The Israeli government held a unique session on Sunday, travelling by helicopter to the Golan Heights for a special meeting. While the venue of the cabinet meeting was unusual it was perfectly suited for the Prime Minister’s message, which declared that Israel will never surrender the Golan Heights. “I chose to hold this festive meeting […]
We have posted before about how Trump would be dangerous for Israel. Now, Trump makes another anti-Israel move by hiring Paul Manafort as one of his top aides. From The Daily Beast: One of Donald Trump’s top aides once lobbied Congress to kill an effort to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. […]
Prof. Drorit Hochner, director of Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital’s OBGYN department, surprised leftist and Arab MKs who took part in a stormy Knesset session Wednesday morning regarding the separation of Jewish and Arab women in maternity wards. “There are Arab women who after birth ask not to be with Jewish women, they ask bluntly and […]
Israel’s watching this development carefully: Egypt relinquished control of two islands in the Straits of Tiran to Saudi Arabia. The move settles an Egyptian-Saudi maritime dispute and paves the way for the two countries to build a bridge linking Saudi Arabia to Sharm El-Sheikh, which is at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula. It’s not […]
Ex-US Senator Joseph Lieberman told MKs last November that while support for Israel remains bipartisan in the US, it has undergone “attrition” in the Democratic party, which he represented in the Senate for 24 years. Lieberman said that he thought the agreement reached by world powers with Iran was not “tight enough” and that he had […]
From Israel National News: We have decided to bring you the most confrontational interview that has arguably ever been heard on Israel National Radio. It is Walter in conversation with the Episcopalian Bishop of Jerusalem, Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal, the third Arab who held this position. From 1998 until 2008 he controlled their vast diocese stretching across the […]
A Hasidic man was slashed in the face and the arms during a robbery at a Nolita train station early Friday, The New York Daily News reported. The victim, who is in his 50s and only speaks Yiddish, was on the southbound No. 6 platform at the Bleecker St. station about 3:30 a.m. when a […]
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday spoke before Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn shortly after baking Passover matzah, in a pledge of support for the Jewish community and a call for votes ahead of the New York caucus. Cruz, who recently claimed a “turning point” in the Republican presidential elections after he soundly defeated Donald Trump […]
The United Nations on Wednesday, March 16th, said that Canada will resume contributing funds to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN relief agency that aids and protects “Palestinian refugees”, The Associated Press (AP) reported. In a statement, the UN said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government […]
The United States military is considering pulling troops from a base in the northeastern part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, partly because of the increasing threat from Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists, CNN reported Tuesday. The Obama administration may order the movement of some American and international troops into the southern Sinai, and is discussing such […]
