Samaritans, an ancient religious group, celebrated Passover on Tuesday with a traditional sacrifice of sheep on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank town of Nablus. The Samaritan community in Israel numbers less than 1,000 people. Read more.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel completed a three-day visit to Israel on Tuesday focused on the Syria war and the Iran nuclear threat.
The West Bank’s first international marathon took place on Sunday in Bethlehem. Read one Israeli-Canadian runner’s account of the experience.
At a Jaffa bookstore-cafe, writing the story of co-existence: Yafa, the joint venture of a Ramle Arab and a Nahariya Jew, has for 10 years been a meeting point for Jews and Arabs in Jaffa, a mixed Jewish-Arab town just south of Tel Aviv. Read more.
Half of European Union states notified EU Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton on Friday of their support for local businesses to label products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
World leaders, among them Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attended the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday.
Some 10,000 people, most of them Arab teens and young adults, held a parade and a rally on Tuesday to mark the Nakba – “the catastrophe” – as many Arabs refer to Israel’s founding in 1948.
