Author: David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Elizabeth Tsurkov, an expert on refugees and a Middle East analyst who has Russian and Israeli citizenship, has been held for months by a Shiite militia in Iraq, according to the Israeli government. “Elizabeth Tsurkov is an Israeli-Russian dual citizen who has been missing in Iraq for several months and is being […]

This is a developing story.  TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — At least seven people were wounded in a terror attack in Tel Aviv as a Palestinian attacker rammed his car into people waiting at a bus stop. Video from the scene showed the attacker then emerge from his white truck and begin stabbing patrons at […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Israel Defense Forces launched a large-scale raid on suspected terrorists in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens. An Israeli soldier was wounded in Monday’s operation but has returned to the fighting. The raid is the most extensive in Jenin since […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Israeli government is poised to advance its proposal to weaken the country’s Supreme Court, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had dropped the plan’s most prominent provision. The renewed legislative effort comes amid continued street protests against the proposed reform, which have taken place at least weekly since the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  About two weeks ago, the CEO of HIAS, the Jewish refugee aid group, testified in the trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman — discussing how his group’s partnership with one of the building’s congregations prompted the shooter to commit the attack.  As he took the stand, some members of that congregation, Dor […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that an Iranian plot to attack sites popular with Jews and Israelis in Cyprus had been foiled. Reports in Israeli and Cypriot media claimed that the attacks were aimed at venues frequented by Israeli tourists and a building associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. The […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel’s security agencies said they would use “all the means that are at our disposal” to combat violence by settlers in the wake of West Bank riots that left one Palestinian dead and dozens injured. They pledged to use a tactic generally reserved for Palestinian terror suspects in order to stop […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Reform movement is folding its high school program in Israel into a larger, nondenominational program, in an effort to cut costs and streamline operations amid declining enrollment. Starting this fall, the Union for Reform Judaism’s Heller High program, in which high school students spend a semester studying in Israel, will merge […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Some 65 U.S. senators from both parties have urged the Biden administration to finalize Israel’s entry into the Visa Waiver Program by Sept. 30. Israel has sought to join the program, which enables citizens to travel to the United States without a visa, for decades. Currently, Israelis who do not hold […]

SDEROT, Israel — Whenever Efraim Rozenfeld hears a plane flying overhead, his body tenses up. The 52-year-old father of seven and grandfather of seven is a longtime resident of Sderot, the Israeli town near the Gaza border that is a regular target of Palestinian rocket attacks. Rozenfeld’s physical response to plane noise is the result, […]