Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

We cannot count on anyone but ourselves

We cannot count on anyone but ourselves

Opinion: Today Israel is a superpower in security and a powerhouse in economics and has excellent foreign relations with the world’s superpowers, but we must… Read More ›

Likud, Blue And White Negotiators Meet For Coalition Talks

Likud, Blue And White Negotiators Meet For Coalition Talks

  JERUSALEM (JNS) — Negotiators from the Likud and Blue and White parties met on Sunday for the first time since Blue and White leader… Read More ›

Trump says ISIS leader al-Baghdadi died ‘whimpering and crying and screaming’ after trying to escape through a dead-end tunnel and igniting a suicide vest which killed three children

Trump says ISIS leader al-Baghdadi died ‘whimpering and crying and screaming’ after trying to escape through a dead-end tunnel and igniting a suicide vest which killed three children

  President Trump gave a graphic description of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi following a US raid in Syria. Trump said Baghdadi… Read More ›

UN expert: Iran continues to execute children, has 90 on death row

UN expert: Iran continues to execute children, has 90 on death row

Javaid Rehman says 7 minors were put to death last year and 2 so far this year; killings come despite human rights law prohibiting death… Read More ›

Tibi: Arab sector backs outside support for government, contacts underway with Blue and White

Tibi: Arab sector backs outside support for government, contacts underway with Blue and White

Joint List MK expresses disappointment at prospect of unity government, says Netanyahu has created ‘more social divisions than ever’ and is to blame for stalled… Read More ›

Liberman says Likud MKs already ‘eulogizing’ Netanyahu behind the scenes

Liberman says Likud MKs already ‘eulogizing’ Netanyahu behind the scenes

Yisrael Beytenu leader calls senior ruling party members ‘chickens’ for not challenging PM publicly, claims premier wants 3rd elections as Gantz set to receive coalition… Read More ›

38 People Cited For Violations In Clinton Email Probe

38 People Cited For Violations In Clinton Email Probe

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has completed its internal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of private email and found… Read More ›

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 ›