Category: Israel

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. […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon bring back Dr. Stephen Bryen. Dr. Bryen is a former Reagan era Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for technology security, a noted Military Technologist and Asia Times Columnist. We discuss breaking news of Turkey’s Erdogan ‘saber rattling’ using Turkish Navy vessels to disrupt Cypriot offshore drilling […]

Photo Credit: yishai fleisher (((CLICK BELOW TO HEAR AUDIO))) Yishai is at the King David Lounge at JFK dreaming about getting home and thinking about Joseph’s dreams that pushed him away from his brothers and led him to begin the Jewish Exile. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, […]

Photo Credit: Thomas Breher / Pixabay The Red Alert incoming rocket siren was triggered Thursday evening in a southern Israeli community near the Gaza border. “The details are being checked out,” the IDF said. A similar incident took place in the wee hours of Thursday morning, at around 2:30 am, when southern Israeli families in […]

Photo Credit: Vera via Flickr A Boeing at Domodedovo Airport Terminal A second Israeli plane was delayed in Moscow on Thursday, after 46 Israeli passengers who were on their way from Israel to Moscow were detained Wednesday night, on the grounds that they did not have a valid visa. The passengers who were detained on […]