The Almagor anti-terror organization expressed concerns Wednesday that Israel could be preparing for another mass release of Arab terrorists from Israeli prisons, among them terrorists who directly participated or plotted murders of Israelis. The organization said that it had obtained information that in recent weeks, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has ordered staff to examine the […]
The United States on Thursday eased some of the sanctions it has imposed on Iran, lifting a ban on sales of communications equipment to Iranians and opening access to Internet services and social media, Al Arabiya reports. The sanctions were lifted in a bid to help the Iranian people avoid government controls. The U.S. State […]
May 29, 2013 16:29 by Pesach Benson Uh-oh: A UN peacekeeping official confirmed to the Times of Israel that Syrian rebels stole a number of their vehicles, including “at least two sophisticated armored personnel carriers.” What could troublemakers do to Israel with these babies? Use your imagination: The RG-31 Nyala is a South African-made, mine- […]
Norwegian Paper Publishes Anti-Semitic Cartoon May 30, 2013 12:02 by Alex Margolin Circumcision has been hotly debated in Scandinavian countries in recent times, but this week, Norway’s third largest newspaper, Dagbladet, took the issue well beyond the boundaries of civil debate and straight into the realm of blatant anti-Semitism. The cartoon Dagbladet published on Tuesday ostensibly […]
A second man was charged on Saturday with the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London, on May 22, the BBC reported. Michael Adebolajo, 28, of Romford, Essex, was also charged with the attempted murder of two police officers and possession of a firearm, the report said. He has been remanded in […]
June 2, 2013 14:54 by Pesach Benson Angered by Hamas’ support for Syrian rebels, Iran cut funding — approximately £15 million a month — to the terror group. Here’s the Daily Telegraph‘s (pun intended) money quote: Ghazi Hamad, Hamas’s deputy foreign minister, described relations with Iran frankly as “bad” before adding: “Diplomatically, I have to […]
Newscom The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a new statement on the budgetary effect of repealing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) for fiscal years 2014 to 2023. The CBO did not model or update a full scoring of repeal. It found that the cost of Obamacare has increased by $30 billion since last July’s estimate […]
A Cairo court has sentenced 43 Egyptian and foreign employees of several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to jail sentences, ranging from one to five years for working illegally, the AFP news agency reported Tuesday. Among them, 27 defendants were sentenced in absentia to five years. Judge Makram Awad also ordered the closure of the NGOs, including […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest black eye for the Internal Revenue Service, the agency provided Congress on Friday with another video featuring its employees, this one showing about a dozen of them line dancing on a stage. The video of the IRS workers practicing their dance moves, which lasts just under three minutes, comes […]
A group of 101 yeshiva students and their eight accompanying chaperones were kicked off a flight from New York to Atlanta early Monday morning, CNN reported. Southwest Airlines said the group of “non-compliant passengers” would not stay seated, while others were using their mobile devices. When the students failed to comply with requests from the […]
