JERUSALEM -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to make some positive moves toward the Palestinians in order to bring them back to the negotiating table. Ban was in Jerusalem Wednesday for meetings with Israeli leaders. He was...
JERUSALEM -- The foreign minister of Canada emphasized his country's staunch support of Israel. "Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada," John Baird said Monday at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum. Baird, on his third visit to Israel,...
JERUSALEM—Here are some recent stories out of Israel that you may have missed: A Moshe by any other name The Knesset is going on the offensive against offensive baby names. A parliamentary committee has advanced a bill that would bar parents from sticking...
JERUSALEM—A virtual peace conference for Jewish and Arab young leaders was held on Facebook. Monday's conference was sponsored by the Yala Young Leaders' group, which seeks to promote dialogue among Israelis, Palestinians and Americans, and the Peres...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli President Shimon Peres will visit the United States in March. Peres will leave for the United States on March 1 to attend the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, where the organization will pay tribute to him "in recognition of his life...
Israeli President Shimon Peres praised the Masorti movement's contributions to Israel and condemned extremists in Israel. “I came here this evening to hear women singing,” Peres said Jan. 5 after a performance of the Masorti youth movement's coed...
By Burton A. Boxerman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 4, 2012
"Ben-Gurion: A Political Life" is the 19th title in the Jewish Encounter series from Shocken and Nextbook Press, written by Shimon Peres with the assistance of David Landau, former editor of Haaretz. Peres is currently the Israeli president and a protégé...
BY Marcy Oster, JTA, JERUSALEM
• Published December 28, 2011
For several years now, the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh has been the site of on-again, off-again religious violence. But it wasn't until the plight of a fearful 8-year-old girl from a Modern Orthodox immigrant family from America was broadcast on...
Certainly everyone sees the hate ablaze in the words of Islamist leaders when they refer to Israel as a "cancerous tumor," as Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did once again last weekend. As the radical cleric reiterated his support for Hamas and other violent...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 7, 2011
After recently returning from Israel, Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., met with local Jewish leaders last week and stressed that while he has long supported a two-state solution in which Israel would peacefully exist with Palestine, he opposes efforts by the...
JERUSALEM - The wave of protests sweeping Israel is about much more than the lack of affordable housing: It's a grass-roots demand for the major redistribution of the nation's wealth.In social terms, protesters are calling for a more caring government...
I recently spent two weeks in Israel. Although things are quite good economically and day to day, this is a moment of very serious concern.The most immediate issue is a likely Palestinian Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), and request for admission...
