Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I stayed up very late recently listening to the results of the UK’s general election. Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party had moved toward policies so far-left, the entire country might have had to be renamed Venezuela. They lost to Boris Johnson and his Conservatives, and lost hugely. The defeat of […]

Photo Credit: Gideon Markowicz/ Flash90 Benjamin Netanyahu and Gideon Sa’ar cold calling Likud voters, January 17, 2013. A Makor Rishon survey shows that had the election been held on Thursday this week, Blue&White would have climbed to 38 seats (from 33), while the Likud with Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm would rise to 34 (from […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Here’s a new statistic, one that will gladden some and alarm others: The number of Jerusalem Arab students in Hebrew University this year has practically doubled. True, we’re not talking about large numbers in terms of the total number of students in the university, but 420 Arabs are registered this year […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90 Haredi youth arrives at the IDF Tel HaShomer draft processing base near Tel Aviv. A committee appointed by IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi to examine the scandal of forged Haredi recruitment data recently examined a recording of a junior officer who said he had been ordered to forge the number […]

Photo Credit: UN Photo/Kim Haughton King of Jordan Addresses General Assembly {Originally posted to the JNS website} The Kingdom of Jordan canceled a component of its 1994 peace treaty last month with Israel. It evicted Israeli farmers from two tracts of contested land in the Jordan River Valley. The minor stretches of land—Naharaim in the […]

Photo Credit: Esty Dziubov / TPS Palestinian Authority village of Turmus Ayya Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official Abbas Zaki recently stated that it is a Palestinian “value” to murder Israeli men, but lied when he claimed that the Palestinian leadership does not support the murder of Israeli women and children. Speaking at the opening of […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter / TPS Hezbollah logo After months of debate, Germany’s parliament has decided to designate Hezbollah a terror organization and ban all of the group’s activities in Germany. Germany had previously distinguished between Hezbollah’s military wing, which was banned, and its political wing, which was not. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir / TPS Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko visits the Knesset on Dec. 23 2015. Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine expressed his “confusion” over a Ukrainian court’s decision to reinstate a diplomat who had been dismissed over anti-Semitic and neo-fascist comments he had posted on his Facebook page. Vasyl Marushchynets had been serving as […]

Photo Credit: Avi Ohayon / GPO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin A Russian court on Thursday rejected Israeli-American Naama Issachar’s appeal of her seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a minor drug offense. Twenty-six-year-old Issachar was arrested on April 9 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, where she had stopped for a connecting […]