Israeli Delegation Cancels Visit to Bahrain Citing Security Concerns
Despite recent signs of warming ties, the kingdom's parliament issues statement rejecting the visit as protesters took to the streets of the capital
Shimon Peres
An Alternative History: How Shimon Peres Made Peace by Walking Away From Oslo
This is how Shimon Peres could have left Oslo’s architects behind, battled Yasser Arafat and terrorism, and put the Jordanian option back on the table
Rabin’s Man in Oslo Analyzes What Went Wrong – and Right – With the 1993 Accords
Joel Singer, who drafted the accords, left Israel broken-hearted in the wake of Rabin’s assassination. He tells Haaretz about the missed opportunities and calls on the current government not to destroy the foundations of a future peace deal
Startup Nation: Playground for the Elite?
That's what President Rivlin more or less said last week, and he was wrong. Still, Israeli high-tech needs to attract a much more diverse labor pool than just secular Jewish men
'Racist, Homophobe, Bully, Fascist': Sons of Israeli Leaders Trade Barbs on Facebook
After Yair Netanyahu claimed he was being unfairly targeted while the sons of other prime ministers get a pass, Ehud Olmert's two sons take him to task
Commemoration of Israeli Leaders Highly Disorganized, Unequal
Despite four leaders dying in the past decade, the commemoration budget hasn't risen in ten years.
Obama Remembers Shimon Peres at White House Hanukkah Party
Late-president's son, Chemi, lights family's menorah, likens Obama's eight years in the White House to the Hanukkah oil miracle.
In Obama's Last Hanukkah in Office, a Special Role for Peres Family Heirloom
The U.S. president set to honor late Israeli president by using menorah owned by his family for generations, with Peres' son Chemi and granddaughter Mika Almog in attendance.
Renana Gutman – 1924-2016 First Female Director of Major Israeli Government Office Dies
With her appointment in 1972 as director general of the State Comptroller's Office, Renana Gutman, who died last month at the age of 92, made feminist history in the country.
Opinion Who Are the Good Arabs?
Arab citizens do not want to give up on their citizenship – they aspire to live as a national minority in a democratic country.
Opinion The No-shows at Arafat’s Funeral
All those who don’t understand why it was so difficult for the Palestinian-Israelis’ political representatives to show their final respects to Shimon Peres, should recall Arafat’s funeral and the 'respect' shown him by the Israelis.
Secret 1978 Talks Lay Bare the Hawk That Peacemaker Peres Once Was
'Jordan is also Palestine,' the late Shimon Peres tells then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin, declassified minutes of a top secret meeting ahead of Camp David reveal.
Opinion Don’t Preach to Us About Peres
The Arab public is sick of finding itself caught in the middle, under attack, when its leadership marches headlong, with great enthusiasm, into the heart of the conflict.
Dimona Nuclear Reactor to Be Renamed After Deceased Israeli President Shimon Peres
Prime Minister Netanyahu announces intention to rename nuclear research center recognizing Peres' contribution to Israel's nuclear knowledge.
Netanyahu and Lieberman Leading a Knesset Boycott of the Arab Parties
Initiative to walk out on addresses from Arab MKs arises after they refused to attend the funeral of former president Shimon Peres.
Opinion Eulogize Peres, Not the Peace Process
The quest for peace should find its bearings in 2017 with leaders, voices and a language part of the present and future, not just the past.
Opinion Israelis, Don’t Tell Us Palestinians to Mourn Shimon Peres
Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank refuse to be bullied into grieving for a figure Israeli Jews call a 'man of peace'. Did they eulogize our national heroes?
Opinion Israeli Jews' Debt to Peres
When suitable, we granted the Palestinians freedom of movement. When it empowered them too much, we revoked it. At most of these junctures, Peres was there.
Opinion Arab Lawmakers Should Be Thanked, Not Reproached, for Boycotting Peres' Funeral
By refusing to conform, Joint List has made a defiant statement about what they really think about their place in the Jewish and democratic state – while we are refusing to listen, and certainly to internalize.
Speaker Edelstein Criticized for 'Belittling' Knesset at Shimon Peres' Funeral
Israeli lawmakers from across the aisle say Yuli Edelstein should have invited opposition leader Isaac Herzog to eulogize Peres and done more to prevent the boycott of Arab MKs.
Opinion Obama’s Zionist Legacy
Two speeches by the U.S. president were more precise, on-point and moving than anything said by any center-left Israeli leader of the past generation.
Opinion After the Hadash Snub of Peres' Funeral, You Can Count Me Out
The radical shift that the Arab party has undergone prevents it from joining in Israeli mourning.
Opinion To All the Hypocrites Attacking Israeli Arab Politicians for Not Attending Peres' Funeral
As in years past, no Israeli official came to Saturday's memorial ceremony for the 12 Arab citizens killed by police in October 2000. Yet the Israeli establishment is outraged that Arab MKs stayed away from Shimon Peres' funeral the day before.
After Peres' Funeral, Prince Charles Made Secret Visit to Grandmother's Grave in East Jerusalem
After attending the funeral alongside Obama and Bill Clinton, the British royal went to Church of Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives to visit the grave of his paternal grandmother, a righteous among the nations.
After Lawmakers Snub Shimon Peres' Funeral, Israeli Arab Mayors Attend His Shiva
Mayor of Sakhnin says decision to visit mourning family is not move in opposition to Arab MKs who refused to attend Peres' funeral.
Opinion Death of Final Founding Father Peres Means Israel Must Now Grow Up
The full moral responsibility for the image of Israel has been passed onto Shimon Peres' political heirs. It's a scary time, but also one of real opportunity.
Opinion Shimon Peres' Funeral Proved That anti-Semitism Is Dead
The ceremony for Peres showed that the Western world would love nothing more than to welcome Israel into the fold. An end to the brutal occupation would end the country’s pariah status in an instant.
Editorial Barack Obama's Farewell to Shimon Peres Brought Us Back to the Roots of Zionism
'Justice and hope,' Obama reminded us, 'are at the heart of the Zionist idea.'
Opinion Washing Away the Blood of the Oslo Accords
Whitewashing Oslo is out of the question. The only way out is to whitewash Shimon Peres himself.
Opinion Shimon Peres Was the Last of His Kind
Unlike other Jews who succeeded him in power, Peres always knew that to be a Jew also meant to be universal and moral; to be on the correct, enlightened side of history.