The female Palestinian inmates were made to kneel in a line on a cold evening last Sunday on the grounds of Israel’s Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces killed two men who carried out a deadly attack in the West Bank near a Jewish settlement, which claimed three Israeli lives.

A postwar epic about a Holocaust survivor, a contemporary comedy about Holocaust tourism and a biopic of a Jewish musical legend helped lend a formidable Jewish presence to Thursday’s Oscar ...