Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Pixabay / Stux illustrative Do you live in Israel, and if so, are you one of the 15.7 percent of Israelis who were smart enough to get their flu shot this season? So far this season (2019-2020), there have been 10 influenza-related deaths; the most recent came on the first day of Chanukah, […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi and Kashruth Superviser Yossi Bialo of Beachwood, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland) passed away Monday night (Dec. 23) at the age of 34. Rabbi Bialo was responsible for the kosher supervision at the Menorah Park assisted living facility in Beachwood. He was also a beloved member of the Cleveland Chabad […]

Photo Credit: Hana Levi Julian (illustrative) A 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish man was punched in the face, kicked and beaten Tuesday in a vicious attack on a New York City street that took place on the second day of Chanukah. The victim was attacked because he was an easily identifiable Jew, according to City Council member […]

Photo Credit: Eyal Basson, courtesy of Israel Ministry of Health Medical cannabis In what is considered to be a global first, the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) has announced it will establish a state-sponsored incubator for start-ups focused on medical marijuana. The CanNegev center will be located in Yeruham, a town in the Negev desert and […]

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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 […]