This year, Jay Shultz won’t be making a Thanksgiving dinner for the hundreds of American olim (immigrants) he has managed to unite in Tel Aviv through his Am Yisrael Foundation.
Over the past several weeks, tension and violence have risen steadily in Jerusalem, culminating in Tuesday\’s attack on a synagogue in which four Israeli worshippers were shot and knifed to death by Palestinians assailants.
Israel and the Palestinians have pledged to take concrete steps to calm tensions around Jerusalem\’s holiest site, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday after talks in the Jordanian capital.
An Israeli soldier and a woman were stabbed to death by Palestinians in Tel Aviv and the West Bank on Monday, extending a surge in violence fuelled by strife over access to Jerusalem\’s holiest site.
A daughter of the leader of Hamas in Gaza was admitted to an Israeli hospital for emergency medical treatment this month after she suffered complications from a routine procedure, two sources familiar with the case said.
Asked by a literary magazine to name an Israeli author deserving of English translation, Etgar Keret — the Tel Aviv-based writer whose short stories have been published to worldwide acclaim — named novelist Gadi Taub.
“I know that for some of you, coming to Israel after a very challenging summer might cause hesitation,” Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai told a crowd of hundreds of techies wearing neon-pink wristbands and ID necklaces.
Violence increased in eastern Jerusalem following the death of a Palestinian teenager who was shot a week earlier by Israeli troops during a demonstration.
An Israeli cult leader alleged by prosecutors to have kept 21 wives under his spell for years was convicted on Monday of sexual crimes but acquitted of charges of enslavement.
The Israeli military has provided its most detailed assessment yet of the conduct and impact of the Gaza war, including photographs indicating that militants stored and fired rockets from schools and a breakdown of the toll inflicted on Hamas.
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