JERUSALEM (JTA) — Natan Sharansky said the implementation of his plan to expand the non-Orthodox prayer site at the Western Wall could begin in as little as one month.
In an interview Thursday with JTA, Sharansky sounded...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A New Orleans-born Palestinian teen was sentenced to two weeks in an Israeli prison for throwing rocks at cars on an Israeli highway.
Mohammed Khalek, 14, was sentenced Wednesday by an Israeli court and also was fined...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two long-range rockets fired from the Sinai Desert struck the Israeli resort city of Eilat. The rockets launched Wednesday morning fell in open areas in the southernmost Israeli city, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Five women arrested for wearing prayer shawls at a service at the Western Wall were questioned by police for several hours before their release.
According to a statement from Women of the Wall, which held Thursday’s prayer...
PRETORIA, South Africa (JTA) — The South African Trade Ministry in new regulations requiring the labeling of imported goods from West Bank settlements will soften the language used on the labels.
The new regulations will be consistent with the compromise...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem to discuss restarting negotiations with the Palestinians.
In their three-hour meeting Tuesday, the last day of Kerry’s three-day visit to Israel, the...
(JTA) — Egypt’s minister of religious endowments quoted an Islamic Sunni verse about killing Jews. The interview with Talaat Mohamed Afifi Salem was aired last month on Sada Al-Balad TV, according to the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Amnon Dankner, the former editor in chief of the daily Hebrew newspaper Maariv, has died. Dankner died last Friday in his Ramat Hasharon home after suffering a heart attack. He was 67.
