Author: David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A film being billed as the first co-production by Israeli and Iranian filmmakers debuted at the Venice International Film Festival after a secretive production process that included a trip to Israel by the Iranian co-director. “Tatami,” which received a standing ovation Saturday at the prestigious film competition, tells the story of a […]

TEL AVIV — It sounds like a dream offer: an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel for the full month of January, based in Tel Aviv, the beachside city with warm winter temperatures that inarguably is Israel’s most exciting metropolis. Even better, participants won’t have to use up vacation days from work for the trip. If all […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked his advisors to renew their efforts to eject African asylum seekers from the country following an explosive clash between rival Eritrean groups and police in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The unrest occurred after opponents of the dictatorial regime of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki protested an […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The top U.S. officials charged with combating antisemitism and Holocaust denial called on Israel to sustain the independence of Yad Vashem amid reports that its chair could be fired. Public statements by Ellen Germain, the State Department’s special envoy on Holocaust issues, and Deborah Lipstadt, the State Department’s special envoy to […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of soldiers in Israel, killing one and wounding five before being shot dead, in the latest incident amid an escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence. In the terror attack on Thursday, the driver, a 41-year old West Bank Palestinian man with a permit to work in […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Palestinian assailant used a kitchen knife to stab a man at a light rail station next to Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, in the latest in a surge in violence in the West Bank and Israel. A policeman who was on board the light rail car saw the stabbing and exited […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, is barring government employees under his supervision — including police officers, firefighters and prison officials — from participating in a longstanding and prestigious fellowship program for Israeli civil servants at Harvard University. Ben-Gvir issued the ban due to what he calls the left-wing political bent of […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel won its first-ever gold medals at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Valencia, Spain, over the weekend, improving on last year’s silver medal and solidifying its place as a global powerhouse in the sport. On Friday, Israel’s team topped China and Spain to take gold in the all-around group category. On […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush has been fired and has fled to Turkey following a meeting last week with Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen. Libya and Israel do not have diplomatic relations, and when he first announced the meeting on Sunday, Cohen hailed it as another breakthrough in Israel’s growing ties with […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The State Department condemned far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for saying that Jewish rights to freedom of movement in the West Bank trump those of the territory’s Arab residents. Both Ben-Gvir and the Israeli prime minister’s office fired back, claiming that his statement had been misunderstood and that he had […]