Israel News

Deficit Tests Yair Lapid

04/17/2013 | Michele Chabin | Israel Correspondent

JERUSALEM – No one in Israel doubts that Yair Lapid, Israel’s new minister of finance, will have to make tough decisions in order to lower the country’s almost $11 billion budget deficit.

Free To Go

04/11/2013 | JTA

Five women were detained by Jerusalem police for wearing prayer shawls at a Women of the Wall service at the Western Wall, but a judge later said there was no cause for arresting them, and released them, according to a statement from Women of the Wall, a group that agitates for women's prayer rights at the holy site.

Sharansky Plan For Equal Prayer At Kotel Moving Forward

04/09/2013 | Gary Rosenblatt | Editor and Publisher

Charged by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to come up with a Solomonic solution to the growing controversy over women’s prayer at Judaism’s holiest site, Natan Sharansky, the chair of the Jewish Agency for Israel, has prepared a bold and grand plan to allow any and all Jews to pray at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.

Women's Right To Say Kaddish In Question At Kotel

04/05/2013 | Helen Chernikoff | Staff Writer

Women who want to say the Mourner’s Kaddish at the Western Wall were threatened with arrest in a recent letter from the Israeli police to a women’s rights group, but both Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky and Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, who runs the government body that oversees holy sites like the wall, say it will not happen.

Hints Of Movement Seen In Wake Of Obama Trip

03/28/2013 | Joshua Mitnick and Stewart Ain

Tel Aviv — After the electricity of President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel last week and his speech urging Israel’s young generation to get involved in the peace process with the Palestinians, there were reports this week that a new round of talks may be on the horizon.

Full-Court Press: Jerusalem Center Aims To Be Top Journalist Hangout

03/21/2013 | Adam Dickter | Assistant Managing Editor

JERUSALEM -- Where most people would see the shell of an old restaurant on a hill overlooking Mount Zion, Uri Dromi sees a place where visiting international scribes can have a scotch with the best and brightest of Israeli society.