Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon brands Yasser Arafat as "irrelevant," and the Palestinian Authority president responds by issuing yet another pledge to crack down on terror. Despite those dramatic developments, Israeli analysts and politici
Stefan Heym, the German Jewish writer and politician who fought Nazi Germany and later chose to live in Communist East Germany, has died in Israel at 88.
Two months after drawing fire for an article in which he was quoted, inaccurately, as it turned out, comparing fervently Orthodox Jews to Islamic terrorists, Rabbi Uri Regev is gearing up for new skirmishes with the Orthodox.
