This is the Forward’s coverage of Israel, the Jewish state in the Middle East founded in 1948.
Israel
The Latest
-
Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Rebuked by Rabbi for French Emigration Plea
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to ruffle a few feathers while taking part in the “Charlie Hebdo” rally in Paris on Sunday, an event his office initially said he would not be attending for security reasons. Perhaps most awkward was his invitation to French Jews – alarmed by the Paris attacks and the…
-
Israel News Why Benjamin Netanyahu Attended Paris Anti-Terror March Over France’s Objections
French President Francois Hollande asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to come to Paris for the march against terror on Sunday, but the Israel premier decided to attend anyway after hearing that political rivals were going to be there, according to an Israeli source who was involved in the contacts between the Elysees Palace and…
-
Fast Forward Israel Expects 50% Surge in Immigration by French Jews
Israel expects the number of French Jews moving there this year, which was already predicted to rise sharply from 2014’s record level, to accelerate further after the killings at a Paris kosher grocery, a senior official said on Sunday. Natan Sharansky, head of the Jewish Agency promoting emigration to Israel, said his estimate for 2015…
-
Opinion After Paris Attacks, Let’s Not Repeat Past Mistakes
The last few days have brought us from terror to despair to tentative hope to… what? The cascading terror visited first on Charlie Hebdo and then on the kosher supermarket in Paris drove home a despairing reality: the ease with which hatred of Jews is ignited in a Europe that was supposed to have confronted…
-
Fast Forward Supermarket Victim Yoav Hattab Recently Returned from Birthright Trip
Yoav Hattab, one of the victims of last week’s Paris kosher supermarket shooting, recently returned from a Birthright Israel trip. Hattab, 21, was one of four victims of the Friday shooting, which followed an attack earlier in the week at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, which claimed 12 victims. “In the past year,…
-
Opinion Israelis Support Paris Jews — With ‘Charlie’ Pun
Photo by Naomi Zeveloff As a million people gathered in today’s Paris march, French Jewish immigrants stood in solidarity with their co-religionists abroad, first at a post-Sabbath rally outside the French Embassy in Tel Aviv and then on Sunday at Jerusalem’s City Hall. Hundreds of French Jews gathered in a conference room for the Jerusalem…
-
Fast Forward Sharansky: Paris Supermarket Attack May Boost Immigration to Israel
The slaying of four Jews at a Paris kosher market may cause a substantial increase in the number of Jews who will immigrate to Israel this year, Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said. Sharansky arrived in Paris Sunday along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The three are in France…
-
News Jewish Leaders Join Massive Paris March To Honor Attack Victims
Dozens of world leaders including Muslim and Jewish statesmen joined hundreds of thousands of French citizens marching in Paris amid high security in an unprecedented tribute to victims of this week’s Islamist militant attacks. President Francois Hollande and leaders from Germany, Italy, Israel, Turkey, Britain and the Palestinian territories among others, moved off from the…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
- 2
News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
- 3
Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
- 4
News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture Two women race to save Persian Jewish music before it fades
-
Opinion Passover liberation and US liberty both summon us to remember and renew
-
Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
-
Culture Gene Shalit, a mensch with a personality as big as his mustache, turns 100
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
