Einstein once kept kosher, and 7 other Jewish facts for relativity’s 100th b’day The famed physicist believed in Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s God and raised money for the Jewish state, despite reservations. By Gabe Friedman November 24, 2015 5:25 pm
Yitzhak Navon, 94, Israel’s first Sephardic president, buried in state funeral Navon, the first president to visit Egypt, threatened to resign unless Israel set up a committee to look into the 1982 massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. November 8, 2015 8:51 am
Peres finishes six-decade political career as Rivlin inaugurated president Israeli President Shimon Peres officially exited Israeli politics for the first time in six decades as his successor, Reuven Rivlin, was sworn in. July 24, 2014 1:40 pm