This is the Forward’s coverage of Israel, the Jewish state in the Middle East founded in 1948.
Israel
The Latest
-
Fast Forward Shas Leader Aryeh Deri Tries To Quit After Release of Ovadia ‘Thief’ Tape
The head of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party submitted a resignation letter the day after a video was released showing the party’s former spiritual leader criticizing him and praising his rival. Aryeh Deri said Monday that he was retiring from Shas and politics, the Times of Israel reported. However, the party’s council of rabbis rejected…
-
Fast Forward American Christian Fundamentalist Faces Israel Trial in Anti-Muslim Plot
An American indicted for acquiring explosives to blow up Muslim sites in Jerusalem must remain in custody until his trial ends, an Israeli court ruled. Adam Everett Livix, 30, of Illinois, was ordered held on Sunday by the Petach Tikvah Magistrate’s Court. He was indicted on Dec. 9 for weapons possession and overstaying his tourist…
-
Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Iran Can Be Power If It ‘Gets Right’ With World
Iran could become a “very successful regional power” if Tehran agrees to a long-term deal to curb its nuclear program, President Barack Obama said in an interview with NPR News. “They’ve got a chance to get right with the world,” Obama said in the interview, which was taped at the White House on Dec. 18…
-
Books Let’s Make 2015 the Year of the Arab Jew
Call it a confirmation bias. Everywhere I turned this year, I saw a new expression of Arab Jewish identity. The revival seems to be happening across all fields — literature, food, music — yet somehow nobody’s talking about it. As an Arab Jewish writer (my family hails from Morocco, India and Iraq), I couldn’t be…
-
Fast Forward Israelis Save Stricken Palestinian Boy at Border
Israeli paramedics and the Israel Defense Forces saved the life of a Palestinian baby who collapsed at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan. The family was taking the 6-month-old baby with heart problems to Jordan on Saturday morning to receive medical attention when he suffered what is believed to be a heart…
-
Fast Forward Republican Lindsey Graham Vows New Push for Sanctions on Iran
Sen. Lindsey Graham said in Jerusalem that the Senate will vote next month on an bill to reimpose sanctions if nuclear talks falter. Graham (R-S.C.), who is expected to take over as chairman of the Foreign Appropriations Subcommittee when the Republicans assume control of the Senate in January, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in…
-
Fast Forward Journalist Chris Hedges Barred by University of Pennsylvania Over Israel Dig
Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges says he was barred from speaking at a University of Pennsylvania conference on the prospects for peace in the Middle East after he compared Israel’s founding fathers to ISIS radicals. Hedges, a former Middle East bureau chief for the Times, said he had been invited to speak at…
-
Fast Forward Leader of Israel’s Black Hebrews Dies at 75
The spiritual leader of an influential group of African-Americans who moved to Israel died Saturday. Ben Ammi Ben Israel, the Chicago-born leader of the African Hebrew Israelites group that lived in Dimona, Israel, was 75. There was no immediate cause of death, Haaretz reported. “It was an honor and a blessing to have known him,”…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion In Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE protest song, a nod to Minnesota’s own Bob Dylan
- 2
News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
- 3
Holy Ground A millennial rabbi built a synagogue where others have closed. Her maverick ideas are becoming a model.
- 4
Fast Forward Chabad ‘let me down,’ suspect said, in hours before allegedly attacking their headquarters
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish פֿאָרווערטס פּאָדקאַסט, קאַפּיטל פֿיר: פֿאָלקס־מעשׂיותForverts podcast, episode 4: Folk tales
הערט אַן אַרטיקל וועגן אַ באַליבטער מעשׂה פֿון אַ באָבע מיט די אייניקלעך און אַ צווייטן אַרטיקל וועגן חסידישע מעשׂיות.
-
Opinion A death knell for the American Jewish dream of a melting pot — in the 1920s, and today
-
News Antisemitism group keeps board member who emailed Epstein on the legality of transporting minors for sex
-
Fast Forward Mamdani appoints Phylisa Wisdom, progressive Jewish leader, to run Office to Combat Antisemitism
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
