Khalil Awawdeh has refused food for 165 days in a bid to draw attention to his detention by Israel without trial or charge

Ralph Henry Reese, founder of City of Asylum movement, says award-winning author was looking forward to aiding other exiled writers facing peril

July increase in consumer price index brings Israel’s yearly inflation rate to 5.2%; housing prices jump by 17.8%, the highest in over a decade

Lebanese-born Silvana Fardos, who lives in New Jersey, tells UK newspaper that Hadi Matar became more religious, moody after spending a month with estranged father

Citing Orthodox Jewish community norms, celebrity Jewish family donates $25,000 to VOW for Girls, a nonprofit that aims to eliminate marriages involving girls under 18

Staff Sgt. Nathan Fitoussi, 20, left guard post to pray, initial probe finds; upon returning, his friend thought he was a threat and shot him

Known as 'the lost mural,' the colorful piece was painted by a Lithuanian immigrant in a style common to synagogues across pre-Holocaust Europe

Current premier Anthony Albanese accuses predecessor of 'trashing democracy'; Scott Morrison defends move as necessary to combat COVID pandemic