How is this Gaza conflict different from other Gaza conflicts?
Jewish Journal
July 14, 2014
In the past week, Israel has endured a thousand rockets.
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Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza exceeds 2012 assault
Jewish Journal
July 9, 2014
The Israeli military reportedly has hit more targets in Gaza in the first day and a half of a bombing campaign to curb rocket fire than during its entire eight-day operation in November 2012.
Making deepest penetration into northern Israel, rockets hit Zichron Yaakov
Jewish Journal
July 9, 2014
Rockets struck the northern town of Zichron Yaakov, the deepest penetration into Israel in the recent barrage of fire from Gaza.
Hamas says it fired rocket toward Haifa
Jewish Journal
July 8, 2014
Hamas said it fired a rocket at the city of Haifa, northern Israel, on Tuesday in what would be the longest-range such Palestinian attack from the Gaza Strip.
Truck by truck, Israel builds trade gateway to Arab world
Jewish Journal
July 1, 2014
The hydraulic ramp of a Turkish freighter taps down on the eastern Mediterranean port of Haifa and, under a full moon, 37 trucks roll off onto an otherwise empty pier.
Wounded Ukrainian mayor ‘stable’ in Israeli hospital
Jewish Journal
April 29, 2014
The mayor of eastern Ukraine\’s biggest city was in a stable condition on Tuesday in a hospital in Israel, where he was flown after being wounded in the highest-profile assassination attempt in the standoff between Kiev and Moscow.
The Mensch List: The matchmaker
Jared Sichel
January 2, 2014
For a moment, it seemed like Jacob Segal was the interviewer. Walking into Delice Bakery on a recent Monday morning, the 67-year-old businessman was already there, sitting by the window facing Pico Boulevard, huddled over the Los Angeles Times.
Yigal Kipnis on Yom Kippur War’s lessons
Shmuel Rosner
September 24, 2013
Yigal Kipnis is an Israeli historian; since 1978 he has been a farmer and a resident of the Golan Heights. He teaches at the University of Haifa and researches the settlement geography and political history of Israel. Kipnis also served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force for 31 years (26 of them in the IAF reserves). The following exchange focuses on his book, “1973: The Road to War,” which came out in Hebrew in late 2012. The book has received fantastic reviews in the Israeli press by various acclaimed critics and is scheduled to appear in English later this year.
Al-Qaida-affiliated terror group says it’s resuming holy war against Jews
Jewish Journal
August 27, 2013
A terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaida that claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on northern Israel said it has resumed a jihad, or holy war, against the Jews.
Tending tolerance in ‘The Gardener’
Tom Tugend
August 1, 2013
Movies from D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” to Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will” have stirred political passions and ruffled international diplomatic feathers, and now comes “The Gardener.”
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