The Knesset debate this week over Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount raised awareness of the current dismal reality, Deputy Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) told Arutz Sheva. “It was an intense and important debate, due to the fact that it keeps bringing attention to the importance of visiting the Temple Mount,” she explained. The […]
The first independent emergency evacuation center in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) opened its doors Sunday, according to Walla! News, after a historic ribbon-cutting ceremony with Home Front Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud). The center itself, located in the Talilei Orot school building in the northern Samaria community of Tal Menashe, will only hold about 1,000 evacuees. Beyond […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu landed in the United States early Monday. Netanyahu is set to meet with President Barack Obama later Monday, in a meeting that some commentators said could be the “toughest” the two have ever had. Speaking on Israel Radio, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, who is in the U.S., said that the Prime […]
Police arrested three Arab Muslims Tuesday morning on suspicion of throwing rocks and firecrackers at police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, right after police opened the Rambam Gate entrance to the Mount. Two police officers were wounded and are being taken to Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital. According to Kikar HaShabbat, dozens of Muslims began throwing rocks and fireworks […]
February 25, 2014 18:40 by Alex Margolin Israel Apartheid Week video manipulated image of student to appear supportive of BDS. In an interview with The Algemeiner, Brandeis University senior Joshua Nass said, “I am disgusted with this video.” “This is all faked. They fraudulently edited in my image to make it seem I support their […]
Sixty-six years have passed since the most deadly terrorist attack in Israeli history: a bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem that murdered 58 people. Nitza Meyuhas-Alber was just three years old when the bomb went off, a short distance from her family’s home. For hours she was trapped under the rubble, unable to move […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times February 12, 2014 As U.S. credibility and stature diminish in world affairs, the American president and his secretaries of state and defense engage in eloquent denial. Unfortunately for them, realities trump words, even persuasive ones. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, “where the water-cooler chatter was about America’s […]
February 20, 2014 15:31 by Alex Margolin Proof that the SodaStream episode is helping change the conversation about settlements: a writer for the Independent went to visit the factory in Maale Adumim and realized that something was missing from the BDS analysis of the situation: Not only are the anti-SodaStream campaigners barking up the wrong […]
Here are 15 Things American Presidents Had to Say About Israel & The Jews 1. John Adams “I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.” (Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson) 2. Abraham Lincoln President Abraham Lincoln said that restoring the Jews to their “natural” […]
The Associated Press reported Saturday that Israel has officially unveiled another cutting-edge defense system: a laser-based weapon against short-range missiles. Israel’s Iron Dome in action Flash 90 Dubbed the “Iron Beam,” the system users fast-acting laser technology to shoot down incoming rockets at close range. “It’s exactly like what you see in ‘Star Wars,’ ” […]
