Prime Minister Ariel Sharon´s decision to complete the security fence between Israel and the West Bank may have seemed like a formality, but it could turn out to be the most important decision of his 30-year political career.
“The Passion,” Mel Gibson’s controversial film about Jesus, has sparked a new battle — among Jews unable to agree on how to deal with Christian portrayals of the Jesus story in popular culture.
The recent bombing of the Maxim restaurant in Haifa was particularly devastating for two Israeli families, which each lost five members from three generations.
