Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Cameron Bramham US Navy / DoD / Public Domain Turkish sailors set mooring lines aboard the Turkish Navy frigate TCG Fatih (F-242) shortly after pulling into port at Augusta Bay, June 2, 2014, during Phoenix Express 2014. Phoenix Express is an at-sea exercise designed to strengthen maritime partnerships and enhance stability through increased […]

Photo Credit: Wisam Haslamoun / Flash 90 The barbed-wire gate is part of the Israeli separation fence between the Judean town of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. (illus.) As part of a targeted operation to prevent illegal migrants from entering Israel, Border Guard Police forces were deployed in the early hours of Sunday morning along the Meitar […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell declared a state of emergency on Friday and ordered the city’s computers to be shut down after the municipality was struck by a cyberattack. This is the latest cyber security event to take place in a string of city and state governments who have been hit by […]

Photo Credit: Foreign and Commonwealth Office / https://www.flickr.com/photos/foreignoffice/ UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis Britain’s general election may be over — with a landslide victory to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party ending the hopes of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn that he might end military funding to the State of Israel, and instead […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg / Flash 90 President Reuven Rivlin shake hands with Idan Clayman, head of the IDF Organization for the Disabled event in recognition for IDF casualties and the victims of hostilities, at Beit HaLochem in Tel Aviv on December 15, 2019. Israel’s Defense Ministry published data on Sunday revealing that it recognizes […]

Photo Credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO Eduardo Bolsonaro, Chairman of Brazil’s International Affairs and National Defense Committee, and son of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and wife Sara Netanyahu The son of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo Bolsonaro, told a gathering in Jerusalem Sunday night that Brazil will move […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al Husseini saluting the Bosnian Waffen SS {Originally posted to the BESA website} Israel’s Declaration of Independence notes the historic role played by Palestinian-Jewish volunteers to the British Army during WWII: In WWII the Jewish Community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of […]

Photo Credit: Yehuda Haim/Flash90 Haredim clash with police during a protest over the jailing of accused defector Yehuda Tombek, December 8, 2019. A severe indictment with the potential for prison time was filed against Rabbi Yehuda Tombek, who is defined by the IDF as a defector “who has been absent from service with the intention […]

Photo Credit: courtesy This is the conclusion of the interview posted last week: Zionism As A Reflection of Jewish History – Interview with Alex Ryvchin Q: You quote a writer describing the attendees at Third Zionist Congress, including “a bearded Persian” and “an Egyptian in a fez.” Did Herzl recognize a need for Zionism among […]

Photo Credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL Prime Minister Netanyahu arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting, December 15, 2019. Speaking at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “In recent days we have heard a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander again threaten that Iran will destroy Tel Aviv from Lebanon. […]