Israel/Mideast
Misc. news from Israel and the Middle East
Israeli PM Netanyahu tells Etgar Keret there's no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israeli novelist Etgar Keret plays diplomatic correspondent for a day, when he covers Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with Italian...
Obama to AIPAC: Israelis, Palestinians should negotiate a new border
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama said his call for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations based on the pre-1967 lines did not mean the...
'House' cast (minus Dr. House) tours Israeli hospitals
By DINA KRAFT RAMAT GAN, Israel (JTA) — On television Lisa Edelstein, a star of the hit Fox show House,...
Op-ed: Alienation from Israel hitting liberal seminaries
By GARY ROSENBLATT NEW YORK (N.Y. Jewish Week)Â — A second-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary (www.jtsa.edu) says her...
Young Israeli soldiers meet American Jewish peers
Members of the Israel Defense Forces' Paratroopers Reconnaissance Brigade, (l to r) Second Lt. Yakir David, Second Lt. Ashager Araro,...
Netanyahu: With bin Laden dead, Iran's supreme leader is world's greatest threat
In interview with CNN, Israeli prime minister says Ayatollah Ali Khamenei effectively runs Iran, warning that if Iran 'gets atomic...
Breakfast of Casspi
Israel's only NBA player and former star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar  are making news in the Jewish state (JTA) — The face...
White House: Palestinian unity government must renounce terror, accept Israel
(JTA) — Reacting to news that rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas had agreed to a reconciliation deal, the Obama...
U.S. correspondent for Haaretz visits St. Paul
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Natasha Mozgovaya, Washington bureau chief for the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, visited St. Paul on April 13,...
Bomb explodes in Jerusalem; 1 dead, 30 wounded
By NIR HASSON and Haaretz Staff Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a bomb explosion Wednesday near a bus stop in...
