Even as settlement activity has become an even hotter potato than usual at the UN, President Reuven Rivlin is planning to cross the Green Line on Monday and light Hanukka candles for the third night of the festival at the Beit El Yeshiva with the institution’s teachers and pupils.
Ending a half-decade-long diplomatic freeze, Turkey’s new ambassador to Israel on Monday hailed a “new beginning” in bilateral ties and called the Jewish state Ankara’s “partner and friend.”
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin reaffirmed the strong relations between the Jewish state and India in meetings with the leaders of the South Asian country during a state visit Tuesday.
As fans around the world were on Friday coming to terms with the death of Leonard Cohen, Israel was treating the Canadian Jewish poet and singer as one of its own.
TEL AVIV – Donald Trump on Wednesday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the White House at the “first opportunity,” according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
President Reuven Rivlin is to travel to India for an official visit next week, his office said Wednesday in a sign of increasingly close relations between the two countries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans a multi-stop tour of the eastern hemisphere in the next three months, with visits to Australia, Singapore and Kazakhstan, all of which have never before been visited by an Israeli prime minister.
Israel unveiled Friday a headstone at the grave of ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres who died last month, at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Furious Israeli politicians accused the UN’s cultural arm of anti-Semitism Thursday in the wake of a resolution approved by UNESCO that erases the Jewish connection to Jerusalem holy sites.
President Reuven Rivlin struck a celebratory but troubled tone in a Rosh Hashanah greetings video Saturday, saying the ritual sound of the Jewish shofar was also “an alarm call for our community, our family and for ourselves” to come together rather than apart in a sometimes hostile world.
Former US President Bill Clinton paid his respects to former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres immediately after landing in Israel on Thursday, viewing the late statesman’s coffin where it lay in state at the Knesset.
Shimon Peres’s casket was brought Thursday to the Knesset in Jerusalem, where thousands of Israelis are expected to pay their respects to the former president and prime minister, who died in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
“We were gathered here, and sent along ‘the path to death’,” says Raisa Maistrenko, pointing to a Kiev ravine that 75 years ago witnessed one of the worst atrocities of World War II.
President Reuven Rivlin visited the family of his predecessor, Shimon Peres, in the Sheba Medical Center on Saturday night where Peres has remained since his stroke on Tuesday.
President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and political leaders from across the spectrum united Tuesday in wishing a speedy recovery to former president Shimon Peres, who was hospitalized in serious condition following a massive stroke.
During a visit to the Gaza periphery on Tuesday, President Reuven Rivlin said Israel is not seeking a wider conflict with Hamas.
Israeli judoka Yarden Gerbi overcame an early loss to win a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday, becoming the first Israeli athlete to win a medal at the 2016 games, and the first Israeli Olympic medalist since windsurfer Shahar Tzuberi took home the bronze in the 2008 games in Beijing.
President Reuven Rivlin and his wife Nechama met on Sunday with Uri and Mika Banki, whose 16-year-old daughter Shira was stabbed to death at last year’s Jerusalem Pride parade.
President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter of condolence to his Turkish counterpart in the aftermath of what he called a “cowardly, murderous” terror attack at an Istanbul airport Tuesday that killed at least 41 and injured more than 230.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Israelis and Palestinians not to allow extremists on either side to fan violence, as he arrived as part of a Middle East tour.
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas refused to meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin while the two are in Brussels it was reported on Thursday.
President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday told members of the European Parliament that international efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement — including the current French initiative — were “negotiations for negotiations’ sake,” and therefore doomed to fail.
TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent condolences to the families of the victims of the Orlando massacre, saying that Israel stands “shoulder to shoulder” with the United States in the fight against terrorism.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Jerusalem will never be redivided in a ceremony marking 49 years since the unification of Jerusalem on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – “We will not give up our hope to achieve peace with our enemies- But first we will achieve peace with ourselves,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a speech in Jerusalem on Tuesday in memory of Israel’s fallen soldiers.
The Times of Israel reports: Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism formally began at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday as sirens wailed throughout the country, signalling a solemn minute of silence at the start of an annual remembrance marked with candle lightnings, memorial services and melancholy songs.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli ex-president Moshe Katsav, in prison for rape and other sexual offences, has asked the current head of state for a pardon, President Reuven Rivlin’s office said on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Thousands of Israelis opened their living rooms to the public on Wednesday evening, hosting Holocaust survivors who told of their personal experiences on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
TEL AVIV – Radical Muslims and liberal elites continue to perpetuate the anti-Semitism witnessed during the Nazi regime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday night at a ceremony for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
TEL AVIV – Turkey will sign a reconciliation agreement with Israel if the latter agrees to resolve the electricity and water crises in the Gaza Strip, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters in Qatar on Friday.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed a stunned crowd of the suspected Jerusalem bus bombing during a speech he delivered in Binyamina on Monday evening marking 85 years to the founding of the Irgun. “We will find
The Times of Israel reports: Ankara is willing to work together with Jerusalem in fighting international terrorism, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin Wednesday, in a rare phone call between the two leaders. Erdogan expressed
The Times of Israel reports: Wrapping up a two-day visit to Russia, President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday met with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for talks aimed at strengthening bilateral trade and economic relations between the two countries. In light
The Washington Post reports: JERUSALEM — Israel viewed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that he was removing the bulk of his troops from Syria with a mix of surprise and concern. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with Putin in Moscow
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has hosted Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, hailing friendly ties between the two nations. While welcoming Rivlin in the Kremlin, Putin noted that nearly 1.5 million Israeli citizens have origins in Russia and other former Soviet nations,
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will ask Russia on Wednesday to ensure that its partial pullout from Syria does not embolden Iranian and Hezbollah forces there, an Israeli official said. Rivlin is in Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose
A Russian diplomat sought to reassure Israel on Tuesday that its security would not be harmed by the winding down of Moscow’s military intervention in Syria’s civil war, but a top Israeli lawmaker said the ramifications could not yet be
TEL AVIV – Jewish American comedienne Roseanne Barr will be in Israel for a conference on combating the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in March, Ynet reported. Barr was invited to the conference by pro-Israel group StandWithUs, which focuses on
The Times of Israel reports: Egypt’s new ambassador to Israel hailed bilateral relations Thursday, expressing hope that the two countries’ “constructive” relationship would bring peace to the region. Hazem Khairat (pictured right) handed his diplomatic credentials to President Reuven Rivlin
The Jerusalem Post reports: Support for Israel has never been and must not become a political party issue. It is bipartisan, President Reuven Rivlin (pictured left) told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Thursday. The bonds between