NOVANEWS New York State attorney general investigating William Rapfogel, longtime head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty; council sacks longtime leader. JTA William Rapfogel, the longtime head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty […]
NOVANEWS PMO and national student union to create covert units at universities to engage in diplomacy via social media; unit heads to receive full scholarships. Haaretz The Prime Minister’s Office is planning to form, in […]
NOVANEWS Times of Israel The brother of Israeli entertainer Dudu Topaz agreed to a cash settlement in a lawsuit against a police forensic institute that removed Topaz’s heart during an autopsy after he committed suicide […]
NOVANEWS Special Rapporteur Richard Falk. UN Photo/Jess Hoffman 13 August 2013 – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today expressed deep concern at the alleged ongoing judicial harassment, intimidation and abusive treatment […]
NOVANEWS Israeli settlements are considered illegal by the UN and most countries because they are built on territories which were captured by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, and are hence seen as being […]
NOVANEWS Submitted by Ali Abunimah The mother of a Palestinian prisoner at a weekly sit-in in front of the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City, on 12 August 2013. Hossam Salem As part of the US […]
NOVANEWS Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds, and the Gaza Strip, and are demanding that Israel withdraw from the Palestinian territories occupied in the […]
NOVANEWS By Adri Nieuwhof Noam Chayut is the author of a memoir titled The Girl Who Stole my Holocaust, the English-language version of which has recently been published. Chayut served five years in the Israeli army. […]
NOVANEWS DEBKAfile, Aug 13 2013 JCoS Dempsey arrived in Israel Monday Aug 12 for critical talks with Netanyahu, Defense minister Ya’alon and IDF CoS Gantz, followed by parallel talks in Jordan. He has come to […]
NOVANEWS “When we started, 90 percent of Israelis didn’t know there was a trafficking problem in Israel,” said Rabbi Levi Lauer, executive director of ATZUM-Justice Works. “There was a general consensus that because these weren’t […]