Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Noam Flakasa/TPS Nahariya A man drowned and died in flooding caused by torrential rains in the northern city of Nahariya on Wednesday while he was trying to help a mother and child. The man, said to be 38 years old, was swept away in his car by the floods and was found later […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Joseph Trumpeldor (1880-1920) is known for his efforts in forming a Jewish military force to liberate and defend Eretz Yisrael and for founding the Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion, but he is probably best known for his legendary defense of Tel Chai when he uttered the immortal dying words, […]

Photo Credit: Kohelet Policy Forum / YouTube screengrab US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the 2020 Kohelet Conference in Jerusalem via satellite U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the United States is “disavowing” the 1978 Hansell Memorandum, a State Department memo that claimed Israeli settlements violate international law. Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: TPS Defense Minister Naftali Bennett speaking to Kohelet Conference 2020 in Jerusalem Israel has launched a campaign to reclaim land in Judea and Samaria that is under full Israeli control and which the Arabs are trying to take control of through illegal construction, Defense Minister Naftali Bennet declared. Speaking at the Kohelet Forum […]

Photo Credit: Yehonatan Valtser / TPS Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 2020 Kohelet Conference Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Wednesday that “whoever tries to attack us will receive a crushing blow in return” as Tehran threatened to attack Israel if the escalation in the region continued. Netanyahu spoke in Jerusalem at […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz Anti-Semitic hate crimes are not new. Ever since the FBI first compiled statistics on such crimes in 1992, America’s Jews have been their main target. Yet, the horrific events of the last few weeks – capping two years of escalating violence, mayhem, and murder – signal to us that we must […]

Photo Credit: Iranian President’s Office press image President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear power plant outside Bushehr, Iran, Jan. 13, 2015. A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck some 6 miles southeast of Borazjan, Bushehr Province, Iran, and 40 miles from Iran’s controversial Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot courtesy the State Dept. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Jan. 8, 2020 On the eve of the Iranian missile strikes at two US bases in Iraq, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with members of the press at the State Department and took questions regarding the airstrike that killed Iranian general Qasem […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Delta Air Lines via Wikimedia Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-800 A Boeing 737-800 belonging to Ukraine’s UIA airline on Wednesday morning crashed minutes after takeoff from the Imam Khomeini international airport in Tehran, Fars reported. The plane, with the registry of UR-PSR carrying 180 passengers and crew had just started on its […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Defense Several U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft fly in formation More than six US Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighter jets left Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates at around 2 am Wednesday, according to multiple local Middle Eastern sources, possibly heading to respond to Tuesday […]