Israel’s health minister wants to make it easier to get an abortion By Shira Hanau, JTA Dec 2, 2021 As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Washington on the most significant abortion case to reach the court in decades, Israel’s health minister laid out his plans to simplify what he called Israel’s “chauvinistic” abortion process on Wednesday. “It should be a given — the rights to a woman’s body are the woman’s alone,” Nitzan… Read More
Israel An Israeli doctor tested positive for Omicron, but infected few contacts When Dr. Elad Maor tested negative for the coronavirus upon returning to Israel from abroad last month, he thought he was in the clear to get back to work… By Shira Hanau, JTA Dec 2, 2021
Politics Back from Israel, Jamaal Bowman faces protest from socialist allies Speaking to a group of college students, Rep. Jamaal Bowman expressed no regret about taking a recent trip to Israel and the West Bank with the liberal… By Ben Sales, JTA Nov 30, 2021
Israel Poll: Less than half of Jewish Israelis support mandatory army draft A new poll conducted in Israel found that a majority of Israelis support abolishing its mandatory army draft. The Israel Democracy Institute has been… By Shira Hanau, JTA Nov 29, 2021
Israel Nearly 1 in 3 Israeli Jews will be haredi Orthodox by 2050 Nearly one third of Israel’s Jewish population will be haredi Orthodox by the year 2050, according to projections by Israel’s National Economic Council.… By Shira Hanau, JTA Nov 23, 2021
Bay Area Meet the Nahums: Three Bay Area siblings proudly serve in the IDF One by one, three Israeli-born siblings who grew up in Sunnyvale are serving as “lone soldiers” in the Israel Defense Forces. Amit Nahum, 22, enlisted in… By Emma Goss Nov 22, 2021
Israel 1 killed, 4 injured after Hamas assailant opens fire in Jerusalem An Israeli man in his 20s is dead and four others were injured after a Hamas assailant opened fired with a submachine gun in Jerusalem’s Old City Sunday… By Shira Hanau, JTA Nov 22, 2021
Hanukkah Ruins of a Hellenistic fortress show ‘tangible evidence’ of Hanukkah Archaeologists excavating a 2,100-year-old fortress say it provides “tangible evidence” of the events from the Hanukkah story. The site, located west of… By Shira Hanau, JTA Nov 18, 2021
Israel Israel to speed up evacuations of Ethiopian Jews in midst of civil war Israel is set to speed up its evacuations of some of the relatives of Ethiopian Israelis who remain in the country in the midst of an escalating civil… By Andrew Lapin, Shira Hanau, JTA Nov 11, 2021