Category: Israel

((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 […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel won its first-ever gold medals at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Valencia, Spain, over the weekend, improving on last year’s silver medal and solidifying its place as a global powerhouse in the sport. On Friday, Israel’s team topped China and Spain to take gold in the all-around group category. On […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush has been fired and has fled to Turkey following a meeting last week with Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen. Libya and Israel do not have diplomatic relations, and when he first announced the meeting on Sunday, Cohen hailed it as another breakthrough in Israel’s growing ties with […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The State Department condemned far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for saying that Jewish rights to freedom of movement in the West Bank trump those of the territory’s Arab residents. Both Ben-Gvir and the Israeli prime minister’s office fired back, claiming that his statement had been misunderstood and that he had […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli soccer player Daniel Peretz has reportedly agreed to a long-term contract to join F.C. Bayern Munich, the powerhouse soccer club in Germany’s top-tier Bundesliga. According to multiple news reports, he will become the first Israeli to play for the club. The 23-year-old goalkeeper has played for Maccabi Tel Aviv in the […]

(New York Jewish Week) — On his first trip to Israel as mayor, Eric Adams made all of the expected stops — meeting with the prime minister and president, visiting the Western Wall and the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, sampling from the offerings of the country’s tech scene.  But he added another, less traditional agenda […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — An Israeli woman was killed and her driver injured in a shooting attack outside Hebron on Monday, the latest in a string of deadly attacks in the West Bank that included the killing on Saturday of a father and son in Huwara. Shay Nigreker, 60, and his son Aviad Nir, 28, had […]

(New York Jewish Week) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams missed one appointment to eat Israeli food Thursday night. He’ll have another chance next week when he travels to Israel for the first time since taking office last year. Adams was a no-show Thursday at the grand opening of Shawarma Shabazi, a new kosher […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Paraguay’s newly-elected president, Santiago Peña, announced Wednesday that he is moving his country’s embassy back to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The move is expected to take place by the end of this year.  Peña, a conservative, had promised the relocation during his campaign earlier this year.  In response, Israel’s foreign ministry announced […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The sounds of protest echoed and the ticket scanner malfunctioned as Israel’s transportation minister, Miri Regev, led a dry run for journalists of Tel Aviv’s long-awaited light rail on Wednesday. The landmark project, which cost nearly $5 billion, promises to reshape the experience of commuting to Tel Aviv, or moving […]