Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

Ori Ansbacher’s Killer Confesses: The Murder Was an Act of Terror

Ori Ansbacher’s Killer Confesses: The Murder Was an Act of Terror

Arafat Irfaiya, 29, recreated the scene and murder for the investigators, after confessing, yet his motive is still unknown.   Security officials say that Arafat… Read More ›

Body of 19-year-old woman found on outskirts of Jerusalem in apparent murder

Body of 19-year-old woman found on outskirts of Jerusalem in apparent murder

Victim found naked and with ‘signs of violence’ on her body; court imposes gag order on details of crime   The body of a 19-year-old… Read More ›

Edelstein, Katz go head-to-head for first spot on Likud list

Edelstein, Katz go head-to-head for first spot on Likud list

Former minister Gideon Sa’ar, who has been in a public political feud with Prime Minister Netanyahu, is close third in Likud primary race; Erdan, Regev… Read More ›

Merger between Gantz and Lapid said to face considerable headwinds

Merger between Gantz and Lapid said to face considerable headwinds

TV report says Israel Resilience and Yesh Atid at odds over who’ll head alliance, makeup of electoral list; ex-IDF chief Ashkenazi publicly backs tie-up  … Read More ›

‘He’s doing the enemy’s job for them’: Current and former officials compare Trump to a toddler and say his attacks on the intel community create a goldmine for foreign governments

‘He’s doing the enemy’s job for them’: Current and former officials compare Trump to a toddler and say his attacks on the intel community create a goldmine for foreign governments

  President Donald Trump’s most recent public campaign against the US intelligence community has stunned current and former intelligence officials. “He’s doing the enemy’s job… Read More ›

ADL Chief Too Quick to Forgive Rep. Omar for Antisemitic Comment – Says ZOA

ADL Chief Too Quick to Forgive Rep. Omar for Antisemitic Comment – Says ZOA

Head of ADL Jonathan Greenblatt slammed for saying ‘hats off’ to Omar, whom ZOA still considers to be pro-ISIS   Head of ADL Jonathan Greenblat… Read More ›

Cincinnati, OH – The Digital Drug: Internet Addiction Spawns U.S. Treatment Programs

Cincinnati, OH – The Digital Drug: Internet Addiction Spawns U.S. Treatment Programs

  Cincinnati, OH – When Danny Reagan was 13, he began exhibiting signs of what doctors usually associate with drug addiction. He became agitated, secretive… Read More ›

Syrian Amb. to the UN threatens to attack Ben Gurion Airport

Syrian Amb. to the UN threatens to attack Ben Gurion Airport

Following pre-dawn raid Monday in Syria, which IAF hit Iran military and intelligence targets near Damascus’s international airport, Syrian envoy Bashar Ja’afari argues his country… Read More ›

Hamas warns Qatari cash freeze by Israel could cause ‘explosion’ in Gaza

Hamas warns Qatari cash freeze by Israel could cause ‘explosion’ in Gaza

Palestinian official says Israel’s decision to halt funds, after shots fired at IDF soldiers in two separate incidents, is ‘a crime’   A Hamas official… Read More ›

Netanyahu is no longer campaigning on the issues

Netanyahu is no longer campaigning on the issues

Opinion: The prime minister is no longer talking about Iran, Hamas or Arabs going in droves to the polls; instead, his 2019 campaign focuses on… Read More ›

After oil: Mideast states developing renewable energy

After oil: Mideast states developing renewable energy

Wind turbines, hydroelectricity and solar power are on the agenda in Morocco, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, but experts say region still lags far behind… Read More ›

Rep. Ilhan Omar defends 2012 tweet accusing Israel of ‘hypnotizing the world’

Rep. Ilhan Omar defends 2012 tweet accusing Israel of ‘hypnotizing the world’

Newly elected lawmaker tells CNN there’s a ‘difference between criticizing a military action by a government and attacking a particular people of faith’   US… Read More ›

China sentences Canadian to death for drug smuggling

China sentences Canadian to death for drug smuggling

Beijing – A Canadian citizen in China has been sentenced to death after a court convicted him of drug smuggling on Monday, a move likely… Read More ›

Paris – Anti-Semitism Among Yellow Vest Protesters Demoralizes France’s Jews

Paris – Anti-Semitism Among Yellow Vest Protesters Demoralizes France’s Jews

  Paris – Four years ago, a heartbroken Bernard-Henri Levy found some solace in how more than a million Frenchmen marched through this city to… Read More ›

As Robert Mueller writes his report, a potential battle brews over obstruction of justice

As Robert Mueller writes his report, a potential battle brews over obstruction of justice

Washington – As special counsel Robert Mueller wraps up his Russia probe, investigators have focused on conflicting public statements by President Donald Trump and his… Read More ›

Success of UK’s bestselling Jewish authors can’t mask huge decline in new titles

Success of UK’s bestselling Jewish authors can’t mask huge decline in new titles

Even as demand for literature is on the rise, online bookstores make it nearly impossible to sustain a fixed literary space for secular ‘Jewish’ works… Read More ›

San Diego – Wall Debate Obscures Other Struggles At The Border

San Diego – Wall Debate Obscures Other Struggles At The Border

  San Diego – In Washington, it’s all about the wall. At the border, it’s only part of the story. Border authorities are struggling with… Read More ›

China’s Xi Jinping begins his most important year at his weakest point

China’s Xi Jinping begins his most important year at his weakest point

Hong Kong – When Xi Jinping ascended the stage in the Great Hall of the People in March, officially the most powerful Chinese leader since… Read More ›

Netanyahu in Brazil pushes Honduras on Jerusalem embassy move

Netanyahu in Brazil pushes Honduras on Jerusalem embassy move

Prime minister holds three-way talks with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and US top diplomat Mike Pompeo to discuss opening embassies in Israeli capital and… Read More ›

How Trump betrayed the Kurds in Syria

How Trump betrayed the Kurds in Syria

Opinion: President Trump’s announcement that he was to withdraw US troops from the war-torn country will most likely result not only in the genocide of… Read More ›