The Neglected Issue of the Israeli electoral campaign: maps proximity of the missiles of...

In 1988, when foreign press in Israel had less staff than they do today, our agency covered the Israeli elections for the New York Times, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, with a staff of five...
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, September 2013. (Pete Souza / Courtesy Reuters)

Senate Committee Launches Investigation into Obama Effort to Oust Netanyahu

According to a FOX News report, a powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Obama...

Hamas Owns Netanyahu Electoral Destiny

Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)— Keeping the Israeli public in the dark in relation to losses and casualties of the Israeli army in the last Israeli offensive on Gaza, chairman of Israeli Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu is almost...

Israeli speaker highlights fear in border city Sderot

If you were given 15 seconds to seek shelter from an approaching rocket, what would you do? For Israelis living in Sderot, a city near the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip, this question is not a hypothetical...
Headquarters of the U.S. Department of State. Photo: wiki commons.

Controversial ‘New Israel Fund’ Received More Than $1 Million From US State Department

The controversial New Israel Fund and its social change and political lobbying organization – known as SHATIL – have received more than $1 million from the State Department under a program designed to create...
TWO-GUN HULDAI (right) and a ‘lei-d back’ Shimon Peres at the Purim party they co-hosted. . (photo credit:SALI BEN-ARIEH)

Grapevine: Riskin remembers marching with MLK Jr.

It’s always good to have people around who either participated in historical events, or who know people that did so and are willing to share the information. David Bedein, founder and director of the...

Purim Paradoxes…writes Michael Kuttner

Jewish communities worldwide have this week been celebrating the Festival of Purim which commemorates the deliverance of Persian Jews from genocidal intentions. The stark relevance between then and today is so obvious that only those...

From the American Alamo to the Israeli Alamo: The Patriotic Battle Cry of Two...

When I grew up in Philadelphia in the fifties as a classic baby boomer, I was not alone with infatuation for the legend of “Davy Crockett at the Alamo,” made a legend by Walt...

The stamp Canada issued

Canada is the only country in the world to do this so far.

Peace talks are officially off the table

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4575334,00.html The wall behind the speakers' podium at the United Nations General Assembly hall is greenish – an unusual color in halls of this kind. It's quite possible that it is green with shame. The...