Middle East

If Tel Aviv has one truly religious holiday, it’s Yom HaZikaron, Israeli’s Memorial Day. On Tuesday night, 20,000 people packed Rabin Square (the place where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated after participating in a peace rally 20 years ago) for the yearly memorial to those who died in Israel’s war and militant attacks. The

Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog has finally responded directly to recent reports of an impending deal to bring his left-wing Zionist Union party into a “unity government” – and issued his list of terms for joining the Likud-led coalition. “Over the past few days I have heard a lot of cynical and sardonic insights from commentators

The Zionist Union has demanded Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog stop negotiations with the ruling Likud party Friday, despite Herzog stating that rumors of a breakthrough in talks for a unity government were premature. MK Stav Shaffir called the talks a “betrayal” to Zionist Union voters. “For an entire year, we promised it would be ‘us

Israeli Mossad ad blends clear and cryptic techniques to recruit cyber workers (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Mossad wants you—if you can figure out what this says. That is the message of the Israeli spy agency’s latest campaign to recruit cyber workers, launched on the eve of the country’s Independence Day. The ad, which includes

By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — I was born in a still-young Israel just a few years after its inception in 1948. My father and mother were there, however, as the British withdrew on May 14 of that year, lowering the Union Jack over the port of Haifa, and raising the stakes considerably for the