This is the Forward’s coverage of Israel, the Jewish state in the Middle East founded in 1948.
Israel
The Latest
-
Opinion 4 Stories from Zochrot Truth Commission On 1948
Palestinians mark the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba or ‘Day of Catastrophe’ / Getty Images Is Israeli society ready to reckon with 1948? On Wednesday, Zochrot, an Israeli organization devoted to raising awareness about the Nakba — when 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled by Jewish forces during Israel’s founding war — held its first…
-
Fast Forward California Campus Union Votes 2-1 for Israel Divestment
A union which represents University of California student-workers and academic employees voted to approve a resolution to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The United Auto Workers Local 2865, which represents more than 13,000 teaching assistants, tutors, and other student-workers at the University of California, announced Wednesday that the measure was approved…
-
Fast Forward Tzipi Livni Joins Forces With Labor for Vote
Former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said she will run on a joint ticket with the Labor Party in Israel’s upcoming elections. Livni, who heads her own left-of-center Hatnua party, made the announcement of the new center-left slate with Labor chairman Issac Herzog on Wednesday. “We’re uniting for the good of the country, for the better…
-
Opinion No, Judaism Doesn’t Justify CIA Torture
Christian art depicting Jews being tortured in hell Are the Jews somehow to blame for the CIA’s torture of detainees? That’s what some want to know after yesterday’s release of the so-called “CIA Torture Report” by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA is in the business of extracting secrets and then burying them deep in…
-
Fast Forward Palestinians Halt Security Cooperation With Israel After Minister’s Death
The Palestinian Authority said it will cease all security coordination with Israel in response to the death of a senior Palestinian official following a confrontation with Israeli soldiers. Jibril Rajoub, a Palestinian political official, said Wednesday afternoon that the P.A. will end “all forms of security coordination with Israel for deliberately killing Minister Ziad Abu…
-
Israel News Ashton Carter Brings Record of Friendship With Israel to Pentagon
(JTA) — Ashton Carter has championed the sale to Israel of state-of-the-art combat aircraft, has aligned himself with Iran hawks and was observed becoming misty-eyed when serenaded by Israeli soldiers. Carter, 60, President Obama’s secretary of defense nominee, has been depicted in the media as the un-Chuck Hagel. He’s assertive and a bureaucratic in-fighter where…
-
Fast Forward Israel’s Worst-Ever Oil Spill Could Damage Environment for Years
Ecologists said on Wednesday it could take years to clean up a massive oil spill that flooded an Israeli nature reserve with up to five million liters of crude and threatened to spread to the Red Sea shore and neighboring Jordan. A breached pipeline started spewing oil into Evrona desert reserve – famed for its…
-
Fast Forward American Christian Extremist Charged in Plot To Blow Up Muslim Holy Sites
An American Christian extremist has been indicted in Israel on weapons charges and told investigators he had been weighing the possibility of attacking Muslim holy sites, the Israeli domestic security service Shin Bet said on Tuesday. The man’s lawyer told reporters that the Shin Bet was exaggerating the security implications of the case, which coincides…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion In Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE protest song, a nod to Minnesota’s own Bob Dylan
- 2
Holy Ground A millennial rabbi built a synagogue where others have closed. Her maverick ideas are becoming a model.
- 3
Fast Forward Chabad ‘let me down,’ suspect said, in hours before allegedly attacking their headquarters
- 4
News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish World Yiddish theater is revived in Tbilisi, Georgia after 100 years
-
Fast Forward Israeli-Palestinian restaurant shutters in Berlin, though a TV show will continue its story
-
Fast Forward ‘Don’t be a wimp’: Josh Shapiro, Philly DA Larry Krasner spar over ICE-Nazi comparisons
-
Culture Robert Kraft’s new Super Bowl ad about antisemitism already feels dated
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
