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Hundreds protest in Jerusalem against the arrest of Rabbi Yoram Abergil
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 12:05:16 AM
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French President Hollande expected to receive warm welcome in Israel
Hollande's 3-Day trip to Israel comes on the heels of France's efforts to delay agreement with Iran at Geneva nuclear talks.
By HERB KEINON \
11/17/2013 12:17:55 AM
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Thanksgivukka: Please pass the turkey-stuffed doughnuts
As Thanksgiving and Hanukka converge for a once-in-a-lifetime event, double holiday cheer – and endless culinary mashups – are on the menu.
By AMY SPIRO \
11/17/2013 12:34:51 AM
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Peres and Peri warn: Israel must be careful not to exacerbate row with US over Iran
Peri says that he would “probably vote in favor” of a military strike against Iran if all other possibilities had been exhausted.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF \
11/17/2013 12:59:40 AM
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Prosor: Palestinians ‘playing games’ in peace talks
Yacimovich assails Netanyahu for "slapping Americans in face," igniting the diplomatic front.
By MICHAEL WILNER AND JERUSALEM POST STAFF \
11/17/2013 1:06:58 AM
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Yehiel Kadishai, longtime Begin aide, dies at 90
Netanyahu: “Kadishai was loyal to the values of the nation, and ready to take on any task assigned to him."
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF \
11/17/2013 1:13:56 AM
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Over 800 attend Jerusalem’s Art Limmud FSU Festival
Three-day festival for young Russian-speaking Israelis featured 80 lectures from luminaries.
By DANIEL K. EISENBUD \
11/17/2013 1:38:03 AM
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Hungarian woman planning Budapest Shoah museum visits Yad Vashem
Museum at transit point used to send Jews to Auschwitz will have a focus on the fates of young people during the Holocaust.
By HENRY ROME \
11/17/2013 2:04:56 AM
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Canadian parliamentary c'tee calls to recognize Jewish refugees of 1948
Panel says Canadian gov't should encourage all refugee populations to be considered in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
By SAM SOKOL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT \
11/17/2013 2:15:04 AM
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Da Vinci robot improves prostate cancer surgery
A prominent urological surgeon who fled from Iran’s Khomeini regime as a teenager made a name for himself by fighting prostate cancer and is coming to Israel again to teach local colleagues.
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH \
11/17/2013 2:35:40 AM
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Health Scan: Untangling Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers hope that eventually microRNA-325 can be used to create a drug to help Alzheimer’s patients maintain low levels of tomosyn and preserve brain function.
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH \
11/17/2013 2:55:45 AM
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Report: Mossad working with Saudis on contingency plans for potential attack on Iran
'Sunday Times' quotes diplomatic source as saying Saudis are furious over Iran deal and are willing to give Israel "all the help it needs."
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 3:57:53 AM
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Woman killed, 3 people injured in Arava car crash
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 4:30:21 AM
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Jasper, Canada’s dark sky lights up the heavens
From images of the Milky Way to the striking beauty of Jasper National Park, being up here provides a priceless opportunity to find your own personal relationship to the night sky.
By GEORGE MEDOVOY SPECIAL TO THE JERUSALEM POST \
11/17/2013 4:49:15 AM
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Vive la France!
Thanks to the French, the Islamic Republic will not, for the time being, get relief from the sanctions regime as it marches – nearly unhindered – toward nuclear capability.
By JPOST EDITORIAL \
11/17/2013 4:58:54 AM
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Israeli leaders are readers
All of the presidents who made it on to the American pantheon that is Mount Rushmore – Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington and Roosevelt – were all serious readers.
By TEVI TROY \
11/17/2013 5:03:06 AM
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But I don’t have any homework!
The inconsistency of homework assignments makes it difficult for many children to learn.
By RICHARD L. CURWIN \
11/17/2013 5:21:11 AM
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From Richard Wagner to Roger Waters
How can it be possible that I admire a man who has so influenced me but who, had he met me, would have despised me?
By ELI KAVON \
11/17/2013 5:35:27 AM
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November 17: Educate them
Israel needs to conduct a powerful policy of regular education.
By JERUSALEM POST READERS \
11/17/2013 5:44:05 AM
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Bid for more sanctions on Iran could reach US Senate this week
Several Republicans considering offering more restrictions on Iran as an amendment to a pending defense authorization bill.
By MICHAEL WILNER AND REUTERS \
11/17/2013 5:52:09 AM
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Twenty-eight die in Vietnam floods, nine missing
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 7:05:08 AM
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Golf: Scott wins back-to-back Australian Masters titles
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 8:34:45 AM
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Abbas rejects resignation of Palestinian peace negotiator Erekat
PA president tells AFP that regardless of what happens on the ground, talks will continue for the full nine months.
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH \
11/17/2013 9:04:46 PM
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Likud MK: Western powers too eager to strike deal with Iran
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 10:09:02 AM
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Arsonist sets fire to car belonging to Islamic court judge in Jaffa
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 10:18:13 AM
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Jerusalem police investigate vandalism of tombstones in Muslim cemetery
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 10:23:15 AM
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Netanyahu aides deny report Obama refused to take premier's phone calls
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 10:27:03 AM
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Judges urge one of their own to quit 'rigged' State Attorney's race
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 10:33:09 AM
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China says Xinjiang police station attacked by axe, knife-wielding mob, 11 dead
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 10:34:54 AM
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Man dies after setting himself on fire in south Tel Aviv
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 10:50:43 AM
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Price-tag attack suspected at Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem
Islamic Movement files complaint after tombstones spray-painted in cemetery in Mamila quarter of capital.
By DANIEL K. EISENBUD \
11/17/2013 11:16:21 AM
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Kerry to return to Israel as Netanyahu publicly admits to differences with US on Iran
PM says there are differences with US on Iran but disagreements can happen even between the "best of friends."
By HERB KEINON \
11/17/2013 12:44:46 PM
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Italian police launch crackdown on neo-Nazi Internet group
Police raid homes of 35 people in over 20 towns and cities on suspicion of spreading ideas on the Internet “based on racial and ethnic hatred."
By JTA \
11/17/2013 1:05:20 PM
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French president Hollande's popularity at new low in Ifop poll
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 1:20:09 PM
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Arsonist sets fire to car belonging to Islamic court judge in Jaffa
Livni sets emergency meeting to discuss violence against law enforcement workers, struggle against crime syndicates.
By BEN HARTMAN \
11/17/2013 1:42:43 PM
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Analysis: Unpopular at home, Hollande appreciated in Israel
French president has earned Paris a greater degree of respect in Jerusalem than it has enjoyed in years.
By HERB KEINON \
11/17/2013 10:21:59 PM
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Olmert mocks Netanyahu, backs Obama over Iran nuclear talks
Former PM says Israel's "rhetoric of war and confrontation" was unwise, gov't erred ignoring Rouhani's talk of peace.
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 2:17:33 PM
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Cabinet approves bill allowing detention of illegal migrants for one year
Amendment follows court decision to strike down previous bill; new bill also provides for construction of detention center.
By HERB KEINON AND YONAH JEREMY BOB \
11/17/2013 2:22:20 PM
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Israel's GDP growth slows to 2.2% in third quarter
Slowdown follows stellar 4.6% growth in the second quarter, and 2.6% growth in the first quarter of 2013.
By NIV ELIS \
11/17/2013 2:53:09 PM
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Analysis: Hezbollah and Iran – two branches of the same tree
The fact that a Hezbollah MP would call on Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Iraq to unite against Israel demonstrates the alliances and power his movement has in the region.
By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON \
11/17/2013 3:21:15 PM
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The settlements: Israel’s albatross
Netanyahu’s demand from the PA to recognize Israel as a Jewish state when the expansion of settlements in the West Bank continues unabated is the height of “chutzpah.”
By ALON BEN-MEIR \
11/17/2013 3:46:48 PM
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Report: Deputy Libyan intelligence chief kidnapped
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 4:08:02 PM
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Iran says it won't insist on other countries recognizing its 'right to enrich'
Prime Minister Netanyahu: Tehran continues enriching uranium in practice, so it doesn't need international recognition.
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 4:24:48 PM
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Syrian official says UBAF bank unlocking frozen funds for food
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 4:37:00 PM
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Netanyahu offers job to UN interpreter who assailed UN hypocrisy on Israel in open microphone
Interpreter wondered aloud why Israel was being treated unfairly.
By HERB KEINON \
11/17/2013 5:05:24 PM
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Time is on Israel’s side
The military and economic power differential between Israel and its regional foes has grown.
By EFRAIM INBAR \
11/17/2013 5:17:16 PM
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German art hoarder denies paintings stolen, wants them back
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 5:29:47 PM
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Syrian army besieges town in strategic Qalamoun mountains
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 5:42:31 PM
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Nobel prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing dies aged 94
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 5:43:23 PM
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Anonymous man dies after setting self on fire in south Tel Aviv
By BEN HARTMAN \
11/17/2013 5:55:59 PM
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Car companies need to print pollutant levels on all publications
By SHARON UDASIN \
11/17/2013 5:58:18 PM
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BGU, Chinese firm to create desert research institute in Mongolia
By SHARON UDASIN \
11/17/2013 5:59:03 PM
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Ma'ariv to start printing an evening edition
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 6:09:13 PM
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Bad deal on Iran could lead to war, Netanyahu says
During appearance on CNN, Prime Minister advocates for tightening sanctions, not relaxing them.
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 6:12:10 PM
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Boeing airliner crashes in Russian city of Kazan, 50 killed
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 6:33:58 PM
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Singing star still not questioned over statutory rape claims, as police probe continues
Suspicion has been cast on singer's father, who is believed to have played central part in the incidents.
By BEN HARTMAN \
11/17/2013 6:42:01 PM
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50 dead as Boeing airliner crashes in Russian city of Kazan
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 6:52:02 PM
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Senior Hezbollah commander killed in Syria fighting
By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON \
11/17/2013 7:04:01 PM
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Hollande presses Israel on talks, but calls for Palestinian gestures too
Visiting French president says both sides should make gestures, calls on Israel to make gestures on settlements as well.
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 7:35:59 PM
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Netanyahu to Hollande: Iran's dream deal is world's nightmare
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 8:16:39 PM
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Fast-moving storm threatens tornadoes in US Midwestern
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 8:23:20 PM
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Abbas: Peace talks will continue for full 9 months
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 8:31:27 PM
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Revealed: Al-Qaida terrorist held in Israel for three years
Samer Abed a-Latif al-Barak, who is known to be of Palestinian origin, reportedly biological weapons expert.
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 8:39:57 PM
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Olmert criticized for slamming Netanyahu abroad
Former PM says Israel's "rhetoric of confrontation and war" was unwise, gov't erred ignoring Rouhani's talk of peace.
By Gil Stern Stern HOFFMAN \
11/17/2013 8:53:42 PM
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Son of Russian regional leader killed in plane crash
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 9:16:58 PM
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Drone malfunctions, hits US Navy ship during training
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 9:17:48 PM
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Netanyahu: A good deal strips Iran of ability to make fissile material for nuclear bomb
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 9:23:55 PM
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Netanyahu: Palestinians need to make concessions in peace talks as well
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 9:34:18 PM
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Ya'alon: Assad government has fired half of Syria's missile arsenal at rebels
By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 10:25:12 PM
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Comedy for Koby kicks it up a notch
LA-based comic Avi Liberman has been regularly bringing over a revolving door of his funny friends to Israel for a good cause since 2002.
By DAVID BRINN \
11/17/2013 10:26:58 PM
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Israel, the Arabs and Europe after America: Russia’s return to the future
By DAVID TURNER \
11/17/2013 10:28:00 PM
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New NBC drama to be filmed in Jerusalem
The series revolves around a Jerusalem-based FBI agent who discovers an ancient conspiracy during a murder investigation.
By YONI COLLINS \
11/17/2013 10:29:41 PM
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State Attorney recommends closing sexual harassment case against Emmanuel Rosen
By JPOST.COM STAFF \
11/17/2013 10:34:10 PM
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Syrian Observatory: 31 Syrian soldiers killed in bomb near capital
By REUTERS \
11/17/2013 10:35:57 PM
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Think about it
I have at least six foreign friends and acquaintances who have declared that they will never again come to Israel following a nasty security check.
By SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF \
11/17/2013 10:40:07 PM
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Israel: The impudence accompanying betrayal
THE REGION: The two-state solution is a policy that is impossible to implement, but the United States is going to try to force it on Israel anyway.
By BARRY RUBIN \
11/17/2013 10:44:46 PM
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What Kristallnacht and modern-day Iran have in common
The Iranian regime has fostered a culture of violence, hate and terrorism and participated in murders of thousands of innocent individuals
By DAVID MEYERS \
11/17/2013 10:47:54 PM
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Yechiel Kadishai: a great public servant
We will remember him as a gentle, quiet and scrupulously honest person, who was the powerful anchor of the Israeli political world during the Begin regime.
By MERVYN GOTSMAN \
11/17/2013 10:51:28 PM
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Defense Ministry gives full military service exemption to 633 haredim
State continues to exempt haredi men, despite expiration of Tal Law; 1,800 more expected to receive exemption in December.
By JEREMY SHARON \
11/17/2013 10:51:28 PM
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On whom can we rely?
Since his election in 2012, Obama has maintained a level of pressure on Israel exceeding that of any former president.
By PERI DEVANEY AND RON RUBIN \
11/17/2013 10:56:02 PM
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November 18: Deals with Iran
One cannot easily imagine the world returning to sanctions once Iran is even closer to breakout.
By JERUSALEM POST READERS \
11/17/2013 11:01:33 PM
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Netanyahu to Hollande: Israel will not be bound by 'bad' agreement on Iran
Prime Minister says a good deal would dismantle Iran's ability to prepare fissile material for a nuclear bomb; French president says France demands guarantees Iran will abandon nuclear weapons program.
By HERB KEINON \
11/17/2013 11:32:22 PM