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Dr. Lani Kass, who is the senior Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force General Norton A. Schwartz, was born, raised, and educated in Israel and then served in that country’s military where she reached the rank of majo
Israeli police arrested a former mayor of Jerusalem on Wednesday in a fast developing investigation into suspected corruption that has also caught up associates of former prime minister Ehud Olmert.
There is a mythical aura surrounding Israeli intelligence. Much of it is well-deserved, as a string of spectacular covert operations has consistently shown in the decades since the formation of the Jewish state. Feats such as the 1967
At first glance it may sound a bit peculiar to assert the strong ties between Judaism and libertarianism. After all, it is hard in the modern world to distinguish and disassociate Judaism from modern day Zionism, though the two to a large extent coul
JERUSALEM – An American Jewish group has demanded Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologize to her former constituents, claiming she misled them while she was a New York senator by falsely professing support for an undivided Jerusalem as Israel's
Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel and the West Bank, assuring Israelis that Washington would close ranks with them against any threat from a nuclear-armed Iran. Biden, the most senior U.S. official to visit Israel since President Obama
At least 2 Israeli agents behind the murder of a senior Hamas official escape to the US. Police have now cast their net wider in their investigation of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh’s killing, which officials are certain was carried out by Israel’s intelligence
Israel introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and fly as far as the Persian Gulf, putting rival Iran within its range. The Heron TP drones have a wingspan of 86 feet making them the size of Boeing 737 an
Police in the Gulf state announced that they were hunting for 11 suspects, including a woman, for the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top Hamas commander, who was found dead in his Dubai hotel room on January 20. Six of these suspects were travell
Israel exploiting Haiti's catastrophe for profit
Israel has reacted angrily to the issuing by a British court of an arrest warrant for the former Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni. The warrant, granted by a London court on Saturday, was revoked on Monday when it was found Ms Livni was not vi
In addition to identification cards and passports, the database will also be designed to hold the fingerprints and visual scans of every citizen of Israel. The bill is scheduled to be put into motion during the next few months, and a two-year trial p
Benayahu told Haaretz the new program would be up and running in a few months.
European Union officials are expected to call for Jerusalem to be divided so it can be the capital of both Israel and a Palestinian state. Haaretz got its hands on a draft document prepared by Sweden, which currently holds the EU presidency, that see
Wearing a dark-blue robe, sitting in St. James's Church, the main Armenian church in the Old City, Aghoyan said, "Every single priest in this church has been spat on. It happens day and night."
With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran’s proxy armies on its borders. Having f
A Chevy Chase scientist was charged Monday with trying to sell top-secret information to Israel for $11,000, federal prosecutors said. Stewart D. Nozette, 52, was arrested on a charge of attempted espionage and is being held pending an initial app
"President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding said. The officials, who spoke on t
This fall, U.S. law enforcement personnel will have their final chance to take advantage of a rare opportunity. Participants will travel to Israel to receive "homeland security training," but the counterterrorism briefings and martial arts practice sessions are only one part of the package. The program also includes visits to Christian religious sites in the Holy Land — an aspect likely to be especially attractive to Christian Zionists — along with other sites such as the Knesset and the Israeli "security fence".
Jewish religious fundamentalists some of the most outlandish anywhere.
JERUSALEM, Aug. 2 -- Israeli police recommended Sunday that the state indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering, witness harassment and obstruction of justice.
Nearly 30 years later there still is no certainty that a flash detected by the sensors of an American satellite indeed signaled a nuclear test that, according to foreign publications, involved Israel.
Consider that a man who longs to deport all Arabs from the sacred soil of Israel and who would like nothing better than to nuke Tehran is the foreign minister.
Just when I think that the IDF and Israel’s far-right religious leadership cannot get any weirder, they surprise me yet again. The IDF distributed to its soldiers a pamphlet endorsed by a far-right pro-settler rabbi and written by the American Orthodox movement. It contained this little bit of Jewish conspiracy theory paranoia:
Amid reports that Israel is preparing to bomb Iranian nuclear sites, political heavyweights in Washington and Tel Aviv make plans for a secret get-together.
"Shut the f--- up. Shut the f--- up." one staffer yelled, red-faced and sweating as he ran beside me. "This is not the place to be saying that shit. Get the f--- out of here."
Tamar Katz, Raz Bar-David Varon and Yuval Oron-Ofir are 3 conscientious objectors who are all serving their third prison sentences. At least 6 other teenagers -- male and female -- have been jailed in recent months for refusing to enlist and at least
What do Charles Freeman and Jane Harman have in common? Nothing, apart that both involved in the truly ugly side of the Israel lobby’s activity in the US and, for that reason, had their stories dropped by the mainstream media in record time.
Rachel Maddow does a great job of piecing together this spy thriller.
