Category: News

A 29-year-old haredi man was attacked by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem on Friday afternoon, suffering stab wounds to the upper body. The victim, who was light wounded, was stabbed at the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, a popular tourist site in the capital. He was given first aid treatment by Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics, and…

A new UN report Friday reveals that children and the disabled have been burned alive in South Sudan, and that members of the pro-government militia have been allowed to rape women in lieu of wages. The report described the conditions in South Sudan as “one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world.”…

United States President Barack Obama said on Thursday he does not regret stepping back from his “red line” on the use of chemical weapons by Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria. In fact, Obama told the Atlantic magazine in an interview that he was “proud” of the decision. In 2012, Obama warned Assad that the use…

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) foreign ministry has condemned Israel’s defensive actions in which attacking Arab terrorists have been killed – and in delegitimizing the self-defense, it relied upon the head of the radical leftist Peace Now organization. In a statement on Wednesday, the PA foreign ministry claimed Israel conducts “cruel executions by occupation forces against young men,…

The Uruguayan government said on Thursday that a convert to Islam who fatally stabbed a Jewish man in the country earlier this week while reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” acted alone and had no ties to foreign terrorist groups. According to the Reuters news agency, Uruguay’s Interior Minister Eduardo Bonomi said the government drew its conclusion…

Early on Friday morning an Arab terrorist threw an explosive at an Israeli car driving near Otniel in the southern Hevron hills region of Judea. The terrorist waited by the road with a mask on his face and threw the improvised pipe bomb, which exploded just a second after a female Israeli motorist drove by. Fortunately the driver…

The body of American tourist Taylor Force, who was murdered on Tuesday in an Arab terrorist attack in Jaffa (Yafo), is being sent back to America on Friday morning for burial. Force was murdered during a stabbing spree in which ten other people were wounded as well, before the terrorist was shot and killed by…

Why were the Table, Menorah and Altar positioned in the Mishkan (Tabernacle) the way they were? “He put the Table in the Tent of meeting on the North side of the Tabernacle, outside the partition” (40:22). “He placed the Menorah in the Tent of Meeting opposite the Table on the South Side of the Tabernacle”…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has gone further than snubbing US Vice President Joe Biden’s call to condemn terror attacks this week – it was revealed that earlier this week he sent a condolence letter to the family of a female Arab terrorist. The letter, which was dated on Sunday and exposed by the…

In a joint operation between IDF forces, the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) and the police, transmitters and technical equipment were seized on Thursday night from the “Palestine Alyoum” broadcasting station in Ramallah, Samaria. However, as of Friday morning the station was broadcasting as normal despite the closure order issued against it, and even ran a live…

Rabbi Joshua Kahn has been appointed the new head of the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MSTA). Welcoming the new school head, Miriam Goldberg, chair of Yeshiva University High Schools said, “rabbi Kahn brings a well articulated vision for academic and cultural excellence to MSTA, the only yeshiva high school on…

The Israeli Security Cabinet held a meeting on Thursday night on the Arab terror wave that has raged since last September, and decided to begin work on fences around Jerusalem and near Hevron – but did not decide on any additional steps. The Cabinet decided to start work closing the breaches in the security barrier around Jerusalem, and to…

Most Israeli Arabs think that the Joint List Knesset members do not properly represent them, according to a survey published by Channel 2. According to the survey, which was completed by 350 people from the Arab sector alone, 56% believe that the Arab MKs do not represent them or represent them to a lesser extent. On the…

The family members of a terrorist who wounded two Border Police officers in an attack in eastern Jerusalem earlier this week were expelled from Jerusalem on Thursday and sent to Palestinian Authority-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria. Following the attack, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan ordered that the legal status of members of the terrorist’s family,…

The US-led coalition carried out the first air strikes on Islamic State (ISIS) chemical weapons sites, the Pentagon said Thursday, acting on crucial information from a captured senior insurgent. The successful multiple bombings came as a result of intelligence from Sulayman Dawud al-Bakkar, also known as Abu Dawud, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said, confirming the name of the ISIS group…

After a brief delay, Egyptian diplomat and former Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was named Thursday as the Arab League’s new secretary general, AFP reports. The appointment came after Qatar had earlier voiced its opposition to it because of Abul Gheit’s “hostile positions” towards the Gulf state. Nevertheless, Abul Gheit’s appointment was later confirmed. “The…

Ramat Givat Zeev, a new community in the Jerusalem hills, is attracting hundreds of families from the United States, largely because Rav Bezalel Rudinsky of Monsey plans to open an American-style Mesivta high school in the neighborhood. Rav Bezalel Rudinsky has embraced the community as the ideal location in which to realize his dream of…

The UN Watch NGO revealed on Thursday that the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) vetting committee has shortlisted a UK professor for a six-year term as the world body’s investigator of “Israel’s violations,” even though she campaigns for the boycott of what she calls “apartheid Israel” and a “criminal government.” The professor in question is…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday night ordered the country to improve nuclear attack capability by continuing to conduct more tests, Reuters reports, citing the official KCNA news agency. Kim’s remarks came as he watched a ballistic missile test. The report did not say when the test took place but it was likely…

In the wake of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s warning call to Iran on Wednesday protesting its recent ballistic missile tests defying US sanctions, Iran on Thursday held a ceremony rolling out new missile speedboats while announcing plans to expand its navy. Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy, spoke…

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said he opposed “all forms of violence” but ignored a call from US Vice President Joe Biden to explicitly condemn terrorist attacks on Israelis. “Our hand is outstretched in peace founded on justice and respect for the rights of everyone,” Abbas told a joint press conference in Ramallah with visiting…

An international coalition of anti-Israel NGOs called Thursday on Airbnb to remove rental properties in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria from its website. A demonstration was held in Paris, and others were planned at Airbnb’s offices in London, and in the US cities of San Francisco and Portland. In the French capital, a small group of activists from…

Israel saved an ailing lion from the Hamas terror stronghold of Gaza to a Palestinian zoo in Samaria on Thursday, rescuing it from the Hamas enclave that has suffered economically as the terror group channels international funds into its rocket and tunnel building projects. The lion was taken from a zoo in Rafah to the Erez crossing…

In the wake of the police investigation of a police volunteer who shot the Arab terrorist behind Tuesday night’s lethal stabbing spree in Jaffa (Yafo), Arutz Sheva on Thursday spoke with Rabbi Ya’akov Ariel who opined that one must not kill a neutralized terrorist. The terrorist stabbed 11 people in Jaffa, murdering US tourist Taylor Force, before being shot and killed by two…

In the wake of a move last Wednesday by Gulf states declaring the Iran-proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon a terrorist organization, members of Congress called on the European Union (EU) on Thursday to do likewise and designate all branches of Hezbollah as a terror group. The call was made by US Representatives Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Grace Meng…

In France, more teenage girls than boys are drawn to joining brutal Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Iraq and Syria, a high-ranking anti-terrorist official told AFP this week. “Among minors, females are over-represented to a proportion of 55%” of those interested in making the journey, or who have already done so, the French source said on condition of anonymity. Like young…

Qatar has delayed the appointment of a veteran Egyptian diplomat as the next head of the Arab League over his “hostile positions” towards the Gulf state, diplomats said on Thursday. Egypt was expecting Ahmed Abul Gheit, the last foreign minister to serve under ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, to be chosen unanimously by the 21-member pan-Arab body. But in a surprise setback…

Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Major General Yoav Mordechai on Thursday spoke of the relationship between Hamas in Gaza and the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, in an interview with the Palestinian website Dunia Al-Watan. “The relationship between Hamas and ISIS in the Sinai continues with cooperation as there is mutual trust between the…

(AFP) Tens of thousands of documents containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of jihadis who joined the Islamic State group (IS or ISIS) have been given to the UK’s Sky News, the broadcaster said Wednesday.   Sky reported that a disillusioned former member had handed over the documents on a memory stick…

(AFP) Four men went on trial in Denmark on Thursday accused of helping the terrorist gunman behind twin attacks on a Copenhagen synagogue and a free speech event last year that left two people dead.   The trial, being held under heavy security, comes with Europe still on high alert over fears of jihadist violence following two…

US Vice President Joe Biden met with Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Thursday, amid a rash of terror attacks across Israel that have further dimmed the prospects for renewed negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Herzog (Zionist Union) spoke with Biden about the ongoing violence and possible interim steps that could jumpstart negotiations.…

One of the victims of Tuesday night’s deadly stabbing attack in Jaffa was an Arab-Israeli peace activist. Tel Aviv resident Mohammed Wari was stabbed in the back during the attack by Palestinian Arab terrorist Bashar Masalha, which killed American tourist Taylor Force and wounded 10 others, many of them seriously. Wari, who works for MEET –…

Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton is the first presidential candidate from either party to officially accept an invitation to address the upcoming AIPAC Policy Conference next week. The Conference will be held in Washington, D.C., from 20-22 March, and organizers recently extended invitations to each of the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates. Clinton, who last…

Seven Palestinians were rescued Thursday after a Gaza smuggling tunnel collapsed, according to local officials. One man is still trapped underground, however – his condition is unknown He described the underground passage from the southern Gaza town of Rafah into neighboring Egypt as a “trade tunnel.” The cave-in, the sixth since January, was caused by Egyptian…

On Wednesday, terrorists opened fire on an Egged bus at Ramot Junction. The attack, made on a major thoroughfare just minutes from the Ramot neighborhood, stunned Jerusalem residents. Shmuel P., a passenger on the bus targeted by the attackers, recounted the harrowing experience in an interview with Hamevasser. A Jerusalem yeshiva student in his 20s,…

Female activists in the Jewish Home who came to the Knesset Tuesday at the behest of MK Shuli Mualem to take part in the International Women’s Day events were sorely disappointed to discover they had been duped. The activists realized, too late, that the day was primarily devoted to the Left’s perception of the plight…

Vice President Joe Biden met on Thursday with Micah Lakin Avni, son of Richard Lakin, an American citizen who was murdered in a terrorist attack last October. Avni told Biden about his father’s efforts as an advocate of coexistence and gave the Vice President two copies of his father’s book, Teaching as an Act of…

Details of a tense meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have been revealed for the first time, shedding further light on the fraught relationship between the two leaders. Tensions between the two leaders over major policies, from the peace process with the Palestinian Authority to the nuclear deal with…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday urged mainstream Republicans to unify behind his candidacy, saying that if Republicans unite around him, he would be “unbeatable”. The often-brash Trump softened his tone, at least temporarily, hours after securing three more primary victories, praising House Speaker Paul Ryan as a man he respects and encouraging Mitt…

A new round of talks aimed at ending the war in Syria will begin in Geneva on March 14 and will last no longer than 10 days, the UN mediator Staffan de Mistura announced on Wednesday. De Mistura said participants would begin arriving in the coming days and that he would be having some informal…

An American Air Force veteran who tried to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State (ISIS) group was on Wednesday found guilty of trying to provide the jihadist group with material support, AFP reported. The man, 48-year-old Tairod Pugh, was the first person in America convicted after a jury trial of attempting to…

Considering early retirement? At first the idea of this may sound very appealing. But is retiring at a young age possible or even a good idea in your situation? Today’’s show provides three points to consider when determining the ideal retirement age.  The second half of the show looks at entrepreneurs. Cameron Herold, founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK and…

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), a group which has been behind previous initiatives to breach Israel’s naval blockade on Gaza, has announced yet another flotilla, this one made up of women activists. The group chose International Women’s Day to announce the launch of their Women’s Boat to Gaza (WBG) project, it said in a statement.…

Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called his Iranian counterpart to protest Tehran’s latest round of ballistic missile tests, AFP reported. Iran and the United States have no formal diplomatic ties, but Kerry and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif built a close working relationship during negotiations for last year’s nuclear accord between Tehran and…

Considering early retirement? At first the idea of this may sound very appealing. But is retiring at a young age possible or even a good idea in your situation? Today’’s show provides three points to consider when determining the ideal retirement age.  The second half of the show looks at entrepreneurs. Cameron Herold, founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK and…

Israeli police began to crackdown on Palestinian Authority Arabs illegally residing in the Tel Aviv region, with a wave of mass arrests on Wednesday. The enforcement operation was undertaken following Tuesday’s murderous rampage in Jaffa. Bashar Masalha, a Palestinian Authority Arab living in Israel illegally, stabbed passersby in Jaffa, killing one and leaving a dozen…

Pittsburgh’s WTAE Action 4 News reports that a gunman opened fire at around 11:00 p.m. local time at the 1300 block of Franklin Avenue in Wilkinsburg. Reports indicate that five people have been declared dead, and at least three more wounded, including two in critical condition. Police have blocked off the street to both traffic…

Martin Indyk, a former US Ambassador to Israel and special envoy to the Middle East for the Obama administration, is increasingly doubtful that a two state solution can ever be accomplished. “In the absence of negotiations, actions on the ground are making it more and more difficult to see how a two-state solution could be…

MK David Bitan (Likud), who heads the Knesset’s influential House Committee, informed the Knesset Speaker that the Knesset will mark Man’s Day in mid-May. “Men, too, deserve a day in which their world will be discussed, especially during a period in which the discourse about the man’s world receives no attention,” said Bitan. Bitan, who…

IDF forces that raided the home of an Arab who carried out a deadly stabbing attack in Jaffa also made preparations for demolishing it, locals said. The terrorist, 22-year-old Bashar Masalha, murdered US citizen Taylor Allen Force and seriously injured a dozen other people, before being shot dead by police. Locals told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an…

The Police Internal Investigations Department is opening an investigation into a volunteer for shooting a terrorist last night (Tuesday), Haaretz reports. The attacker managed to stab 11 people in Jaffa, killing one, before two civilians who volunteer with the police shot and killed him. One of the two is under suspicion of continuing to fire after the terrorist…

Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton blasted Iran over reports of further ballistic missile tests on Wednesday, calling for new sanctions on the Iranian regime, Reuters reported Wednesday night. Earlier this week, the Iranian Defense Ministry had announced that it had conducted a series of ballistic missile tests, the first since…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday blamed “Israeli occupation” for the current terrorist wave, Walla! News reported. Speaking during a meeting in Ramallah with visiting American Vice President Joe Biden, Abbas stopped short of condemning the latest terrorist attacks, though he did express condolences over the death of American citizen Taylor Allen Force…

Donors have raised almost $5,000 for Yishai Montgomery to buy a new guitar, after he broke his fighting back a terrorist yesterday (Tuesday). Montgomery spoke with Channel 2 news about the attack. “I had just sat down to play my guitar near the ocean when I heard screams from down the road,” he explained, nonchalantly. “He jumped…

ADHD Part I! There are two types of ADHD: one is a true brain imbalance, and the other is a personality type where the child (or adult) is just not fitting into the box. The child whose brain is functioning perfectly and has nothing out of balance, tragically becomes a victim of an unforgiving system;…

Top Islamic State (ISIS) commander leader Omar al-Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, was “seriously injured” in a recent American strike in northeastern Syria but not killed, a monitoring group said Wednesday. On Tuesday, an American official said the jihadist had “likely died” in the assault. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that…

North Korea on Tuesday night (Wednesday morning local time) fired two short-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s military said, according to the British Independent. The two missiles were fired at around 5:20 a.m. from North Hwanghae Province and hit waters northeast of the port city of Wonsan off the country’s east…

The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday evening called for action to be taken against Iran after it claimed to have conducted more ballistic missile tests. “Israel condemns the firing of Iranian missiles in recent days. The missiles that were launched include long-range ones which cover, among others, the entire territory of Israel and large parts…

France’s new Foreign Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, appears to be backtracking on plans to unilaterally recognize Palestinian statehood. Speaking on Wednesday, Ayrault rejected plans proposed by his predecessor, Laurent Fabius to “automatically” recognize a Palestinian state if a Paris initiative to host an international conference aiming to revive Israel-Palestinian peace talks fails. “There is never anything…

Following yesterday’s (Tuesday) terror attack in which two police officers were shot, Yisrael Beytenu conducted a tour at the Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem’s Old City. The participants were guarded by a heavy contingent of police and security forces. “The whole Yisrael Beytenu party has come here to express our appreciation for the security forces who…

Yariv Oppenheimer, leader of the Peace Now organization, condemned terror victim Yonatan Azarihab, who was wounded in a stabbing attack on Tuesday, for killing his assailant in the course of the attack. Oppenheimer took to Twitter on Wednesday, blasting what he termed the “execution” of terrorists who were killed while carrying out violent attacks on…

As Satmar Rebbe Aharon Teitelboim visits followers in Israel, the Hasidic leader offered his views on the ongoing wave of Arab terror attacks inside Israel that have claimed dozens of lives and left hundreds wounded. Satmar, known as one of the most staunchly anti-Zionist Hasidic sects, refuses to recognize the State of Israel and calls…

Following the rise in terror attacks across Israel, the legal defense organization Honenu is calling on Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) to fix the bureaucratic procrastination in his Ministry and in the police over gun licenses. Honenu has been dealing with the issue for years and is finding more and more cases in which…

Yariv Oppenheimer, leader of the Peace Now organization, condemned terror victim Yonatan Azarihab, who was wounded in a stabbing attack on Tuesday, for killing his assailant in the course of the attack. Oppenheimer took to Twitter on Wednesday, blasting what he termed the “execution” of terrorists who were killed while carrying out violent attacks on…

The past couple days have seen horrible attacks hitting Israel as the ongoing wave of terror charges ahead. The media watchdog Honest Reporting, though, found that a number of news agencies around the world seemed to believe that the suffering of Israelis pales in comparison with that of the terrorists. The International Business Times summarized yesterday’s attacks in its…

Following the rise in terror attacks across Israel, the legal defense organization Honenu is calling on Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) to fix the bureaucratic procrastination in his Ministry and in the police over gun licenses. Honenu has been dealing with the issue for years and is finding more and more cases in which…

After years of harassment, threats, and even physical violence against haredi soldiers, the Knesset is pushing forward new legislation to clamp down on fringe religious groups. On Wednesday the Knesset approved the preliminary reading of a bill that would punish anti-enlistment inciters with five year prison sentences. The bill, proposed by Yoav Kish (Likud) targets…

Two Mossad agents were reportedly exposed when their car became stuck in the mud in a northern German town. The pair were in Germany to accompany the recently-completed INS Rahav submarine from the Kiel shipyard to Haifa last December. Ynet quotes Hamburg television station NDR as saying that trouble started when they came across a locked fence that was labeled “no…

Taylor Force dedicated his life to the struggle against terrorism, but sadly fell victim to it during Tuesday’s murderous stabbing attack in Jaffa. The 28-year-old Lubbock, Texas native and US Army veteran had served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, where fellow soldiers described him as a role model and “father figure”. Despite his tours of…

A new poll commissioned by Channel 1 shows Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition losing four seats – and losing its majority. The TNC poll published on Wednesday reveals big declines for Likud, the Zionist Union (Labor), and Kulanu, while Yesh Atid and Jewish Home enjoyed large gains. Netanyahu’s Likud, which surprised observers in 2015 by…

After years of harassment, threats, and even physical violence against haredi soldiers, the Knesset is pushing forward new legislation to clamp down on fringe religious groups. On Wednesday the Knesset approved the preliminary reading of a bill that would punish anti-enlistment inciters with five year prison sentences. The bill, proposed by Yoav Kish (Likud) targets…

No fewer than three young children were forgotten and left unsupervised in the city of Modi’in Illit on Wednesday. An infant girl aged one-and-a-half years old was located on a bus in the city after being forgotten by her parents. Police officers scrambled to locate the day care center where the baby girl is enrolled, and…

Following a series of security measures decided on Tuesday night after a wave of three bloody terror attacks, Construction Minister Yoav Galant (Kulanu) on Wednesday morning said that Israel should not tighten down on the general Palestinian population. “We can in no way be in a situation in which the entire population is guilty,” the former IDF Chief…

One of London’s leading universities has voted to boycott the State of Israel, just hours after a deadly terror attack and while Israel is still in the throes of a renewed upsurge in Palestinian terror. University College London (UCL) Union voted 14-4 to accept a motion to endorse the so-called BDS movement, which advocates boycotts, divestment and…

Security services have released for publication the identity of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency/ISA) agent killed during an operation near the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning. Amir Mimuni, a resident of the town of Zohar in the western Negev, was killed in unclear circumstances.  The military is currently investigating whether Mimuni was killed by…

Ruti Hasno, the widow of Avraham Hasno who was murdered by an Arab terrorist near Hevron last October, praised security forces in a conversation with Arutz Sheva on Wednesday after the capture of the terrorist Tuesday night. Hasno, 54, who was recognized as a terror victim in early November, was lured out of his car by an Arab rock ambush, at…

A group of soldiers from the IDF’s Givati Infantry Brigade are to take part in a sponsored fun run in aid of troubled Israeli teens. Soldiers will be joining the 5k and 10k runs during the March 18 Jerusalem Marathon for the Kav L’Noar organization. Founded in 2004 in central Jerusalem, Kav L’Noar provides assistance…

Arutz Sheva has learned that Shas chairperson and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri is trying to determine the next director of the Chief Rabbinate himself, against the position of Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau – and in breach of longstanding protocol. Deri is trying to advance the candidacy of Moshe Dagan, the senior deputy director of the Religious…

At the beginning of his meeting with the visiting US Vice President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday greeted Biden while noting the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) lauding of a lethal attack which killed a US citizen the day before. In an attack in Jaffa (Yafo) on Tuesday night, an Arab terrorist conducted a mass stabbing, wounding 10 victims and…

US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the United States would take action against Iran – if its long-range ballistic missile tests widely reported in Iranian media were confirmed by the US. “I want to reiterate, as I know people still doubt, if in fact they break the (nuclear) deal, we will act,” Biden said during a…

An Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) agent was killed on Tuesday during an operation in Gaza, it has been cleared for publication. His family has been informed. The circumstances surrounding his death are being investigated. Among the possibilities being checked is whether an IDF force made a mistake in identifying the man as he stood near the security fence,…

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog, head of the Zionist Union party, on Tuesday called for his “separation plan” to be implemented in the wake of the terrorist attack in eastern Jerusalem, in which two Border Police officers were seriously wounded. “I wish the wounded a quick recovery and call again to implement the separation plan…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is projected to defeat Bernie Sanders in the Mississippi primary, while Donald Trump is expected to win in the state on the Republican side, along with Michigan. Ted Cruz for his part picked up Idaho from Trump, and Sanders won Michigan. Clinton was widely expected to pick up a victory in…

Moti Kahana laughs when he considers what critics think of the Israeli-American millionaire’s efforts to rescue Jews in danger around the Middle East. “They call me names – vigilante or cowboy,” the 48-year-old said during a visit to Jerusalem. “It doesn’t matter.” Kahana has embarked on a quixotic campaign aimed at relocating fellow Jews at risk in their home countries in…

Does being a successful investor influence your retirement age? Find out about the advantages and disadvantages of early and late retirement. Learn about claiming Social Security and the connection between Social Security payments and Bituach Leumi (Israeli National Insurance) pensions.  Is there a simple mathematical formula to guide you towards the right decision on when…

The Jewish man who was attacked by an Arab terrorist in Petah Tikva on Tuesday and managed to kill his attacker with his own knife even after being stabbed spoke with the media about his ordeal. The victim, aged in his 40s, pulled the knife from his own neck after being stabbed and then stabbed…

A shooting attack took place on Wednesday morning at Ramot Junction, near the northwest neighborhood of Ramot in Jerusalem. In the drive-by attack shots were fired from a car on an Egged bus at the junction. Fortunately MDA reports that none were wounded in the attack. Security forces are currently conducting a chase to try and hunt down…

Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot in Gaza, warmly welcomed the three bloody terrorist attacks on Tuesday which struck Yafo, Petah Tikva and Jerusalem. In Petah Tikva a man was moderately wounded but managed to kill his Arab attacker; in Jerusalem two officers were shot and seriously wounded; and in Yafo, a mass casualty stabbing took place. American tourist Taylor Allen Force was murdered in…

An Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem was seriously wounded in a shooting attack that took place in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, just a short time after a shooting attack near the northern Ramot neighborhood of the capital. Police are saying the two attacks are connected, revealing that the same terrorists committed both attacks. In the second attack, which occurred on Hatzanchanim Street which runs parallel…

After three major terror attacks on Tuesday in Yafo, Jerusalem and Petah Tikva, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon sent an urgent letter to the UN Security Council demanding that they make their first condemnation of the Arab terror wave engulfing Israel. In the Petah Tikva attack, American tourist Taylor Allen Force was murdered and 12…

The Month of Adar is here… again! This week we will be observing Rosh Chodesh, the New Moon of the Second Adar, and that means that Purim is just around the corner. This week’s fast-moving edition of Temple Talk, coinciding with the conclusion of the book of Exodus and the completion of the Tabernacle, focuses…

The Jewish communities of Western Europe managed to re-establish themselves after WWII. The situation has changed so drastically since then, that it is hard to remember that it seemed as though a golden age had begun and that anti-Semitism has been buried once and for all. Looking back, it is clear that the second half…

Nobody really knows how many Jews live in Germany today. Demographers are still arguing about the exact figures. Estimates range anywhere between 200,000 and 350,000. These are staggering figures which contrast sharply to the approximately 30,000 who – demographers agree – lived in Germany in 1990. This surge in growth was made possible through a…

Ask any Israeli or American Jew about Europe and one of the first things they will invariably say is “anti-Semitism.” This, as far as the majority of Jews in the world are concerned, is the sum total of Jewish existence in Europe: misery, oppression – essentially a ticking time-bomb to the next holocaust. The truth,…

To many Americans, Australia conjures up pictures of kangaroos and a melodic national anthem, some of whose words are unintelligible to the non-Aussie. “Waltzing Matilda,” however, actually describes the early days of a vast, as yet unexplored country, traversed by free-spirited swagmen  – slang for hoboes – unwilling to be fenced in by rules and…

When I was born, my grandmother gifted my mother with a tiny emblem of the state of Israel rendered in gold. Some years ago, my mother passed it along to me, together with its origin story. This tiny piece of jewelry attracts a lot of comments, especially when Israelis discover my American accent.  My grandmother, Yehudit…

Israeli officials decided on Tuesday night on a series of security-related measures in response to the ongoing terrorist wave. The measures were decided upon during a consultation at the Prime Minister’s Office, which came after an escalation in the terror attacks, whereby three attacks took place in one day –  in Petah Tikva, Jerusalem and Yafo. Among other things,…

Police said on Tuesday evening that the visit to Israel by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden may have triggered the three terrorist attacks which took place in Petah Tikva, Jerusalem and Yafo. In a statement released following a security assessment, the police stressed that there were no specific warnings about Tuesday’s three attacks, but said…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group’s battle-tested equivalent of a defense minister has “probably” died in an American air strike in Syria, a U.S. official said Tuesday, according to AFP. The target of the March 4 attack was Omar al-Shishani, a Georgian fighting with ISIS in Syria, the Pentagon said in a statement. It did not…

A Jewish man was stabbed to death on Tuesday night in Uruguay by a man who shouted “Allahu Akbar”, local media reported. According to reports, the incident occurred in the town of Paysandu in western Uruguay. The Jewish man, who was stabbed in the back ten times, was taken to a local hospital in critical…

Video has emerged showing the Arab terrorist who stabbed 11 people in Jaffa, murdering one and wounding 10, being chased down a busy highway – stabbing motorists through their car windows as he runs. Warning, graphic footage: Another video, taken shortly after, shows police eliminating the terrorist: In the video, officers can be heard congratulating their…

The leading contender for the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, said Tuesday that comparisons between the pledge of support he has enacted at his rallies and the Nazi “heil” salute are “ridiculous.” “I don’t know about the Hitler comparison. I hadn’t heard that, but it’s a terrible comparison. I’m not happy about that certainly,” Trump…

Israel’s state-sponsored Religious Education Administration (known by the Hebrew acronym Hemed) has decided to hold a mass prayer assembly in about 800 Jewish schools across Israel, in view of the severe security situation – and Jews of the Diaspora are being asked to join in. “We will pray for the strength of the Jewish nation and…

US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel Tuesday – and landed in the center of a surge of deadly Arab terrorism. Biden and his wife were greeted at Ben Gurion airport by top officials, including Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and Israeli Ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer. From…

The UK Labour Party’s candidate for Mayor of London pushed for sanctions against the State of Israel in the past, it has been revealed. Sadiq Khan, a Labour MP who has been actively courting London’s Jewish community ahead of the elections in May of this year, has repeatedly claimed during the campaign that he has always opposed…

Science Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) called on Tuesday evening to expel terrorists’ relatives without delay, in light of the series attacks in Petah Tikva, Jerusalem and Jaffa (Yaffo). “Israel is under a cruel and barbaric onslaught of terror attacks. We must take more aggressive measures, led by expelling terrorists’ families without delay,” Minister Akunis said…

Despite all having occurred in remarkably quick succession, Israel Police Chief Roni Alsheikh assured Israelis that the string of terror attacks in Petah Tikva, Jerusalem and Jaffa Tuesday evening were not connected. “We are talking about a wave of three (separate) attacks. It is our understanding that there is no connection between them; there are no…

A new chapter in the ongoing saga of the attempts to discover Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg’s fate began on January 17, 2016, the 70th anniversary of Wallenberg’s arrest in Budapest by advancing Soviet Forces. Called “The Raoul Wallenberg Research Initiative”, also known as RWI-70, it is headed by noted historian Suzanne Berger, who served as an independent consultant from 1995-2001`to…

Loading… An American tourist has been killed and 10 other people wounded in a stabbing spree by an Arab terrorist in Jaffa. A number of the victims were severely injured in the attack, including four tourists hospitalized in serious condition. At least one of the wounded tourists is a Russian citizen. The attacker – identified as a…

Major Spanish football team Real Madrid will be welcoming an Arab boy whose family was murdered in an arson attack last year, the Palestinian Football Federation said Saturday. Ahmad Dawabsha, 5, was the sole survivor of an arson attack on his family’s home in Duma, Samaria, on July 30 last year. Israel’s State Prosecution is…

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by the organization Regavim dealing with the Negev village Bir Hadaj, hundreds of whose residents entered the nearby plot that was privately owned by Jews and built dozens of illegal buildings. In 1995, after the government decided to create the Ramat Hovev industrial area, members of the ‘Azazme…

Frontrunners in both the GOP and Democratic primaries are looking for big wins in Tuesday’s votes, with an eye on consolidating their respective leads. Republican voters in four states with a total of 150 delegates are set to vote on Tuesday in primaries that could make or break New York billionaire Donald Trump’s tenuous lead.…

The Pew Research Center released an explosive new study on religion and politics in Israel on Tuesday. The study measured religious identification amongst Jews and political views among Israelis in general. According to the Pew’s polling data, a whopping 48% of Israeli Jews believe that Israel should expel or transfer Arabs from the country, versus…

The legendary Marxist terrorist Carlos the Jackal gave an interview to a Swiss newspaper in which he explained that he was able to easily travel through Switzerland because of the supposedly-neutral country’s “nonaggression pact” with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, spoke the Neue Zuercher Zeitung by phone from his French prison cell.…

The IDF’s personnel directorate subcommittee, under the leadership of MK Yoav Kish (Likud) discussed tightening the restrictions on soldiers growing beards today (Tuesday). The meeting saw a range of opinions on the charged issue. MK Kish proposed allowing a unified standard for all soldiers, including secular ones, while allowing religious soldiers the option to grow a…

The head of the Knesset House Committee, David Bitan (Likud) spoke with Arutz Sheva amid reports that US President Barack Obama is working to renew talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. “Such a step would not change the fact that there is no possibility for any political moves. Pressuring Israel into a political move would…

Russians cynically call their homeland “a country with an unpredictable past” due to the dramatic changes that frequent its official history. As “unpredictable” as the past is, however, the future is even more unpredictable and regrettably, the Jews will, to all accounts, be the first victims of this “unpredictability”. At present, however, the lives and…

Israeli Jews tend to identify with right-wing and religious parties, according to polling data released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. Nearly half (48%) of all Israeli Jews said they felt closest to one of the three rightwing parties in the Knesset: the Likud (28%), Jewish Home (11%), and Yisrael Beytenu (9%). Another 15%…

I.  The Beginnings of American Jewry North America’s first Jews arrived in 1654 aboard the “St. Charles,” sailing with a desperate shipload that brought 23 Spanish-Portuguese Jews to New Amsterdam as they fled from the vestiges of the European Inquisition that had come to the New World in Spain’s and Portugal’s South American colonies.  These…

(AFP) Four Danish Muslim men go on trial on Thursday accused of aiding a Copenhagen gunman who killed a filmmaker and a Jewish security guard in twin attacks last year. The four stand accused of committing “terror offences” by providing support for Danish-Palestinian terrorist Omar El-Hussein ahead of the second attack, which took place outside a…

Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate and allied jihadists on Monday seized a set of strategic hilltops held by pro-regime forces in the country’s north, a monitoring group said, according to AFP. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the jihadist rebels battled government loyalists and overran three hilltops in the Al-Eis area south of Aleppo city. “Fighters…

The weekly faction meeting of the Zionist Union party turned ugly on Monday, when MK Erel Margalit turned on party chairman Yitzhak Herzog and demanded that primaries for the party leadership be held as soon as possible. “You are a dictator,” Margalit charged at Herzog, adding, “There is no validity for a leadership that doesn’t…

MK Zehava Galon, who heads the ultra-leftist Meretz party, issued a rare denunciation of Arab MKs Monday, after the Hadash and Balad parties within the Arab Joint List issued formal condemnations of the decision by Arab Gulf states to classify Hezbollah as a terror group. “The decision by Balad and Hadash to fight against defining Hezbollah…

Some of Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s advisers have suggested that he drop out of the Republican presidential race before the Florida primary on March 15, sources told CNN on Monday. According to the news network, a battle is being waged within Rubio’s campaign about whether he should remain in the race. Rubio himself is “bullish”…

While many organizations are using International Women’s Day (Tuesday) to examine women’s status in society, the United Nations is being accused of merely seeing it as another opportunity to attack and lie about Israel. The UN’s Commission on the Status of Women is expected to release only one report focusing on a single country and how it…

IDF troops and Border Policemen, in cooperation with the Civil Administration, early Tuesday morning sealed the Hevron home of terrorist Ibrahim Samir Sakafi. Sakafi carried out a car ramming attack at the Halhoul junction, near Hevron, last November, in which Border Police officer Binyamin Ya’akobovitz was murdered. Last week the High Court approved the demolition of the home of…

Bentzi Gopstein, the head of the anti-assimilation group Lehava, recently wrote on his Twitter account about couples going up to the Temple Mount before their wedding. His comment quickly brought about a swift and harsh response from the Palestinian Authority. Rafat Alian, the official spokesperson for Fatah, warned against Jewish couples going to the site. He described…

As election season heats up in the United States, Israeli Jews and Arabs differ in their views of which American political party would be better for Israel, according to a poll released on Sunday by the Israel Democracy Institute. A plurality of Israeli Jews believed Israel would be better off with a Republican winning the…

Representative from bereaved families took part in a ceremony to celebrate the start of a new Torah scroll yesterday (Monday). The unique Torah will be written by police and Border Police officers. Over the next few months, it will be passed between various police districts as officers take turns writing in the memory of their comrades who…

With about 10 months left in office, President Barack Obama is considering unprecedented moves to implement a two-state solution, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Senior US officials revealed that the President is looking to initiate a final negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority using United Nations Security Council resolutions, a step…

The National Office of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) in France issued a public condemnation on Monday of an attack that occurred this Shabbat, in which a 13-year-old Jewish boy was assaulted by three anti-Semites as they shouted “dirty Jew.” “The National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism denounces and condemns the anti-Semitic aggression in Paris (on) March…

A female security guard working at a Jerusalem police station was arrested and sent to house arrest after allegedly contacting the anti-assimilation group Lehava several weeks ago. The guard is suspected of having passed on information to Lehava regarding a female police officer who reportedly is having a romantic relationship with an Arab man. After…

The United States reacted with surprise on Monday to news that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu canceled his annual trip to Washington. Netanyahu had originally planned to visit the annual AIPAC summit, planned for March 20 through 22, but chose to cancel the trip after President Barack Obama declined to schedule a meeting with him. Instead,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has canceled his annual trip to the United States after President Barack Obama declined to schedule a meeting with him. Netanyahu had planned a visit to the US coinciding with the annual AIPAC summit planned for March 20 through 22. Netanyahu has made attending AIPAC’s annual conference a tradition, missing the event…

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday he will not enter the race for U.S. president. In an online column in which he announced his decision, Bloomberg wrote that he decided not to enter the race because it was clear that he could not win. “Over the last several months, many Americans…

There are some problems, like Palestinian incitement against Jews, that cannot be resolved with a decades long re-education of the Palestinian population.  Jay Shapiro claims that Palestinian incitement cannot be overcome by good will meetings and gesture. Click here to download the podcast

Three people carrying Turkish passports were detained by Israeli police near the Jordanian-Israeli border at Eilat Monday, an Israel Police spokesperson said in a written statement. The Turkish nationals allegedly intended to enter Israel illegally. “Three Turkish citizens were detained by Israeli police when they tried to enter into Israel illegally from the southern part…

Don’’t get carried away by rising interest rates. Instead, consider the impact of interest rates on your retirement plan. Doug reviews fundamental points about retirement planning and how to make sure your money is there for you when you actually need it. How should rising interest rates affect the way you handle your investments? Money…

President Reuven Rivlin and First Lady Nechama Rivlin on Monday evening hosted a state dinner at their residence in honor of the visiting Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and his wife. Rivlin began by stressing the long history of the warm relations between Israel and Romania, noting, “Israel and Romania, have a long, and close friendship;…

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday he understands French Jews’ fear amid heightened religious tension in the country after last year’s terrorists attacks in Paris by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists. Valls’ comments came in a speech at the annual dinner of the French Jewish council CRIF. He was quoted by The Associated Press.…

A young woman aged around 30 was murdered in a shooting on Monday night in Be’er Sheva. Initial reports said she was stabbed, but police later clarified that she had been shot. The woman suffered critical wounds but later died of her injuries after being evacuated to the hospital. She was shot while driving in her…

A Gaza professor has been using his program on Palestinian Authority (PA) television to claim that the United States and Israel have conspired to flood the Arab world with drugs and pornography, according to a report by Palestinian Media Watch. Dr. Imad Hamato, a professor at the University of Palestine in Gaza and host of a…

A US drone strike has killed more than 150 Al Shabaab terrorists in Somalia, according to the Pentagon. Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the strike hit a training camp where a “large-scale” attack was being planned. “We know they were going to be departing the camp and they posed an imminent threat to US and [African…

Police rushed to Fiumicino airport in Rome to stop a bitter pilot who threatened to kill himself and the roughly 200 passengers on a flight he was scheduled to make. The pilot was arrested just minutes before take-off, after police were notified of threats the Italian pilot had made to his wife. According to a…

History seems to never get bored with repeating itself. The Ministerial Committee for Jerusalem Affairs convened in July 1970 – just three years after the Six Day War – and discussed the prayer arrangements at the Western Wall (Kotel) plaza. It seems that the mechitzah – the partition setting off a women’s section from the men’s…

A female Ara terrorist was arrested on Monday at the “Kiosk” checkpoint, located adjacent to the village of Abu Dis just to the east of Jerusalem. Security cameras caught the tense stand off as Border Police officers got her to throw over her bag, in which they found a knife. Loading… In catching the knife…

France is to simulate a terrorist attack at a fan zone in preparation for Euro 2016, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday. Less than three months before the start of the European Championship, which will see 23 other nations join the hosts for the month-long football extravaganza, France is mobilizing its security services for the worst case scenario. The simulation will…

After Arab lawmakers from the Joint List faction issued statements condemning the labeling of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed astonishment Monday evening at the support for the radical Shi’ite terror group. The controversy erupted following a decision last Wednesday by the Gulf Cooperation Council to designate Hezbollah as a terror…

“We own a business and it has always supported us, but due to changes in the economy it is now losing money every day. Can you help us?” “My marriage is breaking under the strain of our financial situation. We are looking for side jobs to increase our income. Where should we look?” “My husband…

First Lady Mrs. Nehama Rivlin met Monday with women who were victims of sexual assault or abuse, who chose to tell their stories through a special cover story in Monday’s issue of La-Isha women’s magazine which was devoted to the subject in honor of International Women’s Day. The 22 women who were interviewed for the project entitled “You cannot…

In a shocking development, an alleged neo-Nazi party in Slovakia won seats in the nation’s parliament for the first time. In the results of Saturday’s national elections announced Sunday, the far-right extremist “Our Slovakia” party scored 8 percent of the votes, which is equal to 14 seats. The country’s parliament, the National Council, has 150 members. Party…

One week after SodaStream laid off its last 74 Palestinian workers after pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, a petition for the government to re-instate permits to work in Israel is gaining momentum. CEO of SodaStream International, Daniel Birnbaum said, “We proved that we can live and work here in peace, Jews and…

More than a thousand US Jews of all ages took part in Nefesh B’Nefesh’s Mega Event in New York’s Times Square yesterday (Sunday). The event, which is Nefesh B’Nefesh’s largest aliyah event of the year and one of the largest aliyah fairs in the world, kicked off a week of similar expos in Los Angeles, Florida,…

A Jerusalem court has sentenced two lawyers, Mudahat Issawi and Shirin Issawi, to eight and four years in prison, respectively, for harming Israel’s security. The pair were convicted of passing on encrypted messages from security detainees belonging to Hamas and influencing the list of prisoners to be released in exchange for Gilad Shalit. Shirin ran the al-Quds Commercial Law Service…

The leaders of southern Israeli communities bordering Hamas-controlled Gaza have issued an invitation for US Vice President Joe Biden to visit during his upcoming trip to Israel. Biden will arrive in Israel tomorrow (Tuesday), in what will likely be the final high-level Obama administration official to visit the Jewish state. He will shuttle between Jerusalem and Tel…

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is calling on Muslim nations around the world to come together in support of the Palestinians. He made his remark during a special Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit dealing with issues related to Palestinians and to Jerusalem. Associated Press reports that representatives from the UN Security Council member states as well as…

Prominent Jewish figures have expressed deep concern after the latest neo-Nazi party was elected in a European national parliamentary. The Our Slovakia party gained 14 parliamentary seats in Slovakia’s recent elections, taking its place at the National Council for the first time. The far right extremists scored 8 percent in an election that failed to produce a majority result.…

An Israeli-born businessman that owns a number of shopping mall sales kiosks in several U.S. states was among 10 Israelis indicted for illegally employing 140 Israeli nationals to sell Dead Sea beauty products. Omer Gur-Geiger, 36, was indicted this week for bringing illegal workers into the United States on B-2 tourist visas, failing to report…

A 35-year-old woman tragically died on Monday due to a fire that broke out in an apartment on Kibbutz Galuyot Street in the coastal city of Ashdod. A Magen David Adom (MDA) team was dispatched to the scene after receiving a call to its emergency hotline. MDA paramedics sought to give the wounded woman medical treatment,…

The Land of Israel Lobby held a special meeting Monday in protest against the building freeze in Ma’ale Adumim. Tourism Minister MK Yariv Levin (Likud) told the attendees, “There’s no doubt that it’s time to renew the building in Ma’ale Adumim. There is a clear consensus on this. We will not be satisfied, of course, with only…

The number of people who were killed in the current wave of terrorism stands at 33, and the number of injured stands at 325 people, according to figures published Sunday by Magen David Adom. 31 people have been seriously injured, eight suffered moderate to severe injuries, 48 have been moderately injured, 13 have been lightly-to-moderately injured…

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been declared the winner of the Maine Democratic caucuses, it was reported Sunday night. Maine Democrats held 533 caucuses at approximately 400 locations across the state, and 30 delegates are at stake, noted ABC News. On Saturday, Sanders won the Kansas and Nebraska caucuses while rival Hillary Clinton took…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to support a bill by Likud MK Yoav Kish that would prohibit political organizations from accepting donations during an election campaign, Channel 2 News reported Sunday. The bill would target organizations such as V15, which worked against Netanyahu and the Likud during the last elections. Reports said that V15…

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday claimed there is a connection between the recent blacklist of his organization as a terrorist group by Gulf states with the desire of royal Saudi family and other Gulf regimes to normalize relations with Israel. Speaking at a memorial for a Hezbollah commander killed in Syria and quoted by…

Two French teenagers suspected of trying to travel to Syria to join ISIS returned home Sunday night, two days after they went missing, officials said. Israe, 15, and 16-year-old Louisa disappeared from their school in Haute-Savoie in the French Alps on Friday, prompting the police to launch a search for the pair. The public prosecutor in Annecy said the teenagers “had left or…

The Elders’ Forum of National Religious Rabbis published an unequivocal message Sunday night about dividing the Kotel. The statement calls on the government to put together a new outline in coordination with the Chief Rabbinate. “We support the Chief Rabbinate and call on the Prime Minister and all members of the government not to act…

Avi Farhan, who became a symbol of the fight over the evacuations from Sinai and Gush Katif, has filed a complaint with the police against Ariel Bronz. The complaint deals with Bronz’s performance in which he debased the flag of Israel. “I asked the police to immediately arrest him and either hospitalize him for being crazy…

More women in Israel receive a higher education than Israeli men, yet they still earn significantly less, said a report published Sunday by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The report was published prior to International Women’s Day, which is celebrated every March 8. The findings revealed that at the end of 2014 there were 3,042,900…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met with officials of his Fatah faction last Wednesday. During the meeting, Abbas once again expressed his support for the French political initiative, which seeks to set up a support group of the permanent Security Council members, some Arab and European states and international organizations. “There is a need to…

A company commander in the Kfir Brigade was suspended Sunday due to a stabbing attack last Wednesday at a military post adjacent to Har Bracha in Samaria, in which two soldiers were wounded – moderately and lightly – by Arab terrorists. Kfir Brigade Commander Col. Guy Hazut on Sunday night presented an investigation of the attack…

Why are there so few converts among Russian immigrants? Some say that it is due to the converts themselves, who come from an atheist society  and do not see why they need to be halachically Jewish, especially since so many Israelis are non-observant . Others, like this writer, a former MK who left the Shas…

The Conversion Law promoted by former MK Elazar Stern of Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua party, and struck down by the new cabinet, sought to end the Chief Rabbinate’s authority over conversion. Venerable Religious Zionist leader, Rabbi Chaim Druckman, succeeded in making the law a revocable cabinet decision and added a clause mandating a committee of well-known…

Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who has so far failed to gain ground in his presidential campaign, was the winner of the Puerto Rico primary on Sunday, The Associated Press projected. Rubio, who campaigned in Puerto Rico Saturday, has now won one state and one territory. He won in Minnesota on Super Tuesday. Republican frontrunner Donald…

Polish President Andrzej Duda visited on Thursday the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw for the first time since its 2014 opening. “The museum is spectacular. Not just the wonderful architecture, but the exhibition of 900 years of shared history. This is a museum that every person must visit,” said the president. President Duda was…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday reiterated his commitment to a decision to create a new prayer space for Reform and Conservative Jews at the Kotel and remove the area from the authority of the rabbinate, transferring it to the control of the Prime Minister’s Office in a breach of the status quo. The declaration…

Security forces overnight Sunday demolished the Hazon David Synagogue compound in Kiryat Arba. Hazon David was built in 2001, in memory of David Hacohen and Chezi Muallem, who were shot dead by terrorists near the entrance to Kiryat Arba on the very same day. In the past, the High Court ruled that the synagogue is…

North Korea on Sunday threatened “indiscriminate” nuclear strikes against South Korea and the United States if the two allies push ahead with joint military drills scheduled to begin Monday, AFP reports. The threat to carry out what it described as a “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” was made in a statement by North Korea’s powerful…

Egypt on Sunday accused Hamas and the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood of involvement in last year’s killing of the country’s top prosecutor, Hisham Barakat. Barakat was killed in June of 2015 when his car was targeted by a bomb in the capital Cairo. On Sunday, reported AFP, Egypt’s Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar said that 14…

The family of Avraham Asher Hasno, who was brutally murdered by an Arab terrorist in mid October, announced on Sunday that a grandson has been born to the terror victim. “In a fortuitous hour a new grandson has been born to us,” read a statement put out by the family. “Avraham Asher Hasno lives, Avraham’s way continues even now…

About 2,000 soldiers from the IDF’s Givati Brigade will team up in the upcoming Jerusalem Marathon with teenagers who participate in various Kav L’Noar programs, which help prevent and address risk situations. In preparation for the joint event, the brigade’s deputy commander and battalion commanders joined Kav L’Noar CEO Dani Yemini for a tour of…

Ramat Gan Safari temporarily went into emergency mode on Sunday, after Tibor the eight-year-old rhino found an open gate and made his way to freedom. Those living in the region need not fear though – just minutes after his great escape, Tibor was escorted back to the safari. Loading… Tibor was caught on security cameras…

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan died of congestive heart failure at the age of 94 on Sunday. The former Hollywood actress became one of the most influential first ladies in the U.S. while her Republican husband, Ronald Reagan, served his presidency from 1981 to 1989. Nancy Reagan was famously known for her “Just Say No” campaign against…

Israeli society is undergoing a far-reaching transformation. This is not a trivial change, it is a transformation that will restructure our very identity as Israelis, and will have a profound impact on the way we understand ourselves and our national home. In Israel, there is a word which has long since turned into a weapon:…

Observant Jews have been reciting the words “sound the great shofar for our freedom, raise a banner to gather our exiles” three times a day for thousands of years, but which of them imagined it actually taking place in his lifetime?  The “Ingathering of the Exiles” has, however, come true in the State of Israel…

Israel’s Declaration of Independence proclaims not only that “the State of Israel will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles” but that it “will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the…

Out of sight and out of mind. That’s the safe and prudent place for the non-citizen to occupy. A society’s primary responsibility is to protect and maximize the well-being of its citizens. By definition, the outsider is of secondary concern at best. To master the art of non-citizenship is to learn how to become important,…

A recent spate of violence and aggression by youngsters of Ethiopian descent has shaken the streets of Tel Aviv. A believer in Israel’s destiny cannot help but wonder: haven’t the 2000 years of Jewish exile erased the drive for self-destruction from our DNA? In the face of some analyses by the media in which the…

A suicide terrorist murdered at least 60 people Sunday and wounded about 70 more by driving a fuel truck full of explosives into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad. The checkpoint is located on a strategic highway near Hilla, 90 kilometers from the Iraqi capital, reports said. About 70 people were wounded in the blast, police…

The brother-in-law of Israeli Prime Minister and Likud party leader Binyamin Netanyahu has called on Likud voters to abandon the party at the next elections if the PM does not formally abandon the “two-state solution” and annex Area C in Judea and Samaria. Dr. Hagai Ben Artzi, a prominent Israeli academic and outspoken nationalist, urged Netanyahu to…

Former Likud MK and founder of the Zehut (Identity) movement Moshe Feiglin blasted Israeli supporters of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump on Sunday, warning the New York real estate mogul was dangerous to Israel. In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Feiglin called Trump “the most dangerous candidate for Israel”, comparing his surging populist movement to a…

Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Bezalel Smotrich offered his alternative to the two-state solution during an interview with the Yisrael HaYom newspaper, arguing that Israel should annex Judea and Samaria and offer Arab residents in the area generous compensation packages to emigrate. According to Smotrich’s plan, Israel would annex all of Judea and Samaria, including…

Despite reports that the IDF has finally ordered soldiers to take their guns with them while on leave – following the murder of Staff Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman, who tried to fight off two terrorists with his bare hands – troops are still not being allowed to do so, according to prominent right-wing commentator Shimon Riklin.…

(AFP) When Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group (IS or ISIS) in Iraq and Syria last year, there were fears the deadly insurgency in northeast Nigeria would take on an international dimension. The world’s deadliest designated terrorist organisations – notorious for the indiscriminate slaughter of tens of thousands of people – were now officially…

The backlash against the proposed changes to the Kotel Plaza continued on Sunday after a planned meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel’s Chief Rabbis was cancelled. Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) toured the Kotel Plaza on Sunday, absenting himself from the coalition’s weekly meeting. Ariel, who on Friday condemned the planned Kotel…

A bill proposing to silence mosque loudspeakers suffered a serious blow today when it was denied a vote by a key committee. The “mosque bill” proposed by MK Motti Yogev (Jewish Home) would prohibit all houses of prayer from using loudspeakers. The ban was designed to end the loud muezzin call to prayer played from…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took aim at government intervention in the economy on Sunday at the beginning of the weekly Cabinet meeting. Netanyahu blamed overregulation and state interference in the economy for Israel’s failure to attract outside investment and the relatively modest pace of economic growth. “In Israel we have excessive regulation, excessive bureaucracy and excessive…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke Sunday of “strong” ties with the United States ahead of a visit by Vice President Joe Biden, despite deep disagreement over the nuclear accord with Iran. “This visit expresses the strong relations between Israel and our ally the US,” Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting. “There…

A leading anti-poverty charity has been hijacked by anti-Israel activists, and is channeling millions in donations to causes not remotely connected to fighting poverty, according to campaigners. A new initiative by the UK-based Israel Advocacy Movement seeks to raise awareness about how, over the past three decades, War on Want has morphed into little more…

Senator Ted Cruz on Saturday won in Kansas and battled with Donald Trump for Kentucky in a four-state round of Republican voting, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Cruz was also projected to win Maine’s Republican caucus. Trump, meanwhile, was projected to win in Louisiana. “God bless Kansas,” Cruz declared during a rally in Idaho, which…

A meeting that was planned for Sunday between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the chief rabbis regarding the allocation of a non-Orthodox prayer space at the Kotel for Reform and Conservative Jews was abruptly canceled late on Saturday night. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was to meet on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi…

Former Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was evacuated on Saturday night to the Assaf Harofeh Hospital in after feeling unwell. His condition is stable and he is fully conscious. After a series of tests it was decided to keep Ben-Eliezer in the hospital overnight for observation and treatment. Ben-Eliezer is currently on trial on charges of corruption.…

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has defeated Hillary Clinton in the Kansas Democratic caucus, the state’s Democratic party announced on Saturday night, according to CBS News. The Democratic Party of Kansas projected the result with 90 percent of precincts reporting. It said 40,000 people participated in the caucuses, a larger turnout than 2008, reported The…

A preacher who gave a sermon on Friday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque openly incited against Israel, accusing the Jewish state of executing Palestinian Arabs. The sermon came at Friday prayers attended by tens of thousands of worshipers, including Muslim residents of Judea and Samaria, Gaza as well as Israeli Arabs. The sermon was delivered by the…

The family and colleagues of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran nine years ago while on a CIA mission, on Saturday expressed anger and disappointment that he wasn’t part of a January prisoner exchange with Tehran, AP reports. Levinson, 68, a father of seven from Coral Springs, Florida, vanished during a trip…

Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s resounding victories in Kansas and Maine on Saturday have helped him close the delegate gap with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. The “Super Saturday” vote in four states was a resounding success for Cruz, who carried both Kansas and Maine with nearly 50% of the vote, and narrowly lost to Trump in…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has frozen missiles bound for Iran amid Israeli protest of the sale, the Kuwaiti paper Al-Jarida reports. According to the report, an order of S-300 heavy surface-to-air missiles purchased by Iran has been put on hold by the Russian leader following talks with Israeli officials. Israel criticized the sale, claiming that…

Hundreds of Israeli Arabs demonstrated on Thursday against the proposed demolition of two illegal Bedouin communities in the western Negev. The communities, Atir and Umm al-Hiran, both located in Wadi Atir, were built illegally by Israeli Bedouin Arabs following the establishment of the state. After petitions by the towns were rejected by the Supreme Court,…

For well over a century, one of the most sizzling topics – and there have been many – in religious Jewish circles has been that of Aliyah to Israel. Intense discussions have centered around the extent to which it is a Biblical commandment; the degree to which it might hover above and/or facilitate all others;…

“What will become of the Jewish people?” asked renowned Torah leader and spiritual mentor Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, the man the New York Times called a “once- in-a millennium scholar”, in an oft-quoted speech. The speech was delivered some twenty years ago in New York. Rabbi Steinsaltz’s concern was that the very elements of America that…

A number of leading European politicians have declared recently how important it is that the Jews keep residing in their various countries. Government leaders also claim that they will do the utmost to protect their Jewish communities against a rising tide of anti-Semitic attacks. The primary reason for such declarations is the rise of lethal…

A delegation of the World Zionist Organization (WZO) on January 19 led a visit to the Swedish Parliament, which last Friday led to a governmental minister being confronted over Sweden’s funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in light of its rampant incitement. The January delegation was comprised of WZO Vice Chairman Dr. David Breakstone and former…

We are a sleeping tiger, the American Jewish Orthodox Zionist community.  Our voices barely are heard.  Our numbers barely are rallied.  Yet, with vision and determination, we can change the face and values of American Zionism. We have the entire infrastructure in place.  Children and teens in yeshivot.  Their parents and grandparents, their uncles and aunts, and their parents’ friends…

The following article delineates five different philosophies that have developed within the past century and a half within the observant Jewish community in terms of how they view and interact with Zionism. It is important to understand these five different views so that unnecessary confusion will not develop and so that we all develop a…

Haim Saban, an Israeli billionaire living in the US and a key backer of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, attacked Republican frontrunner Donald Trump on Saturday – while admitting that for opponents of the two state solution, Clinton will be “bad for Israel.” In a Hebrew-language interview with Channel 2, Saban was asked about the…

In March 2008, a terrorist entered the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva library in Jerusalem and murdered eight unarmed young students who sat there studying Torah. One of them was Yochai Lifshitz, Hy”d, whose grandmother wrote this poem for his yahrzeit. Written in Hebrew, it has been translated here for the first time. R. Jose son of…

Senator Ted Cruz on Saturday won in Kansas and battled with Donald Trump for Kentucky in a four-state round of Republican voting, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Meanwhile, Democrats in three states were choosing between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. “God bless Kansas,” Cruz declared during a rally in Idaho, which votes in three days.…

Palestinian arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction has been submitted as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. Fatah spokesperson Fayez Abu Aita announced Barghouti’s name was submitted for the Nobel Peace Prize by Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina, who won the Nobel Prize back in 1980 for his human rights…

A 19-year-old Arab was arrested on Saturday adjacent to the Cave of Machpelah in Hevron, a site where the Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs other than Rachel are buried, and where numerous terror attacks have taken place in recent months. The Arab raised the suspicions of the Border Police officers who were stationed there, and they…

A new poll conducted by Dr. Mina Tzemach and Mano Geva of the Midgam Institute for the TV show “Meet the Press” shows MK Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party nearly doubling its size, while the current coalition parties drop from their current collective total of 61 seats to just 57. A minimum majority of 61…

Amnesty International and Palestinian cultural institutions have launched an appeal for help for 23-year-old Palestinian circus performer and teacher Mohammed Abu Sakha – who in addition to being a clown is a member of a brutal Communist terror organization. Abu Sakha was arrested on December 14 and held since January in administrative detention, an emergency measure introduced by the British Mandate under which Israel can…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave office as soon as a transitional authority is set up, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Saturday, insisting there is no way he can retain power. Talks between the regime and Syrian opposition, due to resume next week in Geneva, aim to set up a political transition process to end the country’s five-year-old war. A UN-brokered…

David Elhayani, head of the Jordan Valley regional council, was dismayed to receive a demand by marketing chains in Germany calling for Jewish products in the Jordan Valley to be marked as “occupation goods.” In one of the phone conversations that representatives of the German Gaia company held with a local farmer, they said their customers in Germany…

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog, head of the leftist Labor party which together with Hatnua forms the Zionist Union, spoke against the radical left at an event in Ramat Gan on Saturday morning. “The public is tired of hearing about the radical left that accuses Israel for the situation without proposing solutions that preserve the security…

The ongoing uproar over the government’s decision to recognize the Reform movement and allocate a second non-Orthodox prayer space at the Kotel (Western Wall) for it is to reach a decisive moment on Sunday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – who has been accused by United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler of having been “bought” by…

MK Ayman Odeh, head of the Arab Joint List, appeared on Friday to welcome the ongoing terrorist wave against Israelis. Speaking to the Al-Arabiya network and quoted by Channel 10 News, Odeh said that Palestinian acts of terror are a good strategy. “We should examine our history and the history of the nations to determine strategies.…

Jim Webb, a former Democratic presidential candidate, made clear Friday he would not be voting for Hillary Clinton, but said he might consider voting for Donald Trump. Webb announced on July 2, 2015 that he would seek to challenge Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, and later dropped out in order to consider an independent…

In his upcoming visit to Israel and the Middle East, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden does not expect major breakthroughs on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a White House official said on Friday, according to Reuters. Biden leaves late Saturday for his five-day trip to the region. A senior White House official told reporters Friday that Biden…

On Friday, hours before Shabbat, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, visited the Golan Heights. Among the places they visited was the ancient synagogue of Um el Kanatir located in the southern Golan Heights. “One of the first places in our beautiful country that Sara and I toured together was the ancient town…

Tawfik Okasha, the Egyptian parliamentarian who was dismissed for hosting Israel’s ambassador at his home, is apologizing for his actions, Walla! News reported on Friday. He made the apology in a video which aired on the ONtv Egyptian TV channel, and in which he is seen trying to enter parliament while telling the viewers he…

Roy Neuberger is a Jew who grew up in material comfort, with excellent education, who lacked nothing, except knowledge of his own heritage. He had never heard of Yom Kippur or Shabbat, and when he married, asked that there be no Hebrew at the ceremony. But he was never happy. He searched for peace in every…

Because for a week or two Walter will be unable to go out and about to collect topical material, we have decided to bring you the most confrontational interview that has arguably ever been heard on Israel National Radio. It is Walter in conversation with the Episcopalian Bishop of Jerusalem, Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal, the third Arab…

NATO on Friday accused Russia of complicating the search for a solution to the Syrian conflict by bombing moderate opposition groups battling President Bashar Al-Assad. “Moscow’s challenge to the international rules-based order now extends to Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean,” NATO deputy secretary general Alexander Vershbow said at an annual conference in Krakow, Poland. “As…

A Jewish man was lightly wounded in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday evening when an argument between Jews and Arabs escalated into a physical fight. The victim, a 21-year-old, made it to the Western Wall plaza and from there was evacuated to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital with injuries to the head. Police arrested one…

NATO on Friday accused Russia of complicating the search for a solution to the Syrian conflict by bombing moderate opposition groups battling President Bashar Al-Assad. “Moscow’s challenge to the international rules-based order now extends to Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean,” NATO deputy secretary general Alexander Vershbow said at an annual conference in Krakow, Poland. “As…

A new initiative has reportedly been agreed upon by leaders of the parties classified as “centrist” and “right-wing,” according to which they will not recommend Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister in the next elections, thereby denying him the chance to form the government. The initiative, revealed by Channel 2 late Thursday, comes after Netanyahu’s erstwhile ally Yisrael Beytenu head MK Avigdor…

Just over a year-and-a-half has passed since Israel’s government agreed to a ceasefire with the Hamas terrorist organization in August 2014, ending Operation Protective Edge, but new Israeli assessments indicate Hamas has already fully restocked its missile arsenal. The appraisal, reported by Walla on Friday, notes that most of the missiles that bring Hamas back to the amount…

The two Arabs who were arrested on Wednesday night adjacent to the northern neighborhood of the town of Yitzhar in Samaria – at roughly the same time as a stabbing attack took place nearby in Har Bracha – were released just several hours later. At around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday the military observation post in Yitzhar identified…

A German court on Friday convicted an Islamic State (ISIS) “storm trooper” who helped track down deserters for the jihadist group in Syria, sentencing him to 4.5 years in prison. Nils Donath, a 25-year-old German national, had traveled to Syria in October 2013 to join the jihadist group which controls a large swathe of Syria and Iraq. Prosecutors, who had sought a sentence of…

Hezbollah sources cited in a unique speak peak into the Lebanese Iran-proxy terror group claim that they have gained powerful weapons and experience from the Syrian civil war, which will allow them to invade Israel in their third war against the Jewish state. The Foreign Policy article Thursday, entitled “Hezbollah’s Death Valley,” spoke about Hezbollah’s involvement in…

Three men aged in their 40s were moderately injured in two separate paragliding accidents that took place Friday morning, all in Israel’s south. Two of the gliders crashed into a water reserve adjacent to Kibbutz Revadim, located to the east of Ashdod. Forces from the 669 rescue unit of the Israeli Air Force were called…

Three men aged in their 40s were moderately injured in two separate paragliding accidents that took place Friday morning, all in Israel’s south. Two of the gliders crashed into a water reserve adjacent to Kibbutz Revadim, located to the east of Ashdod. Forces from the 669 rescue unit of the Israeli Air Force were called…

Warplanes struck a key rebel bastion east of the Syrian capital on Friday for the first time since a fragile truce began over the weekend, a monitor said. “Two air strikes hit the edge of the town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta and one person was killed,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. He said the…

Hezbollah sources cited in a unique speak peak into the Lebanese Iran-proxy terror group claim that they have gained powerful weapons and experience from the Syrian civil war, which will allow them to invade Israel in their third war against the Jewish state. The Foreign Policy article Thursday, entitled “Hezbollah’s Death Valley,” spoke about Hezbollah’s involvement in…

Israeli officials believe that the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group has 100 activists in Israel, a year and a half since the group announced the establishment of a “caliphate” in parts of Syria and Iraq it captured. Channel 10 News reported on Thursday that according to statistics, about 34 indictments have been filed against Israeli…

The Lebanon-based Hezbollah group on Thursday blasted a decision by Gulf monarchies to classify it as a “terror” organization for its role in regional conflicts, AFP reports. “The decision by the Gulf Cooperation Council to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization is irresponsible and hostile and the Saudi regime must face the consequences,” Hezbollah lawmaker…

The United States delivered eight Black Hawk helicopters to Jordan on Thursday to help its regional ally defend itself against the threat of Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, Jordanian and U.S. officials said, according to Reuters. They said another eight Black Hawks would begin arriving next year under a military aid deal worth about $200 million.…

The Pentagon on Thursday downplayed the risk from North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un said the country’s nuclear weapons must be ready for pre-emptive use at “anytime” “The U.S. government assessment has not changed,” a defense official told the news agency. “We have not seen North Korea test or demonstrate…

Israel’s Ambassador to Egypt, Haim Koren, on Thursday addressed the recent goings on in Egypt, where a parliamentarian was sacked from the legislature after meeting Koren last week. Speaking to BBC Arabic, Koren said the incident would not affect Israel-Egypt relations. “The move is contrary to the relations between the two countries,but this is an…

A new report by an official committee of the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) shows how the church is actively promoting the BDS movement seeking to economically cripple Israel, and downplaying Palestinian Arab terrorism at the same time. The report, “Israel-Palestine: For Human Values in the Absence of a Just Peace,” was released by the church’s…

An IDF soldier was lightly wounded on Friday morning in a car ramming attack at Gush Etzion Junction in Judea, a site of frequent attacks in recent months. Large forces were dispatched to the area. The attack was conducted by a female Arab terrorist, who was shot and killed as she conducted her attack. A search of her…

Ezra Yakhin, now 88 years old, was a legendary fighter for the Lehi Underground (“Lohamei Herut Yisrael” – Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) that fought the British Empire during the 1940s to liberate the land of Israel. In the midst of an Arab terror wave gripping Israel since last September, Yakhin spoke to Arutz Sheva about how he knew from his…

A full 467 out of the 595 Egyptian members of parliament voted on Wednesday to dismiss MP Tawfik Okasha, who was ousted for the “crime” of meeting with Israel’s ambassador to the Nile state, again raising doubts about the 1979 peace treaty. Okasha even had a shoe thrown at his head by another MP in a…

In recent weeks there have been reports worldwide regarding cyber-attacks by a “ransom” software program. On Thursday it was revealed that dozens of Israeli governmental agencies, including four hospitals were hacked. The government has stated that no piece of information has been lost and that employees have been instructed on how to deal with the cyber-attacks. The “ransom” occurs when…

The classic and demonic core theme of anti-Semitism, propagated over many centuries, is that Jews embody absolute evil. This outrageous lie and its principal sub-motifs have remained largely the same over the centuries, but the perception of what constitutes absolute evil has changed, depending on the prevailing worldview. In Christian anti-Semitism, the most evil act…

The crucial condition for success in psychological operations (known today as PSYOP), especially in a conflict where the parties involved belong to different cultural spheres, is an intimate knowledge of the enemy culture. The essence of PSYOP is to identify a target audience, select a convincing message, and deliver it effectively in order to support…

We approach the upcoming days of awe with anticipation mixed with fear and trembling, as we perceive them to be the time of judgment and repentance.  The Mishna describes the day of Rosh Hashana as the “Day of Judgment” of the whole world, since this day does not actually commemorate the birth of the world, but rather…

Dozens of Republican foreign policy experts signed an open letter Wednesday in which they declared that they “are unable to support a Party ticket with Mr. (Donald) Trump at its head.” The letter, which was published by War on the Rocks, a defense and foreign policy website, was initiated by Eliot Cohen, a former top State…

The West has been blindsided by second wave Marxism – in which the central stream is the movement popularly referred to as radical feminism, but which I prefer to call genderism. It is the genderist political machine that creates feminist ideology-for-the-masses, throughout the West. Attempts to point to a connection between Marxism and genderism are…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday ordered his country to be ready to use nuclear weapons “at any time” in the face of a growing threat from enemies, Reuters reported, citing official North Korea media. The dictator’s directives came as he supervised the exercise of newly developed multiple rocket launchers. Kim also said…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is boasting over the “achievements” of the current terror wave, which Palestinian Arab terrorist groups have named the “Al-Quds Intifada”. The Gaza-based Al-Quds Center on Thursday published statistics regarding the wave of terrorism against Israel for the month of February 2016. According to the Arab organization, during the month of February…

Arizona Senator John McCain on Thursday backed former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who had earlier blasted Donald Trump, describing him as “a phony, a fraud” whose “promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.” In a statement released shortly after Romney’s remarks, McCain said, “I share the concerns about Donald Trump that…

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and current Rep. Alan Grayson has endorsed Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Grayson, who represents Florida’s 9th district, made the announcement earlier this week, right before Super Tuesday. With the announcement he became the first Jewish American lawmaker to back Sanders. Grayson had, for months, been coy about choosing officially between Sanders…

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron on Thursday threatened the UK, saying that if Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU), France will end UK border controls in Calais allowing migrants to flood in. “The day this relationship unravels, migrants will no longer be in Calais,” warned Macron in an interview with the Financial Times. Currently…

Ahead of his speech at the University of Utah on Thursday, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney verbally lashed out at Republican candidate Donald Trump, in a plea for fellow Republicans to shun the business mogul. The former Massachusetts governor branded Trump as “a phony, a fraud” whose “promises are as worthless as a degree from…

Seven years into Barack Obama’s presidency, Israeli website Mida decided to check whether the Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s isolationist approach has brought about a decrease in global war deaths. It turned out that the opposite is true. Mida editor-in-chief Akiva Bigman perused the database of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in…

New York Assemblymen Brian Curran (R-Lynbrook) and Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) recently held a press conference with education activists to discuss their new bill banning anti-Semitic textbooks in the state. The bill prohibits textbooks and materials that redefine the roles of Jews as well as Christians, African Americans and other racial groups in American history. In order to…

Bet El’s Pre-IDF Preparatory Academy has announced its first annual bike trek: the Israel Cadet Trek 2016. The Bike Trek, open to overseas visitors, is slated for May 23-25. The Pre-IDF Preparatory Academy is a private institution providing incoming soldiers from disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds with a meaningful year of intensive training prior to their three-year service…

A synagogue in the Italian town of Biella stores what has been identified as the world’s oldest Torah scroll still currently in use. Carbon-14 dating conducted by the Geo-chronology laboratory of the University of Illinois dated the scroll to around the year 1250 CE. “This is exciting news that is of extraordinary importance for Italian…

The latest video released by nationalist NGO Ad Kan features hidden camera footage that outlines a sophisticated method used by what Ad Kan calls “anti-Israeli organizations” for taking over state land. The footage was shot by the group’s activists who infiltrated the ultra-leftist groups that operate in Judea and Samaria over a three year period. The land involved…

Three IDF combat soldiers in their mandatory military service were arrested at the start of the week by the Judea-Samaria district police’s nationalistic crime division on suspicions of having struck an Arab. However, the three were kept in jail by police even though they denied any connection to the event, provided an alternate version, and…

Ministerial Committee on Legislation will discuss this upcoming Sunday a bill that seeks to ban the use of public loudspeaker systems in houses of prayer, which may put an end to the raucous Muslim call to prayer sounded in the middle of the night. Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer, Attroney Eli Becker and Dr. Amir Fuchs of the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)…

It’s “Israel Apartheid Week” at college campuses around the world as BDS activists organize displays, activities, and teach-ins to delegitimize Israel. At Columbia University, Apartheid Week organizers even managed to have the opposition banned. The opposition in this case are pro-Israel students looking to give their peers on campus the other side of the story.…

The Obama administration reacted with concern to reports that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is looking to deport family members of terrorists involved in attacks on Israel, removing them from Judea and Samaria and sending them to the Gaza Strip. State Department spokesperson Mark Toner responded to questions during a daily press briefing on Wednesday,…

Yisrael Beitenu chief Avigdor Lieberman condemned the government’s decision to return the bodies of two terrorists less than a day after their attack in the town of Eli, citing it as the latest example of the coalition’s inability to respond to terror. Writing on Facebook on Thursday, Lieberman noted the sudden surge in terror attacks…

Two Arab-Israeli youths from Nazareth and nearby Yafi’a in northern Israel have been indicted Thursday on suspicion of plotting terror attacks on behalf of ISIS. Baha Al-Din Masuara, 19, and Ahmed Nabil Ahmed, 21, have been indicted on charged including providing support to an enemy during a time of war, making contact with a foreign agent, and…

(AFP) Moscow investigators said Thursday that a nanny accused of decapitating a child has been diagnosed schizophrenic, as footage emerged of her apparently linking the killing to Russia’s bombing in Syria.   Suspect Gyulchekhra Bobokulova from Muslim-majority Uzbekistan – whom the press have dubbed “the bloody nanny” – was detained on Monday as she was waving the…

MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint List), the outspoken anti-Israel representative of the Arab nationalist Balad faction of the Joint List Party, is in Washington DC today, and State Department representatives are conspicuously mum about who she’s been meeting with. Zoabi visited the Arab Center Washington DC, a pro-PA political think tank this week. The rest of…

International supermodel Naomi Campbell will be arriving in Israel for the first time next week, to take part in a special International Women’s Day event at the invitation of former Israeli President Shimon Peres. Campbell and Peres will join other notables including Larry King and Niv Jacobi for the Women Leading Change conference next Tuesday, March 8, at…

Lights are out across war-torn Syria on Thursday, after the country’s power grid suddenly went offline, resulting in a nationwide power cut. Syrian state television reported that the cause of the shutdown was not immediately known. “Electricity has been cut across all provinces and teams are trying to determine the reason for this unexpected cut,”…

Twenty-four civilians have been killed in the first five days of a landmark truce in parts of Syria, a sharp drop for a war where dozens die daily, a monitor said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP that the number, gathered from areas where the ceasefire had come into effect, included five women and six children. “Compare that number…

Jihadists fighting in the name of the Islamic State group (ISIS or IS) are escalating attacks in the southern Philippines, analysts said, deepening fears for the volatile region after its main Muslim rebel group failed to seal a peace pact. Gunmen who have pledged allegiance to the jihadists controlling vast swathes of Iraq and Syria…

A bipartisan coalition of 14 congressional lawmakers have cosponsored a bill intended to rectify the losses suffered by Jewish refugees who fled their homes across the Middle East following the establishment of the State of Israel. According to a statement released on Wednesday by the office of New York Democratic congressman Eliot Engel, the Displaced…

The United Nations on Wednesday adopted the toughest sanctions to date on North Korea, in response to its fourth nuclear test and rocket launch, AFP reported. The Security Council unanimously passed a resolution imposing new sanctions after seven weeks of arduous negotiations between the United States and China, Pyongyang’s sole ally. Among the unprecedented measures…

Egypt’s parliament on Wednesday dismissed one of its members who held talks with Israel’s envoy to Cairo during a dinner at his home, the assembly said. Tawfik Okasha hosted Israeli ambassador Haim Koren last week, sparking outrage in parliament where one lawmaker hit him with a shoe — an insult in the Arab world. Okasha…

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State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Wednesday said that Washington was aware of reports that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons in attacks that took place since the beginning of a ceasefire agreement several days ago, reported The Washington Free Beacon. “We’re aware of their reports, we obviously can’t confirm them at this time,”…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday reiterated his opposition to recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, and also referred to the current terror wave as a “legitimate peaceful protest”. He made the comments at the start of a meeting of the Revolutionary Council of his Fatah organization, attended by members of the Fatah…

Egypt’s soccer association has turned down a proposal that it play Israel’s national team in a friendly match, Haaretz reported on Wednesday. According to the newspaper, the game was proposed by the Israeli Football Association (IFA) earlier this week, after Egyptian lawmaker Tawfik Okasha had a shoe thrown at him in parliament for inviting the…

A 43-year-old police officer in the Jordan Valley was stabbed Thursday morning by a 14-year-old female terrorist. He was lightly wounded in his shoulder and has been taken to Haemek Hospital in Afula for treatment. The female terrorist, a resident of the Arab village of Ujah where the attack occurred, has been arrested. The officer…

Motti Yogev, (Jewish Home) is optimistic that his proposed bill banning the use of loudspeakers in houses of worship will win coalition support and pass into law. Meant to end the loud Muslim call to prayer blasted five times a day over loudspeakers from mosques across the country, the law allows exemptions to be issued…

American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) has received a donation of $25 million, the largest single gift the emergency services provider has ever received, according to JTA. The Atlanta-based Marcus Foundation donated the money to build a new blood services center in Ramla that will be better protected against enemy attacks than the current blood center…

  Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz repeated his pledges to stand by Israel and to tear up the Iranian nuclear deal in his speech to supporters after the slew of Super Tuesday primaries. It seemed that these pledges drew some of the loudest cheers of the speech, from the crowd of supporters gathered at the Redneck…

Gulchekhra Bobokulova, a 38-year-old nanny with three sons of her own, has admitted to brutally murdering a child she was caring for. Appearing in court today, she said that “Allah ordered” her to commit her crime, International Business Times reports. Prosecutors argued that Bobokulova was “incited” before she murdered the child, though police say that…

Israel has returned the bodies of the two Palestinian Arab terrorists who were killed after carrying out Wednesday morning’s terrorist attack in the community of Eli in the Binyamin region, Kol Yisrael radio reported. The two terrorists are both 17-year-old and are from the Arab town of Karyut. One of them is identified with Hamas, and…

On the previous episode of Aliyah Time the team discussed the European Commissioners plea for Jews to remain in Europe, even saying that there is no Europe without Jews. That was too much of a gauntlet to resists, as the Aliyah Team responded by saying that there is no Israel without Jews. This show looks at…

There are basically fours mitzvot we have to do on Purim. What are they, why are they Purim mitzvot, and what are we supposed to get from them? This is the next installment of this series on Purim, followed by a short discussion about the concept of tzedakah, that is, charity, and what it does for…

Terrorists opened fire on Wednesday night towards a police car at the Rechelim junction, near the city of Ariel in Samaria. There were no injuries but the vehicle sustained damage from the bullets. Police and IDF forces are searching the area in an attempt to locate the terrorists. The attempted shooting attack comes hours after…