Category: Israel

Photo Credit: IAF Israeli, US and UK F-35 participate in the Tri-Lightning joint exercise. June 2019 Air strikes reportedly targeted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) forces at Suwayyah and Hiri, near Abukamal at the Iraq-Syria border late Saturday night. There are unconfirmed reports of several dead and others wounded after […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In this week’s parsha, Yaakov Avinu and his family migrated to Mitzrayim, and remained there for many years. The Gemara in Kiddushin 82a says that Avraham Avinu kept the entire Torah, even the mitzvos that may not have applied. The meforshim assume that this was the practice of the other Avos […]

[embedded content] Israel Police called on the public this weekend to pay attention to alerts that may be issued via the media in connection to the stormy weather that has arrived in the region, leaving its cold, wet fingers all over the various communities in the country. In one instance, Israel Police officers swam to […]

Photo Credit: Office of Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.). New York Democratic Reps. Max Rose, Jerrold Nadler, Yvette Clarke, Eliot Engel, Hakeem Jeffries, Carolyn Maloney, Nita Lowey, Gregory Meeks, Grace Meng, and Nydia Velázquez address a press conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York follows a rising trend […]

Photo Credit: Dx73 / Wikimedia US Immigration and Customs (at Shannon Airport, Ireland) New changes to the U.S. administration’s visa policy targeting only Israelis reduces the period of time they can use visas for investment, work and study purposes in the United States, Ynet reported on Thursday. The relocation L1 visa document was reduced from […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul on Monsey, NY The Monsey machete attack suspect Grafton E. Thomas was indicted Friday before a Rockland County Grand Jury. The charge sheet included: six counts of attempted murder, three counts of assault, three counts of attempted assault, and two counts of burglary. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, […]

Photo Credit: IAI Computer rendition of the Dror 1 communications satellite. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) on Thursday announced that it has won the government tender to develop and build Dror 1, Israel’s national communications satellite, which is intended to meet Israel’s satellite communications needs for approximately 15 years. According to a statement by IAI, Dror […]

Photo Credit: Sarallah Ankouti / Tasnim News Agency General Gholamali Abuhamzeh, commander of the IRGC in Kerman province, southern Iran Iran’s commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the southern province of Kerman, General Gholamali Abuhamzeh, said Friday in an address during a ceremony that “American and Zionist officials should suffer from stress, and […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The story of Chanukah revolves around a family known as the Maccabees. They are credited with ousting the oppressive Greek regime that had conquered the land of Israel. Who were the Maccabees? They were a family of kohanim who may have been more comfortable in a bais medrash than brandishing a […]

Photo Credit: US Dept of Defense American B-52 Stratofortress aircraft arriving in Qatar to join air campaign to defeat ISIS/Da’esh A US Air Base has been attacked in Iraq, in an area north of Baghdad, according to the Al Arabiya website. At least two Katyusha rockets landed inside the Balad Air Base housing US troops […]