Alex Averbukh

Jazz from Romania

Emil Bizga will front an international lineup over the next few days when he performs in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.

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Solar power

In Israel, US sees opportunity for green tech and development

Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

Potent message

Men pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Rosh Hashana 5775: Each of us has a special role


Save the IBA’s English news

Diplomats are a particularly influential bunch. IBA news in English helps shape their outlook about Israel.

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Know comment: With one hand behind our back

Abbas is part of the problem, not the solution, as the past decade has shown over and over again.

Smoke rises following what witnesses said was an IAF air strike in the east of Gaza City.

Grapevine: The end of an era

It remains to be seen whether Rivlin who is 10 years younger than Peres was when he took office, will prove to be as energetic

Former president Shimon Peres.

No holds barred: Israel must not make the same mistake twice

Peace came to Europe and the Far East only after the greatest generation totally destroyed Germany and Japan’s capacity to make war.

Explosion in Gaza Strip Beit Hanoun

Media comment: Klinghoffer

Attempts to rewrite history are ubiquitous, but here arguably the most important opera house in the world is participating in this anti-Semitic distortion.

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Grapevine: Seizing the moment

Weissglass credited Abbas with bringing about a change in Palestinian attitudes after taking over the leadership of the PLO in November 2004.

Abbas at Arab League summit

Hungary’s dangerous precedent

Anyone who has followed the alarming rise of Jobbik, the Movement for a Better Hungary since its establishment in October 2003, would find the decision of the Supreme Court absolutely incomprehensible.

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In my own write: Fall of the mighty

Their ethical failures spread out through society like ripples in a pond when a stone is thrown in.

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My word: Spies and stories

Truth and fiction mix inside and outside the espionage world.

Israeli espionage

Savir's corner: Pollution

In today’s Middle East, there is a dichotomy between moderate pragmatism and fundamentalist, nationalistic extremism.

Al- Qaida linked fighters in Syria.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: We never forgot Jerusalem

Whenever Jews remembered Jerusalem something good came of it. Whenever they forgot Jerusalem, bad things happen.

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