JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ask President Obama to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard while Obama was in Israel.
Netanyahu met Monday with Pollard’s wife, Esther, in advance of Obama’s visit scheduled for later this...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said his country would retaliate against Israel for a January airstrike on a weapons facility near Damascus. Assad made the remarks on Sunday, a day after mortar shells fired from Syria landed on...
(JTA) — Israel’s Ehud Barak will be the first foreign defense minister to meet with new U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. Barak and Hagel will meet Tuesday at the Pentagon, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed U.S. official.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rocket fired from Gaza hit southern Israel for the first time in three months, causing some damage. A long-range Grad rocket struck early Tuesday morning in the industrial zone of Ashkelon.
(JTA) — A women’s Megillah reading at the Western Wall took place on Shushan Purim without incident or arrests. Approximately 80 women turned out, some donning prayer shawls, others dressed as police and haredi Orthodox worshipers, on Monday morning in...
(JTA) — Clashes intensified in the West Bank following the death of a Palestinian prisoner who fellow inmates said had been tortured. Arafat Jaradat, 30, died Saturday of a heart attack in the Megiddo jail in northern Israel five days...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senator Marco Rubio in meetings with Israeli leaders said Jerusalem was Israel’s capital and that he was pleased President Obama was scheduled to visit.
Rubio (R-FL), who delivered the Republican Party response to Obama’s State of the...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The niece of American comedian Sarah Silverman will be allowed to attend a women’s Megillah reading at the Western Wall despite being banned from the site.
Hallel Abramowitz Silverman, 17, was one of 10 female worshipers arrested...
