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Photo Credit: SheepNotGoats via Wikimedia Hammond High School, a public secondary school, located in Columbia, Maryland. Last week, Maryland’s Department of Education announced it plans to expand instruction about the Holocaust in state schools. Howard Libit, executive director of the Baltimore Jewish Council, told Public Service News that he and other Jewish leaders are concerned […]

Photo Credit: Shlomi Mizrahi Bar-llan University President Prof. Arie Zaban presents President Rivlin with a nano-chip engraved with the Prayer for the State of Israel, as (from far left) archaeologist Prof. Aren Maeir and Bar-Ilan Council of Trustees Chairman Shlomo Zohar look on. President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday ushered in the 2019-20 academic year at […]

Photo Credit: Tomer S. / Wikipedia / Public Domain Gateway to the southern part of the village of Ghajar on the Israel-Lebanon border The IDF thwarted an attempt to smuggle a massive shipment of drugs from Lebanon into Israel on Sunday. The IDF identified suspicious individuals on the border near the village of Ghajer (Rajar […]

Photo Credit: MEMRI An Israeli flag is seen on the ground in Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square, Oct. 25, 2019. According to Lebanese media reports, demonstrators were trampling Israeli flags to show they’re not working for foreign governments. Lebanese protesters in Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square have been trampling Israeli flags to demonstrate that “there is only […]

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Photo Credit: Pixabay (illustrative) Bar Ilan University has agreed to begin a pilot project to allow students to pay their tuition payments this year via their smartphones. The university signed an agreement to allow the students to make their payments using Bank Hapoalim’s Bit app, one of the leading payment apps in Israel. Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: Wikipedia / Shahen Araboghlian / CCASA 4.0I Protests in Beirut. Oct. 19, 2019 Thousands of protesters planned to form a human chain across Lebanon on Sunday as tensions mounted between protesters and security forces, according to an AFP report. The country has been largely shut down as roads are blocked and banks and […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS Ukrainian flags together with Israeli flags wave in the wind in the Ukraine’s President, Petro Poroshenko, visit the the Knesset. Israel welcomed Ukraine’s decision to open a diplomatic branch of their Tel Aviv Embassy in Jerusalem, the latest country to establish a diplomatic presence in Israel’s capital. The decision was made […]

[embedded content] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated President Donald Trump and the United States on Sunday in response to the announcement of the death of Islamic State (Da’esh) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Netanyahu called it an “impressive […]

Photo Credit: Orli Aloni / Wikipedia Augusta Victoria Compound is a church-hospital complex located on the southern side of Mount of Olives in eastern Jerusalem. A severe crisis in the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) medical system and a decision by the PA’s prime minister to boycott Israeli hospitals have put the life of Arab cancer patients […]