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ISRAEL NEWS

BREAKING NEWS

02:03
Man reportedly shot by police during chase in Petah Tikvah in critical condition (Army Radio)
22:38
Suspected rebels kill 16, wound 25 in east India (AP)
22:27
Former Finance Minister Steinitz: The social protest is behind the deficit (Israel Radio)
21:54
A toddler nearly drowns in a pool in Ashdod, rushed to the hospital in critical condition (Haaretz)
20:12
Hezbollah chief Nasrallah: If Syria falls into U.S. hands, Israel will invade Lebanon (Haaretz)
19:24
Female suicide bomber injures 18 in southern Russia (AP)
18:57
Palestinians: Settlers poisoned 103 olive trees in Burin (Ch. 10)
18:53
Egypt court rejects election law, further poll delays expected (Reuters)
18:19
Firefighters fighting a massive forest fire in the Galilee (Ch. 10)
17:02
A Bat Yam man stabbed his wife and was shot by police officers, both hospitalized (Army Radio)
16:33
Saudi Arabia warns against Iran's nuclear program (AP)
15:41
Syria regime unleashes artillery barrage on Qusair (AP)
13:44
Syria tried to mount a cyberattack on Haifa's water infrastructure, Israeli official says (Haaretz)
12:52
Myanmar authorities introduce a two-child limit for Muslims in parts of the country (AP)
12:05
At least four exposed to radiation after Japan laboratory leak (Reuters)

More Breaking News

Jerusalem & Babylon

The Second Battle of Mohammed al-Dura is a lost cause - just like the first

Instead of fighting over what happened 13 years ago, we should be addressing the future of Israel's occupation of the West Bank.

By Anshel Pfeffer | May 24, 2013 | 11:45 AM

Mohammed al-Dura - AP - 19022012

Israeli panel: Palestinian boy 'killed' by IDF at start of intifada did not actually die
By Barak Ravid | 85
Gaza settlement era ends with Netzarim evacuation
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Service and Nir Hasson

Israel U.S. Jewish Americans May 22, 2011

Why is no Israeli minister in charge of relations with Diaspora Jews?

The broken-up Diaspora affairs portfolio, traditionally manned by governmental neophytes, has had its responsibilities split up between hard-right hawks. Peacenik Jews of the world, don't hold your breath for any change.

By Anshel Pfeffer | May 23, 2013 | 01:50 AM | 9

Alon Shvut conversion - Yair Ettinger - March 2012

Why be Jewish when you can be Israeli?

The national system of Orthodox Jewish religious conversion has not only failed,it has backfired on its protectors.

By Anshel Pfeffer | May 17, 2013 | 05:19 AM | 12

Banias, Syria

Israel must do more to help the Syrian people

How come Israel can send delegations to distant lands such as Haiti and Japan when earthquake strikes but it can’t help its next-door neighbor, which has produced 1.3 million refugees?

By Anshel Pfeffer | May 10, 2013 | 04:00 AM | 38

Boycott - Reuters - May 31, 2010

The Israel boycotters are the right wing’s useful idiots

The BDS people are doing harm to Israel, but in ways diverging from their intents; they are being used by supporters of the settlers, as attention deflectors.

By Anshel Pfeffer | May 3, 2013 | 02:49 AM | 12

Haredim at a wedding

Can Yair Lapid dismantle the Haredi welfare state within a state?

The finance minister and his party are intent on punishing an entire community for the excesses of its leaders without offering positive incentives for integration.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Apr 25, 2013 | 04:52 PM | 6

Elkin - Ofer Vaknin

Look who’s running the Foreign Ministry

Deputy Minister Elkin has falsified the intentions of America’s Jewish leadership and cast aspersions on its loyalty.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Apr 19, 2013 | 04:40 AM | 2

Supporters of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party celebrate election results.

Let's beat racists on the battleground of ideas

While Jews have every right to fight their haters in court and parliament, the focus must be on fighting them head on out in the open.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Apr 4, 2013 | 07:05 PM | 12

Barack Obama host a Passover Seder Dinner in the White House, March 25, 2013

Proof the Passover seder is going out of fashion

Personally, I can't wait. Somehow a cool Passover just isn't the real thing.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Mar 29, 2013 | 07:47 AM | 6

President of Thessalonikis Jewish community David Saltie with Holocaust survivors.l

A Jewish Exodus from Europe?

Stories of Jewish flight from 'the accursed continent' are widespread, but as long as communities remain, we must remember what it's like to be a minority.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Mar 22, 2013 | 12:03 PM | 11

People watch Pope Francis on a giant screen in St. Peter's square

Separating Vatican myths from reality

The pope could teach our politicians and rabbis how to separate synagogue, state.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Mar 15, 2013 | 01:48 AM | 3

Jewish Museum, London

The empty debate on Zionism in Britain

If Zionism still exists, then it is not a creature of committees, federations and six-point platforms – it is the ongoing challenge of building and maintaining a country and society that conforms to the highest global standard.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Mar 7, 2013 | 05:20 PM | 15

Azeri Jews in the 1920s.

The land of no anti-Semitism

Azerbaijan’s Jews enjoy the regime’s support − as long as they support the regime.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Mar 2, 2013 | 10:23 PM | 9

Anglo File

New immigrant to Israel with star on cheek

Australian immigrants to get more help in their first year in Israel

By Andrew Esensten | 07:10 PM

Pleasure Hunting

Cocktail power

Behind closed wooden shutters on the ground floor of a nondescript hotel on Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv, an authentic Victorian bar works its magic.

By Ronit Vered | May 23, 2013 | 01:30 PM

Departures/Arrivals

The Brighams

Departures / Arrivals: The Brighams came to Israel following a tourist tip in Antarctica

Marik doesn't mind the shortage in Swedish sunlight; he's found the love of his life.

By Liat Elkayam | May 23, 2013 | 01:16 PM

Tal Niv

“Eliot Porter in New York, 1957”

Snapshot: Who is this man and why is he visiting Ellen Auerbach in 1957?

This photograph will be displayed at the Israel Museum as part of the exhibition, 'Displaced Visions: Émigré Photographers of the 20th Century.'

By Tal Niv | May 23, 2013 | 12:03 PM

The Makings of History

Ben-Gurion

Will we ever find out what the censor left out?

In Tom Segev's final column, he continues to shine a light on missing chapters of Israeli history.

By Tom Segev | Mar 16, 2013 | 10:08 PM | 3

Portion of the Week

"The Gathering of the Manna," by James Tissot

Freed of fantasies / Parashat Beha'alotcha

God uses the culinary realm as a metaphor for or symbol of the many different ways of interpreting the Torah.

By Yakov Meir | May 24, 2013 | 12:23 PM

Doron Rosenblum

Illustration by Eran Wolkowski

Plans for the Israeli summer break: Drama? Crisis? War?

A certain uncontrollable inner force commands us to feel the 'bland days' with some form of compelling content.

By Doron Rosenblum | May 16, 2013 | 01:24 PM

Pen Ultimate

Warsaw in 1945

Wordplay: Reflections by a 'second-generation, Shoah-lite' Pole

Watching these five 3D minutes, it suddenly dawned on me that it was to that ruined city that my parents returned. There, in Warsaw, they started to build their life anew, a life to which I owe my own.

By Michael Handelzalts | May 10, 2013 | 11:04 AM | 4

The Twilight Zone

West Bank settlement of Homesh

In one evacuated West Bank settlement, victory looks like defeat

The West Bank settlement of Homesh was evacuated in 2005, but when its Palestinian landowners visited this week, they discovered hilltop youth living there.

By Gideon Levy, Alex Levac | May 24, 2013 | 10:49 AM | 3

Sayed Kashua

Illustration by Amos Biderman

Will a German exchange student settle for Sayed Kashua's family?

What will she say? I traveled to Israel, I ended up with a Palestinian family? Do you know what that will do to her self-confidence?

By Sayed Kashua | May 23, 2013 | 11:55 AM | 3

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