Category: Israel

Photo Credit: screenshot Azerbaijani Hero, Albert Agarunov {Originally posted to the JNS website} More than 25 years after his death in battle, a state-recognized Jewish hero of a Muslim-majority nation illustrates a contemporary vision for warm relations between those two faiths. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Amazon Gianluigi Nuzzi’s ‘Universal Judgment’ A Vatican official, Bishop Nunzio Galantino, on Tuesday denied reports that the Catholic Church is at risk of a financial default as a result of plummeting contributions. In an interview with the Italian bishops’ conference’s newspaper Avvenire, Bishop Galantino, who is in charge of the Vatican’s investments, […]

Photo Credit: Koby Gideon / GPO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night celebrated his 70th birthday with members of “Team Bibi,” the squad he commanded when he served in the Elite IDF General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, the famed Sayeret Matkal. The team, which was named after Netanyahu, held its 50th reunion since the members […]

Photo Credit: Esty Dziubov/TPS Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) with President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman (R), at the opening of the Czech house in the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Jerusalem, Nov 26, 2018. The Czech Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday passed a resolution strongly condemning all manifestations of anti-Semitism, including against the State of Israel, […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman, September 12, 2019. As the mandate to form the next coalition government is about to be handed to Blue&White chairman Benny Gantz, Israel’s bona fide kingmaker, MK Avigdor Liberman, told Reshet Bet radio Wednesday morning it is possible that Likud chairman and PM Benjamin Netanyahu may already […]

Photo Credit: Handout – Anadolu Agency Presidents Erdogan and Putin meet in Russia, August 27, 2019. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reached a new deal for creation of a safe zone in northern Syria on Tuesday after a five hour meeting in Sochi. Beginning at 12 noon on October 23, […]

Photo Credit: Channel 13 via ZioNLight / YouTube screen grab Joint Arab List chairman and MK Ayman Odeh interviewed by Israel’s Channel 13 The head of the Joint Arab List faction, Ayman Odeh, said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 13 on Tuesday that without his faction and its 13 seats in the coalition he […]

Photo Credit: Channel 2: Taamar Abidat Arab MK Ahmed Tibi on the Temple Mount with PLO flag. Ta’al Party leader and Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi spoke Tuesday about the possibility of supporting the Arab Joint List faction from outside the narrow government coalition led by Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz. Tibi’s party is […]

Photo Credit: Geralt / Pixabay / public domain Alzheimer’s and other dementias challenge researchers to search for ways to diagnose, treat and eventually cure — if not prevent — the disease. Biogen Inc. has announced it will seek regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its medication, aducanumab, which failed its clinical […]

Photo Credit: Mendy Hechtman / Flash 90 Tens of thousands pray in Selichot (repentance) services at the Western Wall. The Western Wall Heritage Foundation announced Tuesday that some 2.5 million people visited the Western Wall during the Hebrew month of Tishrei this year. “Many hundreds of thousands” of people participated in the Selichot (penitential) prayer […]