Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Marc Gronich Wide Shot of MetLife Stadium Inspirational, energizing, renewing a desire to do more and spiritually satisfying were all reactions heard about the 13th Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi held at the Meadowlands Sports Complex (MetLife Stadium) on January 1. With an attendance of 88,000 attendees, according to Meadowlands officials, participants were dancing, […]

Photo Credit: Andrei Sedof / Wikipedia York University in Toronto, Canada, reinstated a pro-Israel student group on Monday after it was suspended following Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) protesting a local Herut Canada event on Nov. 20, which featured reservists from the Israel Defense Forces. Before, during and after the event, anti-Israel SAIA protesters clashed with pro-Israel […]

Photo Credit: Naale A trip to the Na’ale Elite Academy at the Sha’alabim campus close to Modi’in is always worthwhile and interesting. Having the opportunity to spend some time with and interview highly intelligent Jewish teenagers from around the world and understand their stories is a rare privilege. Each of the students prefaced their remarks […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90 Family, friends and supporters call for the release of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia on trumped up drug charges, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on Oct. 19, 2019. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter to an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia on drug charges, promising […]

Photo Credit: Yehonatan Valtser/TPS The Knesset building in Jerusalem A laptop left behind by someone in the Knesset on Tuesday set off a bomb scare (Chefetz Chashud) resulting in a shutdown of one of its wings. A Knesset spokesperson said in a statement that the Knesset Guard came across a briefcase with no none attending […]

Photo Credit: TPS Investments in Israel’s ever-growing hi-tech scene soared over the past decade, with the total exits value reaching $111.3 billion in 1,210 deals over 10 years, an increase of 800% in the exits value and 50% increase in the number of exits, IVC Center showed in a new report. The total value of […]

Photo Credit: NewYorkDolls as part of the Commons:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Fieldston, an elite New York educational institution already criticized for failing to address growing anti-Semitism on its campus, has fired a teacher for anti-Israel social-media posts and making an obscene gesture at guest speakers during a school assembly. History teacher JB […]

Photo Credit: Nati Shohat Flash90 Lea Tsemel, anti-Zionist Jewish lawyer, April 21, 2004 The Israel Bar Association on Monday backtracked and cancelled its appointment of terrorist hugging attorney Lea Tsemel as head its Military Courts Committee. Pheew… Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, secure: true }); On Sunday, […]

Photo Credit: Ben Dori/Flash90 (L-R) Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked and Bezalel Smotrich together in in Elkana, Samaria, August 21, 2019. Naphtali Bennett and Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday reached an agreement on a joint run of National Union and the New Right in the March 2 elections. On Monday night, negotiations between Smotrich and Habayit Hayehudi […]

Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash 90 The Fifth World Holocaust Forum, entitled “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting anti-Semitism,” will take place on Thursday, January 23, 2020, at the Warsaw Ghetto Square in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Forty five presidents, prime ministers and royal households from Europe, North America and Australia, including the Prince of Wales, and the presidents […]