Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Israel, the Jewish state in the Middle East founded in 1948.
Israel
The Latest
-
Fast Forward White House Middle East Team Pivots To Gaza As Kushner’s Peace Plan Stalls
The White House’s Middle East peace negotiating team is refocusing its efforts on improving conditions in the Gaza Strip after its proposals were met with a cool reception by the Palestinian Authority, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The team of officials, led by presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner, travelled to the region last month but found…
-
Fast Forward Women Tourists Barred From Israeli Cable Car After Haredis Refuse To Share Ride
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three female tourists were barred from riding a cable car down the Manara Cliff in northern Israel because a group of haredi Orthodox men would not ride with them. The three women and their male tour guide waited a short time for the next car, Israel’s Channel 10 news reported. “There was…
-
Fast Forward Filipino Workers Migrate To Israel — And Decide To Convert To Judaism
TEL AVIV (JTA) — One of the biggest days of the year for Ronaldo and Bernadette Lopez is Christmas. They open up their Filipino restaurant in South Tel Aviv, and their friends bring their families, crowd the place and eat embutido, a rolled pork dish from their shared home country. But this year may be…
-
Fast Forward Israeli Lawmaker Ends 25-Day Hunger Strike To Raise Tobacco Tax
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli lawmaker ended a 25-day hunger strike staged to convince the Knesset to pass a tax on loose tobacco equal to the tax on cigarettes. Yehudah Glick announced on Saturday night on Twitter and Facebook that he would end the hunger strike “in order to avoid harming my health and following…
-
Fast Forward IDF Launches Campaign Against Hamas Catfishing Apps
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces has launched a campaign to prevent its soldiers from being tricked by hackers from terrorist groups attempting to install spyware on their cell phones. The IDF announced on Tuesday that it had launched Operation Broken Heart, so named because operatives pose on social media as attractive females to…
-
Opinion The Real Reason Netanyahu Gave Cover To Holocaust Deniers
Six months ago Poland passed a controversial law intended to criminalize and silence discussions of Poland’s role in the Holocaust. Anyone who suggested that Poland as a nation had blood on its hands for the genocide of the Jews could be charged, arrested, and imprisoned for libel. Outraged, Holocaust survivors, scholars, public intellectuals, and governments…
-
News American Activist Considers Making Aliyah To Skirt Israel Travel Ban
Jewish activist Ariel Gold, who was refused entry to Israel this week because of her support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, says she has not ruled out the possibility of immigrating to the country. Speaking from her home in Ithaca, New York, Gold told Haaretz that making aliyah “is something I am looking…
-
Opinion Furious About Family Separation? You Should Also Care That Israel Is Razing Bedouin Villages
American Jewish groups have, for the most part, condemned the Trump administration’s policy of separating parents from their children at the border. Good. So why can’t they condemn the Netanyahu administration’s policy of destroying villages like Khan al-Ahmar? The residents of Khan al-Ahmar, who are Bedouin Palestinians, hail originally from the Negev, inside Israel proper….
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla was never going to help Palestinians
- 2
Culture I ranked the NYC mayoral candidates exclusively based on their bagel orders
- 3
News How Jewish can you be in a Boca country club? Wrapping tefillin got a family suspended, lawsuit says
- 4
Opinion Mike Huckabee’s stunning, terrifying new gift to the Israeli right
In Case You Missed It
-
News The 3 ways American Jews are responding to Israel’s attacks on Iran
-
Culture What was Albert Einstein thinking as he gazed down on Trump’s military parade?
-
Culture Fifth graders write — Why is Abraham Cahan, founder of the Forward, worth celebrating?
-
News This Alabama millionaire offered Jews $50,000 to move to his town. 16 years later, what’s left?
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
