"Footnote” failed to win Israel’s first Academy Award, coming up short in the best foreign-language film category. The film, directed and written by Joseph Cedar, was beaten out by the Iranian entry, "A Separation" by Asghar Farhadi, at the annual...

Harvard University is hosting a two-day conference on the one-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The conference at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, scheduled for March 3-4, is organized by students at the school. In a letter...

Hadassah marked its centennial anniversary with a Shabbat service and rededication ceremony. The service and ceremony on Feb. 24 was held at Temple Emanu-El in New York 100 years to the day since Henrietta Szold and a small group of women founded Hadassah,...

JERUSALEM -- Seven Israeli Arabs were arrested in an attack on two off-duty Israeli soldiers in Haifa. The soldiers, who were in civilian clothing, were attacked last Friday night outside Rambam Medical Center. A group of Israeli-Arab men first asked...

JERUSALEM -- Shula Zaken, former bureau chief for then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, was convicted for corruption. Zaken was convicted Sunday by the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on charges of fraud and breach of trust stemming from a case over...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli troops and Palestinian rioters clashed following the funeral of a Palestinian protester who was killed after throwing exploding firecrackers at soldiers. The clashes Saturday in the West Bank district of al-Ram next to Jerusalem...

JERUSALEM -- Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is in the United States, where he will attend the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando, Fla. Shalit is the guest for Sunday's game of leading sports agent Arn Tellem. He also was scheduled to attend other...

WASHINGTON -- An Israeli group that promotes unilateral steps toward a two-state solution is making its case in the United States. Orni Petrushka and Ami Ayalon, the co-founders of Blue White Future, this week made presentations to Jewish communities...

WASHINGTON -- The United States banned entry to Israeli Knesset member Michael Ben Ari, reportedly because of his membership in Kach, a banned terrorist group. Ben Ari, a member of the right-wing National Union, had been seeking to visit the United States...

A Lebanese military court sentenced three Lebanese to death for spying for Israel. Naharnet, a Lebanese news website, reported Feb. 24 that Moussa Ali Moussa had been convicted for "having contacted the Israeli enemy and passing on information." Two other...

NEW YORK -- The U.N. Security Council condemned the attack on an Israeli official in India. In a statement released Thursday by the council's rotating president, Kodjo Menan of Togo, council members "condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack...

JERUSALEM -- The United States and Israel are completely coordinated on the issue of Iran, the U.S. envoy to Israel, Dan Shapiro, told Jewish leaders. "I cannot think of any issue on which we are better coordinated than on the issue of Iran," Shapiro...