Category: Israel

J Street drops bid to join Zionist umbrella group – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

(JTA) – Pro-Palestinian activists were swarming the social media comments sections of Ben & Jerry’s to demand the company boycott Israel.  In response, Ben & Jerry’s appears to have indeed entered a boycott — of social media itself.  The international ice cream brand with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales typically posts to its […]

(JTA) — Israel’s new prime minister is probably the first one who has stuck a wad of chewing gum to his head right before a public event. Naftali Bennett, who took office this week, is the first prime minister in the country’s history to regularly wear a kippah, or Jewish ritual head covering. Unlike his […]

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes, days into new government – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Israeli army ends home raids in Palestinian areas aimed at gathering intelligence – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Biden names Tom Nides, a former top Obama State Department official, as ambassador to Israel – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Three-quarters of American Jews say they’re more concerned about antisemitism following the Israel-Gaza conflict – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

(JTA) — After 12 years, seven elections and three corruption charges, Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the prime minister of Israel. Netanyahu, who served as Israel’s leader continuously beginning in 2009 and holds the distinction of being the country’s longest-serving prime minister, was removed from the job in a razor-thin vote in the Knesset, Israel’s […]

Netanyahu’s political party says his claims of ‘election fraud’ are different from Trump’s – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

WASHINGTON (JTA) — After a decades-long embrace that began when he first served as Israel’s prime minister in the 1990s, Benjamin Netanyahu’s evangelical allies are worried about a future without him.  Jews who value the Christian alliance are worried, too, about a possible erosion of support among a critical pro-Israel sector should Netanyahu be forced […]