Second intifada

The miracle that shaped Israel Prize winner Avi Rivkind’s life and career - opinion

How one trauma surgeon’s split-second decision changed the course of a young soldier’s life.

AVIYA, SHIMON, holding his sister’s grandson, and Aviya’s daughter Tahel.
A gaping hole is left in the shop front of the Sbarro pizzeria after a suicide bombing, August 9, 2001

Fight for Second Intifada victims reopens with $655 million judgment against PA - interview

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah (L) and Hamas politburo member Khalil al-Hayya.

PA ordered to pay $655.5 million to Intifada victims after NY Appeals Court reinstates prior ruling

WORKING OUT of the Talpaz Ceramic Studio in the Saltiel Community Center, in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood. She gives classes there as well.

Francine Bork Strausberg: Living a perfectly imperfect life in Israel


On This Day: Oslo II Accord signed by Rabin and Arafat

On September 28, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo II Accord. 

 Oslo Accords

Founder of Ethiopian-Israeli scholarship program honored with doctorate

Joey Low, a native New Yorker who made aliyah to Israel, was honored by the IDC for his contributions to the Ethiopian-Israeli community

From L to R: IDC’s President and Founder Prof. Uriel Reichman, businessman and philanthropist Joey Low and Chancellor Mr. Oudi Recanati.

George Shultz was the best boss I ever had

George Shultz, along with Ronald Reagan, helped pave the way for the end of the Soviet Union, they were architects of renewed American strength.

Former secretary of state George Shultz and World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder.

The day Israel’s wars changed forever

This war was different, because this was not our tanks against theirs on some desert plain; rather, it was their missiles against our population centers, their rockets against our kindergartens.

Yitzhak Shamir, prime minister during the 1991 Gulf War, is flanked by then-defense minister Moshe Arens (left) and an unidentified officer

Screening of 'Jenin, Jenin' film prohibited in Israel, Lod court rules

The court also decided that Israeli-Arab film director and actor Mohammad Bakri will pay IDF Lt.-Col. Nissim Meganji NIS 175,000 as compensation for defamation.

Israeli Arab actor and filmmaker Mohammed Bakri attends the Dubai International Film Festival

Arafat’s widow: Second Intifada was a mistake

Deposed Fatah operative Mohammed Dahlan, a former PA security commander in the Gaza Strip, moved to the United Arab Emirates after falling out with PA President Mahmoud Abbas ten years ago.

A woman passes a poster depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, Beirut

Palestinian Airlines to shut down after 25 years of activity

The airline's fleet of two Fokker 50 aircraft has been leased to other airlines over the last few years.

gaza rafah airport 298

Ramallah lynching victim's brother: Israel's gov'ts have let us down

"[Former prime minister] Ehud Barak promised us personally that we will be well looked after, but all we received was a slap in the face."

The coffin of Vadim Norzhich, draped in an Israeli flag, is lowered to his grave in Or Akiva ,October 13, 2000

Remembering the Ramallah Lynching, 20 years later

The lynching was perhaps a watershed moment in Israeli-Palestinian relations, and set the course of the next five years of great suffering.

Remembering victims of the Second Intifada, February 2004

Terrorist felt 'like bride on wedding day' ahead of her planned attack

Graffiti on a wall in Bethlehem commemorating a female 'martyr'