Articles by: JewishNews-Ilan

A Picasso worth $27 million is seized by customs officials in France

A Picasso worth $27 million is seized by customs officials in France

  A painting by Pablo Picasso said to be worth 25 million euros ($27 million) was seized by French authorities last week, the French customs… Read More ›

Republicans push bill rejecting Iran nuclear deal

Republicans push bill rejecting Iran nuclear deal

Facing presidential veto, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls special debate on accord ahead of September vote   WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress announced… Read More ›

3 top Jewish House Dems come out against Iran deal

3 top Jewish House Dems come out against Iran deal

NY’s Nita Lowey says accord ‘will leave the international community with limited options’; Congress has until late September to vote   WASHINGTON (JTA) — Three… Read More ›

Obama to evoke ghosts of Iraq, Soviet Union in Iran plea

Obama to evoke ghosts of Iraq, Soviet Union in Iran plea

In speech at American University, president may cite Kennedy’s diplomatic efforts with Moscow as model for detente with Tehran   WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama… Read More ›

Israeli nuclear whistleblower fights 11-year travel ban

Israeli nuclear whistleblower fights 11-year travel ban

Former prisoner for nuclear espionage asks High Court for permission to visit wife’s family abroad. Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has requested permission to travel abroad… Read More ›

A living memory of how Israel began

A living memory of how Israel began

Op-ed: There are few countries in the world in which a man can hold in his hand a thread that starts at the country’s first… Read More ›

The sports event where Iran and Israel are friends

The sports event where Iran and Israel are friends

Unlike in most competitions, where Iranian athletes tend to avoid meeting Israelis, relations are warmer at the Special Olympics; members of the Islamic Republic’s delegation… Read More ›

Israeli backpacker in Georgia missing since Tuesday

Israeli backpacker in Georgia missing since Tuesday

Dor Cohen, a 23-year-old from Jerusalem, went on a trek with a childhood friend, during which they separated for a few hours; he never arrived… Read More ›

Does the path to a peace agreement run through Gaza?

Does the path to a peace agreement run through Gaza?

Some western diplomats argue that if a full-scale Israeli-Palestinian peace is to be achieved, Hamas, entrenched in Gaza, cannot be ignored.   A YEAR after… Read More ›

Two rockets fall near Israel-Gaza border fence

Two rockets fall near Israel-Gaza border fence

No warning sirens were triggered.   Two rockets launched from the Gaza strip exploded near the Israel border fence on Saturday night. Warning sirens were… Read More ›

The expulsion of Baghdad’s Jews and the unraveling of the Middle East

The expulsion of Baghdad’s Jews and the unraveling of the Middle East

Some 60 years later, in Baghdad the Jews are a ghostly memory.   A FEW hours in the Shorja open market in Baghdad can teach… Read More ›

Israeli court rejects child’s plea to end chemo

Israeli court rejects child’s plea to end chemo

16-year-old boy from a religious family fled his treatments at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, and was forced back against his parents’ wishes following… Read More ›

Teaming up with Arab states for Israel’s security

Teaming up with Arab states for Israel’s security

Op-ed: Combining intelligence abilities and coordinating preventive activity is the only way to restraint Iran, both in terms of nuclear deal violations and its further… Read More ›

Officials: Iran may take own samples at alleged nuclear site

Officials: Iran may take own samples at alleged nuclear site

Tehran insists on conducting its own soil sampling at Parchin military site, while IAEA inspectors would supervise collection and analyze samples; Kerry tells House committee:… Read More ›

Jonathan Pollard on forthcoming release: ‘I’m looking forward to being reunited with my wife’

Jonathan Pollard on forthcoming release: ‘I’m looking forward to being reunited with my wife’

Pollard has been serving a life sentence in a US prison since 1987.   Israeli agent Jonathan Polard will be released from prison after serving… Read More ›

Budget deal to give NIS 18,000 ‘piggy bank’ to 18-year-olds

Budget deal to give NIS 18,000 ‘piggy bank’ to 18-year-olds

This gift doesn’t differentiate between religion, race or nationality, says Kahlon   Soon enough, turning 18 wil not only be a time to celebrate, legally… Read More ›

Netanyahu, Abbas may address the EU in bid to reinvigorate peace process

Netanyahu, Abbas may address the EU in bid to reinvigorate peace process

Palestinian leadership to convene over secret meetings with Israelis.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas could address European heads of… Read More ›

Florida teens missing at sea after fishing trip

Florida teens missing at sea after fishing trip

Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos have been boating for so long that they’re just as comfortable at sea as they are on land. That’s the… Read More ›

Hillary Clinton pushes renewable energy with focus on solar

Hillary Clinton pushes renewable energy with focus on solar

  Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Hillary Clinton pledged Sunday that as president she would put the United States on a path toward generating enough renewable energy… Read More ›

Bobbi Kristina Brown dies at 22

Bobbi Kristina Brown dies at 22

Atlanta – Two days before she was found face-down in the bathtub at her home outside Atlanta in January, it seemed like Bobbi Kristina Brown’s career… Read More ›