Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / Flash90 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Sept. 15, 2010. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told a special Knesset session devoted to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the PA Arabs “are not prepared to accept a Jewish nation state and have […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Jonathan Ben-Artzi, the grandson of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Yonatan Ben Artzi, the grandson of late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, was assailed by politicians and members of the media for the speech he gave Sunday during the memorial marking the 24th anniversary of his grandfather’s assassination. Ban Artzi claimed […]

Photo Credit: Public Image {Originally posted to The Lid website} The New York Times always finds new ways to attack President Trump and to attack Israel.  We’re talking about the paper that buried stories about Palestinian terror attacks but Israeli retaliations ran on page one. Trump Netanyahu Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment […]

Photo Credit: Flickr {Originally posted to the BESA website} Palestinian Islamic Jihad—the second-largest armed terror faction in Gaza after Hamas—is agitating for violence, and is in fact the organization that conducted Friday night’s rocket barrage on the Israeli border city of Sderot. Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment Banner / (02) / News […]

[embedded content] Police forces on Sunday evening surrounded a home in the Israeli community of Yitzhar in Samaria to arrest Neria Zarog, a resident who has openly defied an IDF administrative order banning him from the northern Shomron area, which includes his own home. Zarog, a married 21-year-old father of two, who works as a shepherd, received […]

Photo Credit: Shabus Facebook page Shabus station sign Shabus – the Cooperative Transportation Association operating on Shabbat – has ceased operations in Jerusalem due to lack of a budget, Kol Ha’ir reported Monday. An official statement issued by Shabus read: “We have been operating in Jerusalem and in other cities for five consecutive years and […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons One of the things I like about my job is the opportunity it gives me to meet and learn about different kinds of people and their cultures.Over the many years of guiding and meeting a varied group of people I feel have learned a lot. My latest group were Catholics from […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90 Yitzhak Rabin’s grandson, Yonatan Ben Artzi, October 25, 2015. When Transport Minister Bezalel Smotrich admonished Israel’s leftists for their rude behavior on the 24th anniversary of the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, he called the event a “festival.” On the right, the annual event has also been dubbed the “St. Yitzhak Festival” […]

Photo Credit: Thomas Breher / Pixabay The IDF this week commenced in three days of tests of its new advanced warning system. In June 2019, the Home Front Command upgraded its alert system that now allows for the targeted alert for more than 1,700 warning areas. The upgrade is designed to simplify the alerts for […]

Photo Credit: Dave Proffer via Wikimedia Holocaust memorial Minsk Five new Holocaust monuments will be unveiled in different Russian locations this week, the Russian Jewish Congress (REC) announced on Friday. “In Russia, five monuments to the victims of the Holocaust will be unveiled over five consecutive days, from November 11 to 15,” the REC reported. […]