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Fed up with conflict over how women can worship at the Western Wall, a group of Jewish feminists has begun reconstruction of the Eastern Wall, where they expect to be able to do as they please, thank you very much. Former prime minister and ex-Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert paved the way for the unusual arrangement […]

JERUSALEM—The State of Israel, which will turn 65 years old on May 14, plans to apply for Medicare, the U.S. national social insurance program, according to Chaim Weizguy, head of Israel’s Health and Welfare Agency. Weizguy announced that Israel wants to join Medicare in order to qualify for badly needed economic surgery that would then […]