Articles by: JewishNews-Ilan

Settlements Law Spells Trouble for Jordan

Settlements Law Spells Trouble for Jordan

The first Jordanian condemnation came yesterday and it was decidedly sharp.   The Settlement Regulation Law passed on Monday night leaves Jordan in the lurch, poses… Read More ›

Netanyahu to Discuss Regional Threats with May, Then Trump

Netanyahu to Discuss Regional Threats with May, Then Trump

PM flies to London on Sunday, then DC the following week.   With President Donald Trump signaling a more muscular US policy toward Iran, Prime Minister… Read More ›

Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick Would Deepen US-Israel Ties in Sector

Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick Would Deepen US-Israel Ties in Sector

Under the new administration the US stands to become a global leader in the natural gas sector, particularly in liquefied natural gas.   If former… Read More ›

Netanyahu Under Fire for 2014 Gaza War

Netanyahu Under Fire for 2014 Gaza War

Publication of report on Protective Edge to be voted on. • Two new cases open up against Netanyahu.   A report that could be damaging… Read More ›

New IDF directives allow massive force to thwart soldier abductions

New IDF directives allow massive force to thwart soldier abductions

Replacing controversial Hannibal Protocol, three new procedures came into effect this month   The Israel Defense Forces has replaced its controversial Hannibal Protocol, a military… Read More ›

Washington – Trump Steps Into Security Bubble; Will He Bring His Phone?

Washington – Trump Steps Into Security Bubble; Will He Bring His Phone?

  Washington – A few hours after President-elect Donald Trump was briefed by intelligence officials about Russian meddling in the election, an Associated Press reporter… Read More ›

Boeing, Chevron, and other huge companies are spending $90 million on Trump’s inauguration

Boeing, Chevron, and other huge companies are spending $90 million on Trump’s inauguration

  President-elect Donald Trump is stepping into office on Friday. And some analysts argue that his “America first” foreign policy agenda could mark a break… Read More ›

Jerusalem of tech: How the capital has given Tel Aviv a run for its start-up money

Jerusalem of tech: How the capital has given Tel Aviv a run for its start-up money

The sleepy capital is becoming a hi-tech hub to be reckoned with.   When Time magazine picked Jerusalem as the world’s top emerging technological hub in… Read More ›

Jerusalem is undividable

Jerusalem is undividable

Op-ed: Instead of dividing Israel’s capital, we must expand it and strengthen its Jewish majority. How? Annexing Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem will dramatically affect the… Read More ›

242 years ago, the first Jew was elected to public office in the New World

242 years ago, the first Jew was elected to public office in the New World

27-year-old plantation owner Francis Salvador made history on Jan. 11, 1775, when he was appointed to the South Carolina Provincial Congress   JTA — Long… Read More ›

Washington – Lawsuits Over Trump Business Threaten To Tie Up Presidency

Washington – Lawsuits Over Trump Business Threaten To Tie Up Presidency

  Washington – As a businessman, Donald Trump has kept the courts busy. That’s hardly likely to change when he enters the Oval Office, creating… Read More ›

Two reconciliations for two people

Two reconciliations for two people

Op-ed: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely not end before a peace is achieved between the rival camps in the two populations. Until that happens, we… Read More ›

‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process

‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process

Suspicion surrounds rabbinical courts convening remotely, conversions to Judaism based on long-distance Jewish learning rather than in-person rabbinic counseling   JTA — The morning of… Read More ›

A Jew and an Indian make a film — about the African American experience

A Jew and an Indian make a film — about the African American experience

In ‘Barry,’ Adam Mansbach and Vikram Gandhi take a crack at portraying future president Barack Obama’s campus isolation during his Columbia years   SAN FRANCISCO… Read More ›

AG formally confirms Netanyahu is under investigation, details cases already closed

AG formally confirms Netanyahu is under investigation, details cases already closed

Avichai Mandelblit says there is ‘sufficient evidence’ to justify criminal probe over suspicion the PM received ‘improper benefits from businessmen’   Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit… Read More ›

Trump on Russia sanctions: Time to move on, but I’ll meet with intelligence agencies anyway

Trump on Russia sanctions: Time to move on, but I’ll meet with intelligence agencies anyway

  President-elect Donald Trump responded Thursday to President Barack Obama’s fresh sanctions against Russia, saying that it’s “time to move on,” but that he’ll meet… Read More ›

Taipei – Chinese Carrier Enters South China Sea Amid Renewed Tension

Taipei – Chinese Carrier Enters South China Sea Amid Renewed Tension

  Taipei – A group of Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier entered the top half of the South China Sea on… Read More ›

Israel curbs working ties with nations that voted for UN resolution

Israel curbs working ties with nations that voted for UN resolution

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his nation’s Foreign Ministry to temporarily limit all working ties with the embassies of the 12 UN… Read More ›

Through the looking glass: FSU immigrants fret about ‘survival’ of US Jewry

Through the looking glass: FSU immigrants fret about ‘survival’ of US Jewry

Addressing Russian-speaking Jews, Israeli leaders born behind the Iron Curtain say American Jewry is in more ‘danger’ than Jews in France, Iran, or Ukraine  … Read More ›

Israel’s El Al looks to new planes to reassert dominance

Israel’s El Al looks to new planes to reassert dominance

El Al’s main advantage has long been tough security; average age of its long-haul fleet is 18 years; airline, pilots in new wage deal to… Read More ›