This is the Forward’s coverage of Israel, the Jewish state in the Middle East founded in 1948.
Israel
The Latest
-
Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Orders Nuclear Scientists To End Their Strike
The Israeli Cabinet passed a measure on Sunday to force scientists at the top-secret nuclear facility in Dimona to end their strike. During the labor action, which began in February, scientists have operated slowly, refused to grant safety licenses and even stopped operating necessary machinery, The Times of Israel reported. The slowdown had been a…
-
Fast Forward Arab Woman Stabs Israeli Man Near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab woman from eastern Jerusalem stabbed an Israeli man near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The victim was lightly injured in the Saturday afternoon stabbing attack, according to reports. He was taken to the Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus. The woman, 29 and a mother of…
-
Fast Forward Israeli Supermodel Seriously Injured On Electric Scooter
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A leading Israeli fashion model was seriously injured while riding an electric scooter in Tel Aviv. After the accident on busy Rothschild Boulevard Sunday, paramedics treated Shlomit Malka and took her to Ichilov Hospital with a head wound. She was sedated and put on a respirator in the intensive care unit….
-
Fast Forward World’s Oldest Man – And Holocaust Survivor – Dies At 114
Yisrael Kristal, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust to immigrate to Israel and become the world’s oldest man, died on Friday at the ripe age of 114. Kristal’s more-than-a-century of life were marked by tragedy. Born in Poland, he lost his first wife and their two children to the Holocaust – after the children…
-
Food Israel’s First Single Malt Whisky Is Finally Coming To Market
When I wrote about Milk and Honey almost four years ago, the dream of a quality whisky coming from the Holy Land was little more than a structured fantasy. Now that the first of their matured spirits are three years old — the youngest that a spirit can be and still be named a single…
-
Fast Forward Bibi Releases His Inner Trump, Ripping Into Media ‘Witch Hunt’
As a financial scandal threatens the continued reign of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister, is he going full Trump? As the premier attacks the media and rallies his base, some say the answer is yes. Bibi released his inner Trump at a rally last night to shore up his support as possible indictments await…
-
Fast Forward Israelis Visited Temple Mount In Record Numbers Amid Tensions
(JTA) — July saw the largest number of Israelis visiting the Temple Mount in any single month since it came under Israeli control in 1967. Some 3,200 people visited the site, which is holy to Jews and to Muslims, who refer to the compound as Haram al Sharif, Army Radio reported Friday. In previous years,…
-
Fast Forward Iran Bans Soccer Players For Competing Against Israelis
(JTA) — Two players on Iran’s national soccer team were banned for life from playing for their country for participating in a match against Israelis. The players, Masoud Shojaei, 33, the captain of the national team, and Ehsan Haji Safi, 27, one of Iran’s most promising players, were banned Thursday for playing for their Greek…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Expelled Oberlin Chabad rabbi says he ‘made a mistake’ with explicit social media chats
- 2
Culture Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary on the manosphere takes a detour into antisemitism
- 3
Fast Forward Illinois primary pits Jewish candidate with deep Israel ties against AIPAC spending
- 4
News Joe Kent, Trump official with white supremacist ties, resigns over Iran war and blames Israel
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward CA Gov. Newsom says he regrets apartheid comment, ‘reveres’ Israel in new interview
-
Yiddish װער מעג שפּילן אַ ייִד? אַ סיכסוך אין דײַטשלאַנדWho can play a Jew — A debate in Germany
אין בערלין דעבאַטירט מען פּאָליטישע ענינים דװקא אין טעאַטער — און דאָס הײַפֿל ייִדן אין לאַנד געפֿינט זיך אין צענטער
-
Books In three centuries of Southern Jewish life in the Big Easy, no easy way to be Jewish
-
Yiddish „קיין שוועדיש רעדט מען נישט!“ — אַ ייִדיש־טאָג בײַם לונדער אוניװערסיטעט ‘No speaking Swedish here!’ — Yiddish Day in Lund University
די 30 אָנטייל־נעמערס זענען געקומען פֿון גאַנץ שװעדן, נאָרװעגיע, פֿינלאַנד און אַנדערע אייראָפּעיִשע לענדער.
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
