Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: IDF Flickr CC Hezbollah rocket launcher uncovered by IDF in southern Lebanon {Originally posted to the BESA website} PM Benjamin Netanyahu recently warned of new threats that necessitate immediate emergency measures, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi has made similar warnings. Yet some claim this is fear-mongering for political purposes. […]

[embedded content] International lecturer and author Rabbi Pinchas Winston of Thirtysix.org speaks about the importance of the Land of Israel and what it means to Jews in the Diaspora in a brief video he has recorded as part of a project to encourage aliyah from the observant Jewish sector called, “Bring Them Home – Aliyah […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / GTVM92 Iranian citizens protesting fuel price increases, Nov. 16 2019 Iranian security forces have killed more than 100 protesters so far, using “excessive and lethal force” to crush largely peaceful demonstrations against a fuel price hike in more than 100 cities, according to the Amnesty International organization. The protests began in […]

Photo Credit: Jason D. Greenblatt via Twitter Atty Jason D. Greenblatt and Saudi blogger Mohammed Saud, in Riyadh Former US Special Representative for International Negotiations and Assistant to the President Jason Greenblatt has been elected to the Republican Jewish Coalition Board of Directors, it was announced Tuesday. The move makes it clear that Greenblatt is […]

Photo Credit: Shira Hershkop (It’s just makeup) a “wounded” girl in an Efrat rescue exercise. Nov. 19, 2019 [All the photos of “wounded” people in this article are just makeup. Photos by Efrat Municipality, United Hatzalah, Israel Dog Unit, Shira Hershkop and JewishPress.com] A mass-casualty multi-force rescue training exercise took place in Efrat on Tuesday […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Regavim Palestinian Authority builds illegal school with European Union funding in Nahal Machoch Nature Reserve on Israeli state land, Nov 19 2019 For the first time in history, the Palestinian Authority will be called to appear before an Israeli court to present a legal defense against charges brought by the Regavim Movement. […]

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 […]