Author: Aron Heller
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UAE’s warm welcome to Israelis reflects changing region
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates • In less than 24 hours on the ground, Israel’s first-of-its-kind delegation to the United Arab Emirates received a royal welcome that would have been nearly unthinkable just a few weeks ago. Dozens of Israeli officials and their accompanying traveling press corps got a dizzying taste of Abu Dhabi’s glamorous…
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Israel PM meets with Putin, returns with freed tourist
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MOSCOW • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a quick stopover in Moscow on Thursday to brief Russian President Vladimir Putin on the new U.S. proposal for the Middle East and to bring home an Israeli woman who had been jailed on drug charges. Netanyahu told Putin that the visit reflected the ever-warming ties between…
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Trump peace plan delights Israelis, enrages Palestinians
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WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East plan Tuesday, winning immediate praise from a beaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but a swift rejection from the Palestinians, who called it “nonsense.” Trump’s plan calls for the eventual creation of a Palestinian state, but it falls far short of minimal Palestinian demands and…
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Israel’s Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges
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JERUSALEM • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted Thursday in a series of corruption cases, throwing Israel’s paralyzed political system into further disarray and threatening his 10-year grip on power. He rejected calls to resign, angrily accusing prosecutors of staging “an attempted coup.” The first charges against a sitting Israeli prime minister capped a three-year…
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Netanyahu appears to edge toward re-election in Israeli vote
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JERUSALEM • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward re-election early Wednesday, as exit polls and partial results showed him edging ahead of his main competitor in a tight race that was seen as a referendum on the long-serving leader. Netanyahu and former military chief Benny Gantz, leader of the rival Blue…
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Israel’s Netanyahu jolted by corruption recommendations
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JERUSALEM • Israel’s attorney general on Thursday recommended criminal charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a series of corruption cases, shaking up an already tumultuous election campaign and threatening to end the Israeli leader’s decades-long political career. The potential charges stretch across an array of embarrassing scandals that have painted Netanyahu as a hedonistic,…
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Israel hits dozens of Iranian targets in Syria after barrage
BEIRUT — The Israeli military on Thursday said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military installations in neighboring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights, in the most serious military confrontation between the two bitter enemies to date. Israel said the targets of the strikes, its…
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102-year-old Holocaust survivor reunites with newly discovered nephew
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KFAR SABA, Israel — Eliahu Pietruszka shuffled his 102-year-old body through the lobby of his retirement home toward a stranger he had never met and collapsed into him in a teary embrace. Then he kissed both cheeks of his visitor and in a frail, squeaky voice began blurting out greetings in Russian, a language he…
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Palestinian kills 3 Israelis in settlement near Jerusalem
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JERUSALEM — A Palestinian gunman on Tuesday killed three Israeli security men and critically wounded a fourth outside a West Bank settlement before being shot dead, in one of the deadliest attacks of a two-year spate of violence. Israeli officials said the attacker was a 37-year-old father of four, with a valid work permit in…
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Shimon Peres, ex-Israeli president and PM, dies at 93
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save JERUSALEM — Israel on Wednesday mourned the death of Shimon Peres, a former president and prime minister whose life story mirrored that of the Jewish state, as the government began preparations for a funeral that…