Israel News

Too Much Of The Right Stuff?

01/02/2013 | Joshua Mitnick | Israel Correspondent

Tel Aviv — “Who is more rightist?”

That’s the name of a fictional TV game show portrayed on this week’s installment of the Israeli satire show “Wonderful Country,” and the skit reflects the direction of the political discourse with less than a month remaining before the Jan. 22 parliamentary elections.

Lieberman Formally Charged In Jerusalem

12/31/2012 | JTA

Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was formally charged with fraud and breach of trust.

Will Western Wall Be ‘Source Of Unity?’

12/26/2012 | Helen Chernikoff | Staff Writer

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident and chairman of the Jewish Agency, to study the issue of women’s prayer at the Western Wall and to help the government turn the wall into a “source of Jewish unity, rather than division,” an agency spokesman told the Jewish Week.

South Africa’s African National Congress Endorses Israel Boycott

12/23/2012 | JTA

JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, voted to make boycotts, divestment and sanctions of Israel part of its official policy.

UN General Assembly Adopts Nine Resolutions Condemning Israel

12/20/2012 | JTA

The United Nations General Assembly adopted nine resolutions on the topics of Palestinian rights and the Golan Heights.

Israeli Arab Indicted For Nov. Bus Bombing In Tel Aviv

12/19/2012 | JNS.org and Staff

An indictment has been filed in the Tel Aviv District Court against the Israeli Arab man suspected of planting a bomb on a Tel Aviv bus on Nov. 21, in the middle of Israel's air offensive against Gaza missile strikes, Israel Hayom reported.