Category: Israel

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 […]

Photo Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton / Flash 90 Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron, January 7, 2019. The Bank of Israel Monetary Committee announced Monday it will keep the interest rate which the Bank charges commercial banks at 0.25 percent until early January. “The Monetary Committee’s assessment is that in view of the […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Israel MFA Remains of mortar shell that exploded in a Sderot kindergarten yard The IDF has confirmed that a mortar shell landed Monday evening in an open field in the Eshkol Regional Council district after being fired at southern Israel from Gaza. There are no specific details on exactly where the shell […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90 Smoke from a rocket launch in Gaza. Nov. 13, 2019 Although no Red Alert incoming rocket alert siren was triggered, Gaza terrorists fired a rocket at southern Israel shortly before 6:30 pm Monday evening, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 12 news. The rocket reportedly landed […]

Photo Credit: Andrew McIntire/TPS An Israeli employment center. Israel’s unemployment rate fell to a record low of 3.4% in October, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), indicating a resilient job market. In September, the unemployment rate was 3.6%, a record Israel reached twice before, and the continued decline brought the Israeli job market […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Doug Goldstein Modern Portfolio Theory is important strategy that many financial advisors use to minimize risk and maximize returns for their clients. Today’s guest on The Goldstein on Gelt show is Dr. Harry Markowitz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Economics, who invented Modern Portfolio Theory. Find out what Modern Portfolio […]