Author: David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In May 1948, a decommissioned U.S. Navy ship, the Marine Carp, was carrying passengers from New York to Haifa when, stopping in Beirut, it was met by 400 Lebanese soldiers. Israel had just declared its independence and war was underway — the Lebanese had no intention of allowing Jewish men of fighting […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Israel Antiquities Authority believes that a set of ancient ceramic oil lamps missing for more than three years are at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump, according to Haaretz. Haaretz reported on Tuesday that the Antiquities Authority loaned the White House the lamps in 2019 ahead of a […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet in the United States soon, after months of holding off on inviting him to the White House. The invitation was extended and accepted during a phone call between the two leaders on Monday. Israeli prime ministers typically receive […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expelled a prominent activist from his Likud Party after the activist was filmed calling protesters “whores” and saying that he wishes “another six million would burn,” a reference to the Holocaust. The activist, Itzik Zarka, directed the epithets at protesters who were demonstrating on Saturday […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman has announced that he will join his colleague Ilhan Omar in skipping next week’s address by Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Congress. Bowman’s office told Haaretz that the progressive Democrat would not attend Herzog’s address. “I don’t think Israel has gone far enough in protecting and uplifting […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Rep. Ilhan Omar declared in a series of tweets that she not be present when Israeli President Isaac Herzog addresses a joint session of Congress next week. “There is no way in hell I am attending the joint session address from a President whose country has banned me and denied@RashidaTlaib the ability […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel’s minister of Diaspora affairs accused the Biden administration of working in cahoots with the Israeli parliamentary opposition to inflame the antigovernment protests now sweeping the country. The accusation, made Tuesday morning in an interview on Kol BaRama, a haredi Orthodox radio station, came as crowds of protesters mounted demonstrations […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  In the face of mass protests, the Israeli government has resumed its effort to weaken the country’s judiciary, advancing a bill that would strip the Supreme Court of its ability to strike down government decisions it deems “unreasonable.” Early on Tuesday Israel time, following a long and heated debate, Israel’s […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Antonio Guterres has been one of the more Israel-friendly secretary-generals of the United Nations. Since assuming his position in 2017, he has criticized anti-Israel bias in the U.N. system, visited Israel, said denying Israel’s right to exist is antisemitism and reaffirmed the ancient Jewish ties to Jerusalem. But after Israel’s raid this week […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli soldier when security forces stopped the gunman while he was driving near the Kedumim settlement in the northern West Bank. The gunman was killed after the attack. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack on Thursday, noting that Kedumim is where Bezalel Smotrich, the minister responsible for […]