Israelis feel empowered by attacks against Hamas
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Israel’s crushing aerial assault on Gaza has caused a significant shift in the country’s mood, replacing lingering helplessness and frustration over Hamas rocket attacks with a
Rockets make Israel rethink West Bank pullback
ASHDOD, Israel (AP) – As rockets from Gaza reach deeper into Israel than ever before, they may be weakening what has long been a cornerstone of Middle East peace efforts
Israelis feel anxiety, satisfaction over Gaza assault
SDEROT, Israel (AP) — This working-class border town has been pounded with several thousand missiles fired out of Gaza since 2001. Now anxiety is mixed with satisfaction that Israel’s military
Fear of rockets sends Israeli hospital underground
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — The largest hospital on Israel’s southern coast has gone underground.
Wary of a missile strike against it from the nearby Gaza Strip, Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital has
Israel warns Hamas will pay ‘heavy price’
JERUSALEM (AP) –Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip will pay a “heavy price” if they continue to target Israel, Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned today, as the Israeli military wrapped
Israeli election hopefuls seek the Obama touch
JERUSALEM — The star of Israel’s election campaign seems to be Barack Obama.
A religious party has translated “yes we can” into Hebrew. Front-runner Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s Web page looks
Israelis can’t escape troubles in world travels
TEL AVIV, Israel — After three grueling years of compulsory service in the Israeli military, 21-year-old Arbel Altschuler is heading for some peace and quiet in what has become the
Israeli mob boss killed in brazen car bombing
TEL AVIV, Israel — A bomb exploded in a car carrying one of Israel’s top mafia kingpins on Monday, killing him and threatening to unleash an all-out war in Israel’s
Olmert’s change from hawk to dove seems complete
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, once one of Israel’s leading hawks, is leaving office an outspoken dove.
Forced out by corruption charges, Olmert is saying something that used to
Never too late: Israeli cops finally name ‘time bandit’ who stole clocks
JERUSALEM (AP) — It took time, but Israeli police detectives have finally cracked one of the country’s greatest crimes — the legendary heist of a priceless clock collection from a
Nazi leader’s grandniece, Jewish woman find peace
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Bettina Goering ran away from home at 13, lived on a promiscuous commune in India and later fled to the U.S. and had herself sterilized. It
In Israel, era of mass immigration ends
TEL AVIV, Israel — Melissa Schwab is no Zionist zealot. She’s not an Orthodox Jew seeking to be nearer to God. She didn’t flee anti-Semitism.
So why move nearly 9,000
Israel’s welcome for Ethiopian Jews wears thin
GONDAR, Ethiopia — Sitting in a leaky, flyblown hut, a few dozen Ethiopian villagers are anxiously waiting to be transported to another world.
They have just been given word that
Israel worries about dangerous brain drain
Published in the Jerusalem Post.
When it comes to hi-tech startups, Nobel laureates and computer innovation, Israel has few equals.
It attracts more venture capital that any country outside the
For Israel, prisoner swap evokes raw memories
NAHARIYA, Israel — Moshe Sasson felt the gun pressed against his head, a Lebanese assailant poised to shoot, when the lights in the hall of his apartment building suddenly went