Adam Fader, 16, a dark haired boy with a dark complexion, wearing a yarmulka, sat on the grass in front of the Museum of Jewish Diaspora at Tel Aviv University, enjoying the Israeli sun. In a few days time he would be back at home in Miami with his family, after two months of high […]
In an exclusive interview with the editors of Readers Digest, President Reagan discussed major issues that confronted his Administration during the first year in office. One was the Palestinian issue. According to the interview which appears in the latest issue, Reagan was asked- “Mr. President, there seems to be consensus that there can be no […]
Some 50 Jewish Sinai settlers who had been trying to disrupt the dismantling of a water pipeline in the Kadesh Barnes settlement were dispersed by the army yesterday. About 40 were arrested and one man was taken away in hand-cuffs. This was the first time the army moved against the ultranationalists in Sinai who have […]
Under the threat of an American withdrawal from the United Nations, the Arab States and their supporters here were reconsidering the language of an extremely anti-Israel, anti-U.S. resolution on the issue of Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights today. The issue is presently the subject of debate at an emergency special session of the General […]
A Manhattan Supreme Court justice has ruled that a Jewish mother could not have continued custody of her eight-year-old son because she had violated an agreement with her former husband to bring up the child as an Orthodox Jew. The ruling Tuesday by Justice Irving Kirschenbaum applied a 1980 decision by an appeals court which […]
The Defense Ministry said today that a special committee of military and economic experts has recommended that planning begin to design and produce the “Lavie,” the second generation Israeli-made fighter plane. If work starts now, prototype models should be available for flight testing about 1985 and the plane should be in use in the Air […]
Maj. Saad Haddad, commander of the Christian militia, accused the United Nations of lying about the number of terrorists in its sector of southern Lebanon. Haddad called a press conference in the Israeli border town of Metullah today to dispute a statement by Timor Goksill, a spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon […]
President Reagan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt ended their two days of talks at the White House today as they began them yesterday, with pledges of continued U.S.-Egyptian friendship and cooperation and a reaffirmation of their governments’ commitment to the Camp David peace process. Both men emerged to sunny skies after a 30-minute talk […]
Leon Dulzin, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization Executives, told a press conference here that the Third Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry will be held at the end of October, probably either in Paris or London. Dulzin, who is also the chairman of the World Conference, said that the third conference, […]
The 1982 “Shirutrom” – Radiothon for the benefit of the educational and recreational projects of the Association for Welfare of Soldiers in Israel will be held this year in three cities — New York, Chicago, Los Angeles — on May 2, it was announced yesterday by Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Natke Nir, chairman of the […]