Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90 Haredi youth arrives at the IDF Tel HaShomer draft processing base near Tel Aviv. A committee appointed by IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi to examine the scandal of forged Haredi recruitment data recently examined a recording of a junior officer who said he had been ordered to forge the number […]

Photo Credit: UN Photo/Kim Haughton King of Jordan Addresses General Assembly {Originally posted to the JNS website} The Kingdom of Jordan canceled a component of its 1994 peace treaty last month with Israel. It evicted Israeli farmers from two tracts of contested land in the Jordan River Valley. The minor stretches of land—Naharaim in the […]

Photo Credit: Esty Dziubov / TPS Palestinian Authority village of Turmus Ayya Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official Abbas Zaki recently stated that it is a Palestinian “value” to murder Israeli men, but lied when he claimed that the Palestinian leadership does not support the murder of Israeli women and children. Speaking at the opening of […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter / TPS Hezbollah logo After months of debate, Germany’s parliament has decided to designate Hezbollah a terror organization and ban all of the group’s activities in Germany. Germany had previously distinguished between Hezbollah’s military wing, which was banned, and its political wing, which was not. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir / TPS Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko visits the Knesset on Dec. 23 2015. Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine expressed his “confusion” over a Ukrainian court’s decision to reinstate a diplomat who had been dismissed over anti-Semitic and neo-fascist comments he had posted on his Facebook page. Vasyl Marushchynets had been serving as […]

Photo Credit: Avi Ohayon / GPO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin A Russian court on Thursday rejected Israeli-American Naama Issachar’s appeal of her seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a minor drug offense. Twenty-six-year-old Issachar was arrested on April 9 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, where she had stopped for a connecting […]

Photo Credit: Marissa Becker Here’s an example of a “zero entry pool” which allows people to be wheeled into the water, with water wheelchairs in the background, snapped at Camp Simcha in NY. Fifteen Jewish camps across North America have been awarded funding in the next round of the Yashar Initiative of the Foundation for […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press When Yosef’s brothers decide they are going to kill him and throw him into a pit, Reuven realizes he needs to intervene to save Yosef’s life. While Reuven wants to return Yosef to Yaakov, he is caught in a predicament. What can he say or do that will convince the brothers […]

Photo Credit: Muammar Awad / Flash 90 Arab men shout during clashes with Israeli security forces at a protest in the Arab eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, demanding they be given the bodies of the men killed in the recent terror attacks. November 13, 2015. by Nadav Shragai / Israel Hayom Ahmad Jabis and […]

Photo Credit: Almog Sugavker / Flash 90 Rocket explosion in a field near a kibbutz. (file) For the second time Thursday, a rocket was fired from Gaza after dark at Israeli civilians living near the southern border. The rocket landed in an open area, where it did no property damage. No one was physically injured. […]