Ranking US officials have begun monitoring construction in east Jerusalem and other areas. According to Hebrew daily Makor Rishon, the US ambassador to Israel, the US consul-general in Jerusalem and other officials demand regular updates from Israeli ministers associated with building committees. As a result of that pressure, building permits for...
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As grim reports of missile threats from every direction rain down on Israel, military analysts and columnists are issuing a barrage of warnings that Israel could find itself in a war on several fronts in the near future. "Israel has ramped up provocative overflights of Lebanese territory in recent months,...
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Japan is being introduced to Israeli high school students in a unique program run by Japanese Studies students at the Department of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The program, which aims to introduce Japanese society and culture to new layers of Israeli society, was developed with...
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Holocaust survivor and writer Elie Wiesel met over lunch at the White House with US President Barack Obama to discuss recent disagreements between Washington and the Israeli government. “The tension I think is gone,” Wiesel told reporters after the meeting, saying he enjoyed a “good kosher lunch” with Obama. Last month,...
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In direct defiance of the Oslo Accords the Palestinian Authority is reportedly opening administrative offices in east Jerusalem — to a resounding silence from the Obama administration. The decision to relocate the offices, which came just two days before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's meeting with 'peace' envoy George Mitchell on...
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OPINION - The Obama administration has been right to press for the proximity talks that have been stalled for many weeks, while the United States and Israel debated Israeli construction in east Jerusalem. But now that the prime minister appears to have quietly imposed a de facto freeze on...
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Some 1,000 families are scheduled to appeal to the High Court against its decision to open Route 443 to Palestinian traffic at the end of the month. Legal organization Shurat HaDin is slated to submit the petition in the name of at least 1,000 families from Ramot, Beit Horon, Modi'in...
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Jerusalem police arrested for questioning a 15-year-old girl suspected of torching three synagogues in the city in recent days, causing extensive damage. According to police the teenager confessed to some of the acts attributed to her, but her attorney claims that the confession was extracted through improper means and...
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OPINION - American Jews are periodically tested by virtue of their association with Israel. Operation Defensive Shield, when the European press was filled with reports of 5,000 Palestinian civilians slaughtered – some shot in the head, others buried alive — constituted one such test. Operation Cast Lead and the...
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Several months ago a senior traffic engineering team announced plans to close the Old City to private vehicles during daytime hours, except for local residents, but now a number of figures are voicing opposition to the arrangement. A Transportation Ministry official has reported conducting...
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Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat called the Obama administration's demand for a construction freeze in east Jerusalem a "slap in the face," during a meeting with reporters in Washington on Tuesday night, while denying there is a de facto freeze on building in Jewish neighborhoods of east Jerusalem. On a two-day...
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