Survivors show their art on Israel’s Holocaust day
JERUSALEM (AP) — As a 9-year-old girl, Shoshana Neuman was forced by Nazi collaborators to march across what is now Ukraine in a brutal six-week trek that her father and
For mentally ill survivors, Holocaust lives on
PARDES HANNA, Israel (AP) — Some patients refuse to shower because it reminds them of the gas chambers. Others hoard meat in pillow cases because they fear going hungry.
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Israel lifts gag order on ex-soldier spy case
JERUSALEM – Israel lifted months of censorship on a military espionage case Thursday, confirming the house arrest of a former female soldier charged with leaking more than 2,000 military documents
From Israel, a radical way to boost organ donation
JERUSALEM — Israel is launching a potentially trailblazing experiment in organ donation: Sign a donor card, and you and your family move up in line for a transplant if one
Israeli athletes face growing scrutiny overseas
JERUSALEM (AP) —Shahar Peer’s stirring run to the semifinals last week at the Dubai Championships was significant in more ways than one: The challenges the Israeli athlete faced off the
Auschwitz Blueprints illustrate Holocaust planning
JERUSALEM (AP) — The neat lines and red rectangular sketches look like any typical architectural design. But the handwritten initials H.H. – belonging to the infamous Nazi SS chief Heinrich
Prehistoric building found in modern Israeli city
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — When Tel Aviv marked its centennial last year, part of the festivities honoring 100 years since the founding of the first modern Hebrew city included
With Gaza cease-fire, south Israel blossoms
NAHAL OZ, Israel (AP) — Until less than a year ago, Nahal Oz was a place to stay away from or risk being hit by rockets from neighboring Gaza. Since
Israel: Commandos seize huge Iranian arms shipment
JERUSALEM — Open crates from a cargo ship seized Wednesday by Israel revealed dark green missiles inside. Containers from the vessel bore writing in English that said “I.R. Iranian Shipping
Investment scandal rocks Israeli basketball
JERUSALEM — When the popular former manager of Israel’s most famous basketball team killed himself last week, it seemed like a sad tale of a heartbroken man who couldn’t adjust
Peres poems turned to song on his 86th birthday
TEL AVIV, Israel — Shimon Peres has been a prime minister and a peacemaker. Now he’s a poet.
To mark the 86th birthday of Israel’s elder statesman and ceremonial president,
Holocaust memorial honors Rabbi Lau’s savior
JERUSALEM (AP) – After surviving the Holocaust as a child, Israel Meir Lau — a former Israeli chief rabbi — spent decades searching for the man who saved his life.
Rocket-battered Israeli border town enjoying calm
SDEROT, Israel — Six months after Israel ended its bruising offensive against Gaza Strip militants, the people of this rocket-scarred border town are enjoying their calmest stretch in recent memory.
Bruno has a gay ole time in the Holy Land
JERUSALEM — Bruno’s flamboyant sashay across the Middle East has succeeded in one thing – uniting Sacha Baron Cohen’s unwitting Israeli and Palestinian victims in their joint disdain for his
Jews’ jewelry from Holocaust donated to memorial
JERUSALEM — As a slave laborer in Auschwitz, Meyer Hack was forced to sort through the tattered clothing stripped off inmates before they were sent to the gas chambers. He