Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 On Thursday, following Blue&White chairman Benny Gantz’s returning his mandate to form a government to President Reuven Rivlin, and just before Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced his decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three criminal charges, a News 12 poll revealed that if the much abhorred third elections were […]

Photo Credit: Oromiya321/Wikimedia Commons The Palestinian Authority government’s silence over the murder of Dvir Sorek, a Jewish teenager, sends one clear message to the Palestinian public: It is fine to kill a Jew. At the Bir Zeit University (pictured), students celebrated the murder by handing out candies and praising the terrorists. The Palestinian Authority government […]

Photo Credit: TPS / Courtesy UN Population Award Ceremony – 2018 Doctors from the Save a Child’s Heart organization were honored this week by the United Nations for their crucial work in carrying out the delicate surgery on diseased hearts needed to keep small children alive. The organization, based in the Tel Aviv suburb of […]

Photo Credit: The White House L-R: Envoy Jason Greenblatt, Ambassador David Friedman, President Donald Trump, Adviser Jared Kushner A group of 250 rabbis in Israel signed and sent a letter to US President Donald Trump this week, expressing their congratulations and thanks for his foreign policy decisions regarding the State of Israel. The letter was […]

Photo Credit: Free images Anti-Semitism is still rising, not only in the United States but elsewhere around the world as well, according to the results of the latest global survey by the Anti-Defamation League. The data that were gathered are “troubling, to say the least,” the organization said Thursday when it released the update to […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / Flash 90 PM Benjamin Netanyahu In his response to the announcement of charges by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he believes the attorney general caved to pressure by State Attorney Shai Nitzan, who completes his term next month. The full indictment released […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “Zaken,” “seivah,” “yashish,” “kashish,” “yashan,” and “atik” all mean old. Pirkei Avos (5:24) states that a person becomes a zaken at 60 and reaches seivah at 70. Based on this mishnah, Rabbi Avraham Bedersi HaPenini (1230-1300) argues that “seivah” describes someone older than a “zaken” (see also I Samuel 12:2 and […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90 Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit reports his indictments of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, November 21, 2019. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday night released the indictments against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which conclude: “Defendant Netanyahu abused his public office and high status and inflicted substantial and serious harm on the proper conduct […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay / Stux illustrative For the first time ever, Israeli doctors in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv administered the world’s most expensive medication to a two-year-old child. Liam Samuel Nagi of Petach Tikva has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare form muscular dystrophy. Advertisement <!– […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In this week’s parshah we read about Avraham’s purchase of Me’aras HaMachpelah. Prior to any negotiations Avraham said to the bnei Cheis, “Ger v’soshav anochi…” – I am a stranger and a resident… (Bereishis 23:4). Rashi quotes a medrash that explains the apparent paradox in Avraham’s words as follows: Avraham was […]