Category: Israel

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 […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO Rudolph Giuliani with a friend, January 26, 2017. “America’s Mayor,” former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is under fire again, this time for suggesting he is “more of a Jew” than leftwing billionaire George Soros. In a New York Magazine interview (A Conversation With Rudy Giuliani Over Bloody […]

Photo Credit: Wikipedia / Nanking2012 / CC 3.0 Iran launched a new stage at its Arak heavy water reactor by starting up the facility’s secondary circuit amid pressure from the United States. Although the move doesn’t violate the 2015 nuclear deal, which the United States withdrew from in May 2018 and reimposed sanctions lifted under […]

Photo Credit: Wisam Hashlamoun / Flash 90 Head of Palestinian national security forces in Hebron Brig. Gen. Hazem Abu Hanood and head of the Palestinian police Brig. Gen. Ahmad Abu Rob talk to residents during a visit to the Old City in Hebron on July 31, 2018. Part of the $1.37 trillion spending bill that U.S. President Donald […]

Photo Credit: Israel Mission to UN Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon displays Iranian smuggling routes in Lebanon during Security Council session {Originally posted to the author’s website} It’s practically impossible to predict what awaits Israel in 2020, given the always-turbulent Mideast security situation and our own capricious politics. And yet, foreign affairs and defense professionals […]