Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press When Rivka told Yaakov that he should pretend to be Esav so that Yitzchak would bless him, Yaakov protested that Esav’s skin was hairy while his was smooth, chalak (Genesis 27:11). “Chalak” can also denote something slippery as well as the act of slipping. Along these lines, in Rabbinic Hebrew, a […]

Photo Credit: Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90 Israeli security forces guard Jews touring the Arab side of Hebron, June 15, 2019. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration legitimizing Israeli settlements came down like the latest episode of the horror movie which has been looming over the Arabs in Judea and Samaria, according to Al Akhbar reporter Abdelkader Akl, […]

Photo Credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90 The old wholesale market on Shuhada Street in Hebron, November 1, 2018. Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday ordered the coordinator of government actions in the liberated territories and the IDF civil administration in Judea and Samaria to notify the Hebron municipality of the initial planning for a new Jewish neighborhood […]

Photo Credit: Ghadir Hani’s facebook page Yeela Raanan (L) in group selfie in Ramallah, November 28, 2019 “Robbery, violence and oppression have become the norm” in Israel, according to Israeli professor Dr. Yaela Raanan, who spoke last Thursday in Ramallah. Raanan was among four candidates who competed for the Jewish token spot on the Arab […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Haredi IDF soldiers pray during maneuvers, September 27, 2017. The number of Haredi IDF recruits in 2018 was about 20% lower than in 2017, according to internal IDF data obtained by Haaretz and published on Sunday. According to those figures, last year 2,480 Haredim enlisted in the army, compared with 3,070 […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz {Originally posted to the Elder of Ziyon website} Tomorrow is the UN-created “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” set up in 1977 specifically to be on the anniversary of the UN partition resolution that would have created a Palestinian Arab state if those same Palestinian people had not rejected […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, November 20, 2019. {Originally posted to the author’s website} After the electoral impasse, I was one of the first of Prime Netanyahu’s long-term admirers and supporters to suggest that unless he made a deal with Benny Gantz, he would be well advised to retire now, or he […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman, November 26, 2019. Avigdor Liberman’s Israel Beiteinu on Sunday morning officially announced it intends to sign for both Blue&White chairman Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to receive a mandate to assemble the next government – before it becomes necessary to go to third elections. […]

Photo Credit: screenshot {Originally posted to the author’s blog, The Lid} Seventy-two years ago the United Nations passed Resolution 181  which called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state (back then Jews living in the Holy Land were called Palestinians).  It was approved on November 29, 1947, with […]

Photo Credit: IDF IDF soldiers on routine patrol near Hebron. IDF fighters neutralized a Palestinian Authority terrorist cell on Saturday night as he was attacking an Israeli motorist traveling in Judea near the village of Beit Awwa. “During an operational activity of IDF fighters to thwart terrorist attacks near Beit Awa village in the Judea […]