During a hearing on a petition demanding that Justice Minister Levin convene the Judicial Appointments Committee, which appoints judges to Israeli courts, Justice Stein said the lack of judges creates a workload so severe that murder suspects are being released to alternative forms of detention

Julia Klöckner's visit included an official Knesset welcome and a tour of Gaza accompanied by IDF soldiers. Reports said the Knesset and the Israeli embassy in Berlin prepared the tour despite objections from Germany's Federal Foreign Ministry and the German Embassy in Tel Aviv

Small-town European Jewish life has long been memorialized (and romanticized) in popular culture, but the Lost Shtetl Museum is here to show visitors a 'real shtetl.' After a decade of planning, the museum opened this fall – without its founder, amid concerns over transparency, content and leadership