New York Times | Presbyterians Vote to Divest Holdings to Pressure Israel New York Times DETROIT — After passionate debate over how best to help break the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Friday at its general convention to divest from three companies that it says supply Israel with ... Presbyterians narrowly vote to divest from companies used by Israel Presbyterians divest holdings to pressure Israel Presbyterian Church (USA) Makes Controversial Divestment Move Against Israel |
Haaretz | Israeli troops kill 2 Palestinians during search for Israeli students in ... Washington Post JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians, including a teenager, in clashes Friday that accompanied Israel's search for three students who have been missing for more than a week in the occupied West Bank. Early Friday, Israeli ... LIVE UPDATES: Israeli troops raid Hebron, El Bireh The kidnapping of three young Israelis threatens an edgy calm Israel intensifies hunt for missing teenagers |
Haaretz | Number of French Jews Emigrating to Israel Rises New York Times PARIS — For Tiffany Taieb Nizard, the decision to abandon France for Israel came this month when a French-born man was accused of gunning down four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in an anti-Semitic attack. It was just the tipping point ... French Jews leave for Israel in increasing numbers Jews leaving France, Ukraine generate 50% increase in immigration to Israel Where Was God When Israel Deported African Refugees? |
New York Times | Missing Israeli Teenagers Revive a Mother's Hard-Earned Intimacy With Loss New York Times But when she typed “Israeli teenagers kidnapped” into Google, what popped up were stories about her own son, Koby, who was 13 when he and a friend were bludgeoned to death with rocks in a Byzantine cave in 2001, during the second Palestinian intifada. |
New York Times | Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Teenager Protesting Arrests in the West Bank New York Times JERUSALEM — Israeli troops killed a Palestinian youth before dawn Friday and seriously wounded several adults as their sweeping West Bank arrest campaign following last week's disappearance of three Israeli teenagers both slowed and encountered ... |
The UN and Israel Jerusalem Post Last week, Israel was elected to serve as vice chair of a UN committee dealing with human rights. The Jewish state will serve in that capacity in the upcoming 69th session of the UN General Assembly. Mordehai Amihai won the appointment to represent the ... |
Al-Arabiya | Israel takes disputed Kurdish oil Al-Arabiya A tanker delivered a cargo of disputed crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan's new pipeline for the first time on Friday in Israel, despite threats by Baghdad to take legal action against any buyer. The SCF Altai tanker arrived at Israel's Ashkelon port early ... De facto independence Kurdistan defies Baghdad and delivers a million barrels ... Israel accepts first delivery of disputed Kurdish pipeline oil Kurds re-discover their old ally Israel |
Mother of kidnapped Israeli teen urges world: Help us bring back my son Jerusalem Post On Friday, she, her husband and the parents of the other teens, met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. He told the parents: “The people [of Israel] give you strength and you give them strength in return.” “We are investing enormous ... Mother of missing teen appeals for world help |
Aljazeera.com | Abbas defends cooperation with Israel Aljazeera.com The Palestinian president has defended his policy of security cooperation with Israel, despite Israeli forces escalating their crackdown in the occupied West Bank following the apparent abduction of three Israeli teenagers. In a speech to senior Arab ... Israel clamps down on Hamas in West Bank after abduction of three Jewish ... Gun battle flares as Israeli soldiers seek missing teens Israel Crackdown on Hamas Shows New Path |
Yahoo News | Israel threatens UN envoy over Qatar cash for Palestinians Yahoo News Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's foreign minister said Saturday the UN's special envoy could be declared persona non grata for offering to help transfer Qatari funds to the Gaza Strip, Channel Two television reported. Avigdor Lieberman said Robert Serry, the ... 'Liberman intends to boot out UN's Mideast coordinator' Israel Says UN Envoy Serry Tried to Funnel Cash to Hamas Liberman seeks to expel UN envoy Robert Serry for trying to give aid to Hamas |