Lily Galili

Faction comprised mostly of former Yisrael b'Aliyah members, intended to boost immigrant support for Likud.

In October 1992, when they were both 53, Irena and Victor Bogayev decided to immigrate from their native Moscow to Israel. She was an economist and he was an electrician with the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Meir Rothstein celebrated his son Daniel's bar mitzva over the weekend in a Be'er Sheva hotel. He would have liked to celebrate the event in Neveh Dekalim, his home and his children's birth place.

Contrary to expectations, organizers did not manage to enlist either groups or speakers who support disengagement but are not identified with the peace camp.

Two seats and a world separated Paris Archbishop Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger and Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yonah Metzger at the front row of yesterday's ceremony dedicating the new Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem.

Two seats and a world separated Paris Archbishop Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger and Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yonah Metzger at the front row of yesterday's ceremony dedicating the new Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem.

Russian-speakers claim they are still being discriminated against in society and persecuted by police, 15 years after the main wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union began.

Fanya Kaplanskaya and Anatoly Reisenson are two of thousands of immigrants from the former Soviet Union whose pensions were terminated upon arriving in Israel. Their war is now being waged on a precarious diplomatic battlefield

Ephraim Kishon handwrote a dedication on a Russian-language copy of his "Book of the Family" to the translator, Marian Belenki. "To Marian, my Russian double." For many, such a comparison would have been a huge compliment; for Belenki, it was not enough.

Peace Now, the movement founded more than a quarter-century ago to put pressure on Menachem Begin to make peace with Egypt, came full circle yesterday.

When a foreign visitor addresses his hosts in the local language, it's considered either a gimmick or a handsome gesture. When the president of Germany speaks from the Knesset podium in Hebrew, it carries deep meaning.

When a foreign visitor addresses his hosts in the local language, it's considered either a gimmick or a handsome gesture. When the president of Germany speaks from the Knesset podium in Hebrew, it carries deep meaning.

When a foreign visitor addresses his hosts in the local language, it's considered either a gimmick or a handsome gesture. When the president of Germany speaks from the Knesset podium in Hebrew, it carries deep meaning.

A former soccer star from Lod was accused recently of harboring an illegal alien - his wife of four years.

Muslim Arabs and Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union are promoting Russian culture here - together.