Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Flash90 Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman, September 12, 2019. As the mandate to form the next coalition government is about to be handed to Blue&White chairman Benny Gantz, Israel’s bona fide kingmaker, MK Avigdor Liberman, told Reshet Bet radio Wednesday morning it is possible that Likud chairman and PM Benjamin Netanyahu may already […]

Photo Credit: Handout – Anadolu Agency Presidents Erdogan and Putin meet in Russia, August 27, 2019. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reached a new deal for creation of a safe zone in northern Syria on Tuesday after a five hour meeting in Sochi. Beginning at 12 noon on October 23, […]

Photo Credit: Channel 13 via ZioNLight / YouTube screen grab Joint Arab List chairman and MK Ayman Odeh interviewed by Israel’s Channel 13 The head of the Joint Arab List faction, Ayman Odeh, said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 13 on Tuesday that without his faction and its 13 seats in the coalition he […]

Photo Credit: Channel 2: Taamar Abidat Arab MK Ahmed Tibi on the Temple Mount with PLO flag. Ta’al Party leader and Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi spoke Tuesday about the possibility of supporting the Arab Joint List faction from outside the narrow government coalition led by Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz. Tibi’s party is […]

Photo Credit: Geralt / Pixabay / public domain Alzheimer’s and other dementias challenge researchers to search for ways to diagnose, treat and eventually cure — if not prevent — the disease. Biogen Inc. has announced it will seek regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its medication, aducanumab, which failed its clinical […]

Photo Credit: Mendy Hechtman / Flash 90 Tens of thousands pray in Selichot (repentance) services at the Western Wall. The Western Wall Heritage Foundation announced Tuesday that some 2.5 million people visited the Western Wall during the Hebrew month of Tishrei this year. “Many hundreds of thousands” of people participated in the Selichot (penitential) prayer […]

[embedded content] Second Hakafot dancing took place all over the country. Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion danced at the Second Hakafot in yeshivat Machon Meir, on Monday evening (Hodaya Kalman/TPS) Second Hakafot with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion at Yeshiva Machon Meir. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 […]

Photo Credit: @NewsChannelIL You are great! President Trump sent a Happy Birthday note to Prime Minister Netanyahu, in honor of Netanyahu’s 70th Birthday. טראמפ במכתב ברכה לנתניהו לכבוד יום הולדתו: “אתה אחד מבעלי בריתי הקרובים ביותר” pic.twitter.com/tPqvpfoiD6 — החדשות (@NewsChannelIL) October 22, 2019 Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment Banner / (02) / […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz Frankly speaking, there’s a number of more than likely scenarios as to what could happen now that Netanyahu has returned the mandate to form the government and Gantz is getting his chance (to fail?). Blue&White already invited the Arab parties to coalition talks, while Avigdor Liberman’s deputy Oded Forer made it […]

Photo Credit: Israel Police Hundreds of thousands of Israeli shekels The Global Wealth Report, comprised by the Swiss banking firm Credit Suisse, found that Israel’s population is getting wealthier with Israel’s number of millionaires growing to 131,000 in 2019. The report estimates that the number of millionaires in Israel will grow to 173,000 by 2024. […]