Aron Heller

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Israeli motorists stand still next to their cars on a freeway as a two-minute siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, April 8, 2013. Holocaust remembrance day is one of the most solemn on Israel's calendar with restaurants and places of entertainment shut down, and radio and TV programming focused on Holocaust documentaries and interviews with survivors. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel honors 6 million victims of Nazi Holocaust

Aron Heller · April 8, 2013 4:00 am

In this Thursday, April 4, 2013 photo, Warsaw ghetto Holocaust survivor Aliza Vitis-Shomron holds a photograph of herself when she was about 17 years old as she sits in her living room in Kibbutz Givat Oz, Israel. Two days before her comrades embarked on an uprising that came to symbolize Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II, 14-year-old Aliza Mendel got her orders: Escape from the Warsaw Ghetto. The end was near. Nazi troops had encircled the ghetto, and the remaining Jewish rebels inside were prepared to die fighting. Her job, they told her, was to survive and tell the world about how the fighters died resisting the Nazis. In the 70 years since the revolt, she's been doing just that, publishing a memoir about life in the ghetto and lecturing about the uprising.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Warsaw ghetto survivor in Israel recalls uprising

Aron Heller · April 6, 2013 4:00 am

Obama says Iran a year away from nuclear weapon

Aron Heller · March 14, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this March 16, 2012 file photo, runners are seen passing the Tower of David during the second annual marathon in Jerusalem. The Palestinians called for a boycott since the route includes a segment in the walled Old City - part of their hoped-for capital - while hardline Israeli lawmakers are planning to run it for just the opposite reason, to assert Israeli sovereignty over the entire city (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Jerusalem marathon spurs political saber-rattling

Aron Heller · February 28, 2013 5:00 am

Israeli president talks Iran at parliament opening

Aron Heller · February 5, 2013 4:26 pm

Israel’s Labor head poised to be Netanyahu gadfly

Aron Heller · January 15, 2013 5:00 am

In this Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 photo, Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, speaks in Ashdod, Israel. The charismatic new leader of Israel's Jewish religious right is siphoning a large chunk of votes from the prime minister's party, according to polls ahead of Jan. 22 elections, and if the trend continues, the high-tech millionaire and former commando could emerge as a powerful voice opposing Palestinian statehood. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

New Israeli right-wing leader worries Netanyahu

Aron Heller · December 27, 2012 12:34 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 1999 file photo former Israeli Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak announces his candidacy for prime minister during a press conference held in Tel Aviv, Israel. Lipkin-Shahak, a former Israeli military chief who later became a Cabinet minister, has died on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 after a long battle with cancer. He was 68.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Ex-Israeli military chief and minister dies at 68

Aron Heller · December 19, 2012 2:00 pm

A Palestinian security officer takes aim during a march in support of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and to celebrate their successful bid to win U.N. statehood recognition the in the West bank city of Bethlehem, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel pushes on with east Jerusalem building plan

Aron Heller · December 17, 2012 5:00 am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, is surrounded by children during celebrations for the successful bid to win U.N. statehood recognition for Palestine in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Abbas has returned home to a hero's welcome after winning a resounding endorsement for Palestinian independence at the United Nations. Israel on Sunday roundly rejected the United Nations' endorsement of an independent state of Palestine, announcing it would withhold more than $100 million collected for the Palestinian government to pay debts to Israeli companies and earlier said it would start drawing up plans to build thousands of settlement homes. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinian president returns triumphantly from UN

Aron Heller, Dalia Nammari · December 3, 2012 4:08 am

Palestinians look through their belongings in a house destroyed overnight by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. Hostilities along the Gaza-Israel border escalated sharply over the weekend, with rocket salvos from Gaza and Israeli strikes killing at least six Palestinians. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel, Gaza militants trade fire in escalation

Ibrahim Barzak, Aron Heller · November 11, 2012 5:00 am

Undated file photograph of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, along with his deputy Abu Jihad, right, made available by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza City of the Gaza Strip. Lifting a nearly 25-year veil of secrecy, Israel acknowledged Thursday Nov 1 2012 that it killed the deputy of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a 1988 seaborne raid on Tunisia. Israel has long been suspected of assassinating Khalil al-Wazir, who was better known by his nom de guerre Abu Jihad. But only now has the country's military censor cleared the Yediot Ahronot daily to publish the information, including an interview with the commando who killed him, at least 12 years after the newspaper got the information. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority, File)

Israel confirms killing Arafat deputy in 1988

Aron Heller · November 1, 2012 4:00 am