Middle East

A Holocaust survivor himself, Yisrael Meir Lau calls for emergency Knesset session; Yad Vashem expresses ‘deep concern’ over ‘carnage’ By Jacob Magid Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv attends a ceremony for a new Torah scroll brought to the synagogue of the Knesset, Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 9, 2015.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) […]

Tel Aviv- Several Israeli officials have considered the chemical attack in northwestern Syria’s Idlib province a direct security threat to Israel and not just the Syrian people. The officials urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to take action to deter such a threat. Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, head of the Institute for National

Global powers debate, argue and look to ways to exploit the chemical attack on Khan Sheikhun in Idlib province, northwest Syria. But the reality for those targeted is a bundle of grief, fear and fury. Here are two eyewitness accounts from those bereaved by this callous disregard for international law. Syrian father cradles gas attack

Tel Aviv (dpa) – A 20-year-old Israeli soldier was killed in a car- ramming attack near the northern West Bank settlement of Ofra on Thursday morning, according to an Israeli military spokeswoman. Elchai Taharlev, from Talmon, a West Bank settlement about 12 kilometres west of Ofra, was a combat soldier with the Golani Brigade, one

The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) executed 33 people in eastern Syria on Wednesday, according to a monitoring group, in its biggest mass killing in 2017. In a morning execution in the eastern Syrian countryside, the group killed dozens between the ages of 18 and 25 years old, reported the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human