JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 70 rockets and mortar shells fired from Gaza have hit southern Israel in the last 36 hours, striking several homes and injuring three. Four Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza sites that the...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Five years before the Balfour Declaration gave Jews their first realistic hope for a modern state in the Land of Israel, Henrietta Szold founded the women’s Zionist organization Hadassah and sent two nurses here...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S.-Israel alliance and the need to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon were major themes in the final presidential debate. Both President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney said Monday during their foreign policy debate that...
(JNS.org) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter lamented the “vanishing” prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace during a trip to Jerusalem this week, blaming Israeli policies.
Carter called the current situation “catastrophic” and accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of pursuing a one-state...
(JTA) — On the one-year anniversary of the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Hamas released a film describing the Israeli soldier’s abduction in 2006. According to the film, which was released Oct. 18 on the website of the Hamas military...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the Israeli military’s operation to seize a ship attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. “Even the people who were on the ship know that there is no humanitarian crisis in...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The grave of Moshe Dayan was vandalized on the anniversary of the former Israeli defense minister’s death. Graffiti reading “The minister of failure, on behalf of the fallen” was painted in red on Dayan’s gravestone early Tuesday...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav requested a presidential pardon to appeal his rape conviction. Katsav’s wife, Gila, filed the request with the Justice Ministry. It will be forwarded to President Shimon Peres.
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) One year after his release, Israeli Channel 10 News aired parts of an interview with former Hamas captive Gilad Shalit on Oct. 11, during which Schalit revealed details of how he survived his ordeal and spent...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced early national elections. In a news conference Tuesday evening, Netanyahu announced that elections for the 19th Knesset will be held a year early. Though a date has not yet been announced,...
