NU/NRP MK Rabbi Benny Elon is trying to drum up support for his initiative that would grant Jordanian passports to all Palestinians, dismantle the Palestinian Authority and abandoning any notions of an independent Palestinian state. The plan is being touted on billboards, Internet ads and the...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. She has become a controversial Dutch feminist, writer, and politician. She is the estranged daughter of the Somali scholar, politician, and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. She is a prominent critic of Islam, and her screenplay for...

Stanley Fischer Israel Interview - Marketplace Middle East talks to the Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer about the Israeli economy. Show aired originally in January 2008. Stanley "Stan" Fischer is an economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Israel. Born in Northern Rhodesia...

Chabad House Killings - The standoff at the Chabad House Jewish center in Mumbai ends with five hostages dead. CNN's Nic Robertson reports. When Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife left New York for India to run a Jewish outreach center, the Israeli-born couple worked tirelessly, serving...

Rabbi killed in Mumbai - CNN's Paula Hancocks reports on a Rabbi who made Mumbai his home before being killed in this week's attacks. When Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife left New York for India to run a Jewish outreach center, the Israeli-born couple worked tirelessly, serving...

The Chabad community to raise victim's son - Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky says the Chabad community will raise the infant son of emissaries who died in the Mumbai attacks. When Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife left New York for India to run a Jewish outreach center, the Israeli-born couple...

Scarlett Johansson, an actress and singer of American and Danish citizenship, speaks about her being Jewish. Johansson was born in New York City. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother,...

Gilad Shalit already 1000 days in captivity Shalit was born on 28 August 1986 in Nahariya, Israel, and was raised from the age of two in Mitzpe Hila in the western Galilee. He graduated with distinction from Manor Kabri High School. Shalit began military service in the Israel Defense Forces in...