TEL AVIV (JTA) — Following a court ruling in their favor, leaders of an organization pushing for women’s prayer rights at the Western Wall (Kotel) have withdrawn their endorsement of Natan Sharansky’s compromise proposal to expand the...
A 31-year-old Israeli father of five was murdered in a stabbing attack which occurred at the Tapuach Junction on the West Bank this morning, April 30. According to police reports, Eviatar Borovsky, a resident of Yitzhar, was stabbed by a Palestinian, who...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Air Force bombed a terrorist training base in Gaza hours after a rocket from the coastal strip struck near a community in southern Israel.
The Israel Air Force targeted the training site and what it called...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, said rabbis must weigh whether to oppose a compromise proposal over egalitarian prayer at Judaism’s holiest site.
In a statement Thursday, Rabinowitz vowed to fight against “the slightest...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni recommended that President Shimon Peres reject a parole request from former president Moshe Katzav.
Livni made the recommendation to Peres on Tuesday. Her recommendation reflects the position of the Justice Ministry’s Parole...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli college opened a journalism institute named for slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The Daniel Pearl International Journalism Institute, part of the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, was launched...
