Category: Facts & Solutions

Omri Casspi brings US basketball’s best to Israel for a holiday and summer camp experience Israelis always feel a sense of pride when someone famous posts a photo from a holiday in Israel. This week, seven NBA stars had social media on edge as dozens of photos of DeMarcus Cousins, Omri Casspi, Chandler Parsons, Caron…

In recent years, Israel has evolved from a supplicant – benefitting from US generosity – to a strategic partner, benefitting vital US national security interests. From a national security consumer, Israel has been transformed into a national security producer. In 2014, General Chuck Krulak, former Commandant of the US Marine Corps, remarked that “the formulation…

In a letter she sent to Israeli-American businessman Haim Saban last week, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton expressed strong opposition to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. “I know you agree that we need to make countering BDS a priority,” Clinton wrote to Saban. Clinton said, “BDS seeks to punish Israel and dictate…

Israel is a kid’s paradise. Photo via Shutterstock.com   Israel is a fun place for kids. The choice of things to do is endless, from extreme sports to swimming in the Mediterranean, picking vegetables in the desert, hiking along a river, making chocolate or even discovering archaeological sites. With so many options, it’s hard sometimes…

Hi-tech giants and investors defy media’s misrepresentation of Israel 1. “Israelis are more satisfied with their lives than the OECD average,” according to the OECD’s (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) annual “Better Life Index.” Only Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Finland ranked ahead of 5th place Israel, among the 34 OECD members, as well as…

Israel has more startups per person than any country in the world; what’s the secret behind the success of the Middle East’s Silicon Wadi? Over the past two decades, Israel has earned a place as one of the top centers of technology and innovation in the world. It has more R&D per capita than any…

It’s impossible to run out of things to do in Jerusalem, Israel’s largest municipality and possibly the most famous city in history. Well known for its historical and religious sites for the three major religions, Jerusalem also boasts 60 museums, 2,000 archeological sites, 12,212 guest rooms and nearly 1,600 public parks (the net area of…

Google chairman Eric Schmidt provided a vote of support toward Israel on Sunday, praising its “culture of entrepreneurship” amidst several high-profile attempts to lob global boycotts against the Jewish state. “Israel is booming in terms of entrepreneurship because you have a culture to challenge authority and to question everything,” Schmidt said, in a speech to…

EL AL – History of Israel’s National Airline EL AL was established in 1948 as the national airline of Israel and since then has become a prestigious international carrier. The guidelines by which the company operates are creativity, efficiency, punctuality and professionalism, in order to meet its passengers’ requirements at all times and places. Through…

Israel has a huge image problem and here is another organisation that is doing something about it.

When looking a decade ahead, the direction is clear for our ground forces – unmanned vehicles. The induction of these vehicles and robots into the battlefield will dramatically change the future of urban warfare, leading modern day combat into new and unexpected directions. In recent years, the very best minds of the IDF and the…

Israelis in America were jubilant as David Blatt, the Israeli coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers now in his first year in the NBA, brought his team to the NBA Finals on Tuesday night local time. Blatt’s Cavs, led by LeBron James, swept the Atlanta Hawks in a Game 4 victory by a wide margin of 118-88, taking…

US President Barack Obama spoke to the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg at length, in an interview published on Thursday, regarding his views on Israel and the developing deal with Iran. “Look, 20 years from now, I’m still going to be around, God willing. If Iran has a nuclear weapon, it’s my name on this.” The American…

Barbra Streisand at the conclusion of the 1978 Stars Salute Israel show. English translation: As long as within our hearts. The Jewish soul sings. As long as forward to the East To Zion, looks the eye. Our hope is not yet lost. It is two thousand years old. To be a free people in our…

Israel’s unemployment rate for March has remained at 5.3%, a historic low maintained for the second consecutive month, the Central Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. The figure represents a 0.1 percentage point drop in unemployment rate for the first quarter of 2015, bringing jobless figures to 202,000. The data suggested that during the first fiscal…

At 67, Israel exudes long-term optimism Sixty-seven years ago, upon Israel’s declaration of independence, Life magazine noted (May ‎‎31, 1948) the odds facing the 600,000 Jews of the newly born economy-‎starved and militarily embargoed Jewish state: “King Abdullah of Transjordan sent ‎his Arab Legion against Jerusalem. … Egypt’s planes repeatedly bombed Tel Aviv. ‎Syria, Iraq,…

Objectives Taglit-Birthright Israel seeks to ensure the future of the Jewish people by strengthening Jewish identity, Jewish communities and connection with Israel via an educational trip to Israel for the majority of Jewish young adults from around the world.   A Bond Between Israel and Jewish Communities Worldwide We aim to foster participants’ understanding and identification with Israel,…

American reality television star Kim Kardashian and her rapper husband Kanye West met for a meal with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Monday evening during the superstars’ whirlwind visit to the region. “We raised a toast to Jerusalem,” Barak recounted of his encounter with the celebrities at a local restaurant. The mayor added that during…

Cooperation between the U.S. and Israel in the fields of defense, science and commerce is surging in an unprecedented manner, in defiance of the unbridgeable gap between the worldviews of U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. For example, 250 major U.S. high-tech companies have research and development centers in Israel, which has…

Throughout late February and March, Israeli Apartheid Week took place across 200 cities around the world, from the UK and South Africa to Canada and the USA. Anti-Israel events have been held on university campuses and academic institutions, with the official aim, according to the organizers’ website, to build Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) campaigns…

John Adams (1797-1801) “I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.” (Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson) “Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites … and marching with them into Judea and…

In May 1981, a group of young American Jewish leaders asked Prime Minister Begin what he thought were the lessons of the Holocaust. This was his answer: First, if an enemy of our people says he seeks to destroy us, believe him. Don’t doubt him for a moment. Don’t make light of it. Do all…

MYTH “Arab governments recognized Israel after the Suez War.” FACT Golan Heights, 1949-1967 Israel consistently expressed a desire to negotiate with its neighbors. In an address to the UN General Assembly on October 10, 1960, Foreign Minister Golda Meir challenged Arab leaders to meet with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to negotiate a peace settlement. Egyptian President Nasser answered on October 15,…

Circumcision is the removal of the foreskin of the penis. The rite of circumcision (brit milah) is one of the most ancient practices of Judaism. The commandment to circumcise male children was given to Abraham in the Torah (Genesis 17:7­14 and repeated in Leviticus 12:3): And God said unto Abraham: ‘And as for thee, thou…

Tel Aviv has been rated at one of the top 10 seaside cities in the world. The ranking is part of National Geographic magazine’s report. Tel Aviv joins the likes of Tallinn, Estonia; Saint Johns, Canada; San Diego, Calif.; Marseille, France; Perth and Brisbane, Australia; Durban, South Africa; Vladivostok, Russia; and Portland, Maine on the…

Israel is the only true ally of the United States in the Middle East. Just take a look around this website https://old.solveisraelsproblems.com/category/facts-solutions/ to see all the great things Israel does for the U.S. and the rest of the world. Speaker of The House of Representatives John Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak…

Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination. The story of Purim is told in the Biblical book of Esther. The heroes of the story are Esther, a beautiful young Jewish woman living in…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the United States Congress about his concerns with a nuclear deal with Iran. This is his third speech at Congress.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech at AIPAC 2015 Policy Conference.

Danny Ayalon, Founder of the “Truth About Israel”, Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Israeli Ambassador to the United States explains the facts relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the tip of the iceberg in the greater scheme of the balance of power in the Middle East. The video explains the gap between Israel and…

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday in Jerusalem. Cook is heading an Apple delegation visiting Israel ahead of the inauguration of the computer giant’s new local office in Herzliya. Rivlin told Cook, “Your contribution to humanity is unprecedented. Even for me as one who prefers to write with a…

MYTH “Media coverage of the Arab world is objective.” FACT When asked to comment on what many viewers regard as CNN’s bias against Israel, Reese Schonfeld, the network’s first president explained, “When I see them [reporters] on the air I see them being very careful about Arab sensibilities.” Schonfeld suggested the coverage is slanted because…

IDF Diversity Week: The True Face of Israel Every year, thousands of minority recruits join the IDF. Israel’s military makes tremendous efforts to integrate minorities into the army and society in general, resulting in a vast diversity of soldiers among the IDF’s ranks. Israel is a country known as “a nation of immigrants.” Soldiers come…

When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, it was done so with the approval of the United Nations. But today, Israel’s enemies routinely challenge the legitimacy of its very existence. So, under international law, who’s right? Israel of course. See the video with Alan Dershowitz

Those calling for a boycott of Israel are ignoring some painful truths. A letter signed by 700 artists fails to take into account the reality of life in the Middle East. This past weekend, 700 British artists had a letter published in the Guardian in which they called on others to boycott Israel until what…

MYTH “Anti-Semitism is a result of Israeli policies.” FACT Anti-Semitism has existed for centuries, well before the rise of the modern State of Israel. Rather than Israel being the cause of anti-Semitism, it is more likely that dissatisfaction with Israeli behavior and the distorted media coverage of Israeli policies are reinforcing latent anti-Semitic views. As…

During Operation Protective Edge in the summer, a small force of Hamas naval commandos managed to approach the Israeli coast from the sea, undetected by military surveillance until the group reached the shore. That event, which was thwarted due to the alertness of a Navy spotter, is not expected to repeat itself. The reason: the…

Pat Condell talks candidly about the dangers of Muslim anti-Semitism in Europe.

An Israeli company is turning industrial waste into a clean energy solution. Modeled after plants ability to synthesize CO2 and water into energy, NEWCO2Fuels (NCF) takes polluting CO2 waste and industrial water and turns it into a synthetic gas that can be used for fuel, fertilizer and even turned into plastics. NCF’s CEO David Banitt…

Throughout the country’s stormy history – from the Roman period through the present – Jews have lived in France, their fate intimately tied to the various kings and leaders. Despite physical hardship and anti-Semitism, Jewish intellectual and spiritual life flourished, producing some of the most famous Jewish rabbis and thinkers, including Rashi and Rabenu Tam. Jews have contributed…

Taking off and landing a huge commercial aircraft filled with hundreds of passengers is not an easy task for any pilot. Doing the same while rockets are flying overhead, that seems impossible and risky. Yet during Operation Protective Edge while Hamas fired rockets at Ben Gurion International Airport, Israeli forces managed to keep passenger air…

The anti-Semitic derangement EVEN BEFORE last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, the French prime minister was concerned about the continued viability of Jewish life in France. In an interview with The Atlantic prior to the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket massacres, Manuel Valls made a grim prediction: “If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France. The…

Are you on the side that believes in open debates, or the side that represses free speech? The side that sanctifies life, or the side that worships death? If you are on the side of freedom & democracy, you stand on Israel’s side.

Israel’s splendid isolation Despite the conventional claim that Israel is becoming increasingly isolated, the multinational accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers determined that 2014 was a record year of overseas investments in Israel’s high-tech industries: $15 billion in acquisitions of 52 Israeli startups (compared to $7.6 billion in 2013), in addition to $9.8 billion raised by 18 Israeli…

An Israeli biotech company is developing a vaccine for cancer that it says can help prevent the return of the lethal disease for 90% of the different types of cancer. Vaxil BioTherapeutics based in Nes Ziona has been developing ImMucin for more than five years, and already has seen strong success in testing indicating it…

Jewish teenagers in Israel are more likely to encounter hate on the Internet in the form of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel expression than they were a year ago, according to a new survey of Israeli teens commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Israeli teens reported that the online attacks and anti-Semitic expressions increased noticeably during Operation…

A soldier from the Home Front Command’s Combat Search and Rescue Brigade documents his intense 8 months of training on the way to receiving his orange beret and becoming an Israel Defense Forces combat soldier!

The assumption that Israel’s economic growth depends on peace accords, and that Israel’s economy cannot withstand BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) pressure, are inconsistent with reality. In fact, Israel’s unique economic growth — from $1.5 billion GDP in 1949 to $300 billion in 2014, from $50 million in exports in 1949 to $97 billion in…

Evil spirit taking over Middle Eastern studies Op-ed: The source of hostility toward Israel can be found in the American academia. If this is the education young students get, what will the lecturers of the next decade teach? By: Ben-Dror Yemini The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has voted to protect its members’ right to…

In the west, the leaders of terrorist organizations speak moderately and responsibly in their speeches. But in the middle-east, when speaking to their people and their allies, they do not hesitate to deny the existence of the State of Israel and to call for Jihad, battles, and suicide attacks. Members of terrorist organizations have not…

The rising threat of Islamic terrorism on the U.S. mainland, in pro-U.S. Arab regimes and in Western countries has reaffirmed Israel’s role as the U.S.’s moral and ‎military outpost in the Middle East.‎ Israel’s strategic role has gained importance against the backdrop of the U.S. ‎withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, the drastic cuts in the…

ISIS, Hamas and Hezbollah rank among the world’s richest terrorist groups according to Forbes. How much death can their money buy? Forbes Israel ranks Hamas as the second-richest terror organization in the world with a $1 billion annual income, coming in second to the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) terror group in Syria and Iraq.…

Barbra Streisand, Larry Ellison, Ben Silverman and Pamela Anderson were among the guests at the star-studded dinner Billionaire mogul and master fundraiser Haim Saban brought the A-lists of Hollywood and tech together Thursday at the Beverly Hilton to raise $34 million for the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces. Even by the standards of the…

Israel and the United States used the inauguration of a joint warplane project on Tuesday to stress it was business as usual in an alliance hit by acrimony over Israeli settlement building and strategy against Iran. At a ceremony at the Israeli manufacturer of wings for Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 jet fighter, Defense Minister Moshe…

Hundreds of European and Asian investors looked to Israel for business partnerships on Monday, flooding Tel Aviv’s Hilton Hotel for the twelfth annual Go4Europe/Go4Israel conference.  Arutz Sheva asked investors what drew them to Israel to expand their horizons.    “I think the secret of Israel is simply that you have enormous brainpower,” Luc Miller, CEO of…

As usual, Pat Condell says the hard truth because others are afraid to.

Israeli professors have developed a computer algorithm that predicts which genes can be “turned off” to create the same anti-aging effect as calorie restriction. Studies in yeast, worms, flies, monkeys, and even humans seem to prove that restricting calories is one of the few sure ways to combat the effects of aging. But who really…

‘A lot of them come back with a sense of peace and a sense of purpose. And they keep that with them,” says founder of Heroes to Heroes. US vets Anthony and James laying a wreath at Latrun war memorial. Photo by Judy Schaffer On the final evening of a September 2‐10 tour of Israel…

The Festival of Sukkot begins on the 15th day of Tishri and is the fifth day after Yom Kippur. It is a drastic transition from one of the most solemn holidays in the Jewish calendar to one of the most joyous. Introduction Sukkot is a seven day holiday and the two days following the festival…

The Jews do not lack for intellegensia. Our history is replete with men of wisdom whose ideas have contributed to the development of mankind. Sigmund Freud was one of those rare individuals that provided the world with a new way of understanding the human psyche. Freud was born in 1856 in Freiberg, Morovia. His father,…

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is probably the only world leader who is not afraid to tell the truth to the United Nations. The U.N. tends to condemn Israel while saying almost nothing about terrorist groups like Hamas. Netanyahu asks ‘Would you let terrorists fire rockets at your cities?’

Mossad launches online recruitment effort It is already common for intelligence agencies to recruit their officers online, but the Mossad has gone one further and is using it to recruit local agents and informants too. Israel, which has full diplomatic ties with only two Arab countries, Egypt and Jordan, lacks embassies elsewhere in the Middle…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Rosh Hashana Greeting to Jewish Communities Around the World. Shana Tova!

Jerusalem’s “front gate” is set to get a major upgrade in the coming years. At a joint press conference Monday, Minister of Finance Yair Lapid, Minister of Transport Yisrael Katz, Minister of Housing Uri Ariel, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and the head of the Israel Lands Authority, Benzi Lieberman, signed today a development agreement that…

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber, December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, voice actor and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor,…

Israel is a vibrant democracy with full rights for women and gays, a free press and independent judiciary. You would think that the United Nations would celebrate such a country. Instead, the UN condemns Israel at every turn to the point of obsession. How did this happen? Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on…

Rachelle Fraenkel’s inspiring message to the Jewish people.

Just days before the Jerusalem Payis Arena is set to open, workers are drilling the blue cushioned seats into the stadium, the roof is yet to be completed and cables snake everywhere throughout the huge eight-level stadium. The project has been under construction for five years. “This is a dream come true,” Jerusalem mayor Nir…

David Copperfield: Vegas magician who has more total earnings than any other magician. His real name is David Seth Kotkin.   Harry Houdini: Undeniably the greatest magician of all time. How he performed some of his acts is still a mystery today. His real name was Harry Weisz   David Blaine: Street magician and endurance…

Some 61 percent of Israelis aged 17 to 18 say that Operation Protective Edge has increased their motivation to serve in the Israel Defense Forces, according to a joint survey by the EduAction Forum and the Geocartography Knowledge Group. Nine percent of the teens polled said the current war against terrorist groups in Gaza had…

You may have heard claims that Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip is the reason for hostilities in the region. Is this fact or fiction? Well, guess what: Israel DOES NOT occupy Gaza. It left Gaza in 2005, pulling out all its soldiers and leaving all its settlements. So who DOES occupy Gaza? Hamas. In…

Hamas embeds its rocket launchers and military infrastructure in civilian areas then fires on Israel, hoping to draw return fire and cause maximum damage to civilian areas. It uses civilians as human shields.

To all of you out there who are speaking out against the free democratic State of Israel: WAKE UP! Why can’t you understand that Israel is fighting radical Islamic terrorism for their own survival and for you? Do you realize that your harmful words are supporting Hamas and terrorism in general? You are also spreading…

Shabbat (שַׁבָּת; related to Hebrew verb “cease, rest”) is the seventh day of the Jewish week and is the day of rest and abstention from work as commanded by God. Shabbat involves two interrelated commandments: to remember (zachor) and to observe (shamor). Origins in the Torah The etiology of Shabbat is given in the first two chapters…

The belief or behavior hostile toward Jews just because they are Jewish. It may take the form of religious teachings that proclaim the inferiority of Jews, for instance, or political efforts to isolate, oppress, or otherwise injure them. It may also include prejudiced or stereotyped views about Jews. Desecrated Graves Hostility toward Jews dates to…

Must-see video if you or somebody you know is critical of Israel.

The United Nations and other international organizations have frequently and disproportionately singled out Israel for exercising its basic right of self-defense. Like every other nation, Israel has an inherent right to defend its citizens. In responding to attacks to protect its citizens, Israel takes unprecedented precautions to limit civilian casualties.

The IDF has released another video which shows how Hamas deliberately puts civilian lives in danger. The video shows that Hamas hides weapons and missile launchers in densely populated areas and sends men, women and children directly into the line of fire to be used as human shields for terrorists. Hamas has openly boasted about the “success”…

Nazi poster-child revealed to be Hessy Taft, nee Levinsons, Jewish woman now living in NY; ‘I feel a little revenge, something like satisfaction’, she says. The ideal Aryan child promoted by the Nazi regime and personally picked by Joseph Goebbels during the Holocaust was actually a Jewish baby. Hessy Taft, nee Levinsons, now an 80-year-old…

Would you believe us if we said that the best litmus test of any society’s success is its attitude towards Israel? Well, it’s true. As George Gilder explains, whether a society envies and resents Israel’s success or celebrates and tries to replicate it is indicative of that society’s progress. Countries that “pass” the “Israel Test”…

Photo of Galgal Refaim courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. If you’ve ever seen Raiders of the Lost Ark, you know that the history of the Holy Land is filled with intriguing mysteries. Despite Indiana Jones-style explorers’ best guesses, we don’t know where the ark and other precious furnishings from the first Holy Temple lie buried. And…

Pat Condell explains why he and everyone else should support Israel.

If you thought startup investments are just for tech geeks, think again. Celebrities the world over are looking to get in on the Startup Nation action. From Jay-Z to Ellen Degeneres and Leonardo Dicaprio, here are 10 celebs who know that Israel is the hottest place for innovation. 1. will.i.am The founding member and rapper…

Despite ongoing pressure on them to cancel the show – up to the last minute – the Rolling Stones performed before nearly 50,000 people in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park Wednesday night. Fans happily plunked down NIS 700 ($200) for tickets to what many called afterwards the most sophisticated and high-tech concert ever performed in Israel.…

The Anti-Defamation League recently released a comprehensive report on world anti-Semitism, revealing some surprising facts about what nations harbor the most deep-seated anti-Jewish sentiments. Here are the  top 10 least anti-Semitic countries. 10. Thailand Thirteen percent of Thai responders hold anti-Semitic views, letting Thailand just make it onto this list. Thailand starts a trend that will…

Iconic musician urged band to make ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ and perform in Israel on European tour this summer. Ronnie Wood, guitarist for The Rolling Stones, revealed Monday that Bob Dylan put the idea in the Stones’ circle to include Israel as a tour stop. In an interview with Channel 2 in response to written…

American singer and pop icon Justin Timberlake has arrived in Israel for his performance, which will be held Wednesday night at Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv. Timberlake began his visit with a stop at the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem’s Old City. The pop star posted a picture of himself praying at the holy site on…

Opinion: If we are true to history, it is clear that only one people has a genuine claim to the land of Israel. When Mark Twain visited Israel after the Civil War in 1867 he was witness to a very different country that now exists. It is a credit to the Jewish People that the…

This is a short video from the IDF: Israeli forces on the Mediterranean coast recently stopped two Gaza ships involved in weapons smuggling. Meet the elite soldiers from Israel’s Navy Surveillance Unit.

This is a short accurate video. Many countries have nuclear weapons, and many more want them. Only one, though, has its neighbors and the world terrified. That country is Iran. Why is everyone so concerned? Because the Islamic theocracy has repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel, sponsors global terrorism, and would leverage the deterrence effect of…

Iconic host Jay Leno, who is headed to Israel to emcee the first Genesis Prize award ceremony, said Friday he saw himself as “pro-Israel” and “pro-Jewish”, according to Fox News. Leno, for whom it will be his first trip to Israel, said he didn’t have “any problem” with his decision to perform in Israel, despite…

Here are 18 innovations from Israel specifically designed to save lives – some already on the market and some coming soon. In Hebrew, the number 18 corresponds to the word “chai” (“life”). We’re sure you will share our pride in Israeli ingenuity benefiting humankind everywhere. 1. The First Care Emergency Bandage (also known as the…

Major hi-tech and computing company Intel is investing 5-6 billion dollars to upgrade its plant in Kiryat Gat, the company announced Wednesday. The investment plan includes a deal between the company and the state, by which Intel will receive a 750 million shekel ($216,706,500) construction grant from the government in return for its commitment to…

Christian Zionism can be defined as Christian support for the Zionist cause — the return of the Jewish people to its biblical homeland in Israel. It is a belief among some Christians that the return of Jews to Israel is in line with a biblical prophecy, and is necessary for Jesus to return to Earth…

Meet Lt. Col. Majdi Mazarib, the commander of the Northern Tracking Unit, a special unit that operates near the Lebanese border and consists only of Bedouin soldiers.

Pesach, or Passover in English, is one of the best known Jewish holidays, as much for its connection to Jewish redemption and the figure of Moses as for its ties with Christian history (the Last Supper was apparently a Passover seder). Introduction Passover begins on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Nissan. It…

Israel is a world leader in the number of startups per-capita. That is why it is called “the start-up nation.” Israel’s hi-tech entrepreneur community is smart, daring and vibrant. It attracts attention from around the world. What is its secret? It’s the people, it’s the vibe, it’s the creative energy. Come and watch what makes…

It’s official: The Rolling Stones will play a concert at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv on June 4, Israeli producer Shuki Weiss confirmed Tuesday. Tickets for the concert are to go on sale on Sunday, March 30, at 9 am. The tickets cost NIS 695 ($200) for the cheapest spaces, NIS 1,790 ($515) for the…

Israelis complain about the difficulties they face and about the high cost of living, but an overwhelming majority are content with their lives, according to a Central Bureau of Statistics report released on Wednesday. Some 86 percent of Israelis are satisfied with their lives, including 33% who say they are “very satisfied,” the bureau found…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at AIPAC’s Policy Conference in Washington D.C.

Israel National Cyber Bureau head Dr. Eviatar Matania, speaking at the weekly Cabinet session Sunday, informed ministers that exports by Israeli companies in the cyber field were estimated to stand at approximately $3 billion in 2013 and constitute about 5% of the $60 billion global market. This figure means that Israel’s exports are three times…

At a time when the White House is pressuring Israel to make dramatic concessions, the Jewish state is enjoying an all-time popularity high among Americans, and therefore among their elected officials in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. According to a February 18, 2014 Gallup poll, Israel is the most valuable player in the…

Ambassador Danny Ayalon spreads the truth about the UN. Hypocrisy and cynicism have taken over the United Nations, the delegitimization perpetrators and Israel boycotters take advantage of the UN’s image as an advocate of human rights in order to pass anti-Israeli resolutions which attempt to isolate Israel. It is important to spread the truth that…

A laser-based missile shield that evokes “Star Wars” technology is moving closer to becoming a reality deployed over Israel, according to the state-owned arms company that is developing it. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems said the development of the Iron Beam system was advanced enough for the company to be comfortable with publicizing it at this…

1.  A record of 5.3 million tourists in Israel in 2013. 2.  A record of $83.2BN foreign exchange reserves reflects the strength of Israel’s Shekel, at a time when the currencies of the emerging markets plummet. 3.  A record of $2.3BN invested in 662 Israeli startups in 2013 (21% above 2012), according to KPMG and…

Sherut haBitachon haKlali, better known by the acronym Shabak, in English as the Israel Security Agency (ISA) or the Shin Bet (a two-letter Hebrew abbreviation of the name), is Israel’s internal security service. Its motto is “Magen VeLo Yera’e” ( “Defender that shall not be seen” or “The unseen shield”). It is one of three…

Nine years ago the United Nations made history when it declared that it would mark January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The fact that this day is marked has served as an adamant rejection of any attempt to deny that the Holocaust had taken place. The U.N. has also urged European nations to preserve…

Israel, the tiny nation that defied history in coming back to life after 2,000 years of exile, is among the top 10 most powerful nations in the world according to a recent research study. Market Business News recently reported on the 2012 National Power Index (NPI), released by the Foundation for National Security Research (FNSR), a New…

An American pro-Israel group has weighed-in on the brouhaha over Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s recent controversial comments about US Secretary of State John Kerry, in which Ya’alon branded America’s top diplomat “obsessive and messianic” in his quest to impose a deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Ya’alon particularly took issue with what he saw…

After eight years in a vegetative state following a severe stroke, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel “Arik” Sharon has passed away at the age of 85. Although his condition had remained relatively stable for several years following the massive stroke which left him incapacitated in January 2006, the past few weeks saw a rapid deterioration…

Israel experienced a record breaking year in terms of tourism in 2013 according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. International tourist entries reached a record high, marking a 3% increase from 2012, as domestic tourism similarly soared 3%. In particular, the number of tourist entries to Israel in December reached a 24% increase from the…

Population grows by 147,000 in 2013, including 19,200 immigrants from around the world • Jewish immigration from France soars by 63% • Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver: I’m hopeful the aliyah trend will continue to grow. Israel’s population grew in 2013 by 1.8 percent, or 147,000 people, bringing the country’s total population to 8.1 million,…

Soundgarden   The Pixies will perform at Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium in June   The Pixies and Soundgarden will both appear at an international music festival to be held at Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium in June. The festival will be produced by Shuki Weiss, who said further details about the festival would be forthcoming in…

Here is a list of the most exciting Israeli medical-device and pharmaceutical developments just around the corner. This list was  very difficult to narrow down, because Israeli breakthroughs in this field are a near-daily occurrence. By: Abigail Klein Leichman 1. Na-Nose can detect lung cancer from exhaled breath and will be commercialized in a joint…

The Paris office of the Jewish Agency for Israel has reported a 57% jump in the number of French Jews moving to Israel over the last year and a surge of applications.

Modern Mikvah   Ancient Mikvah   Mikvah (Hebrew, מִקְוֶה), literally translated as a “collection” or “gathering”, is a pool or bath of clear water in which immersion renders ritually clean a person who has become ritually unclean. Overview Today the chief use of the mikvah is for women, prior to marriage, following niddut, and following…

Israeli researchers have found a revolutionary way to treat brain damage, Business Standard reports.  Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers and staff at the Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center in Tzrifin have found that high levels of oxygen in a pressurized atmosphere can significantly improve chronic brain damage. After treatment, patients who sustained brain injuries from 20 years ago improved…

In 2003, 27 trunks worth of molding and damaged ancient texts were discovered in Baghdad – in the basement of Saddam Hussein’s Intelligence Headquarters. They were relics of Iraq’s once thriving Jewish community. Experts from the National Archives have spent years preserving the texts – and they’re finally on display to the public.

In August Given Imaging, an Israeli medical technology company, received FDA approval for their Pill Cam SB3 which will potentially replace colonoscopies in screening for colorectal cancer. Furthermore, the company announced Monday that Japan’s Central Social Insurance Medical Council has approved reimbursement for Given Imaging’s PillCam COLON, according to The Wall Street Journal. While men…

New device developed by Tyto company can perform almost complete checkup of body and send results to physician, who will be able to make prognosis without meeting patient. Marketing of device, which is expected to cost $200, to begin next year Can we finally put visiting the doctor’s office behind us? A new device invented…

The American Friends of the IDF organization (FIDF) branch in Los Angeles held its annual fundraiser in the Beverly Hilton hotel and raised a record number of $20 million for IDF soldiers’ welfare. Some 1,200 guests attended the event, among them successful businessmen, IDF top brass and Simon Cowell, the tough judge on shows such…

Weizmann discovery makes moral and legal questions surrounding embryonic stem cells moot, because they won’t be needed anymore. By now, the fact that Israel is the world’s innovation hub is no longer a hot news flash. But a recent medical/scientific breakthrough emanating from the Weizmann Institute illustrates the significance of Israeli ingenuity beyond the obvious…

The scoop on Woody Allen? He doesn’t think it’s tough to be Jewish in America, but he does believe “many people” disguise their dislike of Jews by criticizing Israel. Allen, 77, was interviewed in France by Israel’s Channel 2 Monday ahead of the release in parts of Europe of his latest movie, “Blue Jasmine,” a…

Israeli ingenuity is responsible for some of the world’s most amazing medical advances. Whether they’re futuristic, such as Given Imaging’s PillCam capsule endoscopy or Itamar Medical’s fingertip monitors for sleep disorders and cardiac issues — or cleverly simple, such as First Care Products’ Emergency Bandage – blue-and-white inventions are changing the face of healthcare in hospitals,…

News of the prestigious Nobel Prize typically begins with a phone call from Stockholm. And this week five Jewish American scientists received such a call informing them they had won a Nobel Prize, two in medicine, and three in chemistry. One of the winners, Randy Schekman, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

In 1948, U.S.-Israel relations were a classic case of a one-way-street: the U.S. gave and Israel received, economically and militarily. In 1952, the U.S. administration rejected a proposal by General Omar Bradley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to elevate Israel to a role of a major ally, just like Iran and Turkey.…

This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry will be awarded to an Israeli professor, Arieh Warshel, who teaches in the United States. Professor Warshel was announced Wednesday as a joint winner with Professor’s Martin Karplus from Austria and Michael Levitt from Britain. The prize has been awarded for the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical…

October 10 is World Sight Day – a perfect opportunity to present some of the amazing advances coming out of Israel for treating medical conditions of the eye and making life easier for people who are blind or visually disabled. Ongoing research at Israeli universities is constantly testing new approaches, such as sensory substitution devices,…

Israel wants to make peace with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Arab world, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the United Nations during his address Tuesday. “Israel continues to seek an historic compromise with our Palestinian neighbors… We want peace based on security and mutual recognition,” he declared. Netanyahu laid out what he said are…

Regina Golan-Gerstl, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, has successfully identified a genetic protein which is involved in the development of the most common and aggressive type of brain cancer found in adults called glioblastoma. For the 22,000 American citizens who are diagnosed each year with brain cancer, these never…

Is the charge that Israel is an apartheid state valid or a slander? Who better to answer this question than someone who lived in a real apartheid state?

United States experts have estimated the size of Israel’s nuclear arsenal at 80 nuclear warheads. The experts’ assessment was included in the September/October issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The experts said Israel stopped production on nuclear weapons in 2004, but kept enough fissile material to create up to 190 warheads. In 1999,…

The happiest people in the world are in Denmark, according to a new report published on Monday, based on research carried out by The Earth Inststute at Columbia University. Happiness is measured by a variety of parameters, including life expectancy, infant mortality, socio-economic status and education. Despite the bitter cold, northern countries lead the report.…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday issued a video greeting to the Jewish people in honor of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. “As the high holy days begin, it’s a chance not just to celebrate with family and friends, but to ask some of life’s most piercing questions,” said Obama. “Am I treating strangers…

On the eve of the Jewish New Year, we wish you a Shana Tova, and vow to never cease in our mission of defending the State of Israel.

According to Variety magazine, Aaron Paul to play role of Joshua in upcoming Ridley Scott drama “Exodus” • Christian Bale to star as Moses, Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro tapped to portray parents of the Pharaoh Ramses, played by Joel Edgerton. “Breaking Bad” star Aaron Paul, three-time Academy Awards nominee Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro…

A new Israeli invention is helping visually impaired people navigate their environment, read text, recognize faces, identify objects and places, and even monitor traffic lights.

The Boston Globe, one of the most important newspapers in the United States, has named Tel Aviv the world’s second best city for tech startups, after Silicon Valley in California. Startup Genome, a resource for tracking and building startups, formed a list of the world’s leading high-tech cities for startup entrepreneurs. Tel Aviv precedes New…

While the Middle East combusts, threatening vital U.S. interests, the U.S. attempts to clip Israel’s wings — the only reliable, predictable, stable, effective, democratic and unabashedly pro-U.S. firefighter in the region. Western policy-makers and public-opinion molders welcomed the 2011 riots on the Arab street as an “Arab Spring,” a people’s revolution and a transition toward…

Argentine forward Lionel Messi and his team mates from FC Barcelona visited Jerusalem’s Western, and then met Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of the ancient Jewish village of Sichin in the Galilee. The village was found near the northern edge of the Tzipori national park. The discovery was made by a team led by Dr. Mordechai Aviam of the Galilee Archaeological Institute at the Kinneret academic college. The village of Sichin was…

JERUSALEM — The two Israeli television cameramen awaiting the Canadian basketball team’s arrival at the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games didn’t hint at the chaos about to envelop Amar’e Stoudemire. The 6-foot-11 forward for the New York Knicks stepped from the chartered bus last Thursday and the cameramen departed, duly satisfied they had captured…

A new Israeli approach to providing sight to people with vision impairment uses a technique known as sensory substitution. Much in the way Braille allows people who are blind to “see” the written word, a bionic contact lens invented by Israeli researcher Prof. Zeev Zalevsky “presses” images onto the surface of the eye to help…

JERUSALEM – A team of Israeli archaeologists believes it has discovered the ruins of a palace belonging to the biblical King David, but other Israeli experts dispute the claim. Archaeologists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Israel’s Antiquities Authority said their find, a large fortified complex west of Jerusalem at a site called Khirbet Qeiyafa…

When rock legend Paul McCartney came to Israel in 2008, he was, at least to some extent, taking his life in his hands. Not because of Israel’s sometimes precarious security situation, but because he was threatened by BDS (boycott, divest, and sanction) anti-Israel groups. “I got death threats, but I’m coming anyway,” the singer was quoted…

Maccabi Haifa’s Gal Mekel has signed a multi-year deal to play for the Dallas Mavericks next season, becoming the second Israeli basketball player ever to sign with an NBA team. It was only four years ago that Omri Casspi paved the way from Israel to the best hoops league in the world. A little more…

A new air transportation system named the SkyTran will be built in Tel Aviv in an effort to solve the city’s traffic problems. Some 410,000 people populate the city, with thousands driving to work daily, resulting in heavy traffic. The city’s authorities have encouraged bicycle commuting with renting systems, but that hasn’t solved the problem.

Israel will be the first end-to-end digital nation, Cisco CEO John Chambers said on Wednesday in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Chambers agreed earlier in the day to establish a working group to explore how Cisco can help upgrade Israel’s digital infrastructure. Whereas most countries upgrade one area at a time, Israel is moving…

The special ties between the United States and Israel are uniquely driven by a people-to-people, bottom-up relationship, shaped by the American public more than by the American government. U.S. ties with the Jewish state have been exceptionally forged by shared Judeo-Christian values. “Americans’ sympathy for Israel is at a high-water mark,” according to a Gallup…

Enjoy this short video of some of the different things to see and do in Israel.

Eric Garcetti won the race to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles, and became the first Jewish mayor in the history of the City of Angels. City Controller Wendy Greuel conceded defeat early Wednesday to Garcetti, who is a City Council member and former council president, according to the Los Angeles Times. Garcetti, 42,…

The 50 most influential Jews in the world according to the Jerusalem Post: 1. Yair Lapid 2. Jack Lew 3. Binyamin Netanyahu 4. Shimon Peres 5. Anat Hoffman 6. Sergey Brin 7. Jon Stewart 8. Sheryl Sandberg 9. Moshe Ya’alon 10. Debbie Wasserman Schultz 11. Eric Cantor 12. Elena Kagan 13. Steven Spielberg 14. Jill…

1. “White Christmas” – While there are more than five  Christmas carols written by Jewish songwriters, I thought I’d just cover my  favorites, starting with not only the most famous Christmas song written in  modern times, but according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the  best-selling single of all-time. Written by: Irving Berlin in…

The field of biogerontology began in Israel, and recently world experts gathered here to compare their latest exciting findings. What genes hold the key to longevity? Why does long life run in certain families? Could age-related diseases be conquered by slowing the aging process? Why do people lose muscle mass as they age, and why…

As the United Kingdom’s BBC is set to welcome former Times newspaper editor James Harding as its new director of current affairs, Jews in the UK are likely to be hopeful that the broadcaster is more friendly to Israel in its news coverage. A report found that nearly four out of five Jews believe the…

The Boston Marathon bombings left at least three people dead, including an eight-year-old boy, and injured more than 170 people, but in the aftermath of the horrific attack doctors and staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital have praised emergency expertise gained from Israel. According to Dr. Alasdair Conn, the hospital’s triage system had been set…

This short video celebrates Israel Independence Day and the miracle of Israel.

Since 1948, Israel has set itself a task of finding creative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. When 22-year-old Emmannuel Buso was pulled barely-alive from the rubble of a three-story building 10 days after an earthquake devastated the island of Haiti, the first faces he saw were those of the Israeli rescue…

Commuters who face the daily grind of getting to work on time will be happy to hear about a new invention from Israel: an all-electric scooter called the MUV-e that helps people go the distance between the commuter bus, car park or train to the office and home again. It was those last five miles…

Global agencies assess Israel During 2012, the three leading global credit rating companies, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) commended Israel’s economic performance and expressed confidence in its long-term viability. On September 30, 2012, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) reaffirmed Israel’s A+ credit rating, at a time when it lowered the credit rating of an increasing…

President Obama deliver remarks to the Israeli people at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. March 21, 2013.

Latma brings you a word from proud Israeli soldiers and wishes a Happy and Kosher Passover to our wonderful soldiers, the entire Jewish people, our friends in Israel and throughout the world.

According to a Gallup survey released Friday, 64% of Americans sympathize with Israelis, versus 12% who sympathize with the Palestinians and 23% who said they did not support either. Support for Israel has been exceeding 60% for the last three years, but the recent poll sees the highest percentage in the last 22 years. The…

In his address to the AIPAC 2013 conference Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had some advice for his American listeners: “Don’t adopt Israel’s system of government.” Netanyahu said that he would have liked to be at the conference, instead of speaking to the audience via video hookup, but “I am stuck here in Israel working…

They’re paratrooper instructors, Air Force operators, squad instructors and logistic specialists. That’s right – this year, six of 20 nominees for the Miss Israel pageant are IDF soldiers. Sgt. Gaya Shukun, one of the nominees, sees her participation in the competition as a mission. “I have a feeling that a lot of the models join…

Government’s debt-to-GDP ratio expected to total 73.5% in 2012 compared to 74.1% in 2011. Israel also only country in West whose credit rating has increased since 2008 Israel is the only country in the West which has managed to reduce its debt as a proportion of GDP in 2012. Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the…

In the last few decades the United Nations has been obsessed with one country. Is it North Korea, Zimbabwe, Iran, Syria, China or some other nation with a reprehensible human rights record? Those would all be fair guesses and they would all be wrong. Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Human Rights Institute, answers this…

President Shimon Peres will meet Thursday evening with FC Barcelona President Sandro Rosell at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan. At the end of the meeting, the two officials are expected to announce a unique project aimed at promoting peace between Israel and the Palestinians through sports. As part of the project, Barca will…

Genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid; if you’ve ever had the pleasure of speaking with some of the more zealous haters of Israel you’ll hear these phrases at some point, normally yelled at you by a delightful middle class keffiyeh-wearing student. I guess to some extent, sadly, we have become slightly accustomed to these libels. The hypocrisy…

There are few excuses for the behavior of Jewish gangsters in the 1920s and 1930s. The best known Jewish gangsters – Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz — were involved in the numbers rackets, illegal drug dealing, prostitution, gambling and loan sharking. They were not nice men. During the rise of American Nazism…

Schoolchildren and students of the Holocaust will soon be able to access the testimony of survivors, even after they have passed on, in the form of interactive, three-dimensional holograms courtesy of a new initiative of the University of Southern California. The project, “New Dimensions in Testimony,” focuses on recording and displaying “testimony in a way…

The Space IL organization has set an ambitious goal for itself – to send an Israeli spaceprobe to the moon in 2015. The project received significant backing on Monday when the Bezeq telecommunications company announced it had signed on. Bezeq will provide the advanced communications infrastructure needed for the spaceflight and also support Space IL’s…

Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, have donated $50 million to Jewish private schools in Las Vegas. Founded in 2006, the Adelson Education Campus serves approximately 600 students, from preschool to high school. “We are grateful to the Adelsons for this remarkable gift,” Paul Schiffman, head of school, said in a statement.…

Samsung is putting Israel on the map again: The global technology giant on Tuesday launched its new initiative, an international innovation and strategy center. The center’s headquarters will be located in Menlo Park in California’s Silicon Valley, but it will have two branches – one in South Korea (Samsung’s country of origin) and one in…

A delegation of law enforcement executives from the United States is participating this week in a counter-terrorism training program in Israel sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League. The 15 participants from Connecticut, Maine, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are meeting with commanders from the Israel National Police, security experts and intelligence analysts to learn…

Anti-Semitism has often and rightfully been called the longest hatred, the oldest prejudice. It has plagued Europe for a very long time and has, over the centuries, brought untold suffering to the Jewish people. Its most deadly expression was the Nazi Holocaust, which caused the death of 6 million Jews and extinguished ancient civilizations in…

Israelis love their dogs. Nearly 400,000 pet dogs are listed on the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture’s National Dog Registry, and Tel Aviv has the largest number of registered dog owners in the country. But Israelis aren’t content just to feed and shelter Lady, Lucky and Bonnie (the three most popular Israeli dog names). In the…

Aryeh Halivni has a dream. His goal is to show the history of forming the State of Israel through the medium of movies, the same way that Hollywood director/producer Steven Spielberg did with Holocaust history. The project, “Toldot Yisrael,” translates roughly into “History of Israel” and is fast becoming a visual record of the Jewish…

Lonely Planet, the esteemed travel publication calls Israel’s seaside hub “the total flip-side of Jerusalem, a modern Sin City on the sea rather than an ancient Holy City on a hill” • Barcelona, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Tangier, Sydney and Valencia fill out top six. Tel Aviv has successfully branded itself as one of…

Israeli men can expect to live 79.9 years and women 83.6 years, according to newly released data from Central Bureau for Statistics • Israeli men have second-highest life expectancy in the world, after Swiss men. Zeev Klein Israelis have among the highest life expectancies on the globe, with an overall life expectancy of 81.7 years,…

Neighborhood Bully by Bob Dylan Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man His enemies say he’s on their land They got him outnumbered about a million to one He got no place to escape to, no place to run He’s the neighborhood bully The neighborhood bully just lives to survive He’s criticized and condemned…

U.S. President Barack Obama is set to appoint White House chief of staff Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary on Thursday, an orthodox Jew with strong ties within the American Jewish community. Lew is an observant Jew who attends Congregation Beth Sholom in Potomac, Maryland. When asked about how he would be able to balance his…

Two documentaries dealing with Israeli-Palestinian conflict to compete for Academy Award on February 24. ‘Every filmmaker dreams of such news,’ says ‘The Gatekeepers’ director. ‘The significance of this nomination is spreading the story to as many people as possible,’ says ‘5 Broken Cameras’ co-director The Mideast conflict has done little to help Israel’s image in…

Op-ed: Palestinian call for return to pre-1967 borders attempt to bypass historical realities, omit two decades of military defeats Riccardo Dugulin At the end of May 2011, President Obama stepped away from a long-standing US policy and recognized the necessity for Israel to accept pre-1967 borders as a condition for peace with the Palestinian Authority.…

New York Knicks player Amar’e Stoudemire got hitched Jewish style, wearing a white talit and yarmulke with his Calvin Klein tuxedo to his rooftop wedding. The power forward married his fiance Alexis Welch on the roof of his apartment in front of their three kids on 12/12/12. After finding out his mother is Jewish, Stoudemire…

Pat Condell explains the kind of insanity Israelis are up against. But the free world shoves fingers in their ears and pretends not to hear.

For the IDF, 2012 was packed full of events. Here’s a look back at the memorable moments of the past year.   Click here for pictures of Women in the Israel Defense Forces

International human rights group Simon Wiesenthal Center has recognized 2012’s biggest anti-Semites in its annual top 10 list of worst offenders. Tied for the top spot were Muhammad Badie and Futouh Abd al-Nabi Mansour of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. The two earned the title for the Brotherhood after making a number of inflammatory statements against Israel,…

To celebrate his 40th anniversary in the fashion business, Ralph Lauren staged an elaborate runway show and black-tie party in New York’s Central Park Conservatory Garden. Arranged on the themes of ‘A Day at the Races,’ the event drew a gaggle of celebrities from Robert De Niro and Martha Stewart to Vera Wang and Diane…

Tourism in Israel is up for 2012, the Tourism Ministry said Sunday. By the end of December, about 3.5 million visitors will have arrived in Israel, 4% more than in 2011. Tourists (not including day visitors) account for 2.9 million entries, 2% more than in 2011. Despite the downturn that occurred in the last month…

Israel may not be known for its sports prowess, but on Sunday night in Florida, it was a whole different ball game. Twelve-year-old Yshai Oliel of Ramle served his country with a historic achievement by winning the International Tennis Championship, also known as the Junior Orange Bowl, in the boys 12 and under category. In…

A female soldier with the Infantry Corps’ Caracal Battalion will be awarded a special commendation for bravery, for shooting a terrorist who infiltrated the Israel-Egypt border in September. The incident claimed the life of IDF Corporal Netanel Yahalomi. GOC Southern Command Major-General Tal Russo announced the commendation on Monday. The sergeant who commanded the platoon…

The IAF’s newest pilots will receive their wings this week, and as is customary, the military has released a group profile of the new airmen and airwomen, who may not be identified individually. Of the new pilots, 63% are from cities and towns, 23% are from smaller communities, and 13% are from kibbutzim. Thirteen percent…

On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Google announced on Monday the launch of the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library website at www.deadseascrolls.org.il. The public is invited to experience, view, examine, and explore this collection of over 5000 images of…

The assumption that the rising tide of the Islamist forces, on the Arab Street, is led by politically-pragmatic and moderate Islam, is divorced from reality. The supposition that the surging Islamic forces, on the Arab Street, aim to eschew violence, moderate the Arab Street, focus on economic growth rather than the spread of Islam and…

Even though organic agriculture and sustainable farming practices are on the rise, feeding a hungry world demands that commercial farmers rely on genetically engineered (GMO) seeds to boost production and fend off diseases. But environmentalists fear that GMO crops are a sort of Frankenstein with unknown future consequences. The Israeli company Morflora now has an…

Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight day festival beginning on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev. Hanukkah is probably one of the best known Jewish holidays, not because of any great religious significance, but because of its proximity to Christmas. Many non-Jews…

The November 29, 2012 U.N. vote to upgrade the Palestinian Authority to a “nonmember observer state” — in violation of the 1993 Oslo Accords — was an expected derivative of Israel’s policy toward the PA since 1993 — critical concessions, retreats, indecisiveness, submission to pressure and appeasement. What has Israel done since 1993? Unprecedented Israeli…

Tel Aviv, the world’s first Hebrew city, was recently rated second on a list of cities that support startup companies. The list, composed by the Genome Startup group which provides an online page for the collection of data about startup companies in cities throughout the world, currently includes 50,000 startup companies worldwide. Tel Aviv came…

At an annual event discussing ways to end human trafficking, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared that the problem of illegal immigration into Israel “has been solved.” With no more than a few dozen illegals managing to get into Israel in recent months, Netanyahu said that for all intents and purposes, his government had managed to…

Year Estimated Jewish Population Year Estimated Jewish Population 1654 25 1890 400,000-475,000 1700 200-300 1900 937,800-1,058,135 1776 1,000-2,500 1910 1,508,000-2,349,754 1790 1,243-3,000 1920 3,300,000-3,604,580 1800 2,000-2,500 1927 4,228,029 1820 2,650-5,000 1937 4,641,000-4,831,180 1826 6,000 1940 4,770,000-4,975,000 1830 4,000-6,000 1950 4,500,000-5,000,000 1840 15,000 1960 5,367,000-5,531,500 1848 50,000 1970 5,370,000-6,000,000 1850 50,000-100,000 1980 5,500,000-5,920,890 1860 150,000-200,000 1992…

A retired Saudi Royal Navy commodore has questioned the Arab world’s vilification of Israel. In an op-ed piece published in the Saudi-based English media outlet Arab News, Abdulateef Al-Mulhim cited the current violence in the Arab world — the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Yemen, the corruption surrounding Tunisia’s ousted president — and…

Pat Condell thinks there will never be peace in the Middle East while Hamas is around.

Hamas is using the media to incite public opinion against Israel. News agencies are complicit in this fraud.

Conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck summed up the Gaza situation in a short video message posted on YouTube Monday. “Every country has a right to defend itself against terror,” he said. “But they keep telling Israel… don’t overreact!… don’t fire back!… be careful!… don’t ramp things up! “Let me get this straight… If Mexico fired a…

Israel Defense Forces Ensures Passage of Supplies from Israel to Gaza On Nov. 18, 2012, the IDF coordinated the transfer of 124 trucks of goods and gas to the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing. Remarks from Lt. Col. Avi Shalev, head of the economics branch of the IDF Gaza Coordination, Liaison and Administration…

See a comparison between the Great State of Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas in this short video.

One of the main ways that Hamas acquires weapons is via an extensive network of tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border. Since Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip in 2007, the terrorist group’s smuggling efforts have increased. With funding from Iran, Hamas has improved its stockpile of weapons. Watch a short video with footage of…

On Nov. 14, 2012, the Israel Defense Forces targeted Ahmed Jabri, the head of Hamas’ military wing, in the Gaza Strip. Jabri was a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas’ command and was directly responsible for executing terror attacks against Israel in the past.

The rockets from Gaza keep on pounding Israel, Israel keeps hitting back, the world media makes Israel look bad and depicts Gaza as the victim. That is life, for Israel, and it sometimes seems it will never change. In an effort to express their pain and help explain Israel’s position abroad, independent filmmakers occasionally try…

Name: Iron Dome (כיפת ברזל)    Developers: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems; Elta; mPrest Systems    Target: Short-range rockets; Artillery/mortar shells (44 mile maximum distance) Missile: Tamir Interceptor  with  electro-optic sensors and numerous steering fins Cost: Battery – $50 million; Missile – $40,000 Battery Components: Tracking Radar; Battle Management & Weapon Control (BMC); Missile Firing Unit…

The Israel Defense Forces to fight zombie invasion in Hollywood’s ‘World War Z’ Brad Pitt to star in movie based on bestselling book about a zombie endemic wiping out the human race • Israel is the only country to take threat seriously, initiating a nationwide quarantine and closing its borders to everyone except uninfected Jews…

Can the two current proposed solutions bring peace to the region? A persistent mantra maintains that only two possible solutions exist to the seemingly intractable, centuries-old conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. But is that really true . . . or is there a more sensible alternative? What are the facts? The…

This video, filmed in Nabi Saleh this past Friday, shows Palestinian parents pressing their children to provoking IDF soldiers. This is a side of the demonstrations not usually talked about, despite it being a frequent occurrence. These phony situations that they create are used for propaganda and are quite effective in damaging Israel’s reputation.

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology graduate and Columbia professor Maria Chudnovsky will get $100,000 every year for the next five years to use as she pleases. “Somebody once said if they saw me on the street, they wouldn’t think I’m a mathematician,” Maria Chudnovsky says with a laugh. Beautiful as she is brilliant, this 35-year-old Israeli-educated…

Chabad-Lubavitch Hassidim are determined, in fact generally unstoppable once they are on “a mission from G-d.” Hurricane relief is part of the deal; this time, they are organizing volunteers to help those who were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy in New York City. It’s another day on the road for Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries. Never mind that…

The biblical kingdom of David (1000 BCE), followed by Solomon, was the Jewish people’s first independent nation-state, with Jerusalem as its political and spiritual capital. Over the following three millennia, the Jewish nation of Israel was conquered by numerous foreign empires including the Persians, Greeks and Romans. Mass expulsion by imperial rulers led to the…

Thousands of Christian Zionists gathered at a Texas megachurch on Sunday night to rally in support for Israel, the San Antonio Express-News reported. Pastor John Hagee, noted television evangelist and founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), organized the event and reaffirmed the organization’s belief that the defense of Israel as a Jewish homeland and a strong…

For over forty years Israel has been losing a public relations war to the Arabs and now to the Palestinain Arabs. And no one in Israel seems to care. Dr. Ron Schleifer, a professor at Ariel University, and an expert research academician on Psychological Warfare and military-media relations, has been studying the phenomena for years…

Leaders of the IDF and the U.S. Armed Forces held a press conference at week’s end in honor of this week’s beginning of Austere Challenge 12 (AC 12), the largest combined exercise held between the two militaries to date. Yair Barzilai and Adam May reported in the IDF Website that U.S. Third Air Force Commander…

Lonely Planet editors rank Negev second on list, calling the Israeli desert a “giant greenhouse of development” • France’s Corsica region takes first place on the list. Ilan Gattegno Lonely Planet says time is running out to experience the Negev Desert as nature intended. Photo credit: Dudu Grunshpan   Israel’s Negev Desert has been chosen…

A List From January 1, 2012 Till October 25, 2012: October 17 – 25 Seventy (70) rocket hits Approximately seventy of the many more rockets fired from Gaza hit southern Israel over the course of several days. A handful of homes were damaged. October 10 – 16 Seven (7) rocket hits Seven rockets from Gaza…

Tel Aviv’s older sister, built around an ancient seaport and in the midst of a revival, is not to be missed by tourists. Middle Eastern smells, the frenetic mix of old and new, Levantine culture flavored with Europe: The city of Jaffa is linked directly to Tel Aviv by a common municipal government, but the…

Tel Aviv has been chosen as one of three finalists to compete for the title of being the “Most Innovative City” in the world. The competition is being run by The Wall Street Journal, in conjunction with Citibank. The other two finalists selected via an online vote were New York City and Medellin, Colombia. The…

Together with a large homefront security drill taking place in Israel Sunday, the IDF is set to open on Sunday morning a major military exercise together with U.S. forces stationed in Europe. The AC12 Exercise (“Austere Challenge 12”) is the largest exercise ever between Israeli and American forces. Among other things, the exercise will involve…

As part of his job as ‘special military reporter,’ Hugo Jaeger got to use advanced color photography during World War II. His work includes unique documentation of Jews in Warsaw, Kutno ghettos Gili Gurel Smiling made-up women, a man wearing a yellow Star of David talking to German officers. Unusual color photos from World War…

Although Israel continues to find itself in the midst of regional conflict, global companies and investors still see the country and the Israeli people in a much different light than is portrayed by the latest ominous news headlines; a country filled with endless creativity, passion and ingenuity and a population with such drive and persistence…

Although economic activity has slowed in 2012, Israel poised to end year with 3.5% growth, higher than most Western economies, two times OECD average • Eurozone, global financial crisis have resulted in lower standard of living in Israel. For all the bad economic news from the past year, Israel’s economy has so far outperformed most…

Jewish-American economist Alvin Roth and his American colleague Lloyd Shapley were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday for their work on market design and matching theory. Their groundbreaking work, which relates to how people and companies find and select one another in everything from marriage to school choice to jobs to organ donations,…

The global Jewish population reached 13.75 million in the past year, with an increase of 88,000 people, a study by Hebrew University Professor Sergio DellaPergola reveals. According to the study, one out of every 514 people in the world is Jewish, less than 0.2% of mankind. About 43% of the world’s Jewish community lives in…

An Israeli court has ruled that a collection of Franz Kafka’s works must be handed to Israel’s national library. The ruling settles a long legal dispute over ownership of the documents. Kafka gave the writings to his friend Max Brod, whose secretary insisted he left them to her. After her death, her daughters refused to…

Israeli Dr. Akiva Mintz M.D., Ph.D., of Wake Forest Baptist, was part of a team of scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center who have taken the first steps to create neural-like stem cells from muscle tissue found in animals. Details of the work were published in two complementary studies released in the September online…

Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals. Robert Lefkowitz is Jewish according to JINFO.org. So far two of the six Nobel Prize winners this year are Jewish. Serge Haroche, a Frenchman of  Moroccan-Jewish descent,…

A new genetic analysis focusing on Jews from North Africa has provided an overall genetic map of the Jewish Diasporas. The findings support the historical record of Middle Eastern Jews settling in North Africa during Classical Antiquity, proselytizing and marrying local populations, and, in the process, forming distinct populations that stayed largely intact for more…

Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for work in quantum physics  that could one day open the way to supercomputers. Haroche is from a Jewish family and was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1944. He has lectured at Israel’s Technion University. Wineland’s name…

The Republican Jewish Coalition presents “Perilous Times,” a mini-documentary in which Israeli experts and everyday citizens candidly discuss their concerns about the U.S.-Israel relationship under Pres. Obama. Among the notable experts consulted for this film are : • Zalman Shoval, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and a highly-respected diplomat; • Oren Kessler, foreign affairs…

Tel Aviv has been nominated as one of the world’s most innovative cities in Wall Street Journal magazine’s City of the Year contest, sponsored by Citibank. A total of 25 cities were selected from hundreds of candidates. Tel Aviv is competing against New York, London, Berlin, Chicago, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paolo, Toronto, Vienna, Copenhagen,…

One in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Israeli scientists hope to improve the odds.   One out of every eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. It is the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer in women worldwide, and also strikes thousands of men. Though the three areas with the…

Sunday evening at sundown is the start of the holiday of Sukkot (Tabernacles), one of the three major festivals (shlosha regalim) of the Jewish calendar in which, in Temple days,  the Jewish People were enjoined to “go up to Jerusalem.”  Sukkot, coming immediately after the solemn month of Elul and the High Holydays, is the holiday…

Since the 18th century, American founding fathers and scholars have been aware of deeply-rooted Islamic violence, terrorism, intolerance and hatred toward other Muslims, as well as non-Muslims. Early American leaders and thinkers were endowed with deep appreciation and unique knowledge of global history, international relations, ancient cultures, ideologies and religions. They spoke and wrote candidly…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu drew an actual red line with a marker on a chart symbolizing Iran’s uranium enrichment program, and expained that Iran must be told that if it reaches enough uranium enriched to the 90% level in order to make a nuclear bomb, it will be attacked. “3,000 years ago King David reigned…

You think you really know about the Palestinian refugees? This short animated clip covers the story of how they became refugees and why they have stayed that way. It also shows the history of Jewish refugees from Arab lands. That is a story that’s been ignored until now.

The Charmer — the Golda Meir you didn’t know Tough and energetic, but also empathetic and captivating. Though commonly perceived as rigid, Israel’s only woman prime minister to date is revealed as tender and charismatic, having affairs with Zalman Shazar and David Remez simultaneously. Naama Lansky During the first days of the Yom Kippur War,…

President Obama addresses the 67th U.N. General Assembly in New York with a focus on quelling violence spreading abroad.

As Jewish people in Israel and around the world are preparing for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, Arutz Sheva brings you some tips on how to prepare for the 25-hour fast, which begins at sundown on Tuesday evening and ends on Wednesday evening: 1.       It is recommended to drink at least…

In ‘honor’ of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s arrival in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting, The New York Post decided to deliver a ‘gift basket’ to his luxury suite in the Warwick Hotel. The welcome basket included a $125 ticket to off-Broadway play “Old Jews Telling Jokes” which was booked in his name,…

Introduction Yom Kippur is probably the most important holiday of the Jewish year. Many Jews who do not observe any other Jewish custom will refrain from work, fast and/or attend synagogue services on this day. Yom Kippur occurs on the 10th day of Tishri. The holiday is instituted at Leviticus 23:26 et seq. The name…

American actor Brad Pitt, who has also become an in-demand producer in recent years, is looking to produce a film adaptation of the best-seller “IBM and the Holocaust,” which details the business dealings of the American-based multinational corporation, International Business Machines, and its German and other European subsidiaries with the government of Adolf Hitler during…

Israel Defense Forces soldiers who came to serve from all around the world join up to wish you a happy Rosh Hashanah, in light of the Jewish New Year. Shana Tova!

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s greetings for the New Year / Rosh Hashanah.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday released a video greeting to the Jewish people in honor of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Obama suggested that the New Year was a time to repair his country’s relationship with Israel, at the end of a week in which he and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had been…

1. Rosh Hashanah and the Shofar (ritual ram’s horn) symbolize and commemorate: *The annual reaffirmation of faith in God; *The first human-being, Adam, was created on Rosh Hashanah, the sixth day of Creation, the first day of the Jewish month of Tishrey; *The opening of Noah’s Ark following the flood; *The almost-sacrifice of Isaac (thou…

 A record 3.5 million tourists visited Israel over the past 12 months, the Tourism Ministry announced on Wednesday. This marked a 3 percent increase over the previous year. “Against the background of the geopolitical challenges and the global economic crisis, the achievements are even greater,” Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov said. “We will continue to work…

Israel is the second-most educated country among OECD member countries, according to a report released on Tuesday. The “Education at a Glance 2012” report found that Israel was second only to Canada in terms of the percentage of 25 to 64 year-olds that have reached higher education. The report found that 46% of all 25-64…

They’re finally here: More than 10 years after their called off a planned concert in Israel at the last minute, the members of American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in a private jet Sunday afternoon. Anthony Kiedis at Western Wall (Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg)   From the airport they traveled straight…

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (1879-1955)  was a physicist, mathematician, philosopher, pacifist, and Zionist. Because of his epoch-making theories of the nature of space, time, light and matter, his name became synonymous with genius. Because of his fame, every nation and the world has wanted to claim him as their own.   He is best known for…

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. John F. Kennedy The greatest…

Ever wonder what happened to the Jews who once lived in Arab lands like Morocco, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia? A one minute video on who the Jewish Refugees are will give you insight to those lost communities.

Archaeologists have discovered remains of a large 1,500-year-old Jewish town near Be’er Sheva, including two public ritual pools, or mikvehs, a synagogue or Torah study center. Mikvehs are used in Judaism for ritual purification purposes. Israel Antiquities Authority officials said the remains were found during excavation work in extending the southern leg of Israel’s north-south…

One of the conundrums associated with the enduring nature of global anti-Semitism, which has soared exponentially in recent years, is why, having made such disproportionate contributions at all levels of civilization and left major imprints on science, ethics, medicine, culture and the arts, we Jews continue to act as a magnet for such virulent hatred.…

For those who think that Israel is a $3 billion-a-year strategic liability for the U.S., the cause of Muslim terrorism, Mideast instability, and high gas prices, New York attorney and Israel advocate Mark Langfan has a message: Get a map. Preferably, the 3D topographic raised-relief map system of Israel that Langfan developed back in 1991,…

Converting to Judaism: Conservative and Orthodox Jews require that the potential convert be instructed about how to live as a Jew, and undergo kabbalat ol mitzvot (agreement to do the commandments), mila (circumcision for men),* and tevilah (immersion in a mikvah [ritual bath]), and that the procedure be supervised by a Beit Din [court] of…

A new study by Weizmann Institute scientists has proven it’s possible to learn in your sleep. The findings of the study, published today in Nature Neuroscience, state that if certain odors are presented after tones during sleep, people will start sniffing when they hear the tones alone – even when no odor is present –…

Like it or not, everybody in Israel knows that without the “settlers”, the real pioneers of our time, the Jewish State would have no real defensive barrier against Palestinian terrorism. Unfortunately, the settlers are vilified as a “needless burdens” on the defense budget. Along with the “Palestinian private land” blood libel, security is the main…

The new school year begins Monday and for the first time in Israel’s history, parents of toddlers aged 3 and 4 will not have to pay school fees. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took the opportunity of Sunday’s cabinet session to pat himself on the back for the reform – an understandable move, seeing as the…

Chicago White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis said he will play for Team Israel at the World Baseball Classic (WBC), Israel Sports Radio reported. The three-time MLB all-star said he would represent Israel in March 2013 if the team qualifies for the tournament this September and so long as he is healthy. Youkilis suggested that…

Lincoln: And so the Children of Israel were driven from the happy land of Canaan. Kaskel: Yes, and that is why we have come to Father Abraham, to ask his protection. Lincoln: And this protection they shall have at once. Cesar J. Kaskel, apprising President Lincoln of General Grant’s Order Number 11 In his scholarly…

Israel is the sixth healthiest country in the world, way ahead of the United States, in 33rd place, while Singapore, Italy, Australia, Switzerland, and Japan head the list compiled by Bloomberg. Among the factors in determining the rankings are life expectancy, infant mortality, causes of death, mortality rates, the number of smokers, alcohol consumption, physical…

The Israeli and US Navies have completed the joint maritime safety drill once held together each year with Turkey. The drill, called the “Reliant Mermaid,” is aimed at improving search and rescue maneuvers as well as zeroing in on other relevant issues in the Mediterranean Sea. It involves helicopter landings on aircraft carriers, and some…

Millions of evangelical Christians are working day and night to protect Israel • They stage conventions, they exert political pressure on their representatives and they raise awareness in the world on issues like the Iranian threat and Palestinian incitement • They do this not only in the name of justice, but because it is an…

Decision to ban Hezbollah and its Al-Manar television station stems from Facebook’s policy against terror incitement and hate propagation • Both Google and Apple have recently removed Al-Manar apps from their products • Al-Manar has been on U.S. terror list since 2004. Facebook management has ordered the removal of pages belonging to Hezbollah and its…

EPSTEIN, BRIAN SAMUEL (Shmuel; 1934–1967), British impresario, one of history’s most successful show business entrepreneurs whose success in managing the Beatles changed the world of music. Epstein was born on Yom Kippur to Harry (Tzvi) and Malka (“Queenie”) in Liverpool, where the family owned a furniture store and where Epstein became manager of the store’s…

Three Israel universities are in the world’s top 100, and two reached the 38th and 39th place in rankings in the area of science, listed in the annual Shanghai Jiao Tong report. American universities won eight of the top 10 spots, headed by Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the same rankings they…

The road to Congress may run through Jerusalem, where a stop in the Israeli capital appears to be a “must do” on the campaign trail in this year’s United States national elections. World Likud chairman MK Danny Danon has recently received dozens of requests from U.S. Congressional candidates to come to Israel as part of…

According to Jewish tradition, Abraham was born under the name Abram in the city of Ur in Babylonia in the year 1948 from Creation (circa 1800 BCE). He was the son of Terach, an idol merchant, but from his early childhood, he questioned the faith of his father and sought the truth. He came to…

New Zealand Jewish sailor Jo Aleh and her partner Polly Powrie won the gold medal in the women’s 470 regatta, becoming the first first New Zealand women to win a sailing gold in anything other than windsurfing. Aleh, 26, whose parents are dual Israeli-New Zealand citizens, was elated as she crossed the finish line. “It…

Paul Ryan, who was selected by Mitt Romney to run as his vice-president in the upcoming U.S. Presidential elections, is considered a strong supporter of Israel by Israeli and U.S. Jewish community officials. Ryan, a Republican congressman from Wisconsin, has said that “America has no better friend in the Middle East than the nation of…

Tourism to Israel continues record-breaking pace in July Last month saw nearly 700,000 visitors, 10% of whom came from America; more than 2 million tourists have arrived this year The excitement generated within the Tourism Ministry by a record-breaking first half of 2012 for tourists arriving in Israel has extended into the second half of…

Two years ago, following the release of the Jerusalem Post’s first list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews, I was inspired to initiate an annual list of my own.  Not of Jews, but of non- Jews, specifically those who are most positively influencing the Jewish future. Since last year’s list, much has changed.  New…

In the decades in which the Israeli-Arab conflict has raged, certain myths have been repeated so often and so insistently by Arab propaganda that most of the world has come to believe them. Today, we briefly examine one of those myths. What are the facts? The myth of “occupation” being the cause of conflict. The…