News that Gene Shalit is ending his 40-year stint reviewing movies for NBC's "Today" show has inspired us to channel him in offering this assessment: He proved a Gene-uine joy to watch, and is, in his ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Aviva Shalit, the mother of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, attends a news ...

Sgt. Shalit returned home for the first time since being captured in 2006. Oct. 18, 2011— -- Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit returned home for the first time since being captured by Hammas militants in ...

Asked how he and his wife managed to cope as they approach the three-year anniversary of their son’s kidnapping by Hamas, Noam Shalit was characteristically blunt. “We don’t,” he said, his arms ...

NEW YORK (CBS) The "Today" show's legendary book and film critic Gene Shalit retired today from his "Critics Corner," a place where he became a star in his own right. The show's cast paid homage to ...

Shalit, the only member of a three-man crew who survived a cross-border, guerrilla-style attack on June 25, 2005 by armed Palestinians from Gaza, failed to seize several opportunities to fire on his ...

Gilad Shalit release: Why Israel and Hamas agreed to a prisoner swap Gilad Shalit, a young Israeli soldier captured more than five years ago, is due to be released along with some 1,000 Palestinian ...

Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas which rules Gaza have agreed on a deal to swap the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held captive for five years, for the release of a proposed 1,000 Palestinian ...

Gilad Shalit’s capture was the result of operational failures on his part and on the part of other members of his tank crew, interviews with Shalit have revealed. Shalit, the only member of a ...

(Reuters) - Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel's borders in opposite directions on Tuesday as a thousand-for-one prisoner exchange brought joy to families but did ...