QASR EL-YAHUD: Just months before the official opening of one of Christianity's holiest sites to visitors, the area where John the Baptist is said to have baptized Jesus remains surrounded by thousands of land mines.
Israel says the sites visited (...)
JERUSALEM: After a successful run of high-tech and computer-related innovation, Israel is focusing its ambitions on the next big thing — preparing the world for life without coal and oil.
Israel is driving to become a world leader in alternative (...)
JERUSALEM: For more than a century, planting trees in this mostly desert land has been an act of almost spiritual importance, starting with those who helped create the state of Israel.
So, the emotional response to the worst wildfire in the (...)
JERUSALEM: When Hillary Rubin immigrated from the US to Israel, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and descendant of a famed Zionist visionary felt that she had finally arrived in her true home.
But now that religious authorities are (...)
JERUSALEM: During its six decades of existence, Israel has maintained a shaky alliance with its ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority that allowed most religious men to avoid military service, attend separate schools and get paid by the state to study the (...)
JERUSALEM: Growing up in the West Bank, Mujahid Sarsur knew next to nothing about the Holocaust and saw little ground to sympathize with a people he saw as his occupier.
But thanks to an Israeli roommate overseas, the 21-year-old Palestinian (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister defended the deadly commando raid on an international flotilla protesting the Gaza blockade in opening testimony before an internal inquiry commission Monday, and suggested Turkey had sought the violent (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli fraud investigators questioned a former prime minister on corruption charges Tuesday, his first appearance before police since being driven out of office last year.
Police questioned Ehud Olmert about his alleged involvement in (...)
JERUSALEM: Nearly one out of every two Israelis thinks the country's international standing is poor following Israel's most serious crisis with the United States in decades, according to a poll published Monday on the eve of the Passover (...)