A third of Israelis describe Jewish rioters involved in recent violence in the West Bank village of Qusra as “Israeli terrorists,” according to a survey released Monday by the Jewish People Policy Institute. Coupled with another 18% who called them “nationalist criminals,” the results demonstrate the degree to which the rioters, whose actions have roiled […]
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The Israeli army chief of staff on Monday ordered the military to examine possible legal action over “NAZA,” a documentary alleging that Israeli forces knowingly killed large numbers of civilians in Gaza. The 80-minute documentary by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, […]
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Marking 25 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Jewish National Fund-USA, KKL-JNF and the Embassy of the United States of America in Israel held their annual memorial ceremony on Wednesday at the 9/11 Living Memorial in Jerusalem to honor the nearly 3,000 victims. The 9/11 Living Memorial is the only memorial outside the United […]
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“Who boycotted Jews? The Third Reich!” Ofir Akunis, Israel’s consul general in New York, was not being subtle. In a recent interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at his office in Midtown East ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Akunis likened Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s support for the Israel boycott movement to tactics used by Nazi Germany, called […]
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TEL AVIV – A documentary presenting testimony from Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers who say the IDF knowingly killed large numbers of civilians during its campaign in Gaza got a 25-minute standing ovation Thursday at the Venice Film Festival. “NAZA,” directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is based on interviews conducted over […]
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If you believe the polls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Israel’s dominant political player and media maestro for the past decade and a half – is poised to lose to a political neophyte with relatively limited communications skills and a nondescript platform. How is that possible? The rise of the potential usurper, former Israel Defense […]
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A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 19-year-old Israeli in the West Bank on Monday, before fleeing the scene. Israeli troops shot and killed the assailant after a roughly hour-long manhunt. Palestinian media identified the assailant as Mohammed Mohsen, 34. The attack took place at Ma’oz Yehuda farm, a settler farming outpost near the Palestinian village […]
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The United Kingdom, France and Canada will ban goods produced in the West Bank settlements and Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament on Tuesday, explaining that all such communities were deemed by his country to be illegal. The declaration exacerbated the rising tensions riling the traditionally strong Israel-U.K. alliance. […]
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Adidas has apologized for featuring an Israeli former soldier and amputee in a campaign advertising its service for people with missing legs, which sparked calls for a boycott. Shalev Biton, who lost his left leg during the 2021 Israel-Gaza conflict, appeared in a promotional video for the sportswear company’s Single Shoe service. The program was […]
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TEL AVIV – Israel’s High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by Israeli expatriates seeking to vote in the Oct. 27 election after discovering that they had been excluded from the voter rolls under a little-known Interior Ministry classification that records certain citizens as nonresidents. The petition was filed by some 100 expatriate Israelis challenging […]
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