Whirlwind week ends with unity government in Israel, Netanyahu remaining at the helm
Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu will serve as prime minister for 18 months before handing the premiership as part of a rotation to Blue and White challenger Benny Gantz. (March 26, 2020 / JNS) After nearly a year of political paralysis, Israel is finally on its way towards a national unity government as the nation battles against the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic. Benny Gantz, who has stood as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief rival through three consecutive e
The Vatican unseals secret archive on Holocaust-era Pope Pius XI
Finally, we might now be able to learn what the controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII did, or didn't do, to help Jews facing annihilation at the hands of the Nazis. Critics accuse Pius of having turned a blind eye to Jewish suffering, and researchers hope the archive will reveal why the pope did not intervene to help the Jews during the Holocaust. The Vatican maintains that Pius worked behind the scenes to save Jews. Jewish and other scholars have long called on the Vatic
