Berl Katznelson

Taking a break from oaths of allegiance, settlement construction moratoriums and other burning issues on the agenda, Prime Minister Binyamin…

From being an active supporter of Meir Kahane and the Kach movement to becoming a peace activist of such passion that one feels the Arabs must have…

Filial devotion doesn’t get much stronger than this. Yossi Ahimeir, journalist, writer, former director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office and…

Fill in the blank: In the year 2009, Israel celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of _____. Chances are that if you spent any time in the…

There is a great deal of excitement in the Washington offices of J Street these days. Phones are ringing, e-mails are pouring in. More than 1,000…

The "Swedish affair," as everyone now calls it, is not about to dwindle and die, like the occasional weekly scandals tend to. It has already damaged…

During the much-reported tour of four Knesset members to the illegal outposts earlier this week, one small sentence uttered by Interior Minister Eli…

The centenary of the birth of Israeli poet and editor Shimshon Meltzer will be commemorated on Tuesday when a plaque will be placed on the house…

FOR YEARS now, the Hebrew tabloids have almost unfailingly dug dirt up on the Netanyahu family with regard to anything that might be remotely…

Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman is on vacation in the chilly Belarusian capital of Minsk, but he apparently isn't getting much rest. The…

Nearly two-thirds of Israelis would like Kadima and the Likud to form a unity government, a survey conducted by Market Watch the day after last…

Nobody ever said it better than English Jacobean poet John Donne in his Meditation XVII: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece…

While conducting an exasperating search through my overladen bookshelves for a tauntingly elusive something or other, I came across a yellowing 1996…

A new cavalier is on his way to our rescue and he is not a general, barrister, professor nor a rabbi, to mention but a few of the self-styled saviors…

Internal strifeSir, - While your editorial "Playing with fire" (December 5) had great merit, I felt something very important was omitted. The real…

A column in Issue 16, November 24, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. Dear Niot,You told Holocaust jokes…

The dog days of summer are here. Only the brave (or heat resistant) few are willing to venture outside while the sun is shining, unless they find…

Mapai in Israel's Early IndependenceBy Avi BareliYad Ben-Zvi Press548 pagesI've been sifting through this volume in an attempt to understand how…

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is considered the most influential woman in Israel today, according to a survey published Wednesday by the…

On the shores of a flowing stream just south of Lake Kinneret stands a large tombstone with a beautiful engraved picture. Also chiseled into the…