Israel News

Court: Women Should Not Have Been Arrested

04/25/2013 | JTA

JERUSALEM -- Women praying out loud at the Western Wall in prayer shawls do not disturb the public order and should not have been arrested, an Israeli court found.

Arms Sale Complicates Iran Picture

04/24/2013 | Joshua Mitnick and Stewart Ain | Israel Correspondent and Staff Writer

Tel Aviv — The Obama administration’s announced arms sale to Israel this week has raised as many questions as it answers.

Sharansky's Wall Plan Gets Green Light

04/22/2013 | JTA

JERUSALEM -- Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky was given a green light by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue his plan for a permanent egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall.

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.