ARLINGTON, VA. (JTA) — The Obama administration will seek additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile program in the wake of its successes in the most recent Israel-Hamas war. “This spring, we announced that we would provide $70 million in...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Palestinians have missed multiple opportunities for peacemaking, but the Israelis have shown a lack of empathy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said. “I think Israelis have good grounds to be suspicious” of Palestinians as a...
(JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the Palestinian bid for United Nations recognition “will not change a thing, and certainly won’t hasten the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
“Israel’s hand is perpetually extended toward peace, but no Palestinian...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sitting in his office 20 feet above the Western Wall Plaza, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz is unperturbed by the simmering tensions below. For years, Israeli and American Jewish groups have agitated for greater religious freedom at...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Gaza Palestinian who stabbed a woman in an Israeli farming town near the Egyptian border had breached an unguarded border fence. The attacker entered the Sde Avraham home of Yael Raam-Matzpun early Monday morning. Raam-Matzpun managed to...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Americans for Peace Now called on President Obama to support the Palestinians’ bid to upgrade their status in the United Nations to non-member observer state. The stance by the left-wing group issued in a statement Tuesday places...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tzipi Livni, the former opposition leader, has reentered Israeli politics at the head of a new left-of-center political party. Livni, ex-head of the Kadima Party, said Monday that she would lead a new party called Hatnua, or...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Negotiators for Israel and Hamas are holding separate talks with Egyptian mediators to iron out the details of last week’s cease-fire. The talks began Monday in Cairo. The Egyptian-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is Ehud Barak a calculating political survivor or a military man who, in his own words, “never had any special desire” for political life? Will he be remembered as a warrior or as...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Muslim imam in Gaza has issued a religious edict, or fatwa, that says it is a sin to violate the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Suleiman al-Daya issued the fatwa on Saturday night, according...
