JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of Israel’s Mossad national intelligence agency made a secret visit to the United States to meet with members of President-elect Donald Trump staff and give a security briefing. Mossad Director Yossi Cohen briefed the Trump staff members on the Iranian nuclear deal, the Syrian civil war, terror threats and the…
JERUSALEM — An Israeli grassroots initiative is raising money to purchase emergency supplies to help purchase and distribute supplies for Syrian children affected by the civil war in that country. The “Just Beyond the Border” campaign was launched by Israeli civilians on Thursday evening on a fundraising page on the Mimoona crowd funding website with…
JERUSALEM — An Israeli general was convicted of prohibited sexual relations and sexual offenses as part of a plea bargain. Brig.-Gen. Ofek Buchris, 47, was convicted on Sunday in military court in Tel Aviv. Under the deal, Buchris was convicted of prohibited sexual relations by consent instead of three counts of rape. He will be demoted…
Disgraced former Israeli president Moshe Katsav, who has been serving a seven-year prison sentence for rape, was on Sunday set for early release after five years behind bars, a parole board order said. But the release of Katsav has been delayed by at least a week while state prosecutors consider whether to appeal against the…
President-elect Donald Trump once donated $10,000 to institutions located in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, one of its founders revealed on Sunday. Yaakov (“Ketsale”) Katz said in an interview with the settler radio station Galey Israel that the donation was made in honor of Trump’s lawyer and friend David Friedman, whom he has…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Twenty rectors from leading universities across Latin America signed agreements with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during a first-of-its-kind conference signaling growing academic cooperation. The university’s president, Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, welcomed the representatives from institutions in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay,…
Henry Heimlich, the medical maverick who came up with a maneuver credited with saving thousands of choking victims but who damaged his standing as a proponent of the curative powers of malaria, died on Saturday at the age of 96. Heimlich, a doctor who developed a life-saving technique to dislodge airway blockages, died at Christ…
France has postponed a proposed Middle East peace conference in Paris to January next year, its ambassador to the United Nations said, acknowledging that the conditions to bring Israelis and Palestinians face-to-face were currently not there. France has repeatedly tried to breathe new life into the peace process this year, holding a preliminary conference in…
AMSTERDAM — The raid on Anne Frank’s hiding place in Amsterdam may have been over illegal trade in food rations and other issues and not the result of betrayal, new research suggests. On Friday, the Anne Frank House in the Dutch capital published the results of its research into what led policemen working for the Nazi occupation…
Donald Trump announced the appointment Thursday of David Friedman as America’s next ambassador to Israel. But which David Friedman? Our probable new envoy does have some of the most common first and last names for Jews. We fired up the search engine, and we found a dizzying array of them, thanks mainly to the website…
— A French arts museum defined the death camp Auschwitz as “an architectural achievement of the Bauhaus movement.” The “Spirit of the Bauhaus,” which opened in October at the Museum of Decorative Arts, includes SS officer Fritz Ertl’s designs for the extermination camp among the major achievements of the modernist art movement and school active…
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