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Yair Zivan
July 11, 2024, 5:12 pm
Is this the solution to ‘angry’ politics?
Centrist politics is the focus of an anthology of essays collated by British-Israeli political adviser Yair Zivan.
By Jenni Frazer
Barbra captured by Cecil Beaton
December 28, 2023, 2:25 am
Want to know the truth about Barbra Streisand?
The Jewish icon with the greatest voice has finally written her autobiography...and she will even read it to you
By Brigit Grant
Uri Savir during Oslo peace talks in 1994
May 30, 2022, 12:35 pm
Main negotiator of Oslo Accords with PLO dies aged just 69
Uri Savir was a rising star in the Israeli foreign ministry, aged just 40, in 1993 when ex-Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres made him director general in preference to more experienced heads.
By Toby Porter
Colette Avital
October 15, 2021, 12:52 pm
Former member of the Knesset claims ‘Shimon Peres sexually assaulted me’
Colette Avital says she was summoned to the former politician's office in 1984 and 'he pressed me against the door suddenly and tried to kiss me'
By Jewish News Reporter
Agnès Callamard, the new secretary-general of Amnesty International
April 15, 2021, 8:50 am
Amnesty International chief retracts ‘Israel murdered Arafat’ claim
The organisation's new secretary-general Agnès Callamard had claimed Israel's president 'admitted' the Palestinian leader's murder
By Michael Daventry
David Dangoor
November 20, 2020, 12:22 pm
David Dangoor: The books that have shaped my life
From Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker to Shimon Peres' autobiography No Room for Small Dreams, businessman and philanthropist David Dangoor reveals his desert island novels.
By Zaki Cooper
Professor David Newman voting in March
March 4, 2020, 10:05 am
Analysis: The left loses touch with the Israeli electorate
Ben Gurion University professor David Newman says the once great Israeli Labour Party is now all but extinct
By professor David Newman
The Prince of Wales meets President Reuven Rivlin at his official residence in Jerusalem on the first day of his visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. (Photo credit: Victoria Jones/PA Wire)
January 23, 2020, 9:23 am
Rivlin teases Prince Charles: ‘We still expect your mother to visit!’
Israel's head of state greets the heir to the throne on his first official tour of the Jewish state, as more than 40 world leaders gather in Jerusalem for the World Holocaust Forum
By Justin Cohen in Israel
Prince Charles
January 6, 2020, 12:12 pm
Prince Charles to meet Shoah survivors and President Rivlin during Israel visit
Heir to the throne will visit Yad Vashem and Bethlehem during historic two-day tour to the Holy Land this month
By Justin Cohen
New Union between Ehud Barak, Stav Shaffir and Nitzan Horowitz
September 18, 2019, 1:08 pm
What’s left of the Israeli left?
Whatever happened to the party of Golda Meir and Yitzchak Rabin? After another difficult election for the Israeli left, we reflect on their fall from grace and difficult future
By Jewish News Reporter
The dilapidated synagogue in Slonim
August 14, 2019, 11:22 am
Charity looking to ‘build a Jewish route through Belarus’
Together Plan is working with European Jewish heritage groups to launch a 'trailblazing' journey through the country
By Jewish News Reporter
Nursultan Nazarbayev after voting after voting
June 11, 2019, 3:39 pm
Why Kazakhstan sees ‘dynamic relations with Israel’ flourishing after elections
Joe Millis travels to the central Asian country's capital of Nur Sultan for its presidential election, and discovers why it has burgeoning ties with the Jewish state
By Joe Millis in Nur Sultan
Singer Barbra Streisand hugs late Israeli President Shimon Peres (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO via Getty Images)
June 10, 2019, 12:27 pm
The Streisand Effect: I’m Jewish in my soul, my heritage, my spirit
Ahead of the legendary singer's performance at Hyde Park on July 7, read about her long career, reflecting on meeting Shimon Peres and working on Yentl
By Brigit Grant
Hannah Rose - UJS president
May 8, 2019, 5:19 pm
‘Proudly anti-Zionist’ disabled students condemned for passing BDS motion
President of the Union of Jewish Students said she is 'disappointed but not surprised' after the contentious decision
By Jewish News Reporter
From L-R, Chemi Peres with Mayor Rahm Emanuel
April 19, 2019, 9:00 am
Shimon Peres’ son Chemi: ‘Maybe it’s time for me’ to enter politics
The Israeli venture capitalist and son of late Israeli president Shimon appeared on Chicago’s Jewish mayor Rahm Emanuel's weekly podcast
By Mathilde Frot
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