A new Palestinian initiative seeks to revive the PLO's old-time strategy, abandoned following the Oslo Accords. It includes Israel's Jewish population, but without calling them by name.
by Amira Hass 24 comments
With friends in high places, law-evading ploys and piles of money in the bank, veteran settler leader Ze'ev Hever and his organization Amana are seemingly immune to Israeli legal action.
by Chaim Levinson 39 comments
The Docaviv Tel Aviv film festival spotlights the forgotten, pre-revolutionary period when Israelis and Iranians wined and dined together and exchanged intelligence secrets.
by Judy Maltz 10 comments
The Beit Ezra building belonged to a Jewish family until 1948 but was also later used by Palestinian store owners, whose rights were recognized by the IDF as 'protected tenants.'
by Chaim Levinson 8 comments
27 Palestinian children never made it to school this week; IDF troops lay in ambush for them on the streets of Hebron.
by Gideon Levy and Alex Levac 77 comments
Col. Avi Baluth was referring to a military court decision acquitting four Palestinians of attempted murder in a 2010 stone-throwing incident that severely injured a 12-year-old girl.
by Chaim Levinson 14 comments
Under plea bargain agreement, two brothers from Kafr Kana sentenced to prison for involvement with Hamas operatives.
by Jack Khoury 0 comments
There is dying a martyr’s death and then there is dying a martyr’s death under questioning by the Shin Bet security service. This is as lofty as it gets.
by Chaim Levinson 28 comments
Israeli Cabinet Secretary Tzvi Hauser says Israel is adding handicapped access to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and that plan is unrelated to politics.
by The Associated Press 6 comments
Ezra Nawi wins appeal after being convicted of insulting an IDF officer who asked him to leave a closed military zone in Hebron in 2009.
by Chaim Levinson 8 comments
