Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Transportation Minister, Bezalel Smotrich (C), Oct 28, 2019. Transport Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Wednesday that Rav-Kav, the reusable, contactless, stored value smart card for making electronic payments to the different public transportation operators across Israel, has been extended to residents of Judea and Samaria, starting January 1, 2020. (That’s today, […]
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Despite government reassurances, some local residents evacuate as pipeline expels pollutants ahead of launch; Electric Corp. says consumers to see a reduction in tariffs from Wednesday; Netanyahu praises new supply: ‘Today we made history’ After a series of delays, natural gas began to flow Tuesday afternoon from Israel’s Leviathan rig off the coast of Haifa. […]
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Photo Credit: Google Maps The synagogue of Trikala, Greece The Central board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) on Tuesday issued a press release protesting the anti-Semitic graffiti that had been sprayed on Monday night on the restored synagogue in the city of Trikala. They stated that the act of vandalism has caused “outrage and […]
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Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90 Supporters of Naama Issachar rally in Tel Aviv for her release, October 19, 2019. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Council chief Meir Ben Shabat met Tuesday evening with family members of Naama Issachar, and Netanyahu announced: “I will work to improve the terms of her sentence.” Communication was lost […]
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“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”-Thomas Jefferson Once upon a time, Americans were still being instructed to value a life of the mind. Then, Ralph Waldo Emerson, following Thomas Jefferson, had called sensibly upon the young country to embrace “plain living and […]
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Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot Iraqi protesters surround US embassy in Baghdad It began with the US military strikes last Sunday against the Iranian proxy militia Kataeb Hezbollah, in retaliation for the group’s rocket attack a week ago that killed an American contractor on an Iraqi military base. It was the largest attack on a militia […]
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Photo Credit: IDF Flickr CC Golani Brigade recruits, IDF {Originally posted to the BESA website} “In the Netanyahu era,” argued a recent article in the monthly Hebrew magazine Liberal, “we are unable to launch a real war in Gaza. The leadership has no way to sell its cost to the public.” Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: […]
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Photo Credit: DS Levi NYPD protect the NYC flagship headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League , March 2017 The increased presence of NYPD officers in Brooklyn’s “Jewish neighborhoods” is only one of myriad elements in a new plan introduced by New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio intended to combat hate and anti-Semitism. “Diversity is our […]
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Photo Credit: Wikimedia / AdmiralHalsey NYPD officers in Crown Heights, Brooklyn New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio introduced this week a range of new measures designed to raise the security profile in multi-ethnic neighborhoods with large visibly Orthodox Jewish populations. De Blasio’s New Plan to Combat Hate, Anti-Semitism in NYC Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: […]
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Photo Credit: Israel Mission to the UN Ambassador Danny Danon sharing intelligence on Hezbollah tunnels infiltrating Israel with the UN Security Council Just before the deadline at midnight Monday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he would extend the tenure of Israel’s United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon a second time, after all. Danon’s last day […]
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