Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Kan 11 Poll, December 8, 2019 A poll done for Kan 11 News on Sunday by the Canter Institute shows a small strengthening of both Blue&White and Likud, at the expense of smaller parties in their respective blocs. This does not change the relationship between the blocs. The poll gives 35 seats to […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Doug Goldstein Behavioral finance, or the psychology of investing, explains how and why people make money decisions. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); John R. Nofsinger, professor of finance at the University of Alaska and author of The Psychology of Investing, describes […]

[embedded content] The stormy weather caused damage and flooding in Ashkelon Sunday night. After a few hours of intense showers in the city, residents found themselves trapped in their flooded homes, as rescue teams were working to release trapped civilians. The municipality blames the flooding on the “unusual” amount of rainfall, but some residents suggest […]

Photo Credit: Official White House U.S. President Donald Trump with fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members at the 70th anniversary of NATO in Watford, Hertfordshire, outside of London, Dec. 4, 2019 {Originally posted to the JNS website} President Donald Trump thought the 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization […]

[embedded content] Two Israeli women, both veterans of the IDF who were visiting in New York last week, got a real “close up” sample of Brooklyn subway crime when they were robbed and beaten by some of the night life of the city after getting off the train and walking up the stairs of the […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Sheba Medical Center Israel Center for Disaster Medicine & Humanitarian Response team (Sheba Medical Center) at Ben-Gurion Airport prior to departure for Samoa A team of medical experts from Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer flew to Samoa on Sunday following an urgent request from the World Health Organization (WHO), as the […]

Photo Credit: US Navy / Ed Barker / public domain NASA astronaut candidate Lt. Col. Mark Vande Hei and Lt. Cmdr. Patrick McCaslin, an instructor with Training Squadron (VT) 4, conduct a preflight check of the cockpit of a T-6A Texan II before an instrument training flight at Naval Air Station Pensacola The Federal Bureau […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / Flash 90 The Cave of the Patriarchs is the burial site of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rivka, Leah, Adam and Eve, in Hebron. Terrorist attacks — and attempted terror attacks — are a common threat at security checkpoints leading to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Even the unlikeliest […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel arrives to the courtroom for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem The new head of Israel’s Central Elections Committee will be an immigrant from the United States, it was announced Sunday evening. Supreme Court Judge Neal Hendel has been chosen […]

Photo Credit: Toby Klein Greenwald Toby and Yaakov Greenwald by the River Vlatava On September 11, 2001, I gathered together the actresses of Raise Your Spirits Theatre in Gush Etzion. We had created our theater troupe that summer, in the midst of a bloody intifada in Israel, and made a decision to not cancel rehearsals […]