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Palestinian Workers Plan To Sue Settlement, Seek To Fall Under Israeli Law

By Nathan Jeffay

In a legal battle that turns the norms of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict upside down, a group of settlers is claiming that their settlement is not in Israel, while Palestinians are insisting that it is.Read More


Losing Support and Suffering Defections, Labor Party Is in a ‘Struggle for Life’

By Nathan Jeffay

With a new poll putting its support at an all-time low, and its leader, Ehud Barak, more isolated than ever, Israel’s Labor Party is now in for the fight of its life.Read More


British Christians Push Repentance for Nation’s Conduct During Mandate

By Nathan Jeffay

A new plaque at the Jewish cemetery in Hebron points to a new trend among British Christians: repentance for their country’s conduct during the Palestine Mandate.Read More


Arms Smugglers Into Gaza Face a New Foe: Egypt

By Nathan Jeffay

As a consequence of the military action in Gaza and to please a new administration in Washington, Egypt has recently stepped up efforts to crack down on smugglers who use a network of tunnels to transport weapons to Hamas.Read More


Elder B’nai Mitzvahs Journey to Israel

By Nathan Jeffay

In the almost two millennia that it has been a site of pilgrimage, it is doubtful that the Western Wall has played host to two more different prayer services at the same time. On the morning of October 15, as young hippie-ish Hasidim beat on drums, singing ecstatically, nine elderly Americans from a retirement village in Cincinnati celebrated their belated bar and bat mitzvahs at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.Read More



 

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