JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli anti-tank missile struck a Syrian military mortar crew after the Syrians fired a mortar shell that landed near an Israeli town in the Golan Heights. Monday’s incident marked the second time that Israel has fired...
(JTA) — Palestinian diplomats circulated a draft resolution to U.N. member states that calls for recognition of “Palestine” as an observer state. The draft resolution could be put to a vote in the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly later this month,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Tel Aviv court ordered striking employees of the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv back to work. A district court judge on Wednesday called the first work stoppage in the newspaper’s 64-year history a “wildcat” strike and told...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The staff of Maariv has gone on strike for the first time in the Israeli daily newspaper’s 64-year history. The Hebrew-language paper was not printed Wednesday and its website NRG has not been updated since Tuesday evening,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the Israeli military in 2010 to prepare for an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, according to an Israeli television station.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Iran has pulled back from the brink of achieving a nuclear weapon, opting to use over a third of its medium-enriched uranium for civilian purposes, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told a British newspaper.
YOKNE’AM ILIT, Israel (JTA) — Radi Kaiuf was serving in Lebanon in 1988 with the Israel Defense Forces’ Golani Brigade when, in the middle of an operation, he took two bullets to the stomach and one to...
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Jewish groups looking for signals from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi regarding his views were appalled when one finally came — in the form of a nod and what appeared to be a muttered “amen”...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Jewish Agency committee has adopted a resolution calling for a “satisfactory approach” to prayer at the Western Wall. The resolution passed Tuesday during the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors meeting in Tel Aviv, reads in part:...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 20 rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel on Sunday night and Monday morning. The rockets landed in unpopulated areas and did not cause any injury or damage.
In response, Israeli airstrikes early Monday morning hit what...
