Articles by: JewishNews-Aryeh

Obama calls for halt to new construction, militarization in Asian waters

Obama calls for halt to new construction, militarization in Asian waters

  President Barack Obama called Tuesday for a halt to any new construction or militarization of Asia’s oceans and reaffirmed the U.S. right to operate… Read More ›

Ohio diner owned by Arab-Israeli reopens after machete attack

Ohio diner owned by Arab-Israeli reopens after machete attack

Defiant Hany Baransi declares: ‘We Israelis are used to this… people attacking us and wanting to kill us’   An Ohio restaurant owned by an… Read More ›

Israeli group accuses US of labeling settlement products

Israeli group accuses US of labeling settlement products

Report says 1995 law, which originally referred to Palestinian-made goods, extended to include Israelis in West Bank   An Israeli television report on Tuesday night… Read More ›

Boycott supporters cry foul over UK anti-BDS proposal

Boycott supporters cry foul over UK anti-BDS proposal

Critics characterize planned bill as ‘an unethical attack on local democracy’ as battle lines drawn on legislation against BDS   The British government’s reported plan… Read More ›

Eagles of Death Metal perform in Paris for attack survivors

Eagles of Death Metal perform in Paris for attack survivors

Three months after Bataclan killings, US band members met with deafening cheers. ‘Ain’t nobody going to stop us’   PARIS, France (AFP) — In a… Read More ›

Netanyahu defends natural gas plan at Supreme Court

Netanyahu defends natural gas plan at Supreme Court

Prime minister appears in court in unprecedented move, saying Israel had to act on its gas fields now, and arguing that ‘any further delay could… Read More ›

Six killed, 10 injured in bus accident on Highway 1

Six killed, 10 injured in bus accident on Highway 1

Bus 402 from Jerusalem to Bnei Brak collides with truck at Latrun Interchange; children among the fatalities. Six people, including children, were killed and 10… Read More ›

Bennett: Give Palestinians ‘autonomy on steroids’

Bennett: Give Palestinians ‘autonomy on steroids’

Slew of politicians visit Ynet’s new studio for its debut broadcast; Tibi: ‘Holding onto bodies amounts to necrophilia’; Lieberman: ‘Gov’t has no clear policies’; Lapid:… Read More ›

Shultz warns of religious war led by Islamic State, Iran

Shultz warns of religious war led by Islamic State, Iran

“You can’t tear religion and war apart from each other, and now with ISIS and I might say Iran, war has a religious background to… Read More ›

Border Police kill two armed terrorists at Damascus Gate

Border Police kill two armed terrorists at Damascus Gate

Two terrorists were shot and subdued by security forces at the scene.   Police killed two Palesitinian terrorists late Sunday night who opened fire on… Read More ›

Last vestiges of Syrian Jewry clinging to community

Last vestiges of Syrian Jewry clinging to community

Expert: As long as Assad controls Damascus, their lives will remain protected.   Israeli experts and an activist in contact with the remaining Jews in… Read More ›

Soldier who beat and electrocuted Palestinians gets 7 months prison

Soldier who beat and electrocuted Palestinians gets 7 months prison

An infantryman in the Haredi Netsah Yehuda battalion is convicted of beating and abusing Palestinian detainees on 2 occasions; he also filmed on of the… Read More ›

Erdogan threatens to ship Syrian refugees to Europe

Erdogan threatens to ship Syrian refugees to Europe

In a speech in Ankara, the Turkish president said ‘the word idiot is not etched on our forehead. Do not believe that the airplanes and… Read More ›

Condemnation, not censorship

Condemnation, not censorship

Op-ed: The Arab MKs who visited terrorists’ families were voted in legally, entitling them to the protection enjoyed by all public representatives; the true test… Read More ›

UK envoy: British-Israel relationship ‘probably stronger and deeper than ever’

UK envoy: British-Israel relationship ‘probably stronger and deeper than ever’

Beyond economic, scientific and technological cooperation, British Ambassador David Quarrey said it is important that the UK and Israel “work together on the big security… Read More ›

Police look to appoint first Muslim deputy commissioner

Police look to appoint first Muslim deputy commissioner

Deputy commissioner is the second-highest rank in the Israel Police, and is typically held by a district commander or head of a police branch.  … Read More ›

US, Russia agree to ‘cessation of hostilities’ in Syria

US, Russia agree to ‘cessation of hostilities’ in Syria

The parties also agreed on ways to accelerate the delivery of humanitarian aid to regions of the country that have gone without for months.  … Read More ›

Conservative movement publishes egalitarian and LGBT-friendly siddur

Conservative movement publishes egalitarian and LGBT-friendly siddur

The Siddur Lev Shalem is “both more traditional and contemporary” in several ways, senior editor Rabbi Ed Feld told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.  … Read More ›

Obama launches cyber-security ‘national action plan’

Obama launches cyber-security ‘national action plan’

Move comes in response to epidemic of data breaches and cyber attacks on government, private networks   WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President Barack Obama on… Read More ›

The head of trading at Morgan Stanley just confirmed Wall Street’s worst fear

The head of trading at Morgan Stanley just confirmed Wall Street’s worst fear

  Ted Pick, the global head of sales and trading at Morgan Stanley, just confirmed Wall Street’s worst fear: It has been a horrible first… Read More ›