Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90 Israel Electric Company worker The Israel Electric Company (IEC) has stepped up its actions against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and has cut power to various areas in the PA for three hours over the PA’s unpaid bills. The IEC limited the power to Ramallah on Sunday as a step to […]

Photo Credit: Haim Zach/GPO Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street, September 5, 2019. {Originally posted to the JNS website} The relief was overwhelming. When the exit polls on Thursday evening correctly predicted a large majority for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, British Jews allowed themselves to breathe again. Overcome […]

Photo Credit: Avigdor Liberman’s Facebook Avigdor Liberman’s mockery of Benny Gantz’s ‘secular’ government, Dec. 16, 2018. Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman on Monday morning put on a political pundit’s hat and declared over his Facebook page that Blue&White and the two Haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, have already agreed to partner in forming […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay {Reposted from the JNS website} The past week clarified a lot of things about the state of the American Jewish community—and its antagonists. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); The two assailants who walked into the kosher supermarket in Jersey City on […]

Photo Credit: CCTV footage, screen grab via Twitter / Christian @Lafvnte Domestic terrorists targeting Jews in JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey on Dec. 10, 2019 A New Jersey man has been arrested after a direct connection has been established to two shooters who last week killed a top detective on the city’s […]

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 […]