Middle East

A Jewish feminist group has raised the stakes in the battle over non-traditional prayer at the Western Wall Plaza, petitioning the Jerusalem Magistrates Court to strip Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Chief Rabbi of the Western Wall, of his immunity in order to permit legal action against him. According to the Behadrei Haredim news site, the Center

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–One of the many things that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu seem to have in common is their disdain for, nay hatred of, Barack Obama. The president’s obsession with Obama Care is an apt example as is the prime minister’s fixation on the Iran nuclear deal. Both may have objective

A founder of an Israel volunteer program for Diaspora Jews has vowed the group would keep going after its benefactor, Masa Israel, cut funding over revelations that some of its participants had taken part in a pro-Palestinian protest in the West Bank. Speaking with The Times of Israel on Tuesday, Achvat Amim program director Daniel

Disabled protesters on Sunday continued their lightning strikes on major highways to campaign for higher disability stipends by blocking an intersection of the Ayalon freeway, the main artery running through Tel Aviv. Traffic came to a standstill as Israelis, returning to work after a long weekend for the Jewish new year, were blocked by a

MK Oren Hazan (Likud), a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, has demanded that the chairman of the committee convene an urgent discussion on the Iranian threat. “The world”s silence vis-a-vis the Iranians is reminiscent of the world”s silence in the face of North Korea’s nuclear bullying, which led to a situation in

Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Saturday denounced Iran’s testing of a medium-range missile as a “provocation” and said it was proof of Tehran’s ambition to become a world power. Iran on Saturday said it had successfully tested a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) and that can carry multiple warheads, in