s NFL Super Bowl, the advertising slot with the largest audience on US television. Johansson has been quick to defend her association with the company, and said last week she was a "supporter of economic cooperation and social interaction between a democratic Israel and Palestine". But Oxfam had come under increasing pressure to dismiss her from the ambassadorial role, with campaigners claiming the...
s syndrome, died suddenly in front of him. The novel went through many drafts, says Filer, being picked up and put away for months, even years. "Basically, nothing from that first draft survived. But I consider it to be the same project because of that central character." Matthew is diagnosed with schizophrenia, but that's not all he has to deal with: the novel charts his mother falling apart after...
s appearance in an advert for SodaStream scheduled to air during half-time at this Sunday's US Super Bowl, the advertising slot with the largest audience on American television. Johansson has been an Oxfam goodwill ambassador since 2005. The campaigners say her position is untenable. "Oxfam is a human rights organisation. They cannot maintain an ambassador if they are involved in a complicit Israeli...
m not thinking about it." Clinton is widely considered the presumptive Democratic nominee for president in 2016. Given the atavistic chaos that afflicts the Republicans, many view her as the virtual president-elect. Time magazine ran a cover story this month headlined " Can Anyone Stop Hillary ?" The New York Times Magazine followed with a cover story of its own, the latest in a stream of media coverage...
The ultra-orthodox Hayat brothers perform capoeira in Jerusalem – a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music. The brothers work to promote the martial art in the ultra-orthodox community in Israel ...
s civil administration, which monitors Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territory. The email attachment looked as if it had been sent by the country's Shin Bet secret security service. Raff said Palestinians were suspected of being behind the cyber-attack, citing similarities to an attack on Israeli computers more than a year ago from a server in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. While the latest attack...
s first term as prime minister in 1999, while a Palestinian negotiator also expressed disapproval. "The idea that Jewish communities will live under Palestinian sovereignty, as expressed by the prime minister's office, is a very grave matter, and it reflects a panicked loss of values," said the economy minister, Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, which broadly represents the 350,000 Israeli...
Archivists from Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial search for the names of victims on the graves of family members as they attempt to gather a complete record of all those who died ...
s documents, authenticated by German federal archive, to be published over eight days in Welt am Sonntag Lost letters, photographs and diaries by Heinrich Himmler have been discovered in Israel, shedding new light on one of the men most directly responsible for the Holocaust. The stash of documents from the Nazi era is currently held in a bank vault in Tel Aviv, but has been authenticated by the German...
ve made to Gaza. He arranges interviews and provides translation; but most importantly he helps me understand the people, the politics and the daily struggle of life in Gaza. We have talked for hours in his car, over coffee, at his home. He has accompanied me to grim refugee camps and upmarket restaurants; to the tunnels in the south and farms in the north; to schools and hospitals; to bomb sites and...
In the battle to win public opinion, the Israeli army has created a special combat camera unit. We hear from combat soldiers who have completed the training programme Matthew Kalman Mustafa Khalili ...
s president Hassan Rouhani takes centre stage at the Davos World Economic Forum on Thursday, as he seeks to drum up investment for his sanctions-hit economy amid thawing relations with the west. Rouhani leads a delegation that includes foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and oil minister Bijan Zanganeh to the Swiss ski resort as Iran attempts to come out of the diplomatic cold. The Davos meeting,...
s Sinai peninsula, as well as shootings in the West Bank. Israeli intelligence calls these groups part of a "global jihad" movement. Aviv Oreg, a former head of the Israeli military intelligence unit that tracks al-Qaida, said the plot marked the first time it has been directly linked to an attempted attack in Israel. "This is the first time that Ayman al-Zawahiri was directly involved," he said. "For...
s funeral last week Israel killed two Palestinian militants in an air strike on Gaza on Wednesday, blaming one of them for firing rockets across the border during former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's funeral last week. Palestinian residents initially identified the men as members of Islamic Jihad, an armed faction that has sometimes chafed at efforts by the Gaza Strip's Hamas government to...
economic migrants' – they won't be deported, but may be sent to a desert detention centre Thousands of asylum-seekers who entered Israel illegally from Sudan and Eritrea have staged protests outside UN offices and foreign embassies in Tel Aviv, accusing Israel of neglecting its responsibilities under the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees. At the same time, supporters held parallel protests at Israeli...
s church over the 12 days of Christmas. It devalues the real antisemitism which is still a phenomenon in post-Holocaust Europe. St James's has a long-standing and honourable public record of opposition to racism, religious intolerance and injustice in any form, and staunchly defends the right of the state of Israel to exist with secure borders. Tom Cook Deputy church warden, St James's church, Piccadilly...
re not there yet It's quite possible that of all the people writing about the Arab-Israeli conflict these days, I'm the only one with any confidence that the current peace talks will lead to a positive outcome . Generally, betting on a Middle East peace deal is the political equivalent of playing Three Card Monte. It's impossible to win. But, at the same time, there are real reasons for optimism about...
s latest announcement of settlement-building on land the Palestinians want for a future state. The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, called the European criticism hypocritical, and in a tit-for-tat move, Lieberman said envoys from the four EU countries had been summoned to a meeting in the foreign ministry in Jerusalem. In a statement, he said Israel would make clear "that the one-sided position...
s Third Reich in a "wrong or inappropriate way". Educational settings would be exempt, as would certain artistic performances, said Shimon Ohayon, the bill...
s one-dimensional piece on former PM Ariel Sharon ( Comment . 13 January) is his claim that the goal of the Gaza disengagement was "preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state". In an Orwellian turn of events, we are expected to believe that the relinquishing of Israel...