Category: Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Student government leaders at the University of British Columbia rejected a ballot measure Wednesday night that would have called for an end to Hillel’s presence on campus, following intense pushback from Vancouver Jewish groups and capping months of discord between the Hillel and its critics in the student body. According to the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A gunman believed to be a Palestinian police officer killed two Israelis at a West Bank gas station. One of the victims in the terror attack in the central West Bank settlement of Eli was a 17-year-old boy, and one was a man aged 57, according to Kan radio, Israel’s public broadcaster. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Dozens of Palestinians died during a stampede to access aid in Gaza City on Thursday, a tally that Hamas said numbered 104. Hundreds of people were injured in the incident, including 10 whom the Israel Defense Forces said its soldiers had shot. The incident is the most dramatic marker yet of a […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Five Israeli groups supporting Israelis held hostage in Gaza and their families will receive the 2024 Genesis Prize, the $1 million award known as the “Jewish Nobel.” Presented annually since 2013, the award is given by the Genesis Prize Foundation and has historically gone to Jewish celebrities or public figures. More recently, […]

When Gloria Solomon was living in London’s suburbs with her husband and four sons, she cautioned her boys against wearing kippahs in the streets.  Their Jewish school bus was being stoned multiple times a week, and by 2005 the antisemitism was so overwhelming that she and her family decided to pick up and move to […]

RAMAT GAN, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In December, Nechemia, a combat engineer, was serving in Gaza alongside his close friend when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded next to them.  Nechemia suffered evere shrapnel injuries on one side of his body, one of four soldiers injured in the incident. His friend, just feet away from him, was […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden says an Israel-Hamas ceasefire is “close” and that it could come as soon as next Monday. But Israel, Hamas and Qatar have all thrown cold water on Biden’s optimism, saying a deal remains possible but does not appear to be close. Qatar is hosting negotiations in its capital, Doha, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — It was March 1971 and Charlie Biton and his friends had recently taken to calling themselves “the Black Panthers” in admiration for the revolutionary African-American group. The group, one of dozens of street gangs in Jerusalem at the time, was about to hold its first demonstration against the racism and poverty experienced […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A U.S. airman has died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., where he shouted “Free Palestine!” in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The man, who wore military fatigues and identified himself as Aaron Bushnell in a video that circulated online, was an active-duty […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — An Israeli hostage freed from Gaza was sprayed by a police water cannon and an elderly man collapsed after being struck in the head by an officer riding a horse as police cracked down on anti-government protests in Tel Aviv. Twenty-one people — including two of the protest movement’s organizers — were […]