Shipments have been halted for past two weeks, with Damascus citing deteriorating security in Latakia region

Shmuel Eliyahu, currently chief rabbi of Safed, has been under fire for ‘intolerant’ remarks and rulings

Secretary of state phones Netanyahu, Abbas even as officials say negotiations are dead in the water; US calls on sides to ‘look in mirror’

Left-wing MKs enraged as committee head David Rotem explains he wants to prevent them from petitioning High Court

Jury still out on US secretary of state’s record, but his zeal to change plans and put out diplomatic fires in the Middle East, Ukraine and elsehwere is unchallenged

New York Times: Community wants convicted spy released, but balk at using him as diplomatic pawn, fear questions over divided loyalty of American Jews

With days left before batteries on boxes run out, vessels search underwater for data recorders from missing Malaysian flight

Group accuses goverment of whitewashing the establishment’s complicity in Nazi genocide