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Lod, Israel – For Attempted Lynch Of Jewish Motorist Taibe Man Indicted

Lod, Israel – For Attempted Lynch Of Jewish Motorist Taibe Man Indicted

Lod, Israel –  After the attempted lynching of a Jewish motorist, less than a month ago, in Taibe, the Lod District Court on Thursday indicted… Read More ›

Jerusalem – “I Am At The Start Of A Fight For Our Life” Livni Says On Threshold Of Election Campaign

Jerusalem – “I Am At The Start Of A Fight For Our Life” Livni Says On Threshold Of Election Campaign

Jerusalem – Former justice minister Tzipi Livni, in a farewell ceremony to the workers of the ministry after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired her earlier… Read More ›

Israel -Security Official States Palestinians Inciting Terror To Influence Israeli Politics

Israel -Security Official States Palestinians Inciting Terror To Influence Israeli Politics

Israel –  Security forces are concerned about an upswing in attempts to carry out terrorist attacks in order to influence domestic affairs in Israel, amid… Read More ›

Paris-  Attack Highlights Anti-Semitism Concerns With French Jews

Paris- Attack Highlights Anti-Semitism Concerns With French Jews

Paris -An attack on a French couple is reviving worries about long-simmering anti-Semitic sentiment in France. Assailants this week forced their way into an apartment… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Strike Averted! Israel Union, Employers Agree To Minimum Wage Hike

Tel Aviv – Strike Averted! Israel Union, Employers Agree To Minimum Wage Hike

Tel Aviv – Israel’s main labour union signed an agreement with private- sector employers to raise the minimum wage, averting a general strike slated for… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Charedi Extremists Attack Rabbi Police Officer In Mea Shearim Synagogue

Jerusalem – Charedi Extremists Attack Rabbi Police Officer In Mea Shearim Synagogue

Jerusalem – Jewish extremists attacked a police officer in uniform who entered a synagogue to pray in the Mea Shearim neighborhood  on Thursday. The officer did… Read More ›

Newark, NJ – Man Acquitted Of Stabbing Jewish Man In Crown Heights Riots Now Charged With DWI

Newark, NJ – Man Acquitted Of Stabbing Jewish Man In Crown Heights Riots Now Charged With DWI

Newark, NJ -After being found passed out with a bottle of scotch in his car near Newark Airport. Lemrick Nelson Jr. – known for stabbing… Read More ›

Washington – Congress OKs Bill Although Watered Down On US-Israel Ties

Washington – Congress OKs Bill Although Watered Down On US-Israel Ties

Washington -On Wednesday, congress approved legislation deepening U.S.-Israeli cooperation after softening a push to grant Israelis visa-free travel rights to the United States even as… Read More ›

Israel – Political Turmoil Disrupts Visit By New York Legislators

Israel – Political Turmoil Disrupts Visit By New York Legislators

Israel – What most surprised a 12-member delegation of New York State legislators, touring Israel on a behind-the-headlines trip under the auspices of the New… Read More ›

London – Israeli Chocolate, Zaatar Truffle, Takes Gold At International Competition

London – Israeli Chocolate, Zaatar Truffle, Takes Gold At International Competition

London – You sprinkle it on pita, humous and pizza, but would you ever try zaatar with your chocolate? One Israeli company has taken that unlikely… Read More ›

Paris – Frenchman Jailed For Five Years For Hit-And-Run Killing In Israe

Paris – Frenchman Jailed For Five Years For Hit-And-Run Killing In Israe

Paris – A French national was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in jail for killing an Israeli woman while driving in Tel Aviv in… Read More ›

New York – The Jewish Daily Forward Profiles Rabbi Twersky’s Inner Dealings New Square Enclave

New York – The Jewish Daily Forward Profiles Rabbi Twersky’s Inner Dealings New Square Enclave

New York – The Jewish Daily Forward profiles Skverer Rebbe, Rabbi David Twersky and the secretive dealings and goings-on in his New Square enclave and… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Ex-Netanyahu Ally, Moshe Kahlon, Looks To Be Israeli Kingmaker

Jerusalem – Ex-Netanyahu Ally, Moshe Kahlon, Looks To Be Israeli Kingmaker

Jerusalem – Even before Israel’s hastily called election campaign kicks into gear, a former ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is shaping up to be… Read More ›

Brussels – Belgium Works To Recognize Palestinian State

Brussels – Belgium Works To Recognize Palestinian State

Brussels – Although any timing to proceed will depend on European Union action, Belgian legislators are working on a resolution to recognize a Palestinian state… Read More ›

Bethoncourt, France – Young Girls Targeted By Jihadists In Europe For Recruitment To Attack Jews

Bethoncourt, France – Young Girls Targeted By Jihadists In Europe For Recruitment To Attack Jews

Bethoncourt, France – There is an increase in adolescent girls joining Islamic jihadists after being lured by Internet recruiters, European government officials say. The New… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Palestinia Attacker Shot By Guard After Stabbing 2 In Israeli Supermarket

Jerusalem – Palestinia Attacker Shot By Guard After Stabbing 2 In Israeli Supermarket

Jerusalem -A private security guard shot a Palestinian in a supermarket in the West Bank after he stabbed two Israelis, Israeli police said. Police spokeswoman… Read More ›

United Nations -Israel Calls Iran Seeking Key UN Post ‘Absurd’

United Nations -Israel Calls Iran Seeking Key UN Post ‘Absurd’

United Nations – In a move that Israel on Tuesday compared to gangster Al Capone running the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Iran is seeking… Read More ›

Amman – Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Smuggling Weapons Into Israel

Amman – Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Smuggling Weapons Into Israel

Amman – Arab media reports that the Jordanian government arrested 21 Muslim Brotherhood members for smuggling weapons and money into the West Bank. The Brotherhood… Read More ›

Jerusaem –  Without Presence Of Rabbinical Judges Lipman Calls For Women Converts To Be Able To Immerse

Jerusaem – Without Presence Of Rabbinical Judges Lipman Calls For Women Converts To Be Able To Immerse

Jerusalem – Yesh Atid MK Rabbi Dov Lipman on Tuesday called on the Ministry of Religious Services to allow women converting to Judaism to be… Read More ›

Bigger Message Needed By Israel

Bigger Message Needed By Israel

I’m repulsed by these anti-Israel groups on college campuses that pretend to care about oppressed people in the Middle East. They don’t. What they really… Read More ›