Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: courtesy Saba Max (on right) with the author If anyone thought otherwise, Hebron is a very special place. One of the elements that creates such a distinct atmosphere, is, of course the people. There’s such a wide-ranging population that wherever you are in the city, you can always find someone interesting to speak […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Honenu Mrs. Zarug and child forced out of their home by Border Police, January 15, 2020 Large police forces raided the Kumi Ori neighborhood in the settlement of Yitzhar in Samaria on Wednesday and began demolishing the homes of the Zarug and Gozlan families there, Hakol Hayehudi reported. IDF forces at the […]

Photo Credit: SANA Image of Syrian surface-to-air missile used in SANA’s report SANA on Tuesday night cited a military source that announced army air defenses had confronted “an air aggression perpetrated by Israeli warplanes on T4 airport in Homs eastern countryside, from the direction of al-Tanf on the Syrian-Iraqi borders, and shot down a number […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons The chief of the Qods Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Qassem Soleimani, has been seen in Iraq and also in Syria Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin – attributed to Aesop, Greek fabulist (circa 620 BCE – circa 584 BC).  Advertisement […]

Photo Credit: Marc Gronich Wide Shot of MetLife Stadium Inspirational, energizing, renewing a desire to do more and spiritually satisfying were all reactions heard about the 13th Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi held at the Meadowlands Sports Complex (MetLife Stadium) on January 1. With an attendance of 88,000 attendees, according to Meadowlands officials, participants were dancing, […]

Photo Credit: Andrei Sedof / Wikipedia York University in Toronto, Canada, reinstated a pro-Israel student group on Monday after it was suspended following Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) protesting a local Herut Canada event on Nov. 20, which featured reservists from the Israel Defense Forces. Before, during and after the event, anti-Israel SAIA protesters clashed with pro-Israel […]

Photo Credit: Naale A trip to the Na’ale Elite Academy at the Sha’alabim campus close to Modi’in is always worthwhile and interesting. Having the opportunity to spend some time with and interview highly intelligent Jewish teenagers from around the world and understand their stories is a rare privilege. Each of the students prefaced their remarks […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90 Family, friends and supporters call for the release of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia on trumped up drug charges, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on Oct. 19, 2019. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter to an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia on drug charges, promising […]

Photo Credit: Yehonatan Valtser/TPS The Knesset building in Jerusalem A laptop left behind by someone in the Knesset on Tuesday set off a bomb scare (Chefetz Chashud) resulting in a shutdown of one of its wings. A Knesset spokesperson said in a statement that the Knesset Guard came across a briefcase with no none attending […]