Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir / Flash 90 View of Kibbutz Afikim, in the Jordan Valley, December 03, 2018 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved a plan to advance the “Jordan Valley Annexation Bill” proposed several weeks ago by Likud MK Sharren Haskel, according to a report by The Jerusalem Post. The move comes in the […]

Photo Credit: Majd Fathi / TPS Palestinian Islamic Jihad rally in Gaza City Taysir Jabari was named Islamic Jihad’s head of the northern command in the Gaza Strip and is replacing Bahaa Abu al-Ata, who was eliminated by Israel last week. Jabari, born in 1972, is a member of the Jabari clan of the Shaja’iyah […]

Photo Credit: Netanel Kaufman / TPS Collision between a car and a truck at the entrance to the Samaria community of Kochav Yaakov, Nov. 2 2016 Israel’s decades-long trend of a decline in traffic fatalities has reversed itself in 2019, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced Tuesday as it released its data for Road […]

Photo Credit: Majdi Fathi / TPS Palestinian Authority rioters on the Gaza border Israel this year is required to withhold an additional NIS 241 million from the Palestinian Authority (PA) after it emerged that the amount of money that was paid to the families of dead terrorists or Arab prisoners incarcerated in Israel is higher […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Judea and Samaria council heads in Gush Etzion Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured Gush Etzion on Tuesday (Nov. 19) and met with Judea and Samaria council heads a day after news broke worldwide that the United States government plans to recognize Israeli settlements in […]

Photo Credit: TPS Hurva Synagogue Jordan is in the final stages of renovating the Sidna Omar mosque in the heart of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem and plans to open it to prayers, TPS has learned. The mosque, situated just feet away from the famed Hurva Synagogue, is undergoing a complete […]

Photo Credit: TPS The Tomb of Yishai and Ruth in Hebron In the wake of a petition filed by the Islamic Waqf Authority in Hebron, Israel’s Supreme Court has issued an order allowing Palestinian Authority Arabs to enter the military compound where the Tomb of Yishai and Ruth is located, allegedly to pray in a […]

Photo Credit: USAF {Originally posted to The Lid website} It happens every year at this time, the stupid politically correct holiday season. When a community puts up a Christmas tree, one of three things happens. Either there is a battle to take it down, rename it a ‘Holiday’ Tree or someone fights to get a […]

Photo Credit: Lorie Shaull via Flickr Representative Ilhan Omar Patrick Carlineo Jr., 55, could face up to 10 years in jail and a fine of $250,000 for pleading guilty to threatening to attack and murder Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the US Attorney’s Office of the Western District of New York announced on Monday. US Attorney […]

Photo Credit: Wiki Commons The rejection of the 1947 UN Partition Plan by the Arab nations, and their declaration of war against Israel rather than their acceptance of peace, was the first clear indication that the Arabs’ desire was never to provide a state for the Palestinian people, but rather has been from the beginning […]