Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Guy Levian Nature and Parks Authority Pod of dolphins playing off the Ashkelon coast Inspectors of the marine unit of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority who were sailing as part of a sea-bird survey off the coast of Ashkelon were joined by a happy pod of dolphins, 17 individuals altogether, including two […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Christian pilgrims baptizing in the Jordan. Jan. 18, 2017 The number of Christian citizens of Israel is rising and there are several positive developments regarding Christians in higher education in the Jewish state, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) special Christmas 2019 report. Around 177,000 Christians are citizens of Israel, […]

Photo Credit: Ehud Amiton/TPS Off-shore Gas drilling rig Leviathan, in the Mediterranean Sea, 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Haifa. Dor, Dec 23, 2019. Jordanian Members of Parliament (MP) are pushing for an urgent legislative initiative to repeal the agreement in which Israel will supply gas to the Hashemite Kingdom, ahead of the soon-to-be-launched natural […]

Photo Credit: Sara Yahimovich/TPS Scooters on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality has issued various unprecedented new regulations for shared electric scooters, aimed at keeping pedestrians and scooter riders safe. The new regulations include equipping all electric scooters with helmets, installing license plates, recycling used batteries, lowering the speed of the scooters in […]

Photo Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 Likud chairman wannabe Gideon Sa’ar, December 15, 2019. MK Gideon Sa’ar, who is running for the Likud chairmanship against PM Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Monday evening that if he is elected party chairman, he would endeavor to elect Benjamin Netanyahu to be the next president of Israel, a post from which […]

Photo Credit: Facebook / Yisrael Medad {Originally posted to the JNS website} Why are so many Diaspora Jews doing the dirty work of their mortal enemies for them? Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); In the United States, most Jews still support the Democratic Party […]

Photo Credit: Paid for by Bernie 2020 / YouTube screen grab US Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Michigan’s 13th District Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has released another “love message” to leftist Jews in Detroit, this time with a Chanukah message. “Happy early Hanukkah to all of you,” she said. “Your 2020 platform calling for every public […]

Photo Credit: Andrew McIntire / TPS Israel Employment Center Israel’s unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent in November, after October’s record-low 3.4 percent figure, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This month’s unemployment rate of 3.9 percent, while still very low, is the highest the country had seen since June, when the unemployment […]

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 […]

Photo Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton / Flash 90 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo (left), President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades (second from left), and former Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2019. The governments of […]