Abba Eban

Permanent UN ambassadors meet with President Herzog

The group was somewhat smaller than previous delegations, but that may have been due to fears of travel to the Middle East during the current security situation.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Isaac Herzog addresses the wave of violence in Israeli society in a speech on May 8, 2023.
Then-Israel Ambassador to the UN Abba Eban speaks at the General Assembly in New York in the early 1970s.

Did Israel's famed diplomat Abba Eban lack clout back home?

The Eban paradox is that he never succeeded in translating his immense international stature into commensurate domestic political capital.

|ByMARK REGEV
Sesame Street creator Joan Ganz Cooney poses with some of the cast during a 40th anniversary street naming celebration in New York

Eli Evans, poet and influential grant-maker, dies at 85

Eli N. Evans dies at the age of 85 due to complications from COVID-19 in New York City on Tuesday.

|ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
Aura Herzog

President Isaac Herzog's mother, Aura, dies at 97

Aura Herzog who will be laid to rest alongside her husband on Mount Herzl, in the section reserved for leaders of the nation, is survived by her four children.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Hapoel Jerusalem in Russia to tip off Eurocup adventure

OCTOBER 14, 2015ByALLON SINAI
Hapoel Jerusalem forward Donta Smith goes up for a dunk in a game against Maccabi Ashdod

Dismantling the Oslo Accords also dismantles Israeli-PA cooperation

OCTOBER 12, 2015ByBEN BROWNSTEIN
Oslo Accords architect Yossi Beilin meets Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat in Jericho, in 1997

Hope amid the storm in Tel Aviv

OCTOBER 12, 2015ByJONATHAN ARNOLD
THE TEL AVIV skyline

Fasten your seat belts!

Funnymen Yisrael Campbell and Jeremie Bracka present a comedic journey on living in Israel and the experience of making aliya.

OCTOBER 12, 2015ByBARRY DAVIS
LOCAL COMEDIAN Yisrael Campbell

Into the fray? More like ‘out of line’

Perhaps an apology for the horrific terminology and personal attacks against Lapid and a serious change in tone for the future is in order.

OCTOBER 1, 2015ByDOV LIPMAN
Yair Lapid

Simhat Torah: Abundance and the joy of the Torah

OCTOBER 1, 2015ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
Haredim

Difference and unity

OCTOBER 1, 2015ByKALMAN SAMUELS
Man holding lulav.

OECD: Economic risk in cyber threats

OCTOBER 1, 2015ByNIV ELIS
The logo for the cyber hacking group ‘Anonymous’ is seen on computer screens.

Middle Israel: Volkswagen as a parable

OCTOBER 1, 2015ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Dizengoff St. traffic

Abbas’s speech

OCTOBER 1, 2015ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses UN General Assembly