The discovery this week of the sunken arms ship the Altalena, which almost sparked an Israeli civil war just one month after the state was created in 1948, has become a political battle ground for right-politicians seeking support in advance of the Oct. 27 elections. “There is no more mobilizing ethos on the right than […]
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This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. TEL AVIV – When Endalkew Yemani Tesma fled Ethiopia in 2005, he did not know what awaited him on the way to Israel, nor that once he arrived, he would spend nearly two decades without permanent status. He passed through Sudan, then Libya, then Sudan again, and […]
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TEL AVIV – A window was broken at a Reform synagogue on Sunday in the central Israeli city of Ramat Hasharon less than two weeks after a similar incident occurred in Jerusalem in an incident the mayor called an act of vandalism. Congregation Darchei Noam called the incident a hate crime, and Ramat Hasharon Mayor […]
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TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday posted what he described as his personal phone number and invited Israelis to contact him with their questions and problems. It was an election-season stunt that drew such a flood of responses that the number’s WhatsApp account was blocked within minutes and those calling received a […]
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TEL AVIV — The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia jointly condemned Israel for declining to open a criminal probe into the April 2024 killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers in Deir al-Balah. The three countries, whose citizens were among the dead, called the decision “shameful,” adding that “the victims of this incident and their […]
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JERUSALEM – The United Kingdom threatened to sanction Israelis involved in West Bank settlement expansion after the Jewish state’s Lands Authority opened bids for 1,234 homes in the largely underdeveloped E1 section of the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim. Construction in E1 “would cut across the heart of Palestine and risks separating the West […]
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The remains of Yehuda Katz, the last Israeli soldier still missing from the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War, have been recovered after 44 years, the Israeli military said Tuesday, bringing to a close one of the country’s longest-running missing soldier cases. Katz, a 22-year-old tank gunner and yeshiva student who […]
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When Tzvike and Hadas Ophir planted their vineyard in 1986, on the day their eldest daughter Adva was born, they had no plans to make wine. They wanted to grow something alongside their hives. The couple was among the first residents of Alon HaGalil, a town in Israel’s North about an hour and a half’s […]
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JERUSALEM – Vandals broke into a Reform synagogue in Jerusalem over the weekend, damaging the building and artwork and tearing down Pride flags displayed by the congregation. Shortly after midnight on Shabbat a group of youths entered the grounds of Kol HaNeshamah in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood, smashed a window and made their way into the […]
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TEL AVIV — At a barbecue on a Netanya rooftop earlier this month, MK Yoav Segalovitz, a politician of whom most people outside Israel have never heard, told the members of the leading opposition party Yesh Atid that he would not be running with them in the upcoming October election. It’s a decision that could […]
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