The UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) has received a serious amount of criticism from onlookers in...
Tunnels. The very word connotes ancient secrets, mystic rites and modern adventure. Israel is blessed with tunnels both natural (the country gets whole pages on...
One of the cheesier keepsakes I’ve ever bought in Israel came, not surprisingly, from a touristy shop on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street. A fridge magnet,...
Senior Editor Mandy Katz reports from Israel:
Rather than presenting its case to foreigners, Israel should save its breath, a leading Israeli diplomat asserted last week....
The Jerusalem Post reports that a Syrian swimmer, Bayan Jumah, withdrew from the eighth 50m freestyle preliminary heat today. Jumah's lane was directly alongside Israeli...
In an almost ironic story, Ynet reports that some relatives of Saddam Hussein were denied refugee status in Israel:
The family, which consists of the two...
Senior Editor Mandy Katz reports from Israel...
A water crisis notwithstanding, tourists are having fun up here in the Kineret, Israel's name for the Sea of...
Israel will get a radar system to bolster her short-range missile defenses, according to CNN.com and Ha'aretz. Says the latter:
Signaling willingness to focus on defensive...
Despite the controversial prisoner swap two weeks ago and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ongoing trial, this has been a relatively quiet summer of Israeli news...