Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 The Technion in Haifa, February 19, 2019. Israel’s Institute of Technology (Technion) has come under fire for hosting four guest lectures featuring members of the controversial NGO Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI). The lectures are being held Tuesday as part of a the medical school’s course on integrated systems for fourth […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights headline image, Nov. 19, 2019 Fierce explosions rocked the capital Damascus and its surroundings at dawn on Tuesday, and sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the explosions were caused by an Israeli launching about five rockets on sites located south and southwest of […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy ImageSat International Courtesy ImageSat International An intelligence report by ImageSat International (ISI) Published on Sunday reveals progress in the renewed construction of the Iranian Imam Ali base, adjacent to the Al Bukamal Albukhmal border crossing of the Iraq-Syria border on the Euphrates river. According to the Sunday report, which features satellite photos, […]

Photo Credit: flash90 Water, Oil or Gas? {Reposted from the MEF website} As ever, the Middle East is monumentally in flux. As usual, most developments are negative. Here’s a guide: Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Water replaces petroleum as the key liquid: Oil and […]

[embedded content] Rabbi Mordechai Machlis, a Rebbe at Yeshivat Lev HaTorah and the spiritual director of the Jerusalem Hospitality Project, says that for many years, his daily prayers have focused on being alive to be able to see the prophesied ingathering of the exiles from the Diaspora. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90 View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. The United Nations voted Friday 170-2 to extend the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for three more years, until 2023. The resolution, which […]

Photo Credit: Active Implants LLC. Israeli surgeons perform the artificial meniscus implant on Nov. 11, 2019. The world’s first successful “artificial meniscus” transplant was just performed in Israel, i24News reported on Monday. The surgery was performed by Dr. Gabriel Agar from the Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center in Be’er Ya’akov and Dr. Ron Arbel from Ramat […]

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Photo Credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90 A sign in the Jewish settlement of Efrat in Gush Etzion. / Gershon Elinson/Flash90 Reactions to the historic US position shift on Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, as not being illegal nor against international law: Prime Minister Netanyahu released the following statement: Today, the United States adopted an important policy […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in Yad Vashem, March 21, 2019. According to an Associated Press report Monday (AP Exclusive: US softens position on Israeli settlements), Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is preparing to renounce a 1978 opinion written by the legal adviser of the Department of State Herbert J. Hansel […]