Category: Israel

[embedded content] Transport Minister Bezalel Smotrich, 39, leader of the religious Zionist Tkuma faction in the Knesset, on Tuesday issued a frank and blunt message to his former partner, Habayit Hayehudi chairman Rabbi Rafi Peretz, suggesting that clever political maneuvering would be the death of both their parties. Last week, Peretz united with Otzma Yehudit […]

Photo Credit: TPS 1. According to PriceWaterouseCoopers, the 2019 volume of Israeli hightech exits (companies that were sold or held stock exchange offerings), totaled $9.9BN, compared to $4.9BN in 2018, $7.4BN in 2017, $14.9 in 2014, $7.6BN in 2016 and $1.2BN in 2010. If 10 follow-on deals are included (companies acquired more than once, or […]

Photo Credit: screenshot {Originally posted to The Lid website} The NY Post reports that A Jewish mom and her young son were assaulted in Brooklyn — the fifth anti-Semitic attack this week, police said Friday. Ayana Logan, 42, approached the 34-year-old woman and her 3-year-old son on Avenue U near West 5th street in Gravesend […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy CJNV The Center for Jewish Nonviolence delegation in Judea and Samaria, December 2019. To start, you should know there’s a thing called The Center for Jewish Nonviolence, and that it “strives for a future that honors the full equality and shared humanity of both Palestinians and Israelis.” Then you should know that […]

Photo Credit: Twitter screenshot Black predators assault young Chassidic man Crown Heights Jewish activist Yaakov Behrman on Tuesday morning tweeted a security camera video he had dug up from an attack that took place in the early evening a week ago Tuesday on Lincoln Place near Albany Avenue, where a pack of black young men […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90 The Arab Bank branch in Gaza City. Victims of terrorist acts and families of murdered victims of terrorists on Monday filed in Jerusalem District Court a 20 billion shekel ($5.8 billion) lawsuit against the Arab Bank whose headquarters are in Amman, Jordan. According to the lawsuit, the […]

Photo Credit: Marc Israel Sellem / POOL Israel’s Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea. January 31, 2019 The Leviathan gas rig commenced its operations on Tuesday morning and began to pump natural gas from the field at the bottom of the sea and stream it towards Israel. Local residents […]

Photo Credit: Michael Erenburg Hard at work during the fourth annual Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev) “Great Minds Hackathon,” December 2019. An innovative crop-disease detection solution designed for drones was announced as the winner of the fourth annual Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev) “Great Minds Hackathon.” Efraim Hammer and his group partner, Gamliel […]

Photo Credit: Vauxford / Wikipedia 2019 Tesla Model 3 Tesla will start to hit Israeli roads come January. Globes first reported the development on Monday. The electric-car company, founded by Elon Musk, will open a pop-up store in the Ramat Aviv Mall in North Tel Aviv. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: […]

Photo Credit: Office of Gov. Cuomo / Kevin P. Coughlin Governor Andrew Cuomo visits with Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey. Members of the Chassidic community in Rockland County and elsewhere have expressed how vulnerable they feel because their clothing makes them identifiably Jewish. (JNS) Less than 24 hours after five people were stabbed at a […]