A week after the Al-Jazeera’s sensational scoop on Yasser Arafat’s death, it seems as if the network’s investigation leaves more questions than answers. While Al-Jazeera succeeded in returning the late terrorist to the headlines, and with it, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, its new conspiracy theory – that Arafat was poisoned in 2004 with radioactive polonium (with…
A report by a committee formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to examine the legal aspects of West Bank land ownership recommended to sanction all Israeli outposts, rejecting the claim that Israel’s presence in the territory is that of an occupying force. The Levy Committee, headed by former court vice president Edmond Levy, recommends a…
Google signed an agreement with the Italian government under which it will post 30,000 videos of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, the Guardian reported. The search engine giant is dedicating a YouTube to Italian history, featuring about a third of the video collection of Italy’s Istituto Luce-Cinecittà as a part of its effort to digitalize…
Israel’s Justice Ministry on Sunday proposed an amendment to a bill that would prohibit African migrants from transferring money abroad to their families. If the bill is passed, African migrants could face six months in jail, or a NIS 29,200 fine for transferring funds abroad. The sentence is even harsher for anyone who aids African…
Israel and the Palestinian Authority are negotiating over Israeli moves that would pave the way for a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas. According to two Israeli sources and two Western diplomats, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, Netanyahu has expressed willingness to…
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is due to announce a decision soon to close a case involving accusations by an ex-Mossad chief that a former head of Military Intelligence leaked the true identity of an alleged Egyptian double-agent. The agent’s warnings in 1973 of the impending Yom Kippur War spurred Israel’s government to take defensive action….
The growing mass of research pointing at the decline in the quality of Israeli male semen is joined recently by a study conducted at the Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, which found a 15-year decline in the quality of semen donated by Israeli sperm donors. The study looked at several factors of 2,182 sperm samples gathered…
Adolf Hitler ordered that the Jewish commander of his army unit during World War I not be persecuted or deported, a German-Jewish publication reported. Susanne Mauss, editor of the Jewish Voice from Germany, found an August 1940 note of the Gestapo ordering that Ernst Hess, a former judge, not be persecuted or deported following an…
Five California teenagers won Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards for their innovative social action projects. Each will receive an honorarium of $36,000 toward the project or the recipient’s future education. The winners are Zak Kukoff , 17, for his Autism Ambassadors, a national non-profit that empowers teens to teach and better understand their special-needs classmates;…
Israel’s government agreed to expedite the arrival of the final Ethiopian immigrants waiting to come to Israel. Under the plan approved Sunday by the Cabinet, some 2,200 Falash Mura – Ethiopians whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity – will be brought to Israel by March 2014. The Ethiopians are waiting in a refugee camp…
A gold cache, one of the largest ever found in Israel, was discovered last week in a dig in Israel’s Apollonia National Park, near Herzliya, heads of the archaeological project said. The 400-gram gold stash, unearthed by a joint Tel Aviv University and Nature and Parks Authority team, is currently valued at over $100,000. The…
