Articles by: JewishNews-David

Forging links with the Diaspora by talking

Forging links with the Diaspora by talking

New gov’t-Gesher project takes eclectic mix of opinion-makers to meet Jews around the world   NEW YORK – Twenty key figures from Israeli society traveled… Read More ›

Donor withholds $1m. from BGU over Breaking the Silence panel

Donor withholds $1m. from BGU over Breaking the Silence panel

BGU: Unaware of pledge by businessman to donate any sum   A prominent British donor is withholding a $1 million donation from Ben Gurion University… Read More ›

Majority of Israelis don’t trust Netanyahu on security, believe government won’t pursue peace

Majority of Israelis don’t trust Netanyahu on security, believe government won’t pursue peace

Survey finds Margalit gaining in support, Yacimovich leading Labor primary polls.   Less than half as many Israelis believe that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s widening… Read More ›

After Taliban leader’s assassination, where do Afghan peace talks stand?

After Taliban leader’s assassination, where do Afghan peace talks stand?

  The White House, finally confirming the death of Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, announced Monday the Taliban “should seize the opportunity to pursue the only… Read More ›

Louis van Gaal sacked as Manchester United manager

Louis van Gaal sacked as Manchester United manager

  Thanks, but no thanks. Just two days after Louis van Gaal won Manchester United’s first trophy in three years, the English Premier League club… Read More ›

Analysis: No easy victories in battle to liberate Falluja from ISIS

Analysis: No easy victories in battle to liberate Falluja from ISIS

  Iraqi forces are “approaching a moment of great victory,” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared Sunday night on television, flanked by senior military and police… Read More ›

Netanyahu and Herzog open, close doors on unity government talks

Netanyahu and Herzog open, close doors on unity government talks

Prime minister insists opportunity still there to expand coalition, but Zionist Union chief accuses him of slamming door   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition… Read More ›

Khamanei: US ‘can’t do a damn thing’ about our missile program

Khamanei: US ‘can’t do a damn thing’ about our missile program

Supreme leader: West ‘extremely sad’ about failure to curb Iran’s military development; Guards chief: US forced to back down in region   Iranian supreme leader… Read More ›

Police may reopen criminal probe into Netanyahu travel billing

Police may reopen criminal probe into Netanyahu travel billing

Ahead of state report on spending, investigators to look at whether statute of limitations on ‘Bibitours’ double billing case has expired   Police are looking… Read More ›

Timeline: The final moments of EgyptAir Flight 804

Timeline: The final moments of EgyptAir Flight 804

  The final moments of EgyptAir Flight 804 are as perplexing as they are disturbing. The plane, carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo, disappeared… Read More ›

Greek official denies EgyptAir wreckage found in Mediterranean

Greek official denies EgyptAir wreckage found in Mediterranean

Head of Greece air safety authority says ‘analysis of the debris indicates that it does not come from a plane’   The head of the… Read More ›

Egypt: Terrorism more likely than malfunction in jet’s disappearance

Egypt: Terrorism more likely than malfunction in jet’s disappearance

Egypt and Greece scour the Mediterranean Sea for remnants of Flight 840, which went missing with 66 people aboard   CAIRO (AFP) — A massive… Read More ›

Expat Israelis cultivate ‘kibbutz’ vibe in Hawaiian paradise

Expat Israelis cultivate ‘kibbutz’ vibe in Hawaiian paradise

On the Big Island, organic farming and a desire to return to nature draws an unexpectedly close Jewish community   KONA, Hawaii — About halfway… Read More ›

Egypt president backs French proposal for Mideast talks

Egypt president backs French proposal for Mideast talks

In an impromptu speech, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi calls on Israelis and Palestinians to reach a peace agreement; he promises warmer ties with Israel, if Palestinian… Read More ›

‘We decided to throw a grenade at a Palestinian home’

‘We decided to throw a grenade at a Palestinian home’

Excerpts from the interrogation of the Jewish terror cell from Nahliel in the West Bank shed light on their motives and how they planned their… Read More ›

Netanyahu and Ya’alon: To be continued

Netanyahu and Ya’alon: To be continued

Analysis: The Prime Minister and Defense Minister have supposedly put their differences to rest, but the divide between them is deeper than it may seem.… Read More ›

Analysis: The Syrian war has exposed Hezbollah to assassinations

Analysis: The Syrian war has exposed Hezbollah to assassinations

Lebanese terrorist group should only expect more liquidations of commanders   Shi’ite Hezbollah’s war in Syria to prop up President Bashar Assad’s regime against Sunni rebels… Read More ›

Analysis: Jewish terrorism has been clipped

Analysis: Jewish terrorism has been clipped

Shin Bet believes the pursuit after the suspected Jewish terrorists – their arrest, interrogations, detentions, indictments and detentions – set a major blow to the… Read More ›

Jerusalem doctors help Palestinian child with rare foot defect

Jerusalem doctors help Palestinian child with rare foot defect

AVM can appear in various parts of the body, but in the foot area it is especially painful and debilitating.   An eight-year-old Palestinian boy… Read More ›

Hezbollah blames insurgent shelling for death of top commander in Syria

Hezbollah blames insurgent shelling for death of top commander in Syria

Despite some newspapers initially blaming Israel for Badreddine’s death, the Lebanese terrorist organization has declared the assassination to be the work of ‘criminal gangs;’ Hezbollah… Read More ›