This is the Forward’s coverage of Israel, the Jewish state in the Middle East founded in 1948.
Israel
The Latest
-
Fast Forward Donald Trump Calls President Obama a ‘Disaster’ for Israel at Final Florida Rally
— Making his final campaign stop in the swing state of Florida before Tuesday’s election, Donald Trump said President Barack Obama was a “disaster” for Israel. “We will stand strong, we have to stand strong with the State of Israel in their fight against Islamic terrorists,” Trump told a rally Monday morning in Sarasota. “Barack Obama was…
-
Fast Forward 14-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Gets 12 Years for Terror Stabbing
An Israeli court sentenced a 14-year-old Palestinian boy to 12 years in prison on Monday for his part in a stabbing attack that wounded two Israelis in October last year. The boy, named by Palestinian officials as Ahmed Manasra, carried out the attack in an Israeli settlement north of Jerusalem along with his 15-year-old cousin….
-
Israel News In Israel, Voters Back Clinton — But Just Barely
Israeli voters back Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a 37%-to 34% margin, a new poll has found, with supporters of the ruling right wing Likud party bakcing Trump, while Zionist Union voters on the center-left prefer Clinton. A poll released by Geocartography, an Israeli research institute, queried 500 Israelis with a 4.4% margin of…
-
Community Six Reasons Jews Should Support Donald Trump
On policy, there is no question that Donald Trump is the most pro-Israel, pro-Jewish candidate to ever run for the U.S. presidency. And this year’s Republican Party platform is the most pro-Israel political platform in the history of the United States, on either side of the political aisle. That is why when Jewish and pro-Israel…
-
Fast Forward Israel Plans To Boycott French Mideast Peace Conference
JERUSALEM — Israel will not participate in an international conference aimed at setting its conflict with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top advisers told the French government’s special envoy to the Middle East peace process. French envoy Pierre Vimont is in the region to discuss the plan for a conference, to be held in…
-
Opinion 5 Ways Our New President Can Foster Israeli-Palestinian Peace
After a drawn-out and divisive campaign, the American people will finally go to the polls on Tuesday and elect a new president. A new leadership presents an opportunity for new thinking and a chance to redefine relationships, including with Israel, a strategic ally in a volatile region. The United States and Israel share the same…
-
Opinion WATCH: Iranian Goes To Extreme Lengths To Avoid Stepping On Israeli, U.S. Flags
Need a little something hopeful to break our tense political mood right now? Look no further than this video of Iranian scholar Sadegh Zibakalam. A well-known professor at the University of Tehran, the 68-year-old is seen performing some very unique physical and political gymnastics as he enters a building at another university. Even as everyone…
-
Community Why I’m Not Going to College This Year
I just graduated high school with perfect grades, an acceptance letter to my number one university, and what I thought was a sense of what I wanted to do with my life. Yet, to the surprise of many, I am not attending college this year. While my friends were choosing their classes and buying textbooks,…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
- 2
Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
- 3
News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
- 4
Culture Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Texas man charged with making antisemitic death threats to Jewish conservative pundits
-
Opinion I spoke out against Mamdani. Then he won. Here’s how we walk forward together
-
Opinion Sure, be mad I voted for Mamdani — I’m still just as Jewish (and Israeli) as you are
-
Yiddish World A Yiddish circus in a suitcase
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
