Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Moriah Development Company Expanded Tunnel Road connecting Jerusalem and Gush Etzion. (JNS/Yisrael Hayom) The plan, which includes a $283 million expansion of the road connecting Jerusalem and Gush Etzion, aims to “end the current isolation of Judea and Samaria … so that the area is just like any other region in Israel,” according […]

Photo Credit: Rafael Spokesperson Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on Monday reported that it will supply electro-optic systems for the use of US Air Force fighter jets, a contract worth approximately NIS 200 million. The advanced electro-optic system, named Litening, will be supplied to the US Air Force in collaboration with the American Northrop Grumman […]

[embedded content] Last week Israeli residents from the Gush Etzion area commemorated a Palestinian fellow employee who had died a month ago from a brain hemorrhage at age 25. Shadi Assad, who lived in the small village of Khallet Sakariya, located between the Israeli settlements of Alon Shevut and Rosh Tzurim in the Gush Etzion […]

Photo Credit: Unknown via Wikimedia Enriched uranium The chief of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Wednesday that his country had added 30 IR-6 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium 10 times faster than older machines, Fars News reported. The announcement was made on the 40th anniversary of the take over of […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS A press conference at Israel’s Ministry of Finance Over 150 local authority leaders, who represent nearly 70% of Israeli residents, on Monday sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and all Members of Knesset (MKs), threatening to strike if the NIS one billion needed for civil programs is not […]

Photo Credit: Majdi Fathi/TPS Ismail Haniyeh Saudi Arabia has announced it has severed all ties with the Hamas terror organization, according to a source in the Palestinian Authority (PA). The Saudis reportedly made the announcement in a meeting with the United Nations’ Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ […]

Photo Credit: Yossi Zeliger / Flash 90 Lahav 443 Police Investigation Building Israel’s police on Monday morning carried out raids at several locations in the country and arrested 10 officials suspected of corruption, including a mayor, government office directors and former public officials. The names of which towns were involved have not been released. The […]

Photo Credit: revolution.shirazu.ac.ir via Wikimedia Iranian students scale up US embassy wall in Tehran, Nov. 4, 1979 Tehran Times reported on Monday that “people, especially students, took to the streets in various cities across Iran to mark the 40th anniversary of the capture of the former US embassy, known as the ‘den of espionage,’ in […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press We’ve all had little wardrobe emergencies – at the times that are less than convenient. You know what I mean. You’re already running late when you realize that the button on your jacket is literally about to fall off. You pull your favorite sweatshirt out of the dryer only to discover […]

[embedded content] The Chief Rabbinate Council last Thursday ruled that a person’s Jewish status must not be investigated because of their country of origin or skin color, Reshet Bet radio reported Monday morning. The rabbinate’s decision was made following a Kan 11 exposé a year ago about Ethiopian workers at the Li-Bar catering plant in […]