U.S. police officials study counterterrorism in Israel

Published on November 1, 2012

Counterterrorism officials from five U.S. cities met with their counterparts in Israel. Ten officials from five major cities -- New York; Los Angeles; Oakland, Calif.; Austin, Texas; and Houston -- met in mid-October with representatives of Israel's police, the Jerusalem Post reported. The tour focused on "technological and operational advances in counterterrorism," according to the American Jewish Committee's Project Interchange, which organized the tour.

State terrorism report praises Israel, counts settler attacks as terror

Published on August 1, 2012

The U.S. State Department's annual report on terrorism said Hamas and Hezbollah continued to destabilize the Middle East, described Israel as a "resolute" partner in counterterrorism and listed as "terrorist incidents" extremist settler attacks on Palestinians.

Israeli appointed to top U.N. counterrorism position

Published on July 18, 2012

An Israeli who worked as a government attorney was appointed a leader in the United Nations Security Council's counterterrorism effort.

Senators chide Clinton on Israel’s exclusion from counterterrorism forum

Published on June 13, 2012

U.S. Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Mark Kirk have written a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing their disappointment with Israel’s exclusion from the inaugural meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum.

Roman Holiday

By Ivor Davis
Published on November 16, 2000

On Yom Kippur, my wife Sally and I went to shul just around the corner from the Vatican. It was a visit we will not soon forget. The imposing Comunita Ebraica di Roma Synagogue (the Great Synagogue of Rome) sits just off the Piazza del Firori close to the Tiber River and spitting distance from Vatican City across the river in one direction, and Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum in the other.