Category: Israel

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 […]

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 […]