Bleisure Bits: Khan el-Khalil Bazaar offers a taste of Cairo
CAIRO (AP) — When it comes to Cairo tourism, it’s all about the Pyramids and a trip to this sprawling metropolis filled with mosques, markets and monuments would not be
Death of Treblinka revolt survivor signals post-witness era
MOSHAV UDIM, Israel (AP) — The death of 93-year-old Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last known survivor of the daring revolt at Treblinka, the notorious death camp in
Israel’s first NBA player Omri Casspi having breakout season
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — When Omri Casspi was 13, his family took him on a Bar Mitzvah trip to the United States, the highlight of which was a visit
New Jerusalem prayer site highlights divide between Israel, US Jews
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government’s decision to allow non-Orthodox Jewish prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall is a major breakthrough for the country’s long-marginalized liberal streams and their powerful supporters
Survivor sheds light on divisive WWII-era Jewish Councils
JERUSALEM (AP) — Throughout the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, and while incarcerated in two prison camps, Mirjam Bolle wrote letters to her fiance that she never sent but hoped to
Israeli NBA fans turn on Cavs after favorite son Blatt fired
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers suddenly have far fewer fans in Israel after the firing of David Blatt.
The shock announcement on Friday, despite the second-year coach
Western Europe Jewish migration to Israel hits all-time high
JERUSALEM (AP) — Jewish immigration to Israel from western Europe has reached an all-time high as a result of a rise in anti-Semitic attacks, a leading nonprofit group said Thursday,
Palestinian wave of violence marked by increased female role
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — When Palestinian youths began a wave of grassroots and often suicidal stabbing attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians several months ago, it wasn’t his three
Unusual shooting attack sets off panic in Israeli heartland
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — For all its years of strife, Israel has rarely seen anything quite like this: an armed, wanted Arab killer on the loose, spreading fear across
American football prepares Israeli teens for military combat
KFAR SABA, Israel (AP) — Under the bright lights, a call of “set, hike” echoes out, followed by the clatter of helmets smashing against pads at a high school football
Late WWII US veteran is 1st soldier honored for saving Jews
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an
Likud lawmaker’s antics make him bad boy of Israeli politics
JERUSALEM (AP) — Over the years, the Israeli parliament has seen its fair share of questionable characters. But it’s unlikely anyone has ever been so perpetually engulfed in scandal in
Israeli artist last link to legendary Holocaust victim
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — With World War II underway and the Nazis closing in, 16-year-old Itzchak Belfer decided to flee his native Poland and head east to Soviet Russia.
Neighborhoods: Tel Aviv’s Florentin a bustling bohemian hub
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Your typical Tel Aviv tourist will naturally navigate toward its famous beaches, boulevards and Bauhaus buildings. But if it’s people- (and dog-) watching that you
Conflict hard to ignore as stabbings reach Israeli heartland
RISHON LEZION, Israel (AP) — Twenty-four-year-old shopkeeper Darya Zelenkov was working her shift in a downtown clothing shop in this central Israeli city when she was startled by a knife-wielding