Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: IDF Iron Dome anti-missile defense system in action Life in Israel, this past week, has been full of pressure and tension. According to news reports “over 400 rockets were fired into Israel” and if not for the Iron Dome, many of those rockets would have landed on Israeli homes, causing tremendous damage and […]

Photo Credit: Rashish Junior High Petah Tikva Delegation of Israeli students to the World Scholar’s Cup Tournament of Champions at Yale. An Israeli delegation of high school students attended the World Scholar’s Cup Tournament of Champions, hosted by Yale University last week. The team received dozens of gold medals and trophies in some of the […]

Photo Credit: HoRaMi via Wikimedia Rabbi Yosef Glassman, who is a geriatric physician, on Monday appeared before New Jersey Superior Court Judge Paul Innes in Mercer County, asking to be allowed to continue his legal battle against the state’s “medical aid in dying law” which Glassman believes “legalizes murder,” NJ.com reported. The law was scheduled […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 The Technion in Haifa, February 19, 2019. Israel’s Institute of Technology (Technion) has come under fire for hosting four guest lectures featuring members of the controversial NGO Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI). The lectures are being held Tuesday as part of a the medical school’s course on integrated systems for fourth […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights headline image, Nov. 19, 2019 Fierce explosions rocked the capital Damascus and its surroundings at dawn on Tuesday, and sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the explosions were caused by an Israeli launching about five rockets on sites located south and southwest of […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy ImageSat International Courtesy ImageSat International An intelligence report by ImageSat International (ISI) Published on Sunday reveals progress in the renewed construction of the Iranian Imam Ali base, adjacent to the Al Bukamal Albukhmal border crossing of the Iraq-Syria border on the Euphrates river. According to the Sunday report, which features satellite photos, […]

Photo Credit: flash90 Water, Oil or Gas? {Reposted from the MEF website} As ever, the Middle East is monumentally in flux. As usual, most developments are negative. Here’s a guide: Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Water replaces petroleum as the key liquid: Oil and […]

[embedded content] Rabbi Mordechai Machlis, a Rebbe at Yeshivat Lev HaTorah and the spiritual director of the Jerusalem Hospitality Project, says that for many years, his daily prayers have focused on being alive to be able to see the prophesied ingathering of the exiles from the Diaspora. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90 View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. The United Nations voted Friday 170-2 to extend the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for three more years, until 2023. The resolution, which […]