About a half-hour before you reach the site for Passover in the Desert, an annual event put on by a nonprofit called Wilderness Torah, you pass through a series of valleys encrusted with the salt of evaporated lakebeds and the residue of mineral mining.
U.S. forces accidentally killed Warren Weinstein, the Jewish-American government contractor who had been held hostage by al-Qaida since 2011, the White House acknowledged.
On the final night of Passover, I sat with my relatives in a tiny but warm apartment in Haifa, 11 of us packed tightly around a table in a sort of French-Israeli-American melting pot of a family reunion.
The head of the U.S. intelligence service told the Polish ambassador to the United States that he regretted his remarks on what Poland has said was an accusation of complicity in the Holocaust, the Polish foreign ministry said on Thursday.
My very dear Ariella,\n\nI haven’t seen you since August 2014 and, with all hyperbole aside, it really does seem like forever. You made the decision to join the Israel Defense Forces and, despite my initial reservations, you persevered and followed your dream.
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