David Peleg

LONG BEFORE he become one of the leading figures in the public relations industry, Ran Rahav developed a very special relationship with Leah Rabin.…

Poland, which during the Communist era reviled Israel and the Jews, is now one of the country’s best friends in Europe. Israeli and Polish diplomats…

MARRIAGE RULES can be very confusing. Although there is no civil marriage here, civil marriages performed abroad are recognized, including those in…

This article was published in The Jerusalem Report on March 1, 2010. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report, click here. It is early evening, and…

EVERYTHING IS politics or politics is everything, which may explain why President Shimon Peres was half an hour late to the opening ceremony of the…

Polish president Lech Kaczynski has presented his country's Medal of Honor to Ra'anana Symphonette general director Orit Fogel-Shafran. The Ra'anana…

WHILE PRESIDENT Shimon Peres was meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and discussing the evils of terrorism and the casualties of war on…

HANUKKA IS almost upon us, and for just over a week, those of us who light candles each night recall the miracles that saved the Jewish people from…

WITH THE exception of the back row, where no-one was permitted to sit, the auditorium at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque was packed to capacity last Friday…

The good news is that observant Jews who go to Poland on business, as tourists or to trace their family roots no longer have to fill their suitcases…

A warning by Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna'i to the Palestinians that they face a bigger "Shoah" if they increase rocket attacks from Gaza set…

The top Israeli and Palestinian diplomats in Poland visited the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex together Sunday in a rare joint act of…

Poland's president on Wednesday honored more than 50 people who saved Jews in Poland during the darkest days of the Nazi Holocaust, including the…

Polish prosecutors have ruled out investigating a powerful priest who allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks and called the president's wife a "witch,"…

The continuing anti-Semitic rhetoric of Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, founder of Poland's Catholic, nationalist Radio Maryja, and the Polish government's…

Alleged misbehavior by Israeli teenagers visiting Poland and their Shin Beit (Israel Security Agency) guards is casting a shadow over relations…

FORMER FRENCH ambassador to Israel Jacques Huntzinger was back in the country this week for the first world meeting of French-speaking Jews. The…

Poland's parliament on Wednesday honored Irena Sendler, a 97-year-old credited with saving 2,500 Jews during the Holocaust, at a ceremony during…

Jewish leaders and Poland's first lady lit candles of a large menorah in central Warsaw on Sunday as they celebrated the third day of Hanukka. The…

When Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich was punched and pepper-sprayed on a Warsaw street in May while his attacker shouted "Poland for the Poles,"…