Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Elevated activity in areas of the brain associated with attentional control just before events increases the probability that we will remember the event. This finding emerged from a new international study undertaken at the University of Haifa in cooperation with the Weizmann Institute and the Universities of […]

Photo Credit: Majdi Fathi/TPS Hamas Hamas’ security forces have established a new military checkpoint in the proximity of the new soon to be opened international-sponsored hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. The new checkpoint established Sunday is situated near an already active checkpoint that monitors all residents and delegations entering into the Strip. Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Kan 11 News The Secret river There is a river in Israel nobody knew existed, until Sunday night, that is, when Kan 11 News exposed it to the world. To start, it’s nice to know that in a world surrounded by satellites that take pictures of everything all the time, this great […]

Photo Credit: Michal Fattal / FLASH90 Has it been 4 years already? Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama lays a wreath at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, July, 2008. As leaders from more than 40 countries gather in Jerusalem on Thursday for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, it […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Russian Ministry of Defense Bassel – El-Assad Airport at Latakia, Syria. Unidentified attackers using UAVs launched an air strike Sunday evening targeting the Russian Khmeimim air base at Latakia in Syria. Aerial defense systems successfully blocked the attack and the military installation suffered no damage, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Advertisement […]

Photo Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO) PM Netanyahu welcomed by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed he will attend this week’s fifth annual World Holocaust Forum, marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps. It was not clear whether the Ukraine leader would be able to come to […]

Photo Credit: Global News screen grab via YouTube Protesters clash with security forces in Beirut on Jan. 19 2020 Lebanese security forces fired water cannons, tear gas and a sound bomb at hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators who gathered in downtown Beirut, shouting “Revolution!” on Sunday evening. Hundreds were injured, as they were on Saturday. It’s […]

Photo Credit: Israel Ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion via Twitter Desecrated Holocaust memorial in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Jan 19 2020 A Holocaust memorial in the city of Kryvyi Rih, in Ukraine, was desecrated over the weekend. The damage, a mess of orange-colored spray paint slathered over the engraving on the monument, was discovered on Sunday, […]

Photo Credit: COGAT / IDF Gaza citizens entering Erez crossing terminal. Despite the uptick in balloon bomb attacks on southern Israel from Gaza, the Israeli military facilitated more than 80,000 humanitarian crossings to and from Gaza last week so that Gazans could receive medical treatment in Israel. COGAT facilitated 80,885 humanitarian crossings for Palestinians to […]