Member of Knesset Zevulun Kalfa (Jewish Home) had a narrow escape this week when terrorists threw a large concrete block at his car. The attackers struck late on Sunday night, as Kalfa was making his way from Jerusalem to the pre-military academy in Yatir, in the Hevron region. The attack took place near El Aroub […]
The Islamic Waqf, which supervises the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, has issued a pamphlet that makes new claims regarding the Mount – arguing, among other things, that King Solomon was a Muslim and that there is no Jewish connection to either the Temple Mount or the Western Wall (Kotel). Rabbi Chaim Richman of the […]
Wounded Syrian woman: “We hesitated coming to Israel, because we were taught to hate it. We were taught this is a brutal enemy state, but we learned that reality is different. People here have a conscience. Our enemy is in Syria, not in Israel.” Israel Defense Forces troops brought a wounded Syrian couple to Poriah […]
The Deputy Defense Minister, MK Danny Danon (Likud-Beytenu), has penned an article in the US-based Politico website that appears to be a warning about an Israeli intention to strike Iran’s nuclear weapon facilities. The relatively short, 400-word article, refers to two previous cases in which Israel struck Islamic nuclear sites without US approval. In 1981, […]
Terrorist attacks nearly doubled in frequency in 2013, according to new data released by the IDF. There were 62 terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) in 2013, compared to 35 the year before. The IDF website quoted senior sources as saying that the violence is still nowhere near “Intifada” levels. “There is a significant […]
Hamas’s military wing faced a front of another kind last week: a cyber war. Several of the terror organization’s twitter accounts have been suspended since January 9 without prior notice, according to various news outlets – and Hamas is not happy about it. The accounts: @AlqassamBrigade, @qassambrigades, @qassambrigade, and @qasambrigade – all twitter handles for the media […]
The United Nations’ cultural body has cancelled a Jewish exhibit following Arab pressure, the European Jewish Press (EJP) reported on Friday. The exhibition, entitled “People, Book, Land – The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel”, was co-organized by UNESCO, the UN body for education, science and culture, and the […]
January 16, 2014 15:17 by Alex Margolin Everything you need to know about fighting BDS and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. Today’s Top BDS Stories: 1. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop comes out hard against the BDS Movement, calling it anti-Semitic and hypocritical in an exclusive interview with The Times of Israel. She strongly condemned […]
January 15, 2014 16:23 by Alex Margolin Everything you need to know about fighting BDS and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. Today’s Top BDS Stories: 1. Rock legend Neil Young and hitmaker Justin Timberlake announced plans to perform in Israel in setbacks for the BDS movement. At the same time, a petition to boycott the […]
Former minister Rafi Eitan, the former handler of Jonathan Pollard, believes that this time, Israeli efforts to win Pollard’s freedom may yield results. Pollard is serving a life sentence in prison for sharing classified United States intelligence information with Israel in the 1980s. Israeli activists have sought his freedom for many years. They have increasingly […]
