Israeli lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are moving forward with legislation that would outlaw sex between a religious or spiritual leader and one of his believers, comparing that situation to sexual relations between a therapist and a client, which is a criminal offense.
An Israeli businessman in Brazil was killed last week as he tried to resist a pair of robbers.
One Israeli was officially proclaimed dead at Tel HaShomer Hospital on Friday after being critically wounded in a shooting attack along a dirt road near the Israeli settlement of Dolev in the West Bank.
Ofir Gross, 40, who was found dead hours after having been declared missing in Hungary, had been beaten to death by bricks while sleeping according to Hungarian authorities, Channel 2 reported Tuesday.
The Foreign Ministry has confirmed reports that a 39-year-old Israeli citizen was on the Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner that crashed in the French Alps between Barcelonnette and Digne on Tuesday.
Dan Hanegby, an Israeli investment banker, was killed in a collision with a charter bus on Monday morning in Manhattan, according to the New York Times.
An Israeli court has approved a class-action suit against Facebook for violating users’ privacy, ruling that a clause in Facebook’s terms of use requiring all suits to be heard in California courts is invalid.
Jerusalem – Just hours before the Satmar Rebbe, Reb Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, was due to land in Tel Aviv in order to visit with his Chasidim and to celebrate his grandson’s wedding, a newspaper columnist issued a call to ban the Rebbe from the country.
An Israeli journalist arrested in Turkey has been freed, following intervention by Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
An Arab news outlet identified with the Syrian government said on Wednesday morning that Israeli jets struck targets at a Damascus airport.
