Israel News

Israeli Politics' Gender Gap

01/08/2013 | Michele Chabin | Israel Correspondent

Jerusalem — During an election campaign dominated by security and economic concerns,

Jewish Agency Takes In OTZMA

01/07/2013 | Helen Chernikoff | Staff Writer

The Jewish Federations of North America announced Friday that it will transfer ownership of its OTZMA Israel Experience, one of the first programs that enabled young adults to live and learn in Israel, to a subsidiary of the Jewish Agency for Israel, effective July 1.

Israeli Grove To Be Planted To Memorialize Newtown Victims

01/02/2013 | JTA

More than 2,000 people have donated funds to plant a grove of more than 3,000 trees in Israel in memory of the victims of the Newtown shooting.

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.