachic ban on moving remains
There is no halachic reason to change the site for the fortified emergency room at Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center due to the presence of ancient bones there, even if they are Jewish, an expert on Jewish law at Bar-Ilan University told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. Read More »
Analysis: Is there a shift in US military thinking?
While almost a week has passed since Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the United States Military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) testified before the Senate and dropped his bombshell about Israel, concern within the defense establishment has only grown. While the assumption among the top IDF brass is that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Read More »
AIPAC hopes event may mend strained ties
WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will have the opportunity to hit the proverbial reset button with Israel when she addresses America’s largest pro-Israel lobby Monday morning amidst some of the gravest tensions between the two countries in years. Read More »
PM’s DC speech to be ‘important’
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has spent a number of hours over the last few days writing the speech he will deliver at the AIPAC annual conference in Washington, a speech sources in his office described on Sunday as “very important. Read More »
‘Haaretz fiddled with Obama poll’
Haaretz misled readers to give the impression that an overwhelming majority of Israelis see US President Barack Obama as “fair and friendly” toward the country, the newspaper’s pollster, Tel Aviv University professor Camil Fuchs, said on Sunday. Read More »
Livni to the rescue?
With US-Israeli relations publicly acknowledged to be at their lowest point in decades, AIPAC’s annual conference set for this week in Washington will be a strong indicator of where the future of the relationship lies. Read More »
Will they still stick with Obama?
Last summer, Alan Dershowitz wrote “Has Obama Turned on Israel?” in The Wall Street Journal , a defense of Barack Obama’s policy toward Israel and, by extension, the numerous Jewish Democrats who had supported the president’s election and stuck by him despite a rocky first few months in office. Read More »
Right of Reply: Have we learned nothing from our history?
Abraham, a 25-year-old Eritrean, smiles from ear to ear as he proudly shows me around his new grocery store in the heart of Neveh Sha’anan. Four years ago, sitting in a dusty jail in Eritrea, he would never have believed this could have been possible. Read More »
What goes around in J’lem will come around to Ramallah
Jerusalem lies at the heart of the Jewish nation. Despite its most sacred Jewish status, the State of Israel has transformed the Temple Mount in Jerusalem into a place of religious freedom – a phenomenon that hasn’t existed for centuries, neither under Ottoman, British nor even Jordanian rule. Read More »
The way ahead
One of the immediate outcomes of this month’s diplomatic spat between Israel and the US has been to set in bolder tones the boundaries of the rift that exists between American Jewry’s two pro-Israel camps. Read More »
Khamenei cold to Obama overture
Iran’s supreme leader sharply denounced the United States on Sunday, accusing it of plotting to overthrow its clerical leadership, in a chilly response to an overture by President Barack Obama for better cultural ties with Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did not outright reject Obama’s offer, saying Iran would keep an eye on Washington’s intentions. Read More »
Analysis: Healing the rift
WASHINGTON – Two years ago, at the annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington, an exuberant Barack Obama, who had just clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, declared to warm applause from the gathered thousands of American pro-Israel activists: “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided. Read More »
Health Ministry D-G resigns
The Barzilai Medical Center dispute took another twist on Sunday when Health Ministry Director-General Dr. Eitan Hai-Am announced his resignation. Read More »
Obama invites PM to DC meeting
US envoy George Mitchell has conveyed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu an invitation from US President Barack Obama to meet at the White House on Tuesday evening. Mitchell delivered the invitation at the start of his meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon. Read More »