To encourage the partisan faithful, the campaign rivals are offering heavily subsidized round-trip fares, with the stay in Israel limited to a few days bracketing the election dates.
Israeli voters go to the polls on May 17 in what could be the most critical election in the young nation\’s history.
Knesset Member Arye Deri\’s appeal to the Supreme Court is expected to take about a year, maybe more.
The Israelites fled Egypt in haste, but well packed: They began their exodus with their flocks, herds and unleavened bread dough, as well as the jewels and garments of the Egyptians.
Israel mourned King Hussein this week as one of its own. The government ordered flags flown at half-mast on all public buildings.
With everything going on lately — the royal demise, the presidential trial, Mike Tyson\’s latest bust — you may have missed the big legal story out of Israel last week.
Every so often, the cultural gap between Israelis and American Jews yawns open so wide, you could almost fall in and break your leg.
If you are between the ages of 15 and 26, you should pay attention to this particular column. Actually, if you are the parent of anyone 15 to 26, you should read what follows, on the theory that you are likely to be the person paying the bills.
The all-night sessions, heated confrontations and threats of walkouts that marked the recent Wye Accord negotiations had their parallel 20 years ago, when the Camp David Agreement lay the groundwork for the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
Lisa Weinmann-Myara, a State University of New York graduate who settled in Jerusalem with her Israeli husband 16 years ago, is waging a vigorous defense of her soldier son, who faces a court martial on charges of disgracing himself and the army by allowing a Palestinian mob to steal his automatic rifle when it stormed the car in which he was hitchhiking through the West Bank.
