Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

Istanbul bombing another sign Syria, Iraq war spreading to Turkey

Istanbul bombing another sign Syria, Iraq war spreading to Turkey

Former Turkish lawmaker tells Post the perpetrators seem to have employed a dual strategy: attacking security forces while also damaging Turkey’s tourism sector.   The… Read More ›

Senate holds hearing for bill to help Holocaust survivors recover looted art

Senate holds hearing for bill to help Holocaust survivors recover looted art

Actress Helen Mirren invokes film role in her DC testimony.   NEW YORK – The Senate Judiciary Committee heard on Tuesday arguments in favor of… Read More ›

Putin to Netanyahu: Israel, Russia ‘unconditional allies’ in war against terror

Putin to Netanyahu: Israel, Russia ‘unconditional allies’ in war against terror

Russia welcomes Turkey reconciliation efforts, pledges to work to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict.   Israel and Russia agreed to strengthen their regional military cooperation, when Prime… Read More ›

12 infected with hep C due to negligence

12 infected with hep C due to negligence

The patients were exposed to the dangerous virus—which can cause irreparable damage to the liver and even become life threatening—after undergoing a CAT scan at… Read More ›

Israeli group calls for new security system

Israeli group calls for new security system

As part of a proposed peace plan, Commanders for Israel’s Security has released a new report advocating a multilayered security approach that would require US… Read More ›

Lone soldiers on the home front: The tank crewman from New Jersey

Lone soldiers on the home front: The tank crewman from New Jersey

Around 3,300 lone soldiers from abroad currently serve in the IDF. Most haven’t seen their families in months. Shortly ahead of Independence Day, Yedioth Ahronoth… Read More ›

Sharp drop in granting of citizenship to J’lem Arabs

Sharp drop in granting of citizenship to J’lem Arabs

Over the past decade, 2,641 of the 7,168 applications were approved, for an acceptance rate of 36.8 percent. By contrast, in 2015 the acceptance rate… Read More ›

Middle Israel: The seventh day

Middle Israel: The seventh day

As it enters its 50th anniversary year, the Six Day War looms, for better and worse, as the most pivotal moment in the state’s history.… Read More ›

Does Liberman have his eye on Netanyahu’s throne?

Does Liberman have his eye on Netanyahu’s throne?

Avigdor Liberman as Defense Minister is likely to be less impetuous than Liberman in opposition.   As far as he is concerned, the appointment of the… Read More ›

Brazilian teen speaks out about brutal gang rape

Brazilian teen speaks out about brutal gang rape

Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian teenage girl who says she was brutally gang raped in a Rio de Janeiro slum is speaking out about… Read More ›

WHO revises sex guidelines for Zika prevention

WHO revises sex guidelines for Zika prevention

  If you’ve traveled to any country with a current outbreak of Zika, you should wait a full eight weeks to have unprotected sex or… Read More ›

Kristol’s white knight: David French

Kristol’s white knight: David French

  Washington – Bill Kristol’s white knight independent presidential candidate is a fellow conservative writer with no national name recognition: David French. Kristol, the editor… Read More ›

Doctors: Postpone or move Olympics due to Zika

Doctors: Postpone or move Olympics due to Zika

The summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro should be postponed or moved “in the name of public health” due to the widening Zika outbreak… Read More ›

Pakistani men can beat wives ‘lightly,’ Islamic council says

Pakistani men can beat wives ‘lightly,’ Islamic council says

  The leader of a Pakistani Islamic council has proposed a bill that allows husbands to “lightly beat” their wives as a form of discipline.… Read More ›

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns he’ll retaliate against NATO missiles

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns he’ll retaliate against NATO missiles

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will retaliate against the placement of U.S. missiles in nearby countries such as Romania, according to Russia’s state-run… Read More ›

On Syrian border, new IDF unit will work with Syrian civilians

On Syrian border, new IDF unit will work with Syrian civilians

New liaison unit will help coordinate medical aid, dialogue in war-torn areas where Syrian regime holds no sway   The IDF is establishing a special… Read More ›

Bennett says he won’t blink first in cabinet row with Netanyahu

Bennett says he won’t blink first in cabinet row with Netanyahu

Jewish Home demands reform of security cabinet as condition for supporting Liberman as defense minister; Likud pans move as ‘political suicide’   Jewish Home party… Read More ›

Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker

Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker

Op-Ed: The administration keeps mum as Tehran elevates a ‘Death to America’-spouting radical, but speaks out as peace-promising Liberman joins Israel’s coalition. Go figure  … Read More ›

UN chief said planning final visit to Israel, Palestinian Authority

UN chief said planning final visit to Israel, Palestinian Authority

Ban reportedly plotting late June tour of region; UN envoy says ‘radically more’ must be done to address Gaza plight   Outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban… Read More ›

US: Addition of Liberman to coalition ‘raises questions’

US: Addition of Liberman to coalition ‘raises questions’

State Department says it has ‘legitimate’ concerns about what deal with hardliner means for government commitment to two-state solution   The United States said Wednesday… Read More ›