Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: IDF Gaza terrorist tries to infiltrate after damaging security fence on April 6 2018 An IDF soldier was convicted earlier this week of illegally shooting at and killing a Gazan rioter during the weekly violent riots on the border with Israel. This is the only case in which an IDF soldier was investigated […]

Photo Credit: Marc israel Sellem/POOL Netanyahu visited the Palmachim Air Force base and checked out the cool flying things they have on the base. The Hermes 900 StarLiner Heron 1 Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment Banner / (02) / News Size #15: Banner 468×60 (Comments and Mobile) [468×60] –> ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: […]

Photo Credit: Esti Dziubov / TPS President Rivlin uniting Netanyahu and Gantz in a three-way handshake at late president Shimon Peres’ memorial. {Originally posted to the BESA website} Israelis are a cynical bunch, yet they have a specific term for putting one’s own interests aside for the greater good—a fact that speaks volumes about the […]

Photo Credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90 The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) boycott of the purchase of livestock from Israel is being promoted by senior PA and Fatah officials who stand to gain from a change in the market, TPS has learned. Sources within the PA have told TPS that while the boycott is being presented as a national […]

[embedded content] Five Jewish visitors were detained Wednesday morning on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after stopping to pray during their tour. Those pesky Jews even dared to bow in the most sacred Jewish place on earth, and cried out “Adonai Hu Ha’Elokim,” an ancient monotheistic statement suggesting God is the one King of the […]

Photo Credit: wiki Cover of Time Magazine with Angela Merkel 2015 Person of the Year {Originally posted to the author’s website} The World Jewish Congress purports to represent Jewish communities throughout the world. Although its president (and prime funder), Ronald Lauder, at times feels free to ignore governance on issues related to Israel, the WJC […]

Photo Credit: Almandillo / Wikimedia Commons Flag of Islamic State (ISIS / Da’esh) terrorist organization The second-in-command to Islamic State terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and spokesperson for the terrorist organization – Abu al-Muhajir – has been also been killed. Al-Muhajir was considered the likely successor to al-Baghdadi in the case of his death. Advertisement […]

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore of Peoria AZ / Wikimedia US Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking on August 21, 2019 at the Prairie Meadows Hotel in Altoona, Iowa, hosted by Iowa Federation of Labor Convention, AFL-CIO Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts told the participants of this week’s J Street national conference in Washington DC, “I believe […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Example of gaze fixation points for 10 control children (blue) and 10 ASD children (green) on an individual frame of the naturalistic movie. The mean gaze position of the control group is marked with a cross. Measuring children’s gaze patterns as they watch movies of social interactions […]

Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir / Flash 90 Visitors to the Dead Sea region look over the muddy water flooding the area near Kibbutz Mitzpe Shalem in Nahal Kedem, 29 October 2008. Israeli searchers have recovered the body of 21-year-old Yerachmiel Yeshayahu of Jerusalem at the bottom of a cliff near the northern shore of the […]