Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Xiquinhosilva via Wikimedia Deputy mayors from around Israel who are assembled in Eilat, had planned a tour of the mystical red rock city of Petra in Jordan Tuesday morning, but at the border crossing, the Haredi delegates in the group were told to remove their yarmulkes and Tzitzit (fringed religious garments), Kikar Hashabat […]

Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Official White House photo by Pete Souza The flag of France, flown during a White House ceremony. (archive photo) {Reposted from the MEF website} France laid out a new posture for itself in discussions in the Gulf this week, chiding the Americans for not standing up to Iran’s threats against Saudi […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90 Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (L) and Justice Minister Amir Ohana, September 03, 2019. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said in a private conversation Monday that should his recommendation for a replacement for retiring State’s Attorney Shai Nitzan be ignored, he, the AG, would declare that any other appointment is legally prohibited, Channel […]

Photo Credit: vDoD photo by D. Myles Cullen Released An Israeli soldier looks over the Syrian and Jordanian borders from the Golan Heights, Israel, In 1993, 1995 and 2005, Israel retreated from 40% of the Judea and Samaria mountain ridges (West Bank) and the entire Gaza Strip. It transformed these regions into platforms of unprecedented […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90 Tel Aviv regional Arm Wrestling Competition, July 13, 2015. According to the US News and World Report Spectator Index, Israel is in 8th place: Most powerful countries, 2019. 1. US2. Russia3. China4. Germany5. UK6. France7. Japan8. Israel9. Saudi10. S Korea11. UAE12. Canada13. Iran14. Switzerland15. Australia16. Turkey17. India18. Italy19. Iraq20. Singapore (US […]

Photo Credit: Herzl Shapira/Flash 90 The Mavi Marmara The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has once again refused to launch an investigation into the IDF’s takeover of the Mavi Marmara ship, the latest phase in an ongoing campaign to charge Israel with war crimes at the ICC. In 2010, the Israeli navy […]

Photo Credit: Emil Salman, GPO POOL AG Mandelblit and Netanyahu {Originally posted to the JNS website} Watching events unfold in Israel is an experience in split-screen living. On the right side of the screen is the chaos outside our gates, in neighboring lands. And on the left side of the screen is the chaos inside. […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Regavim Pro-BDS demonstrators show their hatred for Israel at an event in London, December 1 2019 Anti-Israel activists working for the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) campaign against the Jewish State staged a disruptive demonstration at a London venue on Sunday night, where Regavim spokesperson Naomi Kahn was hosted at an event […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Ahhhh, Kosherfest. While it is no doubt a show about the business of kosher food, the fact remains that since it focuses on all things yummy, Kosherfest definitely has an element of fun and has been dubbed by some as “the biggest kiddush of the year.” Some people eat their way […]

Photo Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh / Flash 90 Hamas supporters attend a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Hamas movement, the PA-controlled city of Shechem (Nablus), following a demonstration against US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on December 15, 2017. Previously unreleased video from a […]