Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS Omar Shakir, After months of legal proceedings and court hearings, Israel’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled that the work permit of Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), should not be renewed and that he should be deported from Israel. The ruling states that […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Sara Netanyahu with their son Yair, December 13, 2015. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday contacted Israel Police Acting Commissioner Motti Cohen regarding a man on Facebook named “Tzvika Sabag” who has called for Netanyahu’s murder and that of his family. He asked the Acting Commissioner to open an investigation of […]

I know that I sound like a broken record. OK, none of you are old enough to know what that sounds like. How about a scratched CD, one that plays the same phrase over and over and over: Bibi, Gantz, Lieberman, Lapid: get your acts together. It is a matter of life and death. Advertisement […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS New Olim arrive in Israel. Aug. 15, 2017 The Ministry of Immigration and Absorption on Monday evening launched events celebrating Aliyah day in honor of the Olim, new immigrants to Israel. During a special ceremony, Minister of Immigration and Absorption Yoav Galant awarded a prize to Olim whose special achievements were […]

Photo Credit: El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and Google Maps Richard Holzer and Temple Emanuel synagogue in Pueblo, Colo The FBI last Friday arrested Richard Holzer, 27, a former Ku Klux Klan member and a vocal white supremacist and skinhead, for plotting to blow up Temple Emanuel synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. According to the FBI, […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz {Reposted from the JNS website} Zionism seems like a binary proposition: You’re either for or against the existence of a Jewish state. But a third option has become increasingly popular, one I would call conditional Zionism. It holds that a Jewish state has a right to exist, but only if it […]

Photo Credit: Nati Shohat / Flash 90 Amman Jordan at night (Archive: 2006) Jordanian officials said Amman will return Ambassador Ghassan Majali to Israel in the coming days. The decision came after an agreement was reached between the countries for transferring of the responsibility of two arrested Jordanians in Israel to the Jordanian security forces. […]

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