IMF Report: Israel needs reforms to ensure longer-term economic growth
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today submitted a report to the Governor of the Bank of Israel, Karnit Flug, and to the Director-General of the Ministry of Finance, Shai Babad, on the state of the Israeli More...
Netanyahu’s spin: Illegal structures in Arab sector to be demolished
On the eve of the Amona evacuation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that along with the demolition of illegal Jewish houses in Amona, the government will also demolish illegally built More...
Where has the land of hope gone?
Professior Yeshayahu Leibovitz once told me how he had encountered the writer Shai Agnon, who asked him: Why has the strength of the Torah grown weak? Leibovitz answered in the same spirit: More...
Uri Avnery: The Arabs Did It
The Arabs Did It WHEN MY parents married in Germany, just before World War I, among the gifts was a document attesting that a tree had been planted in their name in Palestine. My father was an early Zionist. More...
Uri Avnery: The Call of the Mu’ezzin
The first mu’ezzin stood on the roof of the prophet Muhammad’s home in Medina, during his exile from Mecca, and called the believers to prayer. He also walked along the streets, doing the same. When More...
Israeli-Arabs disgusted with leaders for boycotting Peres funeral
Many Israeli-Arabs are expressing their disgust with Knesset members from the Joint Arab List who decided to boycott the funeral of former President Shimon Peres on Friday. “I don’t think that there More...
Smart Prayer Room
Mosallah (مصلى) is the name of an original system for monitoring the presence of worshippers in the Muslim prayer room at the Technion Faculty of Computer Science. The unique app can identify the More...
Building hi-tech bridges between Arabs and Jews in Israel
On a recent trip to Israel, US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro met with the heads of several Israeli Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who seek to More...
UN censors Israeli exhibit about Zionism
The United Nations has decided to censor displays on the topics of Zionism, Jerusalem and Israeli Arabs included in a new exhibit about Israel, deeming them “inappropriate.” Israel’s More...
Palestinian incitement increases leading up to Passover
Palestinian incitement related to the al-Aqsa mosque has significantly increased in the weeks leading up to Passover, which begins on April 22, in an attempt to raise tensions and cause disturbances More...