Topic: Israel

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - There are no computers at Maoz Hatorah, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys school on the outskirts of Israel's bustling high-tech commercial hub, Tel Aviv.In the classrooms, English, mathematics and science lessons are kept to a minimum."If we devote our time ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Young Jewish settlers behind attacks on Palestinian mosques have shaken Israel by turning violent against its most revered institution, the conscript military.The zealots' escalation from anti-Arab vandalism and arson to a rampage at an Israeli garrison in the occupied ...

A bus pulls up to a stop in Jerusalem and the waiting crowd divides -- men flock to the front and women to the back, an illustration, activists say, of a disturbing trend of gender segregation.Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that the ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has cancelled government-sponsored television advertisements calling on expatriates to return, after some American Jews complained that the message denigrated their lifestyles.The spots, aired on Israeli channels that are often viewed by emigrants, featured dramatized scenes of Jewish assimilation ...

Six out of 10 Jewish settlers were drafted into combat units for their compulsory military service, an Israeli army study showed on Friday, indicating a sharp rise in numbers.According to a study on draft trends which was published by the military's personnel ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The women turned heads as they got on Jerusalem's number 56 bus.Startled ultra-Orthodox Jewish men looked away as the group mounted a challenge to growing gender segregation in the holy city by boarding the public vehicle from the front ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A sign at the ice cream parlour may caution men and women not to lick cones in public, but the warning didn't stop Jewish zealots vandalising the shop in Jerusalem's main ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.Other businesses in Mea Shearim, including a ...

TEL AVIV-JAFFA, Israel (Reuters) - Dozens of gravestones were desecrated at adjacent Muslim and Christian cemeteries overlooking the sea at Jaffa and a fire-bomb was thrown at a nearby synagogue, on Saturday, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.At least five tombs ...

Israel limited access to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday for fear of violence on the Muslim weekly day of prayer, which leads directly into Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, police said.The restrictions were part of a wider ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - In its troubled peace talks with the Palestinians, Israel has demanded that it should be recognized as a Jewish state, but there is deep domestic division on what that means.Yoram Kaniuk, a rambunctious 81-year-old author, was hailed by Israeli ...