Partition plan

Mustafa hopes that the Jewish of Qamishli, Syria will be able to return once the radical Islamist factions are gone. (Ziv Genesove/ Times of Israel)

July 6, 2018, 1:49 am

Devoid of Jews for decades, one Syrian city would be ready to welcome them back

Residents of Qamishli, a liberal enclave that has grown amid the civil war, tell a ToI writer they’d greet Jewish returnees with open arms — however unrealistic that seems today

By Ziv Genesove

Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with his father Benzion Netanyahu, in Benzion's house in Jerusalem, February 5, 2009. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

June 25, 2018, 9:49 pm

With Herzog at Jewish Agency helm, Netanyahu faces rerun of his father’s fights

Appointing a perennial critic of the PM to head the quasi-governmental body risks reopening an ideological chasm that goes back to the formation of the Israel-Diaspora relationship

By Raoul Wootliff

Former US ambassador Dan Shapiro speaks at a Times of Israel event in Jerusalem, July 2, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

May 14, 2018, 1:08 pm

Obama’s ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro not invited to US embassy opening

Envoy, who still lives in Israel, has praised the ‘historic’ relocation and attended Sunday’s Foreign Ministry celebration; says he has ‘very good’ ties with successor Friedman

By TOI staff

Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro attends at a fare-well session at the Knesset ahead of his departure from the role on January 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 12, 2018, 7:28 pm

Obama’s envoy to Israel says embassy move to Jerusalem ‘could help end conflict’

Dan Shapiro says relocation is an ‘overdue step’ that recognizes the reality of Israel’s capital and may bring the world closer to a resolution

By TOI staff

Senior Likud lawmaker and former head of the Shin Bet security services Avi Dichter appeals in Arabic to the residents of Gaza to abandon terror. (YouTube screenshot)

April 20, 2018, 6:16 pm

Senior Likud MK appeals directly to Gazans in Arabic: ‘Quit terror’

Avi Dichter, former head of the Shin Bet internal security service, urges ‘Alzheimer-suffering’ Gazans to ‘wake up’ and see that violence will only lead them to ‘catastrophe’

By Sue Surkes

The Queens Museum (Leo Chiou/Wikimedia Commons)

February 15, 2018, 12:51 pm

Ex-heads of NY’s Queens Museum ‘misled board’ over Israel blunder — report

In canceling and then reinstating event with US vice president, former director and her deputy showed ‘poor judgment,’ probe finds; director issues immediate rebuttal

By Sue Surkes

(Photos from this collection by Avraham Hermes and Rahamim Ben Zur; All images courtesy of Danny Goldsmith and Aden Jewish Heritage Museum)

December 6, 2017, 11:27 am

Murder, looting, burning: Remembering the Aden riots of 1947

87 Jews died in a three-day bloodbath triggered by the UN Partition vote, and carried out under the noses of British colonial rulers

By Dani Goldsmith and Sarah Ansbacher

December 5, 2017, 1:47 pm

Arnold M. Eisen

Partition in the Land of Israel, then and now

We need to draw clear political borders with the Palestinians and blur the boundaries dividing Israeli society

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed speaking at the special meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on November 29, 2017. (UN/Kim Haughton)

December 1, 2017, 12:28 pm

UN marks Palestine Day with fresh slew of resolutions condemning Israel

In first, UK breaks with EU and votes against resolution calling on Israel to give Golan Heights back to Syria

By TOI staff

The UN votes on partition, November 29, 1947 (Courtesy of the Government Press Office, Jerusalem)

November 30, 2017, 6:49 pm

Brazilian diplomat who presided over 1947 UN vote for partition plan remembered

Ceremonies in Rio De Janeiro and southern Brazil mark memory of Oswaldo Aranha, who supported and lobbied on behalf of resolution enabling creation of Jewish state

By JTA

The results of a draft resolution on Palestinian status are posted in the United Nations headquarters, November 29, 2012 (AP/Kathy Willens)

November 30, 2017, 6:07 pm

Jerusalem ignores the UN’s forgotten partition plan of 2012 at its peril

As Israel hails General Assembly’s Resolution 181 as a harbinger of independence in 1947, few note that the same body overwhelmingly endorsed Palestinian statehood 5 years ago

By Raphael Ahren

November 29, 2017, 3:32 pm

Juliet Moses

Could the Partition Plan have worked?

What if the Arabs had agreed to the UN’s proposal?

The vote on the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine or United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 on November 29, 1947. (Israeli Government Press Office/File)

November 29, 2017, 8:42 am

70 years after UN vote, Israel is no dream

Papers (kind of) celebrate the November 29 anniversary, but note that the Jewish state still lacks some legitimacy, democracy and leadership

By Joshua Davidovich

US Vice-President Mike Pence speaks as he attends the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations event celebrating the 70th anniversary of the UN vote calling for "the establishment of a Jewish State in the Land of Israel", at Queens Museum in New York, on November 28, 2017. (AFP/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

November 28, 2017, 8:38 pm

Pence: Trump ‘actively considering’ moving US embassy to Jerusalem

At event marking 70 years since UN vote to partition Palestine en route to establishing Israel, US vice president vows Iran will never obtain nuclear weapons

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales (L) in Jerusalem on November 29, 2016. (Haim Zach / GPO)

August 15, 2017, 11:30 pm

Netanyahu plans to become first sitting PM to visit Latin America

PM scheduled to make stops in Argentina and Mexico before heading to New York to address UN General Assembly next month

By JTA