Gad Beck, the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died in Berlin. Beck, 88, who was a resistance fighter during World War II for Chug Chaluzi, an underground Zionist resistance youth group, died on June 24, just six days before his 89th birthday. Chug Chaluzi played a major role in saving German Jews…
Israel deported 150 more migrants from South Sudan. A planeload with 150 of the African migrants, which Israel calls illegal infiltrators, left Israel for South Sudan on Monday evening. Some 120 other South Sudanese migrants left Israel last w eek. The migrants reportedly are leaving voluntarily in exchange for a cash grant and a fight…
Iraq is cutting archaeological cooperation with the United States because the U.S. has not returned Iraq’s Jewish archives. Iraqi Tourism and Archaeology Minister Liwaa Smaisim is pushing for the return of the archives that were removed from Iraq following the 2003 U.S. Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to the French news agency AFP. Iraq was home…
Russian President Vladimir Putin told senior Israeli officials on Monday that while he was not obligated to Syrian President Bashar Assad, he urged the West to think carefully before trying to remove him, a senior Israeli diplomatic sources said on Monday. “We asked Putin for Russia to work more actively to preserve stability in Syria,…
An Israeli Border Police officer charged with causing the death of a 10-year-old Palestinian boy in the West Bank four years ago claims that although he was in a bullet-proof vehicle, he felt he had to respond after stones were thrown at the car. “If they see you don’t respond, it will be seen as…
Residents and supporters of the West Bank Ulpana neighborhood held a morning prayer service as moving vans arrived to evacuate them from the disputed properties. The first 15 families living in the outlying neighborhood of the Beit El settlement were scheduled to move to trailer homes set up at a nearby army base on Tuesday….
Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino on Tuesday accused activists that participated in Saturday’s social protest that the violence and law infractions that occurred were premeditated. On Saturday, Israel’s social protest turned violent as thousands of Israelis clashed with police, blocked roads, and smashed bank windows. “What we saw was not a popular protest but a planned…
Three haredi Orthodox men were arrested for spray painting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti on the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. The men, ages 18, 26 and 27, of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak and reportedly of the Neturei Karta sect, were arrested Tuesday, and reportedly admitted to the crime, which occurred earlier this month. They…
A large majority of Israelis – 69 percent – supports the renewed social-justice protests, but Israelis are about evenly split over who was responsible for the violence that characterized Saturday night’s rally in Tel Aviv, according to a Haaretz-Dialog poll conducted on Monday. The proportion of respondents who said there has been no improvement in…
Most Jewish groups who have weighed in on Arizona’s controversial immigration law saw progress in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to repeal three of the law’s four parts, but had concerns that law enforcement officials would still be allowed to check the legal immigration status of people they detain. The high court on Monday invalidated…
Police officers violated protocol during the arrest of social protest activists in Tel Aviv rally on Saturday night, the suspects’ legal representatives and police officials told Haaretz on Monday. On Sunday, Tel Aviv Magistrate’s court ordered the release of demonstrators who were arrested during a protest Saturday night, with Judge Tzachi Uziel rejecting and criticizing…
