JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government will evict two Jewish families from their homes in a building in Hebron. The families must leave the Beit Ezra building in the West Bank city’s former Arab market by April 24, the state mandated...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Four women were detained at the Western Wall by Israeli police for trying to enter the site with prayer shawls. The women were planning to participate in a special service Friday for the beginning of the new...
(JTA) — Avigdor Liberman resigned as Israel’s foreign minister following his indictment for fraud and breach of trust. “I have committed no offense but I wish to put behind me this issue, which is what remains of many years of investigation,”...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The numbers tell a consistent storyline: Nearly one in four Israelis lives in poverty. A report last week by Israel’s National Insurance Institute showed that 1.8 million of Israel’s 8 million people live below...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Israeli and Jewish aid officials are denying an Israeli TV report alleging that Ethiopian immigrant women have been coerced into taking contraceptive shots. The report, which aired Saturday night on Israeli Educational Television, charged that coercive...
(JTA) — For a second time this month, Israeli media have shown videos of Israeli soldiers fleeing a Palestinian mob. The video released on Monday by the news site Ynet shows a platoon running from a crowd of stone-throwing Palestinians near...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas political chief Khaled Meshal’s speech in Gaza calling for a “fight to free Palestine from the Zionist occupier” shows Israel “our enemies’ true face,” Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Yesterday we were re-exposed to our enemies’ true face,” Israel’s...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinians appealed to the United Nations Security Council to stop Israel from making plans to build 3,000 apartments in a controversial area outside of Jerusalem.
In a letter to the Security Council, the U.N. General Assembly...
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Two months ago, the strategy for victory was clear: To unseat Benjamin Netanyahu in elections on Jan. 22, Israel’s handful of center-left parties had to unite under one banner and choose a leader who...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rahm Emanuel said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu betrayed the Obama administration by announcing a new settlement expansion and the cutoff of tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority. Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago and President Obama’s chief...
