World Jewish News

New Delhi – India Turns To Israel For Armed Drones As Pakistan, China Build Fleets

New Delhi – India Turns To Israel For Armed Drones As Pakistan, China Build Fleets

  New Delhi – India has accelerated plans to buy drones from Israel that can be armed, defense sources said, allowing the military to carry… Read More ›

91-year-old woman may face charges on Auschwitz actions

91-year-old woman may face charges on Auschwitz actions

Former death camp worker accused of complicity in the deaths of 260,000 Jews   BERLIN, Germany — A 91-year-old woman who worked at Auschwitz has… Read More ›

Palestinian youth killed in West Bank explosion

Palestinian youth killed in West Bank explosion

Israeli troops find teen’s body while on patrol near Hebron. Army checking whether grenade detonated in his hands   A Palestinian youth was killed in… Read More ›

Israel’s SodaStream offers to take in Syrian refugees

Israel’s SodaStream offers to take in Syrian refugees

Company boss says he can help 200 families resettle and work in Negev: ‘I refuse to stand by and observe this human tragedy unfold’  … Read More ›

Netanyahu: Putin meeting crucial to avoiding ‘misunderstandings’ at northern border

Netanyahu: Putin meeting crucial to avoiding ‘misunderstandings’ at northern border

Leaders meet on cooperation in Syria to avoid confusion and agree on protocol to allow Israeli action against Hezbollah in the Golan. Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

Ynet readers donate NIS 300,000 for boy’s bionic hands

Ynet readers donate NIS 300,000 for boy’s bionic hands

13-year-old Assaf finds hope as funds raised to allow beginning of process to give him sophisticated bionic hands – but it’s still not enough for… Read More ›

Firebomb throwers given light sentences in hopes of ‘rehabilitation’

Firebomb throwers given light sentences in hopes of ‘rehabilitation’

Jerusalem District Court judge hands down 2-5.5 year sentences for E. Jerusalem youths convicted of synagogue arson and multiple firebomb attacks; prosecutor weighing appeal. A… Read More ›

Premature detonation of grenade kills Palestinian in attempted attack on Israeli soldiers

Premature detonation of grenade kills Palestinian in attempted attack on Israeli soldiers

Muhannas Mashraka dies when a grenade intended to harm Israeli forces explodes early.   A Palestinian man was killed on Monday night when a grenade… Read More ›

‘Israel, Russia to coordinate in air, sea, and electromagnetic arena’

‘Israel, Russia to coordinate in air, sea, and electromagnetic arena’

For first time, chiefs of staff from Russia and Israel hold direct meeting.   The IDF and Russian military will set up a joint working… Read More ›

Analysis: When Jews get administrative detention

Analysis: When Jews get administrative detention

The district court ruling affirming Meir Ettinger’s detention until at least February did little to clarify the confusing legal melee   When Jews like Meir… Read More ›

Russian chief rabbi: Jews are safe here long-term

Russian chief rabbi: Jews are safe here long-term

Western sanctions over the Kremlin’s role in fomenting unrest in Ukraine, as well as declining oil revenues, have severely stressed Russia’s economy.   Russian Jewry… Read More ›

Rocket from Gaza hits open field in south; no injuries

Rocket from Gaza hits open field in south; no injuries

Sirens didn’t sound after solitary rocket strikes open field in Ashkelon region, just hours after Iron Dome batteries deployed   A rocket was fired into… Read More ›

Ramallah, West Bank – Palestinian Officers Disciplined After Video Of Beating

Ramallah, West Bank – Palestinian Officers Disciplined After Video Of Beating

Ramallah, West Bank – The Palestinian security forces disciplined eight officers on Sunday after the clubbing of a teenage boy by security forces was caught… Read More ›

Jerusalem – In Rare Move, Netanyahu To Bring Army Chiefs To Meet Putin In Moscow

Jerusalem – In Rare Move, Netanyahu To Bring Army Chiefs To Meet Putin In Moscow

  Jerusalem – IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot and Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Herzl Halevi will accompany Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a lightning trip… Read More ›

IDF dispatches Iron Dome to southern Israel

IDF dispatches Iron Dome to southern Israel

Anti-missile defense battery sent to protect Sderot, two days after rocket hit Gaza border town   The IDF on Sunday deployed Iron Dome batteries in… Read More ›

Washington scandal exposes politics behind Europe’s Jewish memorials

Washington scandal exposes politics behind Europe’s Jewish memorials

Head of commission tasked with preserving American heritage abroad comes under fire for ‘extravagant’ income   WASHINGTON (JTA) – A small government agency for preserving… Read More ›

Israeli arrested in Japan railway arson case

Israeli arrested in Japan railway arson case

Anti-nuclear activist, who is grandson of former Israeli ambassador to Japan, arrested on and admits to one of seven suspected Tokyo train arson charges. Tokyo… Read More ›

UN envoys to partake in first-ever Jewish ceremony ahead of Yom Kippur

UN envoys to partake in first-ever Jewish ceremony ahead of Yom Kippur

The Permanent Mission of Israel will be hosting the event in partnership with the Forum for Cultural Diplomacy.   NEW YORK – UN ambassadors and… Read More ›

‘Thank God we were saved. It was a miracle’

‘Thank God we were saved. It was a miracle’

A couple and their five-month-old baby emerged unscathed Sunday morning from a shower of rocks after the two vehicles in which they were driving were… Read More ›

New Jersey and Israel join in medical foods alliance

New Jersey and Israel join in medical foods alliance

Medical foods are foods that contain substantiated health-promoting or disease-preventing benefits beyond the basic delivery of nutrients.   NEW YORK – Rutgers University in New… Read More ›