Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Ohad Zweigenberg / POOL Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi meet with Moshe Holtzberg whose parents were killed in a terror attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai in 2008, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, July 5, 2017. Sandra, the Indian caregiver who saved Moshe, is […]

Photo Credit: Geralt / Pixabay Alzheimer’s and other dementias challenge researchers to search for ways to diagnose, treat and eventually cure — if not prevent — the disease. Researchers believe that autism is caused by mutations that occur sporadically in the egg or sperm or during pregnancy. Activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) is a dominant gene […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Rioters in Ramallah. Nov. 26, 2019 The Palestinian Authority (PA) led “Day of Rage” on Tuesday generated only minor incidents, with only a few dozen rioters turning out to clash with the Israeli security forces, apparently a failure for the PA’s leadership. The PA declared a “day of rage” throughout Judea […]

Photo Credit: Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90 A page of Gemara Masmidei Hasiyum is an exciting global program designed to get boys involved and interested in the Grand 13th Siyum Hashas of Daf Yomi, which in Israel, will be held for English-speakers at Binyanei Ha’uma in Yerushalayim on January 1, 2020,  the 4th of Tevet, 5780. Through learning Mishnayot […]

Photo Credit: nces.ed.gov According to a new Channel 12 poll conducted on Monday by Panels Politics, had the elections been held yesterday (don’t we all wish?) the relationship between two blocs would not change, that is, Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz would still have trouble forming a new government. However, the gap between the two […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / UK Government Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz thanked the British Conservative Party and Prime Minister Boris Johnson for their decision to ban local councils from boycotting countries, a decision seen as a direct reaction to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which calls for economic, cultural and academic boycotts of Israel. […]

I have asked some of my columnists and others to write a paragraph or two on whether Benjamin Netanyahu should resign. Here are some of their answers: Daled Amos: The famous Chinese curse, “you should live in interesting times” does not begin to cover what we are going through now. We have one US politician […]

Photo Credit: EU2017EE Estonian Presidency via Wikimedia UK PM Boris Johnson Britain’s Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, vowed this week to ban councils from boycotting products from Israel, according to a report published by The Jewish Chronicle. The news site quoted the pledge from the 59-page manifesto document entitled, “Get Brexit Done, […]

Photo Credit: Canal 13 San Juan TV screen grab via Twitter ‘Nazi girl in a Nazi world …’ music video project by history students in the San Juan province of Argentina “I’m a Nazi girl, in a Nazi world . . . “ Picture a cute teenage girl singing the song, a parody of the […]

Photo Credit: Mark Neiman / GPO President Reuven Rivlin at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Tel Aviv 2018 President Rivlin has arrived in London, England where he is on a working visit at the invitation of the Portland Trust, where he is to participate in a meeting of heads of impact […]