Category: Israel

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 […]

Photo Credit: MEMRI An Israeli flag is seen on the ground in Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square, Oct. 25, 2019. According to Lebanese media reports, demonstrators were trampling Israeli flags to show they’re not working for foreign governments. Lebanese protesters in Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square have been trampling Israeli flags to demonstrate that “there is only […]

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Photo Credit: Pixabay (illustrative) Bar Ilan University has agreed to begin a pilot project to allow students to pay their tuition payments this year via their smartphones. The university signed an agreement to allow the students to make their payments using Bank Hapoalim’s Bit app, one of the leading payment apps in Israel. Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: Wikipedia / Shahen Araboghlian / CCASA 4.0I Protests in Beirut. Oct. 19, 2019 Thousands of protesters planned to form a human chain across Lebanon on Sunday as tensions mounted between protesters and security forces, according to an AFP report. The country has been largely shut down as roads are blocked and banks and […]