Category: Israel

Photo Credit: courtesy Rabbi Nataf It is [like this] with mothers. Whey they have borne their children and given them their milk and beauty and strength, they themselves become insignificant and no one asks about them anymore…. Perhaps it is sad and yet also beautiful. Herman Hesse, The Journey to the East Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / FLASH90 Haim Ramon, June 29, 2009. “Aharon Barak is a judicial pirate because he robbed our parliamentary democracy,” former justice minister Haim Ramon (Labor) said on Sunday about the former president of Israel’s supreme court, the author of Israel’s “constitutional revolution.” Ramon spoke at the seventh annual Zionist Human Rights […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster /Flash90 Former education minister Gideon Sa’ar, November 21, 2018. MK Gideon Sa’ar, who is the front contender for the job of Likud chairman, in opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday morning told a special meeting of the Israel Allies Foundation in Jerusalem of the need for foreign governments to […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Members of the Palestinian LTBGQ community continue to flee to Israel, where, unlike under the Hamas and Palestinian Authority regimes, they are free to lead normal lives. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); The gay […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps The view of Jerusalem from the Governor’s Palace promenade The US government has been given the green light by the Jerusalem municipality regarding the planning process of the permanent structure for the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Channel 12 reported Tuesday. The area on which it was decided to erect the embassy […]

Photo Credit: German Federal Archives {Originally posted to the Elder of Ziyon website} I have a thing about Germans. I cannot stand to see or hear them. It isn’t intellectual, not something thought out, but a gut reaction: it literally turns my stomach to be in proximity to them, to Germans, even through the media […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu storm the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, December 6, 2019. With less than two days remaining until the Knesset’s dispersal and the start of an election run for the third time in less than a year, everyone in Israel’s political sphere is already preparing for the 2020 campaign, […]

Photo Credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami / Flash 90 El Al airlines, the national airline of Israel Could Israel’s national carrier, El Al Airlines, be working on a direct route between Tel Aviv and Casablanca? According to a report published by the Israeli free daily newspaper Israel Hayom that may indeed be in the cards. Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Wild Jordan / jcookfisher Amman, Jordan A Jordanian court has sentenced a man to eight years in jail for plotting to attack the Israeli embassy in Amman last year, AFP reported Monday. The country’s state security court ruled that the 33-year-old Khaled Abu Raya had “threatened to carry out terrorist acts,” […]

[embedded content] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his appreciation for the support of a group of international lawmakers who are in Jerusalem to attend the annual gathering of the Israel Allies Foundation. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Guatemala’s President-elect, Alejandro Giammattei is […]