Author: David Rutman

[embedded content] US Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood together Sunday evening (Dec. 22) to light the first candle of Chanukah from the Western Wall in Jerusalem together with the Rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz and the head of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. [embedded […]

Photo Credit: courtesy {Originally posted to The Lid website} Next Sunday night, December 22nd is the first night of the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah, and three days later is Christmas. Chanukah Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); America is supposed to be a “melting pot,” […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS New Olim Israel welcomed more than 255,000 Olim {new immigrants) from 150 different countries in the past decade, according to data published by the Jewish Agency for Israel on Sunday. The countries which contributed the highest number of Olim in the past 10 years were Russia (66,800), Ukraine (45,670), France (38,000) […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps Map of Middle East, with Tehran marked in red Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday stated that he “welcomes the closer relations between Israel and many Arab states” and that “the time has come for normalization and peace.” Netanyahu tweeted the statement both in English and in Arabic, aiming his message […]

Photo Credit: UN Photo Headquarters of the International Criminal Court at The Hague Senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) official Khaleda Jarar, who is in Israeli custody for her part in a deadly bombing in August, played a major role in the Palestinian Authority’s application to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press After vanquishing the Syrian-Greeks, the Jews dedicated the Temple and witnessed the fabulous miracle of the menorah. Yet, the Gemara tells us, the Sages did not immediately institute a holiday. They waited until the next year to do so. The obvious question is: Why? The Kedushas Levi and Sfas Emes both […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 MK Betzalel Smotrich Israel should collapse the Palestinian Authority (PA) and take severe action against illegal Arab construction after the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it was seeking to launch a probe against Israel over alleged war crimes, Minister of Transport Bezalel Smotrich said. Addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Facebook, […]

Photo Credit: NGO Monitor Close scrutiny of dozens of social media accounts linked to Amnesty International and research of the output of over 40 of the organization’s staff and volunteers outlines the “extreme bias” against Israel in the posts and shows “there are clear political and discriminatory influences at work at Amnesty,” a new report […]

Photo Credit: MusashiAI AI Robot Forklift The world’s first “employment agency” offering robots controlled by artificial-intelligence for hire has launched in Israel as a joint venture between SixAI of Israel and Musashi Seimitsu of Japan, according to Daily Mail. MusashiAI provides a completely autonomous forklift and a visual inspection robot that factories can hire to […]

Photo Credit: Labour Against Anti-Semitism via Twitter. Thousands gather outside of Parliament in London to protest anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party, Sept. 3, 2018. {Originally posted to the BESA website} The resounding victory of the Conservative Party in the British General Election has brought palpable relief to British Jews and advocates of the Atlantic […]