Why are Readers of HaAretz Angry?

These are hard times for the Schocken Group and for Ha'aretz. One week after the publication of a letter from Irit Linur in which she announced that she was canceling her subscription to the...

Peres Centre Investigated by Norway’s Foreign Office

The Norwegian Foreign Office (UD) has started investigating the Peres Peace Centre in Israel, and into the way the centre has used Norwegian monitary contributions. It was the Peres Centre that awarded a peace prize...

Getting Your Stolen Car Back from PLO hands

It's not a simple thing to part from one's car, as anyone knows who's ever had to undergo this experience, whether through selling it for upgrading purposes or whether through traumatic circumstances: a lien,...

Is Europe Lost? A Traumatic Experience at the Council of Europe

"When the Jews warned the West," I told participants at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, "that the Nazis endangered the peace of the world, your fathers replied that the Nazis were indeed not...

Paula Finer Discusses the Tragedy of her Daughter, Now in a Permanent Vegetative State

Thanks to private support from many circles, Israel Resource News Agency has produced a pilot film for what will hopefully evolve into a full fledged documentary concerning the plight of victims of terror. The first...

Israel’s New Security Situation Following The Release of Arafat from his Compound

Arafat The Street Did Not Wait For Arafat Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 3) by Roni Shaked -- At 2:00 in the morning, Arafat faced the cameras, in his first press conference after the siege, and in...

1999: A Lucrative Year For Mr. Larsen and his Wife

They were also among the winners of the $100,000 International Activist Award, presented biannually by the Gleitsman Foundation. They shared the award with at least two other senior members of the Peres Center, Yossi...

Juul Can Expect Punishment

Foreign Minister January Petersen dismissed an appeal from a Center Party politician to treat Mona Juul's case leniently because it could weaken the UN's role in the Middle East. Juul is Norway's ambassador to...

Rød-Larsen Prize Shocks Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD) promises to investigate the USD $100,000 prize awarded to Terje Rød-Larsen and his diplomat wife Mona Juul as quickly and thoroughly as possible. United Nations envoy Terje Rød-Larsen insists...

How the Norwegian Media Covered Larsen’s Resignation

The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo Press Division Norway Daily No. 227-31/96 OeW/kj Date: 25 November 1996 Opposition Demands Full Disclosure (Arbeiderbladet) Terje Roed-Larsen is taking a break from the media until the tax office has re-examined...