Day: December 5, 2019

Photo Credit: Ben Dori / Flash 90 Iron Dome Missile Battery seen near Tel Aviv on July 15, 2018. The Czech Republic has signed a contract with the Israel Aerospace Industries subsidiary ELTA to purchase eight Iron Dome radar systems, the Defense Ministry announced Thursday. The contract for the deal, worth an estimated $125 million, […]

[embedded content] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today met with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Kushta and Portugal’s Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva at the Portuguese Prime Minister’s Office in Lisbon. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Netanyahu and Kushta discussed strengthening cooperation between their […]

Photo Credit: US Dept. of State / public domain US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook addresses reporters in New York City, Sept 25 2018 Iranian security forces may have killed as many as 1,000 citizens, including at least 12 children, during the latest anti-government protests in Iran said U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press This Shabbos, the ninth of Kislev, marks both the birthday and the yahrzeit of the second Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Dov Ber Shneuri, better known as the Mitteler Rebbe (1773-1827). (The ninth of Kislev is also when the Mitteler Rebbe was informed of his impending release from czarist imprisonment on false charges; […]

Photo Credit: Esty Dziubov / TPS Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon Israel’s Mission to the United Nations (UN) on Wednesday held an event to commemorate the close to one million Jewish refugees who fled from Arab countries in North Africa and the Middle East and Iran following anti-Semitic violence against them after […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir / TPS A worker at the site of the underground catacomb system for burying the dead, underneath Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem The Israeli job market showed positive development in 2019, as the average salary reached NIS 10,856 in September, growing by 4.6 percent since last year, according to a report published […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Thomson200 Container of Sabra hummus The student government at Dickinson College—a small liberal-arts school in Carlisle, Pa., outside Harrisburg—passed a resolution on Tuesday night to ban Sabra hummus, an Israeli product, as part of a campaign on campus to boycott the Jewish state. The person leading the charge has been Henry […]

Photo Credit: Facebook / Jordyn Wright Jordyn Wright, fighting anti-Semitism at Canada’s McGill University. The board of directors of Canada’s McGill University’s Student Union has rejected the motion to force a Jewish student into canceling her participation on a trip to Israel or resigning from her role in the student society. The Students’ Society McGill […]