Abba Eban

Permanent UN ambassadors meet with President Herzog

The group was somewhat smaller than previous delegations, but that may have been due to fears of travel to the Middle East during the current security situation.

 President Isaac Herzog addresses the wave of violence in Israeli society in a speech on May 8, 2023.
Then-Israel Ambassador to the UN Abba Eban speaks at the General Assembly in New York in the early 1970s.

Did Israel's famed diplomat Abba Eban lack clout back home?

Sesame Street creator Joan Ganz Cooney poses with some of the cast during a 40th anniversary street naming celebration in New York

Eli Evans, poet and influential grant-maker, dies at 85

 Aura Herzog

President Isaac Herzog's mother, Aura, dies at 97


Grapevine: A misrepresentation of sorts

THE EXTREMELY rare 16th-century Babylonian Talmud.

THINK ABOUT IT: The Knesset’s public image

The Knesset building in Givat Ram, Jerusalem

Education Ministry to provide ‘safety net’ to students pursuing high level math

“Our message is simple: We are fighting for every student - and reducing the room for deliberation between four units and five units - and it is working,” Bennett says.

Naftali Bennett

Illegally hunted stingrays during wildlife protection campaign in Haifa

Team uncovers boat in Haifa recently returned from the Mediterranean filled with crates of the sea creature.

ONE OF the many gray stingrays, a protected species, that were discovered yesterday.

On Ukraine President Poroshenko’s first official visit to Israel

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu greets Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Jerusalem

ENCOUNTERING PEACE: Yes, it is difficult to make peace

Life would be so much easier if we had nicer enemies.

Oslo Accords architect Yossi Beilin meets Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat in Jericho, in 1997

CANDIDLY SPEAKING: Jews and the global tilt toward conservativism and populism

Over the past two or three years, the emergence of populist parties on the far Right of the political scene has further complicated the political situation for Diaspora Jews.

Marine Le Pen (L), France's National Front political party leader, sits next to her father Jean-Marie Le Pen [File]

Silent night

Palestinian Christians feel they have to speak out against Israeli “occupation,” because if they don’t, Muslims would perceive their silence as tacit support for Israel.

Santa distributes free Christmas trees in the Old City.

Israel Golf: Ga’ash honors memory of golf pioneer Shafat

Ga’ash Golf tournament winners

Study: Gastrointestinal diseases not caused by using recycled ‘gray water’ for irrigation

A drip irrigation farm.