Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Mark Neiman (GPO) President Rivlin at the official memorial ceremony for the fallen of Operation Kadesh, Nov. 25, 2019 Speaking on Monday at the official memorial ceremony for the fallen of Operation Kadesh, marking 63 years since the Sinai War, President Rivlin said: “Whoever thinks that we have forgotten how to deal with […]

Photo Credit: Dominic Alves via Flickr Uber car in London Transport for London on Monday announced that it had revoked Uber’s license to operate private taxis in London after it had been discovered that anonymous Uber drivers conducted more than 14,000 trips using the company’s system. The agency announced its decision not to renew the […]

Photo Credit: Wisam Hashlamoun / Flash 90 Palestinian Authority attackers use slingshots to throw stones at Israeli security forces during clashes in the Gush Etzion village of Tuqua The Palestinian Authority (PA) will lead a “day of rage” on Tuesday throughout Judea and Samaria in protest of the recent US announcement that Israel’s presence in […]

[embedded content] On Monday, Israel is expelling Omar Shakir, the Human Rights Watch director of Israel and Palestine, because he supports the BDS. Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth said he thinks this is the first time a democracy has thrown a researcher out of the country. In 2017, Israel passed a law subjecting […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Rabbi Igal Ariel on the Temple Mount Rabbi Haim Drukman, the dean of Ohr Etzion Yeshiva and the head of the Center for Bnei Akiva Yeshivot, on Sunday posted a surprising video, in which he said: “I am calling on everyone to come to the demonstration at the Tel Aviv Museum […]

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 […]