Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Faigie Heiman Writers never vacation. Their lives consist of writing, or thinking about writing. I like to believe that thinking about writing keeps my mind active, even when relaxing in a comfortable chair. I remember my paternal great-grandmother, known as “the Bobcha Yehudis” sitting comfortably in a straight-back chair. My maternal great-grandfather sat […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir / TPS Interior Minister Aryeh Deri at a briefing held at Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, December 2017 Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Monday signed an order banning three Hamas operatives from leaving the country. The three are linked to the Hamas headquarters in Turkey, the order said. The three banned […]

Photo Credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, Oct. 28 2019 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spent much of their meeting in Jerusalem on Monday discussing how to address the threat of […]

Photo Credit: Herwig Reidlinger / Wikimedia Jerusalem’s Flower Gate (Herod’s Gate) (Archive) Israeli security forces prevented an Arab terrorist from stabbing a man in Jerusalem on Monday. The incident took place near the Flower Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, […]

Photo Credit: Kurdishstruggle on Flickr CC Kurdish YPG fighters {Originally posted to the BESA website} Turkey’s policy of suppressing Kurdish identity and denying the Kurds their cultural and political rights midwifed the birth in the 1970s of militant groups like the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which only recently dropped its demand for Kurdish independence. The […]

Photo Credit: TPS Remains of a Second Temple era palace. Israeli officials on Sunday saved a rare Second Temple period archeological site in the Jericho area, including palaces of the Hasmonean Dynasty, from potential destruction due to illegal Arab construction in the area. The Archaeology Unit at the Civil Administration (AUCA) and the Coordinator of […]

Photo Credit: Flickr via WikiCommons Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announces her run for the 2020 presidential elections, Feb. 9, 2018. {Originally posted to the JNS website} The Democratic presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has suggested that she would consider cutting military aid to Israel to force it to halt construction of settlements in the […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy: Shnerb family Rina Shnerb, HY”D The Association France Palestine Solidarite (AFPS), a pro-Palestinian organization that has declared itself part of the anti-Israel boycott movement, is also involved in funding the activities of an organization tied to the Popular front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization, TPS has learned. AFPS describes […]

Photo Credit: Yitshak Schlissel/TPS IDF soldiers watch over worshipers at the tombs of Joshua and Caleb, at Timnath-heres near Ari’el. Ari’el, May 2, 2019. Some 600 Israeli worshipers on Sunday night visited the tombs of Yehoshua Ben-Nun and Kalev Ben Yefuna, located in the Arab village of Kafel Harath, near the city of Ariel. The […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Mourning Israelis light candles in memory of the 10 pre-military Bnei Zion Academy students who perished. The state prosecutor’s office on Monday filed charges in Be’er Sheva District Court against Yuval Cahan, dean of the pre-military academy Bnei Zion, and against Aviv Berdichev, formerly the academy’s educational program director who served […]