Ateret Cohanim, which buys property for settlement, completes work on yeshiva in heart of potential future capital of Palestine A Jewish religious organisation that buys properties for settlement has completed renovation work on its most significant and provocative purchase a large religious school in the Palestinian commercial hub of occupied East Jerusalem. Ateret Cohanim had secretly purchased more...
No one should have to fear that the price of intimacy will be a ruined life. And the law can help Parting from someone you love is never easy. It often means watching the affection and intimacy you once shared turn into bitterness and resentment. It often means sorting out who sees the children when, who lives where, and who gets what. Now imagine that in addition to all that sorrow and chaos, you...
Dozens injured by rubber bullets after Jewish visitors allowed into Jerusalem site, revered in Judaism as Temple Mount Dozens of Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli police that erupted when the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem was opened to Jewish visitors. A police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, told AFP that Palestinians threw stones and firecrackers at police when they opened the...
The demolition of three humanitarian aid shelters near a settlement zone could lead to demands for reimbursement Israel has seized three EU-funded humanitarian aid projects on the edge of a settlement construction zone that Europe views as a "red line", spurring demands for compensation payments to Brussels at a crisis moment for John Kerry's attempts to broker a Middle East peace deal. Continue...
John Kerry's determined concentration on peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians has ended not in a bang but a whimper John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has cause this week to reflect on the old adage that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. His determined concentration on peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, his repeated trips to the Middle...
24 Hours Berlin director Volker Heise explains why he chose to shoot his latest documentary in Jerusalem, and explains why the city is like a puzzle with pieces that don't fit. 24 Hours in Jerusalem will be streaming in the player below from 05:00 tomorrow UK time In the era of the modern documentary, rare is the film-maker who prays that nothing out of the ordinary happens on the day of shooting....
Israeli prototype can fully charge a Samsung Galaxy smartphone in about 30 seconds using new organic batteries A new charger that can fully charge a smartphone in 30 seconds will be available in under three years costing $30, according to StoreDot an Israeli university spin off. A prototype of the charger was shown off at Microsofts Think Next conference in Tel Aviv, where it completely recharged...
Labour leader speaks of gratitude to 'Jewish homeland', but is questioned in Jerusalem over party's perceived hostility to Israel The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has recalled his first visit to Israel at the age of seven and spoken of his gratitude to the country for providing a sanctuary for his grandmother after her husband died in the camps. Miliband made the comments to students at the Hebrew University...
Sticking to an outdated plan which fails to reflect reality results in a deadlock each time, yet practical progress is still possible I'll start with the bottom line: despite the goodwill and idealism, a final status agreement to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be signed in the current context. The peace process as we know it is dead , and the international community is divided...
Former household assistant threatens to sue Netanyahus, claiming he was treated with humiliating disdain The wife of the Israeli prime minister has been accused of bullying by a second former household employee. Gil Eliyahu, who stopped working for Binyamin and Sara Netanyahu two and a half years ago, is threatening to sue the couple, claiming he was treated with "humiliating" disdain. Continue...
US secretary of state is facing demands in Washington to get tougher with Israel over key issue of settlements Israeli officials were reportedly astounded to hear John Kerry pin the blame on Binyamin Netanyahu for the impasse in the latest round of peace talks with the Palestinians. Maybe they were being a tad naive? Or perhaps Kerry didn't intend to be that blunt? But there's little doubt it was bad...
Archaeologists unearth 3,300-year-old coffin at Tel Shadud thought to hold Canaanite official in service of Egyptian pharaoh Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a rare sarcophagus featuring a slender face and a scarab ring inscribed with the name of an Egyptian pharaoh, Israel's antiquities authority said on Wednesday. The mystery man whose skeleton was found inside the sarcophagus was most likely...
Israeli PM orders ministers to stop meeting Palestinian counterparts in response to 'provocative' UN move An Israeli government official says the prime minister, Binjamin Netanyahu, has told his ministers to stop holding meetings with their Palestinian counterparts. The official said the move was in response to what Israel has called a "provocative" Palestinian bid to join United Nations...
Netanyahu blames Palestinians for talks impasse after president signs conventions paving way for attempt to gain UN statehood The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has said Israel may take "unilateral action" against the Palestinians after the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, signed 15 international conventions that could pave the way for a renewed attempt to gain United Nations...
Tzipi Livni called on US to allow for more direct talks between Israel and Palestine as current talks veered towards collapse The US should change its role in the Middle East peace process, allowing for more direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel's chief negotiator said on Saturday. The US-brokered peace talks veered toward collapse this week, prompting a warning from secretary of...
The US diplomatic push has turned into mission impossible as Netanyahu's determination to hang on to power at all cost, combined with serious splits in the Palestinian camp, threaten to wreck the peace process by the end of the month A year before his appointment by President Barack Obama as special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Martin Indyk gave an interview, on a balcony at the historic...
The biblical commandment of Shmita goes right to the heart of what sort of country Israel is: religious or secular The Bible is pretty clear. God told Moses on Mount Sinai that every seven years the land of Israel must lay fallow and Jews are forbidden to work it. "For six years you are to sow your field but on the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the Lord." It's called...
US secretary of state issues pessimistic remarks in Morocco Obama administration will reconsider participation in process US secretary of state John Kerry, who has made it a personal mission to breathe life into the long-stalled peace talks between Palestine and Israel, hinted on Friday that the negotiations are on the brink of collapse and said the Obama administration would reasses its participation...
In Tel Aviv or Haifa, the occupied territories are another planet. But if Israelis feel economic pain, they will demand change from within The Rolling Stones have confirmed they will play a gig in Tel Aviv in June as part of their 14 On Fire tour . Inevitably, they are already under pressure to cancel their appearance in "apartheid Israel" by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement...
Officials blame Mahmoud Abbas's decision to restart his country's push for membership of 15 international bodies Israel scrapped the scheduled release of a group of Palestinian prisoners and called for the entire US-sponsored negotiations to be "reviewed", in what could be a fatal blow to the current round of Middle East peace talks, Officials blamed the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas,...