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English-language Memorial Day ceremony helps a community mourn

English-language Memorial Day ceremony helps a community mourn

More than 15,000 people tune in to a livestream of event held by Jerusalem’s Lone Soldier Center, in memory of Michael Levin   When I… Read More ›

Miami – Staunch Israel Supporter Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, 1st Cuban-American In Congress, To Retire

Miami – Staunch Israel Supporter Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, 1st Cuban-American In Congress, To Retire

  Miami –  U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the first Cuban-American elected to Congress, is retiring at the end of her term next year,… Read More ›

Israeli Politicians Pan Liberman for Provoking North Korea

Israeli Politicians Pan Liberman for Provoking North Korea

“Mr. defense minister, we already have enough enemies surrounding us, so let’s focus on the them,” says Zionist Union MK Shelly Yacimovich after Liberman calls… Read More ›

Netanyahu Slams German FM for Insulting Victims of Holocaust

Netanyahu Slams German FM for Insulting Victims of Holocaust

“I don’t welcome diplomats from other countries who visit Israel and at the same time meet organizations that call our soldiers war criminals,” Netanyahu said… Read More ›

Le Pen’s party in new turmoil over alleged Holocaust denial

Le Pen’s party in new turmoil over alleged Holocaust denial

In France’s presidential race, anti-Semitism occupies center stage in the bitter campaign between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, with the latter visiting a site… Read More ›

All 100 US senators to UN: End ‘unacceptable’ anti-Israel bias

All 100 US senators to UN: End ‘unacceptable’ anti-Israel bias

Letter to António Guterres, with unanimous Senate support, demands wide-ranging reforms of international body   All 100 US senators signed a letter to United Nations… Read More ›

Trump Considering Israel Visit, White House Official Confirms

Trump Considering Israel Visit, White House Official Confirms

“We are exploring the possibility of a future visit to Israel as well as other countries.”   US President Donald Trump is considering a visit… Read More ›

EU-Israel relations: Trojan horses, snakes, ladders and boycotts

EU-Israel relations: Trojan horses, snakes, ladders and boycotts

Op-ed: Why the European Parliament, and other EU institutions, need to take a strong position on the movement calling for a boycott of the State… Read More ›

Hamas says it won’t be cowed by Abbas’s threats

Hamas says it won’t be cowed by Abbas’s threats

Terror group’s No. 2 in the Gaza Strip says PA president will fail to ‘make Gaza kneel’ if he goes through with drastic funding cuts… Read More ›

Trump’s Visa Policy May Harm Israeli Hi-Tech Innovators

Trump’s Visa Policy May Harm Israeli Hi-Tech Innovators

Last Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order to evaluate the H-1B visa program, which enables skilled foreign workers with a “specialty occupation” to work temporarily… Read More ›

Israel’s poisonous political discourse

Israel’s poisonous political discourse

Op-ed: One of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s great ‘contributions’ to the Israeli discourse is turning the definition of ‘left’ into a curse, an accusation and a… Read More ›

After meeting German FM, B’Tselem calls on world to punish Israel

After meeting German FM, B’Tselem calls on world to punish Israel

Netanyahu defends decision to snub Berlin’s top diplomat Sigmar Gabriel over his meetings with leftwing advocacy groups   German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel met with… Read More ›

‘I am a Muslim Arab and an Israeli Zionist, and I love the Jewish people’

‘I am a Muslim Arab and an Israeli Zionist, and I love the Jewish people’

One of the most patriotic families in Israel lives just a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip. The father—a former Gazan—wears a medallion with the… Read More ›

‘Auschwitz Hero’ Survived Shoah so Grandsons Could be ‘Heroes in Israel’

‘Auschwitz Hero’ Survived Shoah so Grandsons Could be ‘Heroes in Israel’

“Our grandmother always said she beat Mengele during the Holocaust,” says IDF Lt. -Col.   Holocaust Remembrance Day holds special meaning for Shimon and Yair… Read More ›

JCC bomb hoaxer charged with vast list of offenses, including threats to execute children, blow up planes

JCC bomb hoaxer charged with vast list of offenses, including threats to execute children, blow up planes

US-Israeli teen hacker accused in Israeli court of making over 2,000 intimidating calls to Jewish institutions, malls, schools, airlines and police in US and worldwide;… Read More ›

Ukrainian PM to Visit Israel as Anger Over Anti-Settlement UN Resolution Subsides

Ukrainian PM to Visit Israel as Anger Over Anti-Settlement UN Resolution Subsides

One diplomatic official said that Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman’s rescheduled visit is a clear sign that relations with Ukraine have returned to normal.   Prime… Read More ›

PM hosts Holocaust survivors who will light memorial torches

PM hosts Holocaust survivors who will light memorial torches

Benjamin Netanyahu receives the six survivors who will light the ceremonial torches in memory of the six million Jews murdered on Holocaust Memorial Day. ‘You… Read More ›

Texas House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Anti-BDS Bill

Texas House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Anti-BDS Bill

  In a groundbreaking legislative act to blunt economic warfare against Israel, the Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed on Thursday an anti-boycott bill that… Read More ›

Auschwitz survivor recounts her harrowing story to Israeli president

Auschwitz survivor recounts her harrowing story to Israeli president

‘We kept walking. After a few moments, we heard the shots’—a survivor of the Auschwitz extermination camp, who lost her entire family in the Holocaust… Read More ›

French Jews put off by Le Pen now worry about another presidential candidate

French Jews put off by Le Pen now worry about another presidential candidate

Rise of communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, an anti-Israel lawmaker, has Jewish community caught between two extremes   Even before the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon emerged… Read More ›