JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ten years after the death of Ilan Ramon on the space shuttle Columbia, Israel says it’s ready to train a new astronaut. Israel Space Agency chairman Yitzhak Ben Israel said last week that the agency is in...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The first session of the newly elected 19th Knesset opened in Jerusalem. The 120 members of the Knesset, including 48 new members, were set to be sworn in on Tuesday as part of the celebratory opening.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Anat Kamm, who was jailed for turning classified military documents over to a reporter, is seeking compensation from Haaretz for revealing her identity. Kamm, a former Israeli soldier, is asking the newspaper for more than $540,000, according...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — John Kerry, freshly installed as secretary of state, spoke with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders. Also over the weekend, two top State Department officials dealing with Iran’s alleged nuclear threat said they would be stopping in Israel...
WASHINGTON (JTA) – An in-depth comparative study of Palestinian and Israeli school textbooks is offering some conclusions that already are making some Israeli government officials very unhappy: Palestinian textbooks do not have as much anti-Israel incitement as...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the formation of a broad national unity coalition after being tasked with forming the new government. “Last night, I called upon the Knesset factions to join me in as broad...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli planes reportedly struck a Syrian weapons transport on the Lebanese border amid increasing fears that the country’s chemical weapons stockpile could fall into the hands of Hezbollah. The strikes, which occurred in...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tests on former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon showed that he has significant brain activity, despite being presumed to be in a vegetative state. The tests conducted at Soroka University Medical Center to assess to what extent...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli military has deployed an Iron Dome missile defense system near Haifa, according to reports. Two other batteries also reportedly were deployed in northern Israel in recent days, Ynet reported.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Health Ministry has ordered the four public health maintenance organizations to stop giving Ethiopian Israelis a long-acting contraception injection. The order comes more than a month after an Israeli Educational Television report alleging that Ethiopian immigrant...
