Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Google Map of Judea and Samaria {Originally posted to the Abu Yehuda website} Following the surprise announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that “[t]he establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not per se inconsistent with international law,” I’ve prepared a short Q & A on the subject: […]

Photo Credit: Wiki Jewish refugees from Arab countries: Yemenite Jews at a transit camp near Aden waiting to be airlifted to Israel in 1949 {Originally posted to the JNS website} Ever since the Muslim conquest, occupation and colonization of the Middle East and North Africa in the 7th century, the region’s Jews, among others, lived […]

Photo Credit: MK Shlomo Karhi’s Facebook page MK Shlomo Karhi with a friend. MK Shlomo Karhi (Likud) told Ynet on Monday that he had received the green light from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to promote a direct election for PM bill. Karhi insists his bill would solve the current political crisis, whereby no MK has […]

Photo Credit: Elron Zabatani/TP The Hurva Synagogue ( Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah heHasid ) in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Sidna Omar mosque is seen left to the synagogue. Jerusalem, Nov 19, 2019. Residents of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem are preparing for widespread protests following the renovation […]

Photo Credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90 Amid an intensifying global trade war, Israeli exports of goods and services are on track for another record year, with 4.6% growth in the first three quarters of 2019, compared to the same period of last year. An analysis by the Ministry of Economy and Industry (MEI) into data from the […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Amid all the discussions about Modern Orthodoxy, its past, present and future, it is perhaps helpful to look at two different paradigms into which Modern Orthodoxy currently divides itself: one positive, and one, well, less so. One individual grew up in a religious home, so punctilious in its observance of mitzvot and […]

Photo Credit: Ayelet Federation Nimrod Ryder wins the gold medal in the Adult category at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championships. Nov. 24, 2019 Israel’s national anthem, Hatikvah, was again played in Abu Dhabi on Sunday after Israel’s 21-year-old Nimrod Ryder won the gold medal in the Adult category at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championships, crowning him world […]

Photo Credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90 Gideon Sa’ar on a tour of south Tel Aviv in 2013, a year before his retirement from political life. MK Gideon Sa’ar on Monday welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to hold Likud primaries for the post of party chairman in the coming weeks, but in an interview with Reshet […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan, November 4, 2019. {Originally posted to the JNS website} Last Thursday in Israel, the politicians were the big story. Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman was the villain who had held the country hostage for nearly a year as he fed his narcissistic personality […]