Articles by: JewishNews-Aryeh

Tax reduction announced, to cost gov’t NIS 6.5 billion

Tax reduction announced, to cost gov’t NIS 6.5 billion

PM Netanyahu joins Finance Minister Kahlon in announcing 1% reduction in VAT, 1.5% decrease in business tax, marking major shift in financial policy. Prime Minister… Read More ›

Palestinian prevents lynching of 5 lost American yeshiva students in Hebron

Palestinian prevents lynching of 5 lost American yeshiva students in Hebron

Yeshiva students able to escape from the car before Palestinians torched it.   A Palestinian man saved five American yeshiva students from Brooklyn from being… Read More ›

Hundreds attend Jerusalem rally in support of capital’s LGBT community

Hundreds attend Jerusalem rally in support of capital’s LGBT community

Amid markedly heightened security, a cross-section of gay rights supporters expressed their hope that the lessons of the tragedy had been learned.   One month… Read More ›

Will demoting army’s top legal officer hurt Israel’s position at ICC?

Will demoting army’s top legal officer hurt Israel’s position at ICC?

Many think the IDF is playing with fire on the issue.   Most Israelis did not notice when the army decided to have incoming Military… Read More ›

2,191,004 students start new school year

2,191,004 students start new school year

After an Israel Teachers Association strike was averted on Monday night, the new school year was set to begin as schedule on Tuesday morning.  … Read More ›

Boko Haram gunmen on horseback kill 79 in trio of attacks, locals say

Boko Haram gunmen on horseback kill 79 in trio of attacks, locals say

  Boko Haram militants have unleashed another torrent of violence in northeast Nigeria, killing 79 people in three recent attacks there, residents and local militia… Read More ›

Ben Carson ties Donald Trump in new Iowa poll

Ben Carson ties Donald Trump in new Iowa poll

Washington – For the first time in more than a month, mogul Donald Trump is not leading the field in one of the first four nominating… Read More ›

China’s factory sector is running out of steam

China’s factory sector is running out of steam

China’s all-important manufacturing industry is running out of steam. An important gauge of factory activity, a measure of sentiment among manufacturing purchasing managers, fell to… Read More ›

Supremacist convicted of killing 3 at Kansas Jewish sites

Supremacist convicted of killing 3 at Kansas Jewish sites

Frazier Glenn Miller told jurors he’d hoped to ‘die a martyr’ when opening fire last Passover eve; could get death penalty   OLATHE, Kan. (AP)… Read More ›

Knesset speaker urges Arab leaders to visit Israel

Knesset speaker urges Arab leaders to visit Israel

Yuli Edelstein tells global conference cooperation on environmental issues would lay foundations for peace; Iran walks out on speech   Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstain called… Read More ›

Sirens blare in Gaza periphery in apparent failed rocket launch

Sirens blare in Gaza periphery in apparent failed rocket launch

Hours after West Bank firefight surrounding terror suspects’ arrest, Israelis living north of Strip are sent racing to shelters   Rocket warning sirens were heard… Read More ›

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union says it was the first US national union to endorse BDS.

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union says it was the first US national union to endorse BDS.

  A US industrial uniThe United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union voted on the resolutions on Aug. 20 during its national convention, the union… Read More ›

Washington – Obama Renames Mount McKinley As Denali On Eve Of Alaska Trip

Washington – Obama Renames Mount McKinley As Denali On Eve Of Alaska Trip

  Washington – President Barack Obama will change the name of North America’s tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House said… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Aumann Remembers Cousin Oliver Sacks

Jerusalem – Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Aumann Remembers Cousin Oliver Sacks

  Jerusalem – Two weeks ago, in the last essay Oliver Sacks ever published entitled “Sabbath,” he ruminated about his tenuous relationship with Judaism and… Read More ›

Jeb Bush jabs Donald Trump as ‘not realistic’ on immigration

Jeb Bush jabs Donald Trump as ‘not realistic’ on immigration

Washington – On Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush once again went after Donald Trump head on, taking aim at the front-runner’s policy proposals for dealing… Read More ›

Footage shows Israeli soldier aggressively handling boy

Footage shows Israeli soldier aggressively handling boy

  Jerusalem – Images of an armed Israeli soldier trying to arrest an 11-year-old Palestinian boy with a broken arm in the West Bank went viral… Read More ›

Suspect in Thai blast had bomb-making material, police say

Suspect in Thai blast had bomb-making material, police say

Bangkok, Thailand – A suspect in the bombing that killed 20 people and wounded many more at a shrine in Bangkok this month had bomb-making material… Read More ›

Israel Air Force targets Hamas munitions operation in Gaza after rocket attack

Israel Air Force targets Hamas munitions operation in Gaza after rocket attack

IDF says Hamas is solely responsible for what happens in Gaza.   After a rocket landed in Israel on Thursday, the Israel Air Force responded by… Read More ›

Boy trips, punches hole in $1.5 million painting

Boy trips, punches hole in $1.5 million painting

It’s enough to cause curators to break out in cold sweats: the sight of a museum visitor tumbling right into a valuable, centuries-old painting at… Read More ›

Bush hits Trump over Univision controversy

Bush hits Trump over Univision controversy

Pensacola, Florida – Jeb Bush, continuing to hit back against Donald Trump, took some not-so-subtle digs Wednesday at the GOP front-runner’s spat with a Univision anchor.… Read More ›