Aljazeera.com | Palestinian participation in Israel conference slammed Aljazeera.com Senior officials from the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset have come under fire by groups advocating the boycott of Israel for their participation in the annual Herzliya conference, a key Israeli ... Western hostility is forcing Israel to make strange new friends Palestinians Lacking Water After Israel Allegedly Shuts off Plumbing Israel's Emerging Mideast Foreign Policy |
Jerusalem Post Israel News | Livni: A referendum is needed now, to see if Israel is going in a two-state direction Jerusalem Post Israel News “You can't address democracy in Israel while tip-toeing around the main issue,” said the Zionist Union MK. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is looming above us, creating contention both within Israeli society and between Palestinians and Israelis. “The ... Standing Up to Israel's Dangerous Government Livni: Settlers run Israeli government's national agenda Riding Israel's political roller-coaster |
The Hill | Dem tensions rising over Israel The Hill But many liberals have criticized her position as overly hawkish, leaving party leaders with the delicate task of adopting an Israel plank that represents her views –– and doesn't anger Jewish voters –– without alienating the Sanders supporters who ... The Democrats have an Israel problem |
Haaretz | Israel Plans to Destroy Only Water Source of Shepherds in West Bank Village Haaretz This, despite the fact that Israel's coordinator of government activities in the territories (to which the Civil Administration is subordinate) promised representatives of international agencies that there would be no demolitions during the month of ... |
Jerusalem Post Israel News | A taste of Israel – from Lithuania to China Jerusalem Post Israel News Degutiene first encountered Israeli – and Jewish – food in 2009, when her husband, Darius Degutis, arrived to serve a five-year stint as Lithuanian ambassador to Israel. Deguitiene, who knew little of Israeli or Jewish life before arriving, delved into ... |
Haaretz | How to Stop Israel's Democracy From Turning Into an Ethnocracy Haaretz How to Stop Israel's Democracy From Turning Into an Ethnocracy. Tomer Persico, a scholar of religion, says secular Israelis find themselves doubting their moral backbone because they don't feel Jewish enough. To remedy that, they need to assert an ... |
Jerusalem Post Israel News | How Israel stays a 'well-regulated militia' with so many guns around Jerusalem Post Israel News The training Israeli soldiers receive also helps keep gun violence down. When Gabby Giffords, the Jewish congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in 2011, an armed passerby recalled later to his own horror that he nearly opened fire on the folks who were ... |
Haaretz | European Parliament Faction Heads to Rivlin: NGO Funding Bill Could Hurt Israel-EU Ties Haaretz Five heads of four factions that together comprise nearly half the European Parliament have warned that passage of a controversial bill requiring Israeli nongovernmental organizations to report foreign funding sources could hurt Israel's relations with ... |
The Times of Israel | Israel sends firefighting planes to help battle Cyprus blaze The Times of Israel According to a report in the Cyprus Mail, the emergency assistance from Israel came at the request of Nicosia, after local firefighters were unable to control the blaze that had burned five square kilometers of vegetation in the Paphos region by ... Israel to send firefighting planes to Cyprus to help combat Paphos blaze Israel sends firefighting planes to help douse Cyprus blaze Israel Helps Cyprus Battle Major Fire |
Jerusalem Post Israel News | Is the Arab Peace Initiative back on the table? Jerusalem Post Israel News Despite international efforts, there have been no substantive Israeli-Palestinian negotiations for more than five years. While Israel has always insisted that only direct bilateral talks can lead to a peace agreement, Arab states say they are more ... |