After five days in the area, and two meetings with PM Netanyahu, that’s pretty much how US Middle East envoy Mitchell has left Israel.  There

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) Today we celebrated Simchat Torah here in Israel, ending the holiday season.  Outside of Israel, it will be celebrated tomorrow, and

This (z’man simchatenu) is what Sukkot is called.  It begins tomorrow night.  A blessing to be here:  all over,  sukkahs are being erected and decorated. 

The Goldstone Report — which charges Israel with war crimes: the deliberate targeting of civilians — has now been presented to the UN Human Rights

I hope that everyone who observed Yom Kippur yesterday found peace and a spiritual high.  Now we head for the most joyous of holidays:  Sukkot,

“What if Israel,” writes analyst Herb Keinon in today’s Jerusalem Post, “tempered by the harsh reality of the 16 years since Oslo, is not exactly

First a correction of some importance:  Yesterday, I wrote, “Oslo agreements did declare settlement activity illegal.”  What I left out was the crucial NOT.  For

Obama met yesterday with Netanyahu and Abbas separately, and then with the two together. (Foreign Minister Lieberman and Defense Minister Barak accompanied Netanyahu.)   What was

Early afternoon yesterday, just about when services were ending for Rosh Hashana, the sky opened up and we had a deluge for a short while. 

Rosh Hashana begins tomorrow evening.  And so I want to begin today by wishing all those who are observing the holiday a year of peace,