Ariel Zilber

Ariel Zilber has worked as a journalist in Israel for the past eight years. He is currently a Breaking News Editor and feature writer at The Jerusalem Post and previously wrote and worked as an editor for Ha'aretz. Originally from Long Island, New York, Ariel moved to Tel Aviv in 2005 after having graduated with a B.A in journalism from Boston University.

IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot (R), Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Right takes aim at Ya'alon: 'IDF is subordinate to civilians, not a junta'

Tunisians celebrate an election nearly four years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali

Has Tunisia replaced Israel as the Middle East's only genuine democracy?

Ehud Olmert

Report: Ex-Mossad chief's next of kin want Olmert at funeral


Lessons in leadership: An appreciation of Malcolm X

As the chief spokesman for the organization, he trumpeted the black separatist’s group’s extremist views – that which branded whites as “the devil” and called on blacks to take up arms if necessary.

THE GRAVE of civil rights leader Malcolm X at Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley, New York.

Pro-Palestinians create parody 'New York Times' to slam 'pro-Israel bias'

Commuters in the Big Apple could be forgiven for thinking that the 'supplement' they were handed was an actual copy of the Grey Lady.

The headquarters of the New York Times is pictured on 8th Avenue in New York

'I never implied Swedish FM should be assassinated,' ex-government official says

Dr. Zvi Zameret, the former head of the Education Ministry's pedagogical secretariat, wrote a stinging op-ed in 'Makor Rishon' on Friday that was harshly critical of Wallstrom.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom

Why are there so few atheists in Israel?

The debate over faith has been particularly robust in the West following a chain of major events over the course of the past two decades - except for Israel.

A worshipper prays outside a church on the summit of Mount Moses during sunrise on the Sinai Peninsula. According to the Old Testament, this is where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God

'The Jew who gave us GPS' - World marks 100 years since Einstein's theory of relativity

It was a century ago that the German-born Jewish physicist presented his groundbreaking formula to the Royal Academy of Science in Berlin.

Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna, 1921

After Obama, Netanyahu now turns attention to burying hatchet with US Jews

Republicans scoff at the notion that Netanyahu and the GOP made common cause in an effort to weaken Jewish support for the Democrats by so brazenly opposing Obama's Iran policies.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the National Building Museum in Washington

Twenty years on, what would have happened had Rabin lived?

The slain prime minister’s legacy swings from “Mr. Peace” to “Mr. Security,” depending on who you ask.

Yitzhak Rabin

Germany unmoved by Israel's effort to prevent conductor Barenboim from playing in Iran

Controversial pianist, who also serves as musical director of Berlin State Opera, is in talks to perform in special Tehran show.

Israeli-Argentine conductor Daniel Barenboim

Israeli archaeologists find remnants of landmark synagogue destroyed by Nazis

The Great Synogogue was built in the 1600's and remained an important fixture within the Lithuanian Jewish community until the Holocaust.

Model of The Great Synagogue of Vilna

Shaked to keep on appointing Arab judges

Coalition fails in vote for rabbinical courts

Ayelet Shaked