SDEROT, Israel — Brightly painted walls surround a mini-soccer field, video games, a climbing wall and play areas. The converted warehouse also has a new thick concrete roof, a half
Tattoos from Auschwitz horror reunite lost inmates
JERUSALEM—As terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood in line together in Auschwitz, having serial numbers tattooed on their arms. Sholowicz was B-14594; Sieradzki was B-14595.
Jewish city turns 100 and parties through crisis
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ Well past the Sabbath midnight, hours before the Mideast erupted once again into war, Tel Aviv was doing
Idan Raichel’s Multiethnic Band Goes International
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s hottest musical export these days is a dreadlocked composer who pioneered a unique blend of Israeli, Ethiopian, Yemenite and Latin music from a makeshift recording studio
Arab child’s sickbed is part of the battleground
WADI FUQEEN, West Bank (AP) — Asil Manasra, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl, was in her eighth month of intensive treatment at an Israeli hospital for complications arising from a long
Paintings of “Polish Kafka” revealed in Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Gestapo officer forced Jewish author and artist Bruno Schulz to paint fairy tale characters on the walls of a nursery in an occupied Polish village in
Israeli ultranationalist poised for election gains
JERUSALEM—The hottest slogan in the Israeli election campaign is a not-so-veiled attack on the country’s Arab minority: “Without loyalty, there is no citizenship.”
The motto is plastered nationwide across buses
Israel rules out Hamas contacts, threatens force
HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) _ Israel’s foreign minister threatened Monday to keep hitting Hamas as long as it attacks Israel, ruling out negotiations with the Islamic rulers of Gaza just eight
Holocaust survivors join pro-marijuana activists in unlikely Israeli parliament bid
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ Even in the world of politics and its strange bedfellows, this coalition is odder than most.
On Tuesday, a party representing Israeli Holocaust survivors joined
Jewish leaders object to Nazi imagery at anti-war rallies
JERUSALEM (AP) — The use of Nazi imagery at recent anti-Israel demonstrations across Europe has fanned the flames of anti-Semitism and incited violence against Jews, the head of Israel’s Holocaust
Israeli Cabinet prepares for cease-fire vote
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli aircraft pounded 50 Hamas positions early Saturday, keeping pressure on the Islamic militant group as the country’s top leaders prepared for a crucial vote on whether
Fighter pilot sorry about dead civilians in Gaza
RAMON AIRFORCE BASE, Israel (AP) – Apache helicopter pilot Capt. Orr, who has flown dozens of combat missions over Gaza the past few weeks, on Tuesday said he felt sorry
Fighting continues as Israel considers peace plan
JERUSALEM _ Plumes of smoke engulfed a neighborhood east of Gaza City on Wednesday as Israel’s leaders considered a peace plan put forth by France and Egypt on the 12th
Israel lets Palestinians flee; UN warns of crisis
EREZ CROSSING, Israel (AP) —Israel allowed several hundred Palestinians with foreign passports to flee Gaza on Friday, even as its warplanes bombed a mosque it said was used to store