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Highlights from 1995
One in three women say they've been harassed at work. But because of appalling failures in the system supposed to protect them, only a handful are taking action.
A curious combination of belief in Jesus and commitment to Jewish rituals, Messianic Judaism is proving increasingly seductive - and threatening to the Jewish mainstream.
With conventional methods offering no guaranteed protection against suicide bombers, Israel is now focusing on the elimination of the operational masterminds behind the new wave of Islamic terrorism
The notorious `Organizatsiya' mob has discovered that Israel is a perfect center for planning crime, laundering bloodstained money and moving drugs.
In 7th century Arabia the first soldiers of Islam went out from the mosques to victory. Today, the mosques of the Gaza Strip have become the military strongholds of the new "warriors," the members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
15-year-old Gaza boy tells how Hamas recruited him as a suicide bomber and why he changed his mind
Old Toddler: 104-year-old Yosef Tzadok, grandfather of 24 and great-grandfather of 36, has received a notice to register at a Jerusalem kindergarten.
An unexpurgated edition of her memoir reveals sides of Anne Frank only hinted at till now
As Israel turns 47, is it losing its national character amid an American deluge? In this opening essay, Stuart Schoffman wonders whether Americanization will wreck the country's most distinctive values.
The Jews in the militia movement, which was forced into public view by the Oklahoma City bombing, see their involvement as a logical outgrowth of their Jewishness.
Huge amounts of money that belonged to victims of the Holocaust have been swelling the balance sheets of Swiss banks for the past 50 years. And the banks - backed up by Swiss law - have shown little interest in giving it back.
Hundreds of Palestinian collaborators are being secretively resettled inside Israel. But the locals are far from happy with their new neighbors.
It is a sunny, windy Jerusalem afternoon, and hundreds of chanting boys and girls in their early teens, members of the Bnei Akiva religious Zionist youth movement, sit on a grassy slope in a park near the Knesset. Though many of them are veterans of the right's anti-government demonstrations, today they've gathered not to protest but to cheer on their friends performing in a song competition.
This month, Israel's most controversial judge takes over as chief justice. On the horizon: A confrontation between the Supreme Court and the Knesset over who will have the last word on Israeli democracy.
Ten months after the signing of the peace treaty with Israel, Jordanians are having a hard time forgetting the past
Israel is undergoing a philanthropic revolution - with the wealthy dipping deeper, and the government preparing tax breaks to encourage smaller donors
For the Oslo II accord to work, Israel and the Palestinians will have to cooperate to an unprecedented degree. Critics snipe that Yasser Arafat is not up to the task. Supporters say the experience of Gaza and Jericho suggests he may be.
It sounds like an oxymoron, but Israel's first "secular yeshivah" has officially been opened by the Israeli Secular Movement for Humanistic Judaism (whose Hebrew acronym, Tehilah, means "beginning").
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin has sharpened the key dilemma confronting Israel's divided people: Which do they value more, their democracy or their Biblically promised lands. The country's future hinges on the answer.
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