Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Marc Israel Sellem / POOL Israel’s Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea. January 31, 2019 Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) on Monday announced that the Leviathan gas field operator Noble Energy did not meet the necessary criteria for operational testing and ordered to postpone the procedure […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush / Flash 90 Inside the Likud troops carrier: Gideon Sa’ar (R) with Miri Regev, Gilad Erdan (standing) and Ofir Akunis, September 18, 2019. Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has announced that he is supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Likud primary leadership race this Thursday against his challenger, MK Gideon […]

Photo Credit: Embassy of the UAE in Washington DC via Twitter 2019 Chanukah greeting to the Jewish People from the Embassy of the UAE in Washington DC Israel has been the “beneficiary” of many international insults over the past year, courtesy of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) economic war against the Jewish State and […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Western Wall Heritage Foundation Arizona Governor Doug Doucey with Western Wall and Holy Sites Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz Arizona Governor Doug Doucey visited the Western Wall on Tuesday, December 24 just a few short hours before the start of Christmas Eve, one of the holiest times on the Christian calendar. The governor was […]

Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90 French olim at Ben Gurion International Airport on July 10, 2017. Following a news breaking announcement Monday from Reform Clergy Uri Regev that out of the 154,474 olim who have come to Israel in the last 8 years and were entitled to an Israeli citizenship under the law of return, only […]

[embedded content] In November 2009, Nefesh B’Nefesh or Jewish Souls United, a nonprofit organization that was established in August 2001, produced a Chanukah flash mob video that to date has registered 1,325,924 views on YouTube. The mob got together on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street and the dancing and singing was choreographed by an oleh, Marvin […]

Photo Credit: archive {Originally posted to the SATIRICAL PreOccupied Territory website} Paris, December 19 – The government of President Emmanuel Macron made a formal commitment today to safeguard the one Jewish grave marker in the country that has yet to suffer antisemitic vandalism. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Rabbi Nataf Several commentators try to understand the breadth of Yosef’s answer to Pharaoh’s dream. Ostensibly, Yosef is only asked about the dream’s meaning, not what to do about it. But rather then stopping there, Yosef continues to tell Pharaoh what to do and about the need to appoint someone truly wise […]

Photo Credit: Olivier Fitoussi /FLASH90 The security gate surrounding the settlement of Efrat in the Judaean Mountains. The Knesset Finance Committee on Tuesday approved the transfer of a security grant to local authorities in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley, totaling 34.5 million shekel ($10 million), to pay for the government’s decision in December this […]

During the period when the Land of Israel was ruled by the Seleucid dynasty of the Syrian-Greek Empire, Antiochus IV came to be the emperor in 174 BCE. He was known as called Epiphanes. He sought to unify his subjects by forcing upoon them a common religion and culture. For the Jews of Judea this […]