Aron Heller

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In this Oct. 14, 2014, photo, a Lebanese man, center, walks between graves at the overcrowded Bashoura cemetery for Muslim Sunnis in Beirut, Lebanon. The congested city of more than one million is cramped with cemeteries wedged into residential areas, increasingly forcing families to bury several members of the same family in one grave. Available land plots are extremely scarce and what is left is being used by developers to build luxury officers towers and apartments. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel raises the dead with skyward cemetery

Aron Heller · October 17, 2014 11:29 am

UN chief chastises Netanyahu on settlements

Aron Heller · October 13, 2014 3:21 pm

This Screen grab from the Mossad, Israeli Secret Intelligence Service website taken Monday, Sept. 29, 2014, shows their home page with a link to a job application and a line that reads, "Join us to see the invisible and do the impossible." The typically hush-hush Mossad revamped its website last week to include a snazzy recruiting video and an online application option for those seeking employment. With versions in Hebrew, English, French, Russian, Arabic and Persian, the sleek site looks to revolutionize the way Israel's legendary agency seeks out potential agents after generations of backdoor, cloak-and-dagger antics. (AP Photo)

Israel’s shadowy Mossad looks to recruit online

Aron Heller · September 29, 2014 2:40 pm

UN’s flight marks new era on Israel-Syria front

Aron Heller · September 18, 2014 7:30 am

In this Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 photo, Yad Vashem's archive director Haim Gertner show's a document to visiting international experts and others who are participating in a workshop devoted to the physical and digital preservation of documents, in Jerusalem. With Holocaust survivors dying in growing numbers and their live testimonies soon to be a thing of the past, Holocaust commemoration efforts are increasingly focusing around preserving the belongings that contain their stories. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Holocaust experts work to preserve WWII-era items

Aron Heller · September 14, 2014 1:59 pm

Israeli military opens its own probe into Gaza war

Aron Heller · September 10, 2014 5:58 pm

FILE - In this July 20, 2014 file photo, an Israeli attack helicopter shoots flares near the Israel and Gaza border. When Israel completes its damage assessment from its latest war with Hamas, it may conclude that one of the biggest casualties was its all-important relationship with the United States. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

Israeli-US relations tested once again in Gaza war

Aron Heller · August 20, 2014 6:23 am

FILE - This undated file photo shows Israeli Army 2nd. Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, from Kfar Saba, central Israel. Israel's military announced early Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, that Goldin, of the Givati infantry brigade, had been killed in battle.(AP Photo/YNet News) ISRAEL OUT

Israeli tactic to stop soldier capture criticized

Aron Heller · August 13, 2014 5:08 am

FILE - In this May 15, 1986 file photo, from left, Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli, Israeli Producer Menahem Golan, opera singer Katia Ricciarelli and Mexican Singer Placido Domingo in Cannes, for the screening of their film "Otello" in competition in the 39th Cannes film festival. Golan, a veteran Israeli filmmaker who produced some of the biggest action movies of the 1980s, has died in Tel Aviv. He was 85. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, File)

Veteran Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan dies at 85

Aron Heller · August 9, 2014 11:33 am

Shiri Medina, center left, hugs her daughter Yael, as they returned home a month after they fled to different locations, in Netiv Haasara near the Israel Gaza border on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. With a cease-fire taking hold, residents of southern Israel slowly begin trickling back to hometowns that largely emptied out during a monthlong war against Hamas militants in the neighboring Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Southern Israelis cautiously prepare to head home

Aron Heller · August 6, 2014 8:35 pm

Israeli Arabs caught in the middle of Gaza war

Aron Heller · July 27, 2014 9:38 am

FILE - In this Monday, July 21, 2014 file photo, a man uses binoculars to look at the Gaza Strip from his balcony in the town of Sderot, Israel after a group of Hamas militants was detected infiltrating into Israel. With deadly fighting raging next door in the Gaza Strip, southern Israeli towns along the border have turned into mini army bases as most residents have fled. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Israeli border towns empty, adjust to new threats

Aron Heller · July 24, 2014 6:30 am