Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Mourning Israelis light candles in memory of the 10 pre-military Bnei Zion Academy students who perished. The state prosecutor’s office on Monday filed charges in Be’er Sheva District Court against Yuval Cahan, dean of the pre-military academy Bnei Zion, and against Aviv Berdichev, formerly the academy’s educational program director who served […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS Miriam and Shelson Adelson participated in the festive ceremony of inaugurating the Ariel University medical school, Oct 27, 2019. Israel’s sixth medical school got underway at Ariel University in Samaria on Sunday. At the festive ceremony inaugurating the new Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson School of Medicine, the new dean, […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Auschwitz I Gas Chamber – Scratches on wall {Originally posted to the Elder of Ziyon website} Okay, so it’s the Daily Mail, it’s sensational. So you don’t exactly trust it. Still, it was disturbing to read: “Teacher is sacked for ‘joking’ to Jewish primary school pupils that she would ‘ship them off […]

Photo Credit: Maya Tsaban, spokeswoman for Padeh-Poriya Medical Center The three siblings are recovering from their gastric bypass surgery. Muhammad Masoud, 23, his sister Shehiva, 21, and their younger sister Maysaloun, 19, all underwent gastric bypass surgery last week – on the same day – by Dr. Muad Farage, director of the surgical department at […]

Photo Credit: Dunk via Flickr Despite early objections from the French government, the EU appears ready to approve a Brexit extension until January 31, 2020, in response to a request by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for another delay. The UK can decide to exit earlier if it so wishes. The Guardian cited a source […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Itzik Holavsky’s Facebook page Kibbutz Megiddo members and guests cutting the ribbon of the new synagogue Kibbutz Megiddo, founded by members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1949, on Sunday inaugurated the first synagogue since its founding. Hashomer Hatzair, which began as a Marxist-Zionist movement, is a member of the International Falcon […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay In defiance of Israel’s “demographers of doom” – who have promoted the myth of an Arab demographic time bomb – the September 2019 data published by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS) documents the sustained Westernization of Arab fertility rate (number of births per woman), a persisting increase in the Jewish fertility […]

Photo Credit: SheepNotGoats via Wikimedia Hammond High School, a public secondary school, located in Columbia, Maryland. Last week, Maryland’s Department of Education announced it plans to expand instruction about the Holocaust in state schools. Howard Libit, executive director of the Baltimore Jewish Council, told Public Service News that he and other Jewish leaders are concerned […]

Photo Credit: Shlomi Mizrahi Bar-llan University President Prof. Arie Zaban presents President Rivlin with a nano-chip engraved with the Prayer for the State of Israel, as (from far left) archaeologist Prof. Aren Maeir and Bar-Ilan Council of Trustees Chairman Shlomo Zohar look on. President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday ushered in the 2019-20 academic year at […]

Photo Credit: Tomer S. / Wikipedia / Public Domain Gateway to the southern part of the village of Ghajar on the Israel-Lebanon border The IDF thwarted an attempt to smuggle a massive shipment of drugs from Lebanon into Israel on Sunday. The IDF identified suspicious individuals on the border near the village of Ghajer (Rajar […]