Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

In latest sign of thaw, Israel sending official to anti-Iran summit in Bahrain

In latest sign of thaw, Israel sending official to anti-Iran summit in Bahrain

Foreign Ministry’s regional security and counter-terrorism head to make rare formal trip to Arab state for Monday meet on maritime and civil aviation security  … Read More ›

Turkey Using Israeli-Upgraded Tanks in Anti-Kurd Offensive in Syria

Turkey Using Israeli-Upgraded Tanks in Anti-Kurd Offensive in Syria

Between 2003-2010 around 170 M60-A1 tanks were upgraded by IMI at a cost of $687 million.   Turkey is using M60-A1 tanks upgraded by Israel during… Read More ›

Teen dies of injuries from lightning strike near Ashkelon

Teen dies of injuries from lightning strike near Ashkelon

14-year-old Asher Hazut from Be’er Sheva was critically injured when the lightning hit him and four other family members as they took a Sukkot trip… Read More ›

Rivlin asks Putin to grant clemency to Israeli jailed on drug charges

Rivlin asks Putin to grant clemency to Israeli jailed on drug charges

In a letter addressed to the Russian leader, Rivlin asks for Putin’s ‘personal intervention’ to grant Naama Issachar – jailed for 7.5 years after 9… Read More ›

Turkey sets sights on key routes in Syria amid offensive against Kurds

Turkey sets sights on key routes in Syria amid offensive against Kurds

Turkish forces’ push against Syrian Kurdish fighters enters fourth day with little sign of relenting, as over 100,000 displaced   AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Turkish… Read More ›

Gideon Saar challenges lengthy Netanyahu Likud rule

Gideon Saar challenges lengthy Netanyahu Likud rule

Former PM aide and senior cabinet minister appears to be one of the few members of the ruling faction that no longer blindly follows Israel’s… Read More ›

PA Accepts Israeli Money Despite Anti-‘Pay-for-Slay’ Law

PA Accepts Israeli Money Despite Anti-‘Pay-for-Slay’ Law

Israel’s anti-“Pay-for-Slay” law says the state must deduct the amount of money that the PA pays terrorists and families of what they call “martyrs” from… Read More ›

What it’s like growing up as a hidden Jew in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq

What it’s like growing up as a hidden Jew in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq

Ceen Gabbai survived 2003 invasion, received asylum in US; in home country, family had to move 5 times due to anti-Semitism, but her Muslim friends… Read More ›

Electoral gains revive old dilemma for Israel’s Arab citizens

Electoral gains revive old dilemma for Israel’s Arab citizens

Joint List is now the third-largest party in the Knesset, which could make its chair Ayman Odeh the first-ever Arab opposition leader; but the sector… Read More ›

Hamas chief warns Israel over terror suspect hospitalized after interrogation

Hamas chief warns Israel over terror suspect hospitalized after interrogation

Ismail Haniyeh says Jewish state responsible for Samer Arbid’s life, vows security prisoners won’t be left ‘to the Zionist sadism’   Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh… Read More ›

State Department investigators are reportedly escalating their probe into email records from former Hillary Clinton aides

State Department investigators are reportedly escalating their probe into email records from former Hillary Clinton aides

  The Trump administration has revived an investigation into email records from Hillary Clinton’s former aides, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Investigators reportedly reached out to roughly… Read More ›

New Climate Report: Oceans Rising Faster, Ice Melting More

New Climate Report: Oceans Rising Faster, Ice Melting More

NEW YORK  — Climate change is making the world’s oceans warm, rise, lose oxygen and get more acidic at an ever-faster pace, while melting even… Read More ›

Trump sets out to undercut Pelosi’s impeachment gamble

Trump sets out to undercut Pelosi’s impeachment gamble

  President Donald Trump is wasting no time in attempting to torch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment gamble in a battle that will define his… Read More ›

Iran’s Guard Says Ready For ‘Any scenario’ Amid US Standoff

Iran’s Guard Says Ready For ‘Any scenario’ Amid US Standoff

  Tehran – Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard is ready for combat and “any scenario,” its chief commander said Saturday, as the country’s nuclear deal with… Read More ›

Unconfirmed Election Results After 90% Counted: Virtual Tie

Unconfirmed Election Results After 90% Counted: Virtual Tie

  Jerusalem- Despite the fact that official results of the Israeli election have yet to be published since the votes have not yet been inserted… Read More ›

Trump on Cokie Roberts’ death: ‘She never treated me nicely. But I would like to wish her family well’

Trump on Cokie Roberts’ death: ‘She never treated me nicely. But I would like to wish her family well’

Washington – President Donald Trump on Tuesday reacted to the death of veteran journalist Cokie Roberts by saying “she never treated me nicely” before extending… Read More ›

Biden On Racism: Whites ‘Can Never Fully Understand’

Biden On Racism: Whites ‘Can Never Fully Understand’

  Birmingham, AL – Visiting a black church bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in the civil rights era, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said… Read More ›

More Talk on A.U.S.-Israeli Defense Treaty. But Where’s IDF Cheif Kochavi?

More Talk on A.U.S.-Israeli Defense Treaty. But Where’s IDF Cheif Kochavi?

The US is Israel’s strongest ally, giving the Jewish State over $3 billion a year in military aid and considers Israel a “major non-NATO ally.”… Read More ›

Netanyahu holds final cabinet meeting before vote in Jordan Valley

Netanyahu holds final cabinet meeting before vote in Jordan Valley

PM takes ministers out of Jerusalem to highlight pledge to annex parts of West Bank if he prevails in Tuesday elections, says Trump plan for… Read More ›

California passes landmark bill to treat contract workers as employees in a move that could devastate Uber and Lyft’s business model

California passes landmark bill to treat contract workers as employees in a move that could devastate Uber and Lyft’s business model

  California lawmakers have approved a landmark bill that would reclassify contractors for companies like Uber and Lyft as employees. Assembly Bill 5 passed in a… Read More ›