Category: Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not shying away from controversy as he embarks on his first trip to the United States since his reelection last year. Before he boarded the plane early on Monday, Netanyahu accused Israeli antigovernment protesters of “joining forces” with the country’s enemies. And he praised Elon Musk, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – He won’t be heading to the White House, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed he will meet with Elon Musk when he travels to the United States next week. The meeting with Musk on Monday in San Francisco comes as the tech billionaire and social media mogul faces mounting criticism […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas peddled falsehoods about the Holocaust and other discredited distortions about Jews, drawing diplomatic fire just as the Biden administration is launching a major diplomatic initiative that could include reviving Israeli-Palestinian talks. In a speech broadcast last month to a body of his Fatah Party, which controls the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A film being billed as the first co-production by Israeli and Iranian filmmakers debuted at the Venice International Film Festival after a secretive production process that included a trip to Israel by the Iranian co-director. “Tatami,” which received a standing ovation Saturday at the prestigious film competition, tells the story of a […]

TEL AVIV — It sounds like a dream offer: an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel for the full month of January, based in Tel Aviv, the beachside city with warm winter temperatures that inarguably is Israel’s most exciting metropolis. Even better, participants won’t have to use up vacation days from work for the trip. If all […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked his advisors to renew their efforts to eject African asylum seekers from the country following an explosive clash between rival Eritrean groups and police in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The unrest occurred after opponents of the dictatorial regime of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki protested an […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The top U.S. officials charged with combating antisemitism and Holocaust denial called on Israel to sustain the independence of Yad Vashem amid reports that its chair could be fired. Public statements by Ellen Germain, the State Department’s special envoy on Holocaust issues, and Deborah Lipstadt, the State Department’s special envoy to […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of soldiers in Israel, killing one and wounding five before being shot dead, in the latest incident amid an escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence. In the terror attack on Thursday, the driver, a 41-year old West Bank Palestinian man with a permit to work in […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Palestinian assailant used a kitchen knife to stab a man at a light rail station next to Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, in the latest in a surge in violence in the West Bank and Israel. A policeman who was on board the light rail car saw the stabbing and exited […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, is barring government employees under his supervision — including police officers, firefighters and prison officials — from participating in a longstanding and prestigious fellowship program for Israeli civil servants at Harvard University. Ben-Gvir issued the ban due to what he calls the left-wing political bent of […]