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Photo Credit: Israeli Mission to the UN Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks at an event highlighting the need to recognize Jewish refugees from the Middle East at the U.N. headquarters in New York City, Dec. 4, 2019. {Written by Shiryn Ghermezian and originally posted to the JNS website} Former Miss Iraq […]

Photo Credit: Kan 11 Poll, December 8, 2019 A poll done for Kan 11 News on Sunday by the Canter Institute shows a small strengthening of both Blue&White and Likud, at the expense of smaller parties in their respective blocs. This does not change the relationship between the blocs. The poll gives 35 seats to […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Doug Goldstein Behavioral finance, or the psychology of investing, explains how and why people make money decisions. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); John R. Nofsinger, professor of finance at the University of Alaska and author of The Psychology of Investing, describes […]

[embedded content] The stormy weather caused damage and flooding in Ashkelon Sunday night. After a few hours of intense showers in the city, residents found themselves trapped in their flooded homes, as rescue teams were working to release trapped civilians. The municipality blames the flooding on the “unusual” amount of rainfall, but some residents suggest […]

Photo Credit: Official White House U.S. President Donald Trump with fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members at the 70th anniversary of NATO in Watford, Hertfordshire, outside of London, Dec. 4, 2019 {Originally posted to the JNS website} President Donald Trump thought the 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization […]

Photo Credit: Gary Knight / Flickr UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has won this year’s honor of being named the Top Anti-Semitic Person of 2019 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The decision was apparently not a difficult one: “No one has done more to mainstream anti-Semitism into the political […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway/Released Israeli Air Force F-16 (illustrative) At least five Iranian proxy militia fighters were killed in a pre-dawn air strike early Sunday near the city of Al-Bukamul in northeastern Syria, near the border with Iraq, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The […]

Photo Credit: Tomoir III via Flickr “Drone attack” (illustrative) The IDF said Saturday night that soldiers shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on Saturday that infiltrated Israeli territory from Gaza. It is not yet clear which terrorist organization launched the drone, nor whether or not it was armed. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: US Army Spc. DeAndre Pierce A National Guard soldier in an M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle in eastern Syria, Nov. 11, 2019. About one year after President Donald Trump had shocked the Kurds and the rest of America’s allies in the Middle East and Europe announcing he was pulling his troops out of Syria, […]