By JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision on civil damages in the case of U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in Gaza in 2003 by a military bulldozer. The high court on Thursday upheld a ruling by the Haifa DistrictContinue Reading
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two shoppers outside a West Bank supermarket were stabbed by an assailant in what police are treating as a terrorist attack. The victims reportedly were moderately injured in the attack Wednesday evening outside the Rami Levy discount supermarket in the Mishor Adumim industrial zone near Maale Adumim,Continue Reading
By Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org Settlements or Jewish communities? West Bank or Judea and Samaria? East Jerusalem or eastern Jerusalem? Those are some of the language choices that journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are faced with each day—and those choices should not be taken lightly, experts say. “It’s the terminologyContinue Reading
By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) — SodaStream, the Israeli at-home seltzer machine company, announced last week that it would be closing its West Bank factory and moving the facility’s operations to southern Israel next year. Here’s what you need to know about SodaStream, the controversy that hasContinue Reading
By Boris Kurbanov, Special to The Jewish Sound Last October, America’s favorite travel guru Rick Steves left for Israel with one goal: To “show both narratives” and help people in the West better understand the players involved in the Holy Land. There, he filmed his latest TV travelogue, “Rick Steves’Continue Reading
By Abdullah H. Erakat and Linda Gradstein, The Media Line As thousands of Israeli soldiers comb every inch of the West Bank in an intense search for three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, Palestinian security forces say they are doing everything they can to help find the boys. Despite anger in theContinue Reading
By Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line ABU DIS – Hala Kanaan recalls her disappointment at being one year too young to cast a ballot in the 2006 Palestinian election. A school girl at the time, Hala remembers arguing with her mother and older sister, both of whom failed toContinue Reading
JTA reports today that six Israeli runners were excluded from the West Bank portion of a regional long-distance peace run, which ended Monday. Led by Australian ultra-marathoner Paul Farmer, the course began in Lebanon and made its way through Israel and the West Bank, with the finish line in Jerusalem. TheContinue Reading
