Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

Lone soldiers on the home front: The tank crewman from New Jersey

Lone soldiers on the home front: The tank crewman from New Jersey

Around 3,300 lone soldiers from abroad currently serve in the IDF. Most haven’t seen their families in months. Shortly ahead of Independence Day, Yedioth Ahronoth… Read More ›

Sharp drop in granting of citizenship to J’lem Arabs

Sharp drop in granting of citizenship to J’lem Arabs

Over the past decade, 2,641 of the 7,168 applications were approved, for an acceptance rate of 36.8 percent. By contrast, in 2015 the acceptance rate… Read More ›

Middle Israel: The seventh day

Middle Israel: The seventh day

As it enters its 50th anniversary year, the Six Day War looms, for better and worse, as the most pivotal moment in the state’s history.… Read More ›

Does Liberman have his eye on Netanyahu’s throne?

Does Liberman have his eye on Netanyahu’s throne?

Avigdor Liberman as Defense Minister is likely to be less impetuous than Liberman in opposition.   As far as he is concerned, the appointment of the… Read More ›

Brazilian teen speaks out about brutal gang rape

Brazilian teen speaks out about brutal gang rape

Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian teenage girl who says she was brutally gang raped in a Rio de Janeiro slum is speaking out about… Read More ›

WHO revises sex guidelines for Zika prevention

WHO revises sex guidelines for Zika prevention

  If you’ve traveled to any country with a current outbreak of Zika, you should wait a full eight weeks to have unprotected sex or… Read More ›

Kristol’s white knight: David French

Kristol’s white knight: David French

  Washington – Bill Kristol’s white knight independent presidential candidate is a fellow conservative writer with no national name recognition: David French. Kristol, the editor… Read More ›

Doctors: Postpone or move Olympics due to Zika

Doctors: Postpone or move Olympics due to Zika

The summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro should be postponed or moved “in the name of public health” due to the widening Zika outbreak… Read More ›

Pakistani men can beat wives ‘lightly,’ Islamic council says

Pakistani men can beat wives ‘lightly,’ Islamic council says

  The leader of a Pakistani Islamic council has proposed a bill that allows husbands to “lightly beat” their wives as a form of discipline.… Read More ›

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns he’ll retaliate against NATO missiles

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns he’ll retaliate against NATO missiles

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will retaliate against the placement of U.S. missiles in nearby countries such as Romania, according to Russia’s state-run… Read More ›

On Syrian border, new IDF unit will work with Syrian civilians

On Syrian border, new IDF unit will work with Syrian civilians

New liaison unit will help coordinate medical aid, dialogue in war-torn areas where Syrian regime holds no sway   The IDF is establishing a special… Read More ›

Bennett says he won’t blink first in cabinet row with Netanyahu

Bennett says he won’t blink first in cabinet row with Netanyahu

Jewish Home demands reform of security cabinet as condition for supporting Liberman as defense minister; Likud pans move as ‘political suicide’   Jewish Home party… Read More ›

Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker

Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker

Op-Ed: The administration keeps mum as Tehran elevates a ‘Death to America’-spouting radical, but speaks out as peace-promising Liberman joins Israel’s coalition. Go figure  … Read More ›

UN chief said planning final visit to Israel, Palestinian Authority

UN chief said planning final visit to Israel, Palestinian Authority

Ban reportedly plotting late June tour of region; UN envoy says ‘radically more’ must be done to address Gaza plight   Outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban… Read More ›

US: Addition of Liberman to coalition ‘raises questions’

US: Addition of Liberman to coalition ‘raises questions’

State Department says it has ‘legitimate’ concerns about what deal with hardliner means for government commitment to two-state solution   The United States said Wednesday… Read More ›

Netanyahu, Herzog bury hatchet for a day to celebrate US Jewry

Netanyahu, Herzog bury hatchet for a day to celebrate US Jewry

As Knesset marks Jewish American Heritage Month, politicians laud historically strong relationship between communities — but some warn of growing rift   Looking tired and… Read More ›

Kahlon fails to stop rising property prices

Kahlon fails to stop rising property prices

Housing prices rose 8% compared to the previous year, and 4% compared to the year before that; Meanwhile, the number of real estate transactions is… Read More ›

Elor Azaria pleads not guilty to manslaughter charges

Elor Azaria pleads not guilty to manslaughter charges

Attorneys submit a plea against manslaughter charges following an incident in which he shot a neutralized terrorist in the head: ‘He saw an immediate and… Read More ›

Smadar Haran tells her story, brings journalists to tears

Smadar Haran tells her story, brings journalists to tears

Survior of the 1979 Nahariya terrorist attack tells her story to foreign war correspondents, who walk away in tears, shock at her lack of hate,… Read More ›

Yisrael Beytenu, Kahlon resolve ‘crisis’ in coalition talks

Yisrael Beytenu, Kahlon resolve ‘crisis’ in coalition talks

“I’ve conducted countless processes of negotiations. It takes an effort, and there are always crises and blow-ups. Don’t lose hope,” said PM Netanyahu.   Attorneys… Read More ›