Category: Israel

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 […]

Photo Credit: Karimobo / Wikimedia Commons Casablanca, Morocco One Israeli is dead and two others were injured after they were hit by a bus at around 3:30 pm Friday in Casablanca. The victim, a student of the Shuva Yisrael Yeshiva, was crushed to death between two buses, according to reports by the Hebrew-language Ynet site […]

Photo Credit: Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Low Memorial Library at Columbia University, NYC Members of Columbia University’s student council voted last Sunday to hold a divestment referendum in the spring of 2020, enabling students to vote on whether to divest “from companies that profit from or engage in the State of Israel’s acts towards Palestinians […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / Flash 90 Left-wing activists protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling on him to resign, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv. Last week it was a pro-Netanyahu rally, this weekend it is an anti-Netanyahu protest. At least 10,000 demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Saturday night for a […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The discussion at the Shabbat table revolved around the subject of leadership. What exactly is the Jewish view on the parameters of being a leader and what responsibilities should one have when assuming a leadership role? Some of the prerequisites that evolved in our discussion were that a leader must not […]