Israel’s new interior minister, Silvan Shalom, was appointed the country’s chief peace negotiator for any future peace talks with the Palestinians.
For \”Mad Men\” creator Matthew Weiner, Monday is the day to begin \”officially resting on my laurels\” and staying off the Internet while he basks in the twilight of the television show that has occupied his life for the last eight years.
Natalie Portman played a ballerina in the grip of psychological trauma in \”Black Swan\”, but the Israeli actress said she had lots of support while directing her first film, about the childhood of Israeli intellectual Amos Oz, shown in Cannes.
During the past nine years, the number of Arab residents of east Jerusalem living below the poverty line has increased to the point where three-quarters of the population is living with insufficient means…
Shi’ite militias, many of them backed by Iran, are streaming into the provincial capital of Ramadi, to try to help wrest the city back from Islamic State which captured it over the weekend.
The debate over Jewish law’s role in Israel’s government has raged for 70 years. Should the state, above all, be Jewish, or should it put its democracy first?
Israel erred in its treatment of Ethiopian immigrants, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said at a state ceremony in memory of the Ethiopian Jews who died on their way to Israel.
Participants in the annual Jerusalem Day flag march came under attack from Muslims in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Israel\’s new justice minister said on Sunday she would seek a new balance that would rein in the powers of the Supreme Court over parliament and the government, a policy critics fear would restrict judicial oversight.
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