Fidel Castro

Gal Gadot at the 'Wonder Woman' premiere at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California, May 25, 2017. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/via JTA)

May 24, 2018, 1:06 pm

From superhero to producer: Gal Gadot signs on to Fidel Castro drama

The Israeli actress is partnering with former Warner Bros exec Sue Kroll and husband Jaron Varsano to create the Cuba-based journalism thriller, ‘My Dearest Fidel’

By Tracy Frydberg

Cuba's new president Miguel Diaz-Canel, left, and former president Raul Castro, raise their arms after Diaz-Canel was elected as the island nation's new president, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, April 19, 2018. (Irene Perez/Cubadebate via AP)

April 19, 2018, 9:32 pm

Diaz-Canel replaces Raul Castro as Cuba’s president, marking end of an era

After over 60 years in which the Castro family ruled communist country, little-known 57-year-old takes over

By Michael Weissenstein and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ

Adela Dworin with Fidel Castro in Havana, in August 2010. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is at right. (Cubadebate state media)

February 19, 2018, 6:23 pm

When our woman in Havana asked Fidel Castro to the synagogue Hanukkah party

Adela Dworin doesn’t have to live in Cuba. Her friends left for Miami long ago. So why does she stay, running and schnorring for the Jewish community? Here’s her story, and Cuba’s

By David Horovitz

File photo taken on June 1, 2016 of Cuban Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. (AFP/Adalberto Roque)

February 2, 2018, 7:21 pm

Fidel Castro’s eldest son commits suicide

A scientist who studied physics in the former Soviet Union, Fidel Jr. helped usher in nuclear power in Cuba; he reportedly suffered from ‘deep depression’

By AFP

Illustrative: An Israeli flag hangs on the wall of the Jewish Community Center in Havana, Cuba, where two men are speaking on August 1, 2004. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

December 25, 2017, 10:30 pm

Israel, Cuba sought to reestablish diplomatic ties — report

Channel 10: Following US lifting of embargo in 2015, with Canada as broker, Jerusalem sent delegate to Havana; talks ended with election of Trump

By TOI staff

This file photo taken on October 24, 1962 shows US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signing the order of naval blockade of Cuba at the White House in Washington, DC, during the Cuban missiles crisis. (AFP)

October 27, 2017, 5:23 pm

New JFK files reveal mafia plots, FBI warning on Oswald

Some documents remain classified for security reasons, but Trump gives agencies six months to make a case for keeping them secret

By Chris Lefkow

US President Donald Trump signs policy changes he is making toward Cuba at the Manuel Artime Theater in the Little Havana neighborhood on June 16, 2017 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

June 17, 2017, 8:16 am

Trump thrusts US, Cuba back toward hostile relations

President denounces communist regime in Havana, vows to overhaul Obama’s ‘one-sided deal’

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Michael Weissenstein and Josh Lederman

An undated file photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and late Cuban Pesident Fidel Castro, made available by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza City of the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority)

December 7, 2016, 3:27 am

Ramallah to name street after Fidel Castro

PA announces ‘gesture of gratitude’ to late Cuban leader for his support over the years

By JTA

The motorcade carrying the ashes of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro makes its final journey towards the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago, Cuba, on Sunday, December 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

December 4, 2016, 4:16 pm

Fidel Castro’s ashes interred in a private ceremony

Event ends week-long national mourning of former Cuban leader that reached near-religious peaks of adulation

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and Michael Weissenstein

A Cuban national flag is at half-staff outside the Santa Ifigenia cemetery, in Santiago, Friday, December 2, 2016, where the ashes of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro will be laid to rest. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

December 4, 2016, 1:13 pm

Fidel Castro’s final resting spot shrouded in mystery

Ashes of longtime ruler likely to be interred in graveyard in Santiago, next to tomb of Cuban independence leader Jose Marti

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO

Cubans pay homage to the late leader Fidel Castro during the last ceremony before his burial in Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of his revolution, on December 3, 2016. (AFP/Pedro Pardo)

December 4, 2016, 6:40 am

Cuba bans monuments named after Fidel Castro

President says his brother ‘rejected any manifestation of cult of personality,’ did not want his name or likeness used for tributes

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and Michael Weissenstein

November 29, 2016, 1:13 pm

Miriam Bradman Abrahams

Rocking my Cuban world

Despite testimonials by ex-pat family and friends on how Castro destroyed Cuba, she looks forward to its bright future

Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during the 6th Session of the Cuban Parliament at the Conventions Palace in Havana on December 22, 2005. (AFP PHOTO/Antonio LEVI)

November 29, 2016, 10:18 am

7 moments that define Castro’s ties with Jews

Former leader granted religious freedoms and slammed Holocaust denial, but expressed views hostile to Israel

By Josefin Dolsten

The Cuban interior ministry building with the image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the Cuban flag fluttering at half mast at Havana's Revolution square, during Fidel Castro's memorial, on November 28, 2016 in Havana. (AFP Photo/Adalberto Roque)

November 28, 2016, 8:34 pm

Throngs pay homage to Cuba’s Fidel Castro

Thousands of Cubans pay final respects to deceased leader at Revolution Square, site of some of his most famous speeches

By Laurent THOMET

November 28, 2016, 4:31 am

Abbas orders Palestinian flags flown at half-staff in honor of Castro

PA president hails late revolutionary Cuban president as leader ‘who spent his life fighting for causes of justice’

By Tamar Pileggi