JERUSALEM (JTA) — Natan Sharansky was elected to a second term as chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Sharansky won four more years in the vote Tuesday by the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, which is meeting...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — American singer Pat Boone, an evangelical Christian, reportedly gave a Christmas card on which he composed the lyrics to the theme song from the film “Exodus” to Yad Vashem.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Obama will receive the Presidential Medal of Distinction from Israeli President Shimon Peres. The award will be presented to Obama during a state dinner hosted by Peres in Jerusalem during Obama’s visit next month to Israel. It...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 100 Palestinians protesting outside a West Bank prison in support of hunger-striking inmates clashed with Israeli soldiers. Tuesday’s rally outside Ofer Prison took place as some 800 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails held a one-day hunger...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The European Union said Israel must improve conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. EU foreign policy head Catherine Ashton also expressed concern over four Palestinian inmates who have been on a long-term hunger strike.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee will investigate the incarceration and death of the dual Australian-Israeli citizen known as Prisoner X, now identified as Ben Zygier.
The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Subcommittee for Intelligence announced Sunday that it would...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Jewish Agency to extend Chairman Natan Sharansky’s term by another four years. Netanyahu made the request Monday during remarks to the Board of Governors of The Jewish Agency for Israel,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ten women participating in a women’s prayer service at the Western Wall were arrested for wearing prayer shawls. Among those arrested Monday morning as they prayed with hundreds of worshipers and supporters were Israeli-American Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister...
(JTA) — Israel acknowledged for the first time that a dual national it held in a high-security prison committed suicide two years ago, and said an investigation into possible negligence was underway.
The statement, attributed to Israel’s Justice Ministry and...
