Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Flash90 Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh speaks to the press upon his arrival at the Rafah border crossing, from Egypt after reconciliation talks with the Fatah movement mediated by Egyptian intelligence, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 19, 2017. {Originally posted to the BESA website} There are two possible solutions to the violence […]

Photo Credit: Im Tirtzu Bereaved mother Merav Hajaj was interrogated by police for defacing an EU building. A group of bereaved families on Sunday staged a protest against the European Union over its funding of Israeli NGOs that defend terrorists and their families in Israeli courts. Families from the Choosing Life Forum of Bereaved Families […]

Photo Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, May 9, 2019. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, May 9, 2019. Israeli security apparatus officials aware of the contents of a document which Chief of Staff Aviv Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi ordered to […]

Photo Credit: Google Map of Judea and Samaria {Originally posted to the Abu Yehuda website} Following the surprise announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that “[t]he establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not per se inconsistent with international law,” I’ve prepared a short Q & A on the subject: […]

Photo Credit: Wiki Jewish refugees from Arab countries: Yemenite Jews at a transit camp near Aden waiting to be airlifted to Israel in 1949 {Originally posted to the JNS website} Ever since the Muslim conquest, occupation and colonization of the Middle East and North Africa in the 7th century, the region’s Jews, among others, lived […]

Photo Credit: MK Shlomo Karhi’s Facebook page MK Shlomo Karhi with a friend. MK Shlomo Karhi (Likud) told Ynet on Monday that he had received the green light from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to promote a direct election for PM bill. Karhi insists his bill would solve the current political crisis, whereby no MK has […]

Photo Credit: Elron Zabatani/TP The Hurva Synagogue ( Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah heHasid ) in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Sidna Omar mosque is seen left to the synagogue. Jerusalem, Nov 19, 2019. Residents of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem are preparing for widespread protests following the renovation […]

Photo Credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90 Amid an intensifying global trade war, Israeli exports of goods and services are on track for another record year, with 4.6% growth in the first three quarters of 2019, compared to the same period of last year. An analysis by the Ministry of Economy and Industry (MEI) into data from the […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Amid all the discussions about Modern Orthodoxy, its past, present and future, it is perhaps helpful to look at two different paradigms into which Modern Orthodoxy currently divides itself: one positive, and one, well, less so. One individual grew up in a religious home, so punctilious in its observance of mitzvot and […]

Photo Credit: Ayelet Federation Nimrod Ryder wins the gold medal in the Adult category at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championships. Nov. 24, 2019 Israel’s national anthem, Hatikvah, was again played in Abu Dhabi on Sunday after Israel’s 21-year-old Nimrod Ryder won the gold medal in the Adult category at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championships, crowning him world […]