Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Andrew McIntire/TPS Erez Crossing, on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, the entrance point from Gaza into Israel. Gaza, Jul 12, 2015. The IDF is expanding the number of travel permits it is issuing to Gazans ahead of Christmas, enabling them to travel to Jerusalem and Bethlehem for the holiday. The […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Kobi Levi Israeli footwear designer Kobi Levi and Hollywood actress Whoopi Goldberg Looking for that special something to brighten up your wardrobe for this year’s Festival of Lights? Or perhaps you’re searching for a gift for that femme fatale in your life? If either of the above apply, seek no further. Two […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz Three non-Jewish teenagers in Berlin attacked their fellow Jewish classmate in Marienfelde at a secondary school on the Alt-Marienfelde Street last Thursday. The attackers hurled anti-Semitic verbal abuse at him at around 9:20 am, during physical education class while strangling him, according to a statement by Berlin police, reported in a […]

Photo Credit: Aviv Hertz / TPS Four people were killed and 12 were injured in a bus crash on Route 40, close to Ben Gurion International Airport. Lod, Dec 22, 2019. Four people are dead and more than a dozen others were injured after a Number 947 Egged bus traveling from Jerusalem to Haifa collided […]

[embedded content] US Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood together Sunday evening (Dec. 22) to light the first candle of Chanukah from the Western Wall in Jerusalem together with the Rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz and the head of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. [embedded […]

Photo Credit: courtesy {Originally posted to The Lid website} Next Sunday night, December 22nd is the first night of the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah, and three days later is Christmas. Chanukah Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); America is supposed to be a “melting pot,” […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS New Olim Israel welcomed more than 255,000 Olim {new immigrants) from 150 different countries in the past decade, according to data published by the Jewish Agency for Israel on Sunday. The countries which contributed the highest number of Olim in the past 10 years were Russia (66,800), Ukraine (45,670), France (38,000) […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps Map of Middle East, with Tehran marked in red Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday stated that he “welcomes the closer relations between Israel and many Arab states” and that “the time has come for normalization and peace.” Netanyahu tweeted the statement both in English and in Arabic, aiming his message […]

Photo Credit: UN Photo Headquarters of the International Criminal Court at The Hague Senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) official Khaleda Jarar, who is in Israeli custody for her part in a deadly bombing in August, played a major role in the Palestinian Authority’s application to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press After vanquishing the Syrian-Greeks, the Jews dedicated the Temple and witnessed the fabulous miracle of the menorah. Yet, the Gemara tells us, the Sages did not immediately institute a holiday. They waited until the next year to do so. The obvious question is: Why? The Kedushas Levi and Sfas Emes both […]