Caesarea

■ EVEN THOUGH there are many examples of even handed reporting by the BBC, there’s a wide-ranging perception in this country that the BBC is…

This week’s Herzliya Conference is, as in all previous years, dedicated to an assessment of national security. The usual crop of local and…

Taleb Tawatha looks like anything but a trailblazer. The scrawny 18-year-old almost seems to be out of place on the soccer field. In the absence of…

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Some thirty people gathered and held signs in Caesarea to demand the release of captive soldier Gilad Schalit Friday afternoon. The event was…

When the new ministers of Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s nascent Independence faction were sworn in at the Knesset on Wednesday evening, the holiday…

Coalition negotiations between the Likud and the newly formed Independence faction yielded an agreement Tuesday morning . The sides agreed upon who…

Coalition negotiations between the Likud and the newly formed Independence faction already began late Monday in an effort to replace the three Labor…

Imagine a town of nearly 13,000 residents that has no banks, no gas stations, no public transport connection, and only one main access to it via a…

'The Lilac Flower' is the first song that Nurit Hirsh wrote in her musical career. Nurit Hirsh was born in 1942 in Tel Aviv, and she is one of the…

■ IT’S HARD to imagine that people would come from Tel Aviv, Herzliya Pituah, Ramat Hasharon, Ramat Gan and Kfar Shmaryahu to Jerusalem for New…

And so, another year. Having started it as I intend to go on – on a full stomach and with a warm fuzzy feeling, courtesy of my mother-in-law’s…

Women have always played a remarkable role in Jewish history. However, two of them – the possibly apocryphal Maccabean heroine Yehudit and the…

How about reciprocity? Sir, – Regarding “Abbas vows: No room for Israelis in Palestinian state” (December 26), I wonder if the Palestinians would…

IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi said Sunday, "We have not lost the right to self defense and in the next war we will do everything…

Dozens of activists in the campaign to free captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit on Friday held a rally inside the home of Prime Minister Binyamin…

The first qualifying round of the 2010 Israeli Net Championships was held at the Ga’ash Golf Club on Tuesday. Eddy Hoffman led the A division with a…

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz credited Israel’s tourism sector on Wednesday with playing a major role in the country’s rapid exit from the global…

The press and public declared it a war. And as with all wars in which there was heavy loss of lives and property, once the flames of the devastating…

■ DOCUMENTARY filmmaker Rhett Turner, the son of mega philanthropist and CNN founder Ted Turner, came to Israel for a week within the framework of…