Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, May 9, 2019. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that his own and IDF chief of staff Aviv Kochavi’s recent remarks regarding a possible military confrontation with enemies north and south were not a spin, and that the […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz I was surprised by Lahav Harkov’s political analysis in this weekend’s Jerusalem Post, “Will Gantz be able to break up Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc?” Her analysis of the situation is that if the right-wing bloc doesn’t break up then we’re headed for another election. “But if the [right-wing] bloc doesn’t break up, […]

[embedded content] Several people were wounded in clashes with the Lebanese army near the northern city of Tripoli on Saturday, following ten days of generally peaceful anti-government protests. A video released on Saturday shows demonstrators on the street some 100 yards away from soldiers, when gunfire starts. Lebanon’s Red Cross Tweeted that three wounded protesters […]

Photo Credit: US Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Sabrina Johnson/Released Russian Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane delivering heavy military equipment. Several armored vehicles have been delivered recently to the Russian air force’s Khmeimim base in western Syria, to assist units of the Russian military police tasked with patrolling the Syrian-Turkish border, the Russian Defense Ministry […]

Photo Credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90 Blue&White chairmen Benny Gantz dances with a Torah in Kfar Chabad, October 21, 2019. Senior Blue&White officials are initiating a new compromise proposal to be presented in the opening talks with Likud, according to which a coalition without the Haredi parties will be formed to start, so that during the first […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi According to a senior Pentagon official who spoke to Newsweek, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was killed by the US Joint Special Operations Command’s Delta Team in the group’s last bastion of resistance in northwest Syria on Saturday. The CIA […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit The ongoing criminal probes against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are reaching their climax. By the end of the month, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit will reportedly decide whether or not to end Netanyahu’s political career by indicting him on corruption […]

Photo Credit: Daveynin via Wikimedia People pay their respects at a memorial to the victims of a mass shooting in front of the Tree of Life synagogue, Pittsburgh, PA, November 4, 2018. This Sunday marks exactly one year since a vicious anti-Semitic shooter opened fire at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, leaving 11 people dead […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay The old adage “Spring forward, fall back” takes place in Israel this weekend as the clock turns back one hour at 2 am Sunday, to become 1 am Sunday. The European Union and the Palestinian Authority join Israel in the time change this weekend. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: […]

[embedded content] StopAntisemitism.org is accepting nominations for their “Antisemite of the Year Award.” The watchdog group is calling on the public to select the most notoriously vile anti-Semites who not only spread hatred, but also incite violence against the Jewish people. StopAntisemitism.org is a leading organization focused on exposing anti-Semites from the radical right, radical left […]