Israeli President To Fly Air Canada Rather Than El Al
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Israeli President Shimon Peres has booked tickets on Air Canada rather than pay the $4,700 fee El Al demanded for the oxygen tank he must carry with him, according to Israel’s...
View ArticleIsrael Scraps Early Elections As Kadima Joins Unity Government
JTA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded the new government coalition including the Kadima Party as the "broadest unity government in Israeli history."At a news conference Tuesday...
View ArticlePeres Undergoes Hernia Surgery After Trip Abroad
JTA Israeli President Shimon Peres successfully underwent surgery to treat a hernia.Peres underwent the surgery on Friday at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Doctors say that the surgery was...
View ArticleJudge Denies Katzav New Hearing On Rape Sentence
JTA An Israeli Supreme Court justice denied a new hearing for former President Moshe Katsav to request a reduction in his seven-year prison sentence for a rape conviction.Supreme Court Justice Esther...
View ArticleLooking To Future, Peres Draws A Crowd
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Inside the Israeli Presidential Conference, a kind of ‘Jewish Davos,’ with 4,000 other delegates.Jerusalem — “Tomorrow” was the theme of this year’s Israeli...
View ArticleYitzchak Shamir, Israel's Seventh Prime Minister, Dies At 96
Yitzhak Shamir, who served as Israel's prime minister from 1986 to 1992, died Saturday at the age of 96.He had been living in a nursing home in Tel Aviv and had Alzheimer's disease for several...
View ArticleRomney In Jerusalem Affirms Strong U.S.-Israel Alliance
JTA Mitt Romney in Jerusalem affirmed the strong alliance between the United States and Israel.Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, in meetings Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister...
View ArticleVIDEO: White House Details Obama Mideast Visit
Ron Kampeas JTA The White House on Friday posted this preview of President Obama's Middle East trip this week, by Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser. Taken with a couple of major league...
View ArticleAfter Tragedy, Israeli Parents Donate Son's Kidney To Save Palestinian Boy
JTA The kidney of a 3-year-old Israeli boy was successfully transplanted to a 10-year-old Palestinian child. The parents of Noam Naor decided to donate his kidneys after their son was declared brain...
View ArticlePeres With Streisand And Clinton: Turning 90 With Style
Rabbi Gerald Skolnik The annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international professional association of Conservative/Masorti rabbis, will take place this coming week in Jerusalem. In my...
View ArticleCongress Considers Gold Medal Honoring Shimon Peres On 90th Birthday
Adam Dickter To honor the 90th birthday of Israel’s president Friday, members of the House and Senate are to vote on whether to honor long-serving politician and diplomat Shimon Peres with the...
View ArticleKnicks' Stoudemire Seeking Israeli Citizenship
JTA Amar’e Stoudemire, the New York Knicks star who claims Hebrew roots and is currently touring Israel, is seeking Israeli citizenship. Stoudemire’s agent, Happy Walters, told New York magazine that...
View ArticleDe Blasio Meets With Shimon Peres
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor Mayor-elect's tweet generates anti-Israel backlash online. Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio met with Israel's president, Shimon Peres, in his Manhattan hotel Monday....
View ArticleThe Backstory Behind Netanyahu's Absence
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik Jewish Week Online Columnist The absence this week of Israel’s two leading political figures, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, at the massive...
View ArticleKnesset To Hold Presidential Election June 10
JTA TEL AVIV — The Knesset will vote for Israel’s next president on June 10.read more
View ArticlePraying For Peace Like Talking To A Wall
Pope Francis should have learned in his visit last week to the West Bank and then to Jerusalem that praying for peace between Israelis and Palestinians is like talking to a wall. But he’s not one to...
View ArticleIsrael’s New President, Playing Catch-Up
Wed, 06/11/2014 Editorial The office of the president of the State of Israel is largely symbolic, intended to unify the country and bring it enhanced stature. But from the outset the definition of the...
View ArticleThey Elected Rivlin? Nu, B'Emet?
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik Jewish Week Online Columnist After what seemed like endless haggling, much of it public and not at all mediagenic, Israel’s Knesset has elected Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin to be the...
View ArticleWhat Do Shimon Peres And Eric Schmidt Have In Common?
Tim Boxer Jewish Week Online Columnist At the Sept. 22 ADL dinner, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Google chairman Eric Schmidt were seated next to each other – and not just because both were...
View ArticleLooking For A Job, Peres Finds His Humorous Side
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher The world has long known that Shimon Peres has a talent for statesmanship, having been a national leader in public service for some seven decades. Now we find out...
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