Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Four Jewish victims of Paris market attack buried in Jerusalem

By Michele Chabin — January 13, 2015
(RNS) The families of the four men, who were not Israeli citizens, asked that they be buried in Israel rather than France.

Note to Netanyahu: Don’t make American Jewish life harder (COMMENTARY)

By Jeffrey Salkin — November 25, 2014
(RNS) As much as I worry about the effect of the nationality bill on the Jewish state, I worry more about the effect that this will have on the Jewish street.

Four killed in Jerusalem synagogue terror attack

By Michele Chabin — November 18, 2014
JERUSALEM (RNS) The incident was the latest violent event in the tense city where relations between Arabs and Jews have been deteriorating for months over a contested shrine holy to both Jews and Muslims.

Pope Francis calls for ‘courage’ toward peace between Israel, Palestine

By Josephine McKenna — June 9, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) “Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare," Pope Francis told the Israeli and Palestinian presidents. "It calls for the courage to say yes to encounter and no to conflict, yes to dialogue and no to violence."

Pope Francis meets with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu

By Eric J. Lyman — December 2, 2013
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis is starting to raise the political profile of the Vatican to levels not seen since the height of John Paul II's papacy.

Tensions flare over women’s prayers at sacred Western Wall

By Michele Chabin — April 4, 2013
JERUSALEM (RNS) The ultra-Orthodox rabbi in charge of the sacred Western Wall assured a government emissary that Jewish women will not be arrested if they try to hold prayer rallies at the holy site, despite a warning from Israeli police.
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