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Highlights from 1998
Young Israeli Arabs fleeing the oppressive social mores of their hometowns and villages are finding a different form of intolerance in the big cities
Diaspora Jews are pulling out all the stops. But in Israel, ego trips, arguments over money, and a national sense of malaise are taking the fizz out of the 50th birthday celebrations.
Why does the prime minister get into so many crises, and how does he survive them?The answers lie in the legacy from his father, a world-class but embittered historian. Ben-Zion Netanyahu gave Benjamin his strength, ambition and idealism, but also a disastrously exaggerated self-reliance. The result is a man who longs to be a consensus leader, but can't stop alienating even his allies.
Israel is at center stage for the year 2000. But which drama will be played out? A flowering of interfaith dialogue? A papal-led tourism bonanza?Or Waco-style conflagration to usher in the apocalypse?
The Israeli military began planning to eliminate Iraq's dictator back in 1991. Now, proposals for a hit are coming in for renewed consideration.
Surprisingly, rabbis and Jewish ethicists are giving their approval, in principle, to human cloning. Indeed, they are already grappling with its staggering implications for Jewish law.
The venerable Jewish women's organizations are fighting for their lives. Their volunteers are aging; the pool of potential recruits is too busy climbing the professional ladder and building families to donate their limited time; and those who do want to be involved are demanding more than the old Donna Reed image has to offer. So these formidable groups, like their publics, are desperately evolving in a bid to keep pace.
Israel TV's series on the state's history has put a mirror up to society.Not everyone has liked what they've seen.
It's a study in contradictions: Kibbutzniks using summer-camp techniques to teach executives how to run their businesses
Ten highly qualified hackers, an ex-FBI expert said a few months ago, could bring America to its knees in 90 days. What could enemy hackers do to Israel? And what is Israel doing to stop them?
From Gondar in north-central Ethiopia, turn west and travel 200-plus kilometers on a dirt road through rugged hills, over rickety bridges, and you'll get to Shedi, a village on the edge of nowhere with one last telephone that works some of the time. From here the road gets rough - impassable during the rainy season, difficult for all but the best jeeps or tractors during the dry months. Push through the forest another 160 kilometers until, just before the Sudanese border, you arrive in Lower Quara, where the last community of Ethiopian Jews farms, herds its cattle - and waits for salvation in the form of visas to Israel.
The trendy bars and clubs of today's Lower East Side are part of what is drawing back the grandchildren of the immigrants who once filled the neighborhood
They may not be extrovert and effusive. They certainly don't look happy. But they are ultra-smart, extraordinarily determined and supremely innovative. And that's how these three twentysomethings from Tel Aviv have made hundreds of millions of dollars from their Mirabilis Internet company, and turned themselves into Israel's hottest high-tech story.
The fans of a top Dutch soccer club have chosen an unlikely way to support their team
Since the arrival of the Palestinian Authority four years ago, tribal blood-letting has only worsened in Palestinian society, compounded by the presence of thousands of armed security force members whose own loyalty is tribal, and who routinely act as though they are above the law. In this article, a leading Gaza psychiatrist and human-rights advocate makes an impassioned plea for national reconciliation.
I've been waiting for the opportunity for The Report to devote a cover story to Roberto Benigni's movie "Life Is Beautiful" since July, when I saw it at its Israel premiere, in the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Ehud Olmert, sailing to reelection in November's municipal ballot, is fostering high-rise building to renew the city center, solve housing problems and provide hotel space. But critics say the rash of planned skyscrapers threatens to overwhelm the city.
We're not the enemy, insist Israel's Arabs. We're no threat. We're battling to break into the circle, not out of it.
A few weeks ago, 13 Syrian Druse women got married to Israeli Druse men and crossed the border to live with their sweethearts. What's behind this rare instance of Syrian-Israeli cooperation? And how are the new brides faring in 'enemy' territory?
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