NEW YORK - The decision by Israel to participate in the United Nations probe of the Turkish flotilla incident marks a stark departure from Jerusalem's practice of opposing the world body's investigations of Israeli actions. A year-and-a-half ago, faced...
JERUSALEM — Israel has agreed to participate in a United Nations investigation of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla incident. "Israel has nothing to hide," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday after informing U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon that Israel...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Jewish leaders talk in pained, hushed tones about the "red lines" in the Turkey-Israel relationship — the ones they say the Turkish leadership has crossed and the ones they say they won't. The fragile consensus emerging from...
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's security Cabinet agreed to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip. After two days of meetings, the security Cabinet decided Thursday to "liberalize the system of allowing civilian goods to enter Gaza," "expand the inflow of materials...
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Cabinet unanimously approved a commission of inquiry into the interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla that left nine passengers dead. Two foreign observers were named to the commission. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said...
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A former Israeli Supreme Court justice will head Israel's investigative committee examining the interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, in which nine passengers were killed. Yaakov Tirkel will head the probe, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
NEW YORK — The last time American Jews took to the streets in significant numbers to make the case for Israel's right to defend itself, during Israel's war with Hamas in early 2009, rockets were raining down on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. This...
TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Two days after last week's flotilla incident, with Israel weathering a hailstorm of international condemnation, a group of young Israelis hunkered down in a Tel Aviv recording studio to produce a satirical music video they hoped would...
JERUSALEM - Despite the international outcry following last week's lethal confrontation between Israeli commandos and militant pro-Palestinian activists aboard a Turkish vessel carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, Israel insists its naval blockade of the...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel peacefully intercepted a seventh Gaza-bound ship and brought it to Ashdod port. Israeli Navy forces boarded the Irish-owned ship named the Rachel Corrie, in memory of an American pro-Palestinian activist who was killed by an...
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel is facing "international hypocrisy" over its interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli public. "Israel is told it has the right to defend itself, but when we do exercise that right...
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A pro-Gaza organization says it has received funding for three new ships that will attempt to break Israel's maritime blockade of the coastal strip. The European Campaign to End Siege on Gaza announced on its website Wednesday that...
