Category: Israel

Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot Lebanese protesters Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Beirut and elsewhere around Lebanon this weekend, demanding the resignation of the government after a plan was announced to tax use of the Whatsapp messaging app. Protests were seen in the northern city of Tripoli, the southern city of […]

[embedded content] After 55 years as a member of the UK Labour Party, Liverpool Riverside MP Dame Louise Ellman has resigned from the party. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Ellman, 73, tendered her resignation this past Wednesday in a letter, writing that […]

Photo Credit: Hana Levi Julian / JewishPress.com Israeli jewelry designer Michal Negrin also produces many other types of gifts Famed Israeli jewelry and fashion designer Michal Negrin is closing her worldwide business due to “financial difficulties,” the Hebrew-language 0404 military website reported Saturday night. Negrin notified the company’s 120 employees that she had to “give […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Rafael Trophy system on US Abrams M2 battle tank (JNS) In recent days, Israeli defense corporation Rafael made a dramatic announcement, stating that it delivered on time the first batch of Trophy Active Protection System to the US Army. Trophy, a system that was first deployed by the Israel Defense Forces in […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Baby Zohar Zisner Doctors in the city of Kazan in Russia on Friday pronounced the death of Zohar Zisner, a year-old Israeli baby who died of cardiac arrest in her sleep during an Aeroflot flight from the Phuket resort island in Thailand to Moscow, where she and her family were scheduled to make […]

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Photo Credit: Jewish Press There is a custom on Yom Kippur to ask the Sefer Torah for mechilah for not giving it enough respect (by not learning enough etc.). In the spirit of this minhag, when we get a hakafah on Simchas Torah, we should reflect on how the Sefer Torah feels about us. As […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press On Simchas Torah, we enthusiastically dance with Sifrei Torah. But if the purpose of the Yom Tov is to rejoice with the Torah, why don’t we express that joy by studying Torah? Isn’t the main point of Torah to understand it? Why do we celebrate it by dancing with our feet, […]

Photo Credit: Twitter / @benshapiro Ben Shapiro at Maarat HaMachpela in Hebron. Oct. 16, 2019 Ben Shapiro is visiting Israel for Sukkot, and on Wednesday took a trip to Hebron with his family, which he describes on his DailyWire.com podcast, “The Ben Shapiro Show” as an eye opening experience. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: pixabay In this week’s show, your hosts discuss the Ancient Pilgrimage Festival of Sukkot and some of the weather-related incidents thus far during this season. In keeping with the subject of traveling to the land, they also discuss record-breaking tourism numbers for the month of September as well as celebrities who are slated […]