Articles by: JewishNews-David

Jerusalem – Israel’s Labor Aims For Relevance With Leadership Election

Jerusalem – Israel’s Labor Aims For Relevance With Leadership Election

  Jerusalem –  Israel’s venerable Labor Party, which led the country to independence and steered it for decades through wars, crises and the pursuit of… Read More ›

‘I’m president and they’re not’: Trump slams media in speech honoring veterans

‘I’m president and they’re not’: Trump slams media in speech honoring veterans

  President Donald Trump slammed the “dishonest media” Saturday night during a speech honoring veterans, following up on multiple attacks he had lobbed at the… Read More ›

Xi Jinping to visit Hong Kong for 20th anniversary of handover

Xi Jinping to visit Hong Kong for 20th anniversary of handover

  Hong Kong – Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Hong Kong for the 20th anniversary of the city’s handover to Chinese sovereignty, according to… Read More ›

Washington – Trump’s Legal Plan Quite Simple So Far: Fight, Fight, Fight

Washington – Trump’s Legal Plan Quite Simple So Far: Fight, Fight, Fight

  Washington – President Donald Trump has given his legal team a clear direction: Fight, fight, fight. That tactic from Trump’s lawyers and proxies has… Read More ›

London’s Finsbury Park — a closer look

London’s Finsbury Park — a closer look

  The area of London where a vehicle hit pedestrians early Monday local time is ethnically diverse and home to a large Muslim community. Finsbury… Read More ›

Palestinian government bans news sites critical of president

Palestinian government bans news sites critical of president

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ government shuts down 11 news sites affiliated with rivals and/or espousing content critical of Abbas and his West Bank gov’t.… Read More ›

Liberman: Hamas using power crisis to distract from its failures

Liberman: Hamas using power crisis to distract from its failures

Defense minister says Israel not party to dispute with PA over electricity, calls 10 years of Hamas rule in Strip a ‘decade of suffering’  … Read More ›

Jeff Sessions has agreed to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday

Jeff Sessions has agreed to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential campaign have sparked questions, agreed Saturday… Read More ›

Demonstration outside AG’s house calls for resolution in PM’s cases

Demonstration outside AG’s house calls for resolution in PM’s cases

A demonstration is taking place in Shlomo Goren Square in Petach Tikvah near the home of Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit, calling for him to exhaust… Read More ›

PM demanded settlers remain ‘in place’ after deal — report

PM demanded settlers remain ‘in place’ after deal — report

Israel said to have pushed for US-led framework agreement to include statement declaring Israelis be allowed to stay in Palestinian controlled West Bank   Prime… Read More ›

Anger at pro-Labour banner showing May with Star of David earrings

Anger at pro-Labour banner showing May with Star of David earrings

Poster in Bristol of PM with Jewish symbol and the word ‘Balfour’ upsets local Jews, removed by organizers   A banner portraying incumbent British Prime Minister… Read More ›

So who is the real Avigdor Lieberman?

So who is the real Avigdor Lieberman?

Op-ed: Even after he replaced the militant and fiery statements with restraint and calm, one has to wonder if the defense minister has any surprises… Read More ›

Palestinians: Trump embassy decision shows his commitment to peace

Palestinians: Trump embassy decision shows his commitment to peace

Jordan also praises president for waiving embassy’s relocation to Jerusalem, says it shows he ‘values the advice of allies’   The Palestinian Authority on Thursday… Read More ›

New York – New York’s 9/11 Memorial To Add Tribute To Rescue Workers

New York – New York’s 9/11 Memorial To Add Tribute To Rescue Workers

  New York –  Thousands of workers who scoured the wreckage of the World Trade Center for the remains of the dead after the skyscrapers… Read More ›

Seoul – South Korea Says Conducted Joint Drills With U.S. B-1B Strategic Bomber

Seoul – South Korea Says Conducted Joint Drills With U.S. B-1B Strategic Bomber

  Seoul – South Korea said on Tuesday it had conducted a joint drill with a U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber after North Korea’s state… Read More ›

How Trump can change the subject

How Trump can change the subject

Washington – President Donald Trump’s odyssey through Europe and the Middle East fulfilled a more narrow political focus for the reeling White House: It was… Read More ›

Former CIA Director: ‘Now we know’ why Trump officials talking to the Russians may have been ‘unmasked’

Former CIA Director: ‘Now we know’ why Trump officials talking to the Russians may have been ‘unmasked’

  Michael Hayden, the former director of the NSA and the CIA, told CNN on Saturday that the reported content of Jared Kushner’s conversations with Russia’s… Read More ›

Israeli national hero and undercover spy laid to rest

Israeli national hero and undercover spy laid to rest

Shulamit Cohen-Kishik was an Israeli Mossad spy code named ‘The Pearl’ who operated undercover in Lebanon for 14 years. She passed away Sunday at the… Read More ›

Trump, Sissi said to agree on peace summit ‘very soon’

Trump, Sissi said to agree on peace summit ‘very soon’

Saudis reportedly may attend, in what would mark a major shift in policy for the powerful Gulf kingdom   US President Donald Trump and Egyptian… Read More ›

Donald Trump’s risky religious pilgrimage

Donald Trump’s risky religious pilgrimage

  Washington – Besieged by bad news at home, President Donald Trump is about to get religion, bigly. In his first foreign trip as President,… Read More ›