'We know there's a global village, but we're not exactly part of it," says a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
by Lior Dattel 0 comments
An exhibit of beat-up and bruised dolls beside the pool at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square is meant to raise public awareness of child abuse. For some onlookers, it's a shock to take in.
by Judy Maltz 0 comments
The murder of an off-duty soldier on a South London street is not a watershed moment and will not lead to a backlash against Britain's three million Muslim citizens.
by Anshel Pfeffer 10 comments
From the latest developments in U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's campaign to revive the peace process to a bill that may open up voting for Israel's rabbis to women, Haaretz brings you the top 8 stories you might have missed.
by Haaretz 0 comments
Science and Technology Minister Jacob Perry contrasts stance of UK government with segments of academia that seek to boycott Israel.
by Ora Coren 0 comments
Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid launches plan to build more long-term rental units, but former social protest leader MK Stav Shaffir says the real key is to monitor rental prices.
by Moti Bassok 1 comments
Reality programming is the biggest thing on the small screen in Israel, with a full 50 percent of TV shows in Israel now going unscripted.
by Nati Tucker 0 comments
Under the proposed peace plan for the Syrian civil war, President Bashar Assad would hand power to a deputy then go abroad with 500 members of his entourage, without immunity from prosecution.
by Reuters 4 comments
While a recent Pew Research Center survey showed usage of the social network is on the decline in the U.S., Israelis won't be unfriending it anytime soon.
by Maya Epstein 2 comments
The Perry Committee charged with equalizing the burden of military service in Israel provided its summary of laws meant to ease conscription of the country's most religious; next step is a government vote on the issue.
by Gili Cohen 3 comments
Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz says comments to Telegraph newspaper - saying British perceptions of Israel were more negative than those of other Western or European countries - were taken out of context.
by Barak Ravid and Haaretz 24 comments
American source tells Haaretz that while its report earlier this week of such a conversation was true, the 'high-ranking' recipient of Kerry's disapproval was none other than Israel's PM; Kerry now in Jerusalem for talks with Netanyahu, Livni on peace process.
by Barak Ravid 15 comments
When you look at an Israeli reality television star in the United States like Samy Bouzaglo, you realize that not every emigrating Israeli is necessarily a brain drain.
by Allison Kaplan Sommer 0 comments
Mohsen Rezai and Ali Akbar Velayati are believed to be the masterminds behind the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 and wounded 300.
by JTA 4 comments
There is no appeasing the BDS campaign and its supporters, most recently Stephen Hawking, because of its inherently anti-Semitic nature and its echoes of the pre-war boycott of German Jews.
by Amiel Ungar 5 comments
