Articles by: JewishNews-Ilan

Snoop Dogg Will Promote An Israeli Cannabis Tech Startup

Snoop Dogg Will Promote An Israeli Cannabis Tech Startup

  JERUSALEM (JTA) — Snoop Dogg, an outspoken advocate of marijuana use, is the new brand representative for an Israeli cannabis tech startup. Seedo, based… Read More ›

Israel’s President To Task Benny Gantz With Forming Government

Israel’s President To Task Benny Gantz With Forming Government

  It will mark the first time in more than a decade that someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu will attempt to form a government. On… Read More ›

Analysis: Dramatic deposition rocks Trump’s impeachment defense

Analysis: Dramatic deposition rocks Trump’s impeachment defense

Democrats may have just unearthed their smoking gun and the quid pro quo in one fell swoop after the most consequential and dramatic turn yet… Read More ›

A 28-year-old who paid off $102,000 in student loans used the debt snowball method to ‘make her loans fair’

A 28-year-old who paid off $102,000 in student loans used the debt snowball method to ‘make her loans fair’

  Mandy Velez graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013 with $75,000 in debt. She calculated that if she made monthly payments as expected, she would… Read More ›

Meir Shamgar, Former President Of Israel’s Supreme Court, Dies At 94

Meir Shamgar, Former President Of Israel’s Supreme Court, Dies At 94

  JERUSALEM (JTA) — Meir Shamgar, a former president of the Israeli Supreme Court who started his legal studies by correspondence in an Eritrean prison,… Read More ›

3 big reasons why Rudy Giuliani is the weakest link in Trump’s inner circle as the Ukraine scandal widens

3 big reasons why Rudy Giuliani is the weakest link in Trump’s inner circle as the Ukraine scandal widens

  Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is increasingly emerging as the weakest link in the ongoing scandal over President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine for three… Read More ›

Trump sending Pence to Turkey to ‘pursue a ceasefire and negotiated settlement’

Trump sending Pence to Turkey to ‘pursue a ceasefire and negotiated settlement’

Vice president says Trump spoke with Erdogan and asked him to to ‘stop the invasion;’ US is ‘simply not going to tolerate Turkey’s invasion of… Read More ›

Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge just became the first person in history to finish a marathon in under 2 hours

Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge just became the first person in history to finish a marathon in under 2 hours

  Eliud Kipchoge just ran a marathon in 1:59:40. The Kenyan is the first person in history to run a marathon in under two hours.… Read More ›

Germany Seeks To Reassure Rattled Jews After Holy Day Attack

Germany Seeks To Reassure Rattled Jews After Holy Day Attack

HALLE, Germany (AP) — Top German officials headed Thursday to the scene of an attack on a synagogue in the city of Halle, seeking to… Read More ›

Israel’s right-wing is repeating mistakes of defeated left

Israel’s right-wing is repeating mistakes of defeated left

Opinion: By representing the entire right-wing, Netanyahu is hampering coalition building with Blue and White and is dragging the country to the extremes; this is… Read More ›

Sa’ar confirms he will take on Netanyahu once Likud calls contest

Sa’ar confirms he will take on Netanyahu once Likud calls contest

Lawmaker says there’s no need for a meeting to prove prime minister’s control of the party in the meantime, after leadership primary scratched   Likud… Read More ›

Opinion: Trump may have just committed an impeachable offense that’s worse than the Ukraine one

Opinion: Trump may have just committed an impeachable offense that’s worse than the Ukraine one

  President Donald Trump is betting that Americans will become so accustomed to his transgressions that they will become immune to outrage; that they will… Read More ›

Iraq Blames Israel for Airstrikes, Why Now?

Iraq Blames Israel for Airstrikes, Why Now?

It appears that the Iraqi Prime Minister is blaming Israel at this juncture because he is being targeted for criticism for removing a key member… Read More ›

When Israel’s right-wing courted the Arab vote

When Israel’s right-wing courted the Arab vote

Opinion: At the beginning of the 60s, when all the Arabs under Israeli rule had the right to vote, Menachen Begin chased them with sweet… Read More ›

Israel-Hamas understandings on Gaza yield results

Israel-Hamas understandings on Gaza yield results

A Field hospital funded by private American money will provide treatment that had in the past necessitated travel outside the Strip to either Egypt, Israel… Read More ›

Analysis: Rivlin may need more than charm to break post-election standoff

Analysis: Rivlin may need more than charm to break post-election standoff

The ever-affable president is facing a quandary that has forced him to jump into the middle of a fierce battle for control   Under normal… Read More ›

Ayman Odeh: Netanyahu cannot be Defeated without Arab Citizens

Ayman Odeh: Netanyahu cannot be Defeated without Arab Citizens

Rivlin to begin consulting with parties today Joint List seriously considers Blue and White leader   The Joint List will make a historic decision as to… Read More ›

CEC Continues to Count Ballots, Netanyahu – Gantz Still at Stalemate

CEC Continues to Count Ballots, Netanyahu – Gantz Still at Stalemate

As of this morning: Blue & White is ahead with 33 seats, Likud has 31.   According to Channel 13, 97.6% of the votes from… Read More ›

Analysis: IDF troops in Afghanistan? What a US-Israel mutual defense treaty could mean

Analysis: IDF troops in Afghanistan? What a US-Israel mutual defense treaty could mean

Netanyahu claims the pact he vows to advance after the election will guarantee Israel’s security ‘for generations.’ But successive Israeli governments have always rejected the… Read More ›

Trump: ‘I Look Forward’ To Discussing Defense Pact With Netanyahu After Election

Trump: ‘I Look Forward’ To Discussing Defense Pact With Netanyahu After Election

  Washington- U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Saturday that he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone earlier to… Read More ›