http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en mforr@alteryourview.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-07T05:00:43+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/ethiopian_jews_mark_sigd_holiday_with_peres/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/ethiopian_jews_mark_sigd_holiday_with_peres/#When:05:00:32Z Ethiopian Jews celebrated the Sigd holiday with Shimon Peres at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. It was the first time an Israeli president has marked the Jewish-Ethiopian holiday. More than 250 people—including ministers, Knesset members, religious leaders, community and youth leaders, soldiers and visitors from across Israel—participated in Monday’s celebration. A panel of young Ethiopian-Israelis shared their personal… News - Israel 2009-11-07T05:00:32+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jews_palestinians_scuffle_over_e._jerusalem_home/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jews_palestinians_scuffle_over_e._jerusalem_home/#When:05:00:31Z Jewish Israelis moved into the home of a Palestinian family in eastern Jerusalem after a court ruled that it was Jewish-owned. After a Jerusalem district court on Tuesday denied the Palestinian residents appeal to remain in the home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, the Jews arrived at the home with security guards and attempted to vacate the family,… News - Israel 2009-11-06T05:00:31+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jnf_aims_to_turn_israel_diamonds_from_rough_to_ready/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jnf_aims_to_turn_israel_diamonds_from_rough_to_ready/#When:05:00:18Z People historically have associated the Jewish National Fund with planting trees in Israel. Now the century-old charity is also working to make sure that Israelis will have decent places to put good wood on the ball. The organization’s latest venture, Project Baseball, aims to develop baseball facilities in Israel for the country’s nearly 2,300 amateur players. Baseball has… News - Israel 2009-11-05T05:00:18+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/arrest_of_jewish_terrorist_raises_questions/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/arrest_of_jewish_terrorist_raises_questions/#When:21:04:32Z After the news broke in Israel that a West Bank settler was charged with murdering two Palestinians in 1997 and bombing the home of a prominent Israeli professor last year, many Israelis were asking why it took police so long. On Sunday, Israeli authorities lifted a gag order on the arrest of Yaakov (Jack) Teitel, a 37-year-old American… News - Israel 2009-11-04T21:04:32+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israel_denies_blood_diamond_accusations/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israel_denies_blood_diamond_accusations/#When:15:03:59Z Israel refuted accusations by a United Nations panel that it was involved in the blood diamond trade. The U.N. panel on Tuesday said Israel was involved in the illegal export and sale of diamonds from the Ivory Coast. It also said the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Guinea and Liberia were not enforcing a U.N. embargo on buying the… News - Israel 2009-11-03T15:03:59+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rabin_memorials_held_throughout_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rabin_memorials_held_throughout_israel/#When:17:48:49Z Israel is marking the 14th anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Even as memorial services were held Thursday, the Hebrew date of the murder, at schools and institutions throughout the country, some right-wing activists called on students and citizens to shun the commemorations. Memory tents were erected in sites across Israel and included an… News - Israel 2009-11-02T17:48:49+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/lawmakers_debate_nakba_bill/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/lawmakers_debate_nakba_bill/#When:18:00:46Z Arab and right-wing Israeli lawmakers debated a bill that would revoke government funding for institutions that mark the Nakba. The measure, sponsored by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, is a variation of the proposed Nakba law that would have made illegal the observance of Israel Independence Day as a day of mourning. The Knesset Constitution,… News - Israel 2009-11-01T18:00:46+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rockets_aimed_at_israel_found_in_s._lebanon/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rockets_aimed_at_israel_found_in_s._lebanon/#When:18:04:19Z Lebanese soldiers dismantled four rockets in southern Lebanon aimed at Israel the day after a Katyusha fired from the same area struck northern Israel. The rockets were found Wednesday resting on wooden launchers with timing devices set to detonate, Reuters reported. Reportedly they were placed in a house under construction that is owned by the mayor of Hula,… News - Israel 2009-10-31T18:04:19+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/peace_now_head_barred_from_knesset/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/peace_now_head_barred_from_knesset/#When:18:05:53Z The director of Peace Now in Israel has been barred from entering the Knesset. Yariv Oppenheimer on Monday was barred until further notice by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin after sending three members of his left-wing organization to enter the parliament building posing as students working on a project in order to interview right-wing lawmakers, according to Ha’aretz. Oppenheimer… News - Israel 2009-10-30T18:05:53+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/descendants_of_chinese_jews_arrive_in_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/descendants_of_chinese_jews_arrive_in_israel/#When:05:00:55Z A group of descendants from an ancient Chinese Jewish community moved to Israel. The seven young adults, all descendants of the Jewish community of Kaifeng, arrived last week in Israel on one-year entry permits. They will study Hebrew at a kibbutz ulpan and then undergo conversion to Judaism, according to Michael Freund, founder of the Shavei Israel organization,… News - Israel 2009-10-29T05:00:55+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rocket_strikes_northern_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rocket_strikes_northern_israel/#When:15:40:05Z A Katyusha rocket reportedly fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel. The rocket, which was fired Tuesday evening, landed near Kiryat Shemona and did not cause any injuries or damage, according to reports. It was the ninth rocket to strike Israel from Lebanon since the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Two Katyushas struck northern Israel last month. The rocket struck… News - Israel 2009-10-28T15:40:05+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/is_natan_sharansky_jewish_agencys_last_best_hope/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/is_natan_sharansky_jewish_agencys_last_best_hope/#When:14:27:18Z Fresh in his post as chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Natan Sharansky stood before the organization’s leaders in the same dimly lit Jerusalem hotel ballroom where they have been gathering for years and offered up the promise of his star power and vision to help save the day. Eschewing the usual talk of the agency’s flailing… News - Israel 2009-10-27T14:27:18+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/arab_violence_resumes_on_temple_mount/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/arab_violence_resumes_on_temple_mount/#When:16:47:19Z Arab rioters attacked Israeli police officers with stones, firebombs and oil on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Three police offers were injured Sunday morning during the attack, which began shortly after the mosques on the mount opened for prayers. A second round of rioting began later in the morning. Officers stormed the mount carrying glass shields for protection,… News - Israel 2009-10-26T16:47:19+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israels_supreme_court_rules_against_road_segregation/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israels_supreme_court_rules_against_road_segregation/#When:04:59:59Z Israel’s Supreme Court ruled against an Israeli army order to close a road near Hebron to Palestinian traffic. A three-judge panel agreed Thursday with a petition from the Association of Civil Rights in Israel saying that preventing Palestinians from traveling on the road to protect Jewish residents of a neighboring community is a “disproportionate action.” The petition was… News - Israel 2009-10-25T04:59:59+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/statesmen_dignitaries_meet_for_presidents_conference/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/statesmen_dignitaries_meet_for_presidents_conference/#When:05:00:26Z Israeli and foreign statesmen and dignitaries are meeting for the second Israeli Presidential Conference. The Facing Tomorrow conference, hosted by President Shimon Peres, begins Tuesday and will look at creating a better future for Israel, Jews around the world and the rest of the world. Peres, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Quartet’s Mideast envoy, Tony Blair,… News - Israel 2009-10-24T05:00:26+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israeli_airstrikes_hit_arms_factory_tunnels/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israeli_airstrikes_hit_arms_factory_tunnels/#When:14:28:04Z The Israeli Air Force bombed a building and two smuggling tunnels in Gaza. Wednesday night’s raid was in response to a Kassam rocket attack near a kibbutz in the western Negev several hours earlier. The building located in Gaza City was used to produce weapons, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Some 55 rockets and mortar shells have… News - Israel 2009-10-23T14:28:04+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/neturei_karta_denies_anti-shalit_statements/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/neturei_karta_denies_anti-shalit_statements/#When:21:44:41Z A fervently Orthodox anti-Zionist group denied that it was against the release of a captured Israeli soldier. A message sent out on the Neturei Karta e-mail list was sent by a young man on the fringe of the movement, a leading Neturei Karta spokesman told Vos Is Neias, an Orthodox news service. JTA reported Wednesday that the Orthodox… News - Israel 2009-10-22T21:44:41+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israel_u.s._set_to_begin_air_defense_drill/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israel_u.s._set_to_begin_air_defense_drill/#When:15:30:32Z Israel and the United States are set to begin an air defense drill that will simulate a missile attack on Israel. The largest-ever drill between the two states, known as Juniper Cobra 10, will begin Wednesday and last two weeks. It is the fifth in a series of biennial exercises, according to the Israel Defense Forces. About 1,000… News - Israel 2009-10-21T15:30:32+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/family_likely_murdered_by_professional_killer/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/family_likely_murdered_by_professional_killer/#When:15:04:09Z The Israeli family murdered in their Rishon LeZion home were likely stabbed to death by a professional killer, according to an autopsy. Israelis reacted with horror over the weekend to the murder of six members of the Oshrenko family. Among the three generations of victims found stabbed to death Saturday in their burning home were a 3-year-old girl… News - Israel 2009-10-20T15:04:09+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/u.n._councils_session_on_goldstone_tackles_jerusalem_violence/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/u.n._councils_session_on_goldstone_tackles_jerusalem_violence/#When:16:32:18Z Delegates focused on recent violence in Jerusalem in a U.N. Human Rights Council session devoted to reviewing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war. As the 47-member council met in Geneva this week for a special session devoted to the report it commissioned on “war crimes” perpetrated in the Gaza war, member states issued warnings Thursday about escalating… News - Israel 2009-10-19T16:32:18+00:00