Articles by: JewishNews-Ilan

Albany, NY – New York Senators’ Scandal Highlights Vast Stipend System

Albany, NY – New York Senators’ Scandal Highlights Vast Stipend System

  Albany, NY – Lawmakers in many states get paid extra if they hold leadership posts or oversee important committees. Extra work, the thinking goes,… Read More ›

Manchester, England – Video Shows Man Thought To Be Suspect, Backpack

Manchester, England – Video Shows Man Thought To Be Suspect, Backpack

Manchester, England – A British broadcaster has obtained security camera footage that it says police believe shows the suspect in the Manchester Arena bombing wearing… Read More ›

CBO says GOP healthcare bill would leave 23 million more uninsured, undermine protections for people with preexisting conditions

CBO says GOP healthcare bill would leave 23 million more uninsured, undermine protections for people with preexisting conditions

  The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday released an updated score for the American Health Care Act, the House GOP healthcare bill, that said it… Read More ›

Manchester attack: Who is Salman Abedi?

Manchester attack: Who is Salman Abedi?

  Police have named 22-year-old Salman Abedi as the man suspected of carrying out the deadliest terror attack to hit the UK in 12 years.… Read More ›

A better solution for Jerusalem

A better solution for Jerusalem

Op-ed: Trump has a way of keeping his promise to move the US embassy without declaring that Jerusalem is Israel’s united capital: A US embassy… Read More ›

Escaping troubles in DC, Trump basks in lavish Saudi welcome

Escaping troubles in DC, Trump basks in lavish Saudi welcome

He is the only American president to make Saudi Arabia — or any Muslim-majority nation — his first overseas trip   RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP)… Read More ›

Ex-US intel chief: American democracy ‘under assault’ by Trump, Russia

Ex-US intel chief: American democracy ‘under assault’ by Trump, Russia

After abrupt firing of FBI chief Comey, James Clapper says checks and balances of US institutions under current president ‘eroding’   WASHINGTON (AP) — American… Read More ›

Netanyahu wary of Trump’s interest in solving Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Netanyahu wary of Trump’s interest in solving Israeli-Palestinian conflict

With no congressional impediments to peace initiatives between the Palestinians and Israelis, Netanyahu worried about the specter of intense US interest in a solution; negotiations… Read More ›

Diplomats to disrupt Trump visit with strike, despite wage assurances

Diplomats to disrupt Trump visit with strike, despite wage assurances

Foreign Ministry workers say they won’t prepare for upcoming trip by US president until a pay agreement reached in March is implemented   Fooreign Ministry… Read More ›

Army seizes knives, nabs 13 Palestinians in West Bank

Army seizes knives, nabs 13 Palestinians in West Bank

In Jerusalem, police arrest 4 residents suspected of setting off fireworks at officers after attempted stabbing in Old City   Israeli security forces arrested 17… Read More ›

Washington – Sanders Defends Trump’s Praise Of Australian Healthcare System

Washington – Sanders Defends Trump’s Praise Of Australian Healthcare System

  Washington – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Saturday that President Donald Trump was right to call Australia’s universal healthcare system better than the… Read More ›

School bus crash kills 36 in Tanzania

School bus crash kills 36 in Tanzania

  A school bus full of students swerved off a steep road in Tanzania on Saturday morning and fell into a ravine, killing 36 people… Read More ›

New York – No Hard Feelings For CBS After Dickerson’s Trump Interview

New York – No Hard Feelings For CBS After Dickerson’s Trump Interview

  New York – CBS broadcast its morning show live from the White House Monday with no evident hard feelings following the abrupt ending of… Read More ›

Israeli Politicians Pan Liberman for Provoking North Korea

Israeli Politicians Pan Liberman for Provoking North Korea

“Mr. defense minister, we already have enough enemies surrounding us, so let’s focus on the them,” says Zionist Union MK Shelly Yacimovich after Liberman calls… Read More ›

Israel’s poisonous political discourse

Israel’s poisonous political discourse

Op-ed: One of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s great ‘contributions’ to the Israeli discourse is turning the definition of ‘left’ into a curse, an accusation and a… Read More ›

Study: Eastern Europe not meeting commitments on returning stolen Jewish property

Study: Eastern Europe not meeting commitments on returning stolen Jewish property

Report to be presented before EU Parliament details the biggest theft in history, where eastern European and former communist countries appropriate stolen Jewish property, make… Read More ›

JCC bomb hoaxer charged with vast list of offenses, including threats to execute children, blow up planes

JCC bomb hoaxer charged with vast list of offenses, including threats to execute children, blow up planes

US-Israeli teen hacker accused in Israeli court of making over 2,000 intimidating calls to Jewish institutions, malls, schools, airlines and police in US and worldwide;… Read More ›

Trump administration talks tougher on Iran but sticks with deal — for now

Trump administration talks tougher on Iran but sticks with deal — for now

Washington – The Trump administration ratcheted up the rhetoric on Iran Wednesday, declaring the international deal to restrain Tehran’s nuclear program had failed and that… Read More ›

Comment: Sparing Erdogan’s Wrath

Comment: Sparing Erdogan’s Wrath

Perhaps Turkey may even play a bigger and more significant role now.   Luckily for Israel, the reconciliation agreement with Ankara, which ended six years… Read More ›

MOAB hit caves used by ISIS, drug smugglers and Osama bin Laden

MOAB hit caves used by ISIS, drug smugglers and Osama bin Laden

  Back in late 2001 when Osama bin Laden was US enemy No. 1, I spent a good bit of time in the Afghan mountains… Read More ›