Israel

Im Tirtzu founders say their fight is against anti-Zionists, not left-wingers

With calls for a “second Zionist revolution,” the founders of an Israeli student group embroiled in a controversy over the New Israel Fund say that Israel has lost its sense of purpose.

Legalize Silwan building, Yishai tells committee

Israel’s interior minister has asked a Jerusalem municipal committee to consider legalizing a Jewish building in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood.

NIF fracas: Defending Israel or destroying democracy?

A campaign against the New Israel Fund — a U.S.-based organization that funds civil society activists in Israel — has sparked a fierce debate over the limits of free speech, the financing of NGOs, the dictates of loyalty to the state and, ultimately, over the fundamental values of Israel’s Zionist democracy.

Will Israel’s response to Goldstone be enough?

Abbas reportedly agrees to indirect peace talks

Israel’s high court frees pro-Palestinian activists on bail

Silwan Jewish house evacuation orders stalled

Reassign Jerusalem reporter, N.Y. Times’ public editor says

Mine injures five in northern Israel

Netanyahu: Israel wants peace with Syria

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