Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Shlomit Shavit via Israel Nature and Parks Authority Israeli Ya’el Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been using the intermediary days of Sukkot (one more than in the diaspora) to tour the land, picnic and stare with awe at Ye’elim. The Ya’el (Capra) is a wild mountain goat which can be found in […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 The Schoener Farm pepper plantation in the Tzofar enclave, February 14, 2018. Senior officials have told Kan 11 News on Wednesday that it appears the Israeli agricultural activity in Tsofar Enclave would be prolonged by several months, as part of the negotiations between the governments of Israel and Jordan regarding the […]

Photo Credit: Air Force Senior Airman Dawn M. Weber Air Force Airman 1st Class Savannah DeHart constructs an inert bomb, Aug. 22, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence will visit Turkey Wednesday, to hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and top Turkish officials on “Operation Peace Spring” – the Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria, […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Rabbi Nataf Were we to be perfectly honest, many of us would admit that reading Kohelet can be quite tedious. It is long, circular and constantly leading to dead ends. When I learned it a few years ago, I remember getting excited by certain passages that seemed to be the breakthrough that […]

Photo Credit: Hamza-Twitter Gaza ambulance at scene of one of six attacks on Gaza ans Islamic Jihad vehicles Sunday morning. {Originally posted tpo the PMW website} A private American organization is to build a hospital at the northern end of the Gaza Strip. Israel has already admitted hospital equipment into the Strip. But the project […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press It’s the middle of the night. I snuggle with my tiny newborn granddaughter, Chayaleh, as she peacefully sleeps on my chest, affording her dear mother a few hours of respite before she resumes the care of Chayaleh and her twin sister, Miriam. The miracle of their births is not lost on […]

Photo Credit: USAF Staff Sgt. Brian J. Valencia F-16 Fighting Falcon (Sufa) (illustrative) Two journalists were killed in an air strike Sunday afternoon (Oct. 13) by Turkey on a civilian convoy traveling in northern Syria. The convoy was carrying local and foreign journalists near the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, a key border town where […]

Photo Credit: Greg Bierer / Pixabay Five members of one family were all injured when they were struck by lightning on the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkot (Tuesday Oct. 15) at Zikim Beach near the southern Mediterranean coastal city of Ashkelon. There were two unconscious young people on the beach, and one who was […]

Photo Credit: Yad L’Achim photos A team of missionaries hits the streets of Kiryat Malachi. The Yad L’Achim anti-missionary organization this week called on the religious parties in Israel to “everything possible to get a law passed banning missionary activity.” The current law is relatively weak, barring missionary activity among minors or in cases where […]

Photo Credit: #WeWantNaama on Facebook Naama Issachar Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Tuesday, 15 October 2019), sent an official request, on his behalf and that of President Reuven Rivlin, to Russian President Vladimir Putin, for a pardon for Naama Issachar and her return to Israel. Issachar is a dual Israeli-US citizen. Russian President to […]