Articles by: JewishNews-Ilan

Opposition head calls for IDF to bomb Gaza tunnels

Opposition head calls for IDF to bomb Gaza tunnels

As Israelis near Gaza border report digging sounds, Herzog blasts ‘idle’ government response to apparent Hamas rebuilding of underground attack system   ThIn this Thursday,… Read More ›

GOP prepares for Trump-less debate

GOP prepares for Trump-less debate

Des Moines, Iowa – Donald Trump on Thursday night will once again loom large at the final Republican presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses — but… Read More ›

Coca Cola to open Gaza factory ‘within weeks’

Coca Cola to open Gaza factory ‘within weeks’

$20 million manufacturing plant will provide more than 1,000 jobs to unemployment-ridden Strip   Coca Cola is to open a factory in the Gaza Strip… Read More ›

5 Palestinians jailed for 15 years for stoning that led to toddler’s death

5 Palestinians jailed for 15 years for stoning that led to toddler’s death

Military court strikes plea bargain with stone-throwers, which stipulates they will compensate family of four-year-old Adele Bitton   Five Palestinian youths were sentenced to 15… Read More ›

Italian poll questions efficacy of International Holocaust Day

Italian poll questions efficacy of International Holocaust Day

The percentage who consider January 27 ‘useless’ has doubled in two years; 16% of Italians think observance should only be for Jews   Every year,… Read More ›

MK’s car pelted with rocks after visiting family of terror victim

MK’s car pelted with rocks after visiting family of terror victim

Yesh Atid’s Haim Yellin was on his way back from paying a condolence visit to family of Shlomit Krigman, stabbed to death earlier this week,… Read More ›

Report: 61% rise in London anti-Semitism; most French Jews considering emigrating

Report: 61% rise in London anti-Semitism; most French Jews considering emigrating

Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett presented the government with a report of anti-Semitic statistics in Europe. According to figures, over 40% of EU citizens… Read More ›

Shimon Peres taken to hospital

Shimon Peres taken to hospital

The former Israeli president complains of feeling pressure in his chest, but remains conscious. An ambulance was summoned to the home of former Israeli President… Read More ›

Netanyahu: US-Israel relationship is strong and solid

Netanyahu: US-Israel relationship is strong and solid

The prime minister defends the relationship between Israel and the US at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, saying that ‘special relationship is reflected in… Read More ›

ISIS video claims to feature Paris attackers

ISIS video claims to feature Paris attackers

Video published Sunday purports to show images and last statements of nine of the people who took part in the Paris attacks that killed 130… Read More ›

Poll: Israeli Arabs could support government more if treated better

Poll: Israeli Arabs could support government more if treated better

CEO of Statnet polling institute said results found more than 100,000 Arabs do not have the ability to buy medicine, clothing or food.   A… Read More ›

IDF expands missile fortification of strategic sites

IDF expands missile fortification of strategic sites

Home Front Command is working with all Israeli defense industries in the research and development and production of reinforcement materials for sites crucial to keeping… Read More ›

Albany, NY – Convicted Former Majority Leaders Skelos, Sillver Tapped Campaign Funds For Lawyer Fees

Albany, NY – Convicted Former Majority Leaders Skelos, Sillver Tapped Campaign Funds For Lawyer Fees

  Albany, NY – The two ex-leaders of New York’s Legislature tapped their campaign funds for a combined $3.6 million last year in an unsuccessful… Read More ›

Washington – State Department Wants More Time To Process Clinton Emails

Washington – State Department Wants More Time To Process Clinton Emails

  Washington – The State Department is asking a federal court for a one-month extension to publish the last of Hillary Clinton’s emails during her… Read More ›

Des Moines, IA – GOP Establishment Moving A Little Closer To Accepting Trump

Des Moines, IA – GOP Establishment Moving A Little Closer To Accepting Trump

  Des Moines, IA –  Donald Trump and some mainstream Republicans are engaged in a long-distance flirtation. Both sides are coming to the realization that… Read More ›

Australian Open 2016: After his shorts, Stan Wawrinka’s shirt making waves

Australian Open 2016: After his shorts, Stan Wawrinka’s shirt making waves

  Melbourne – At the French Open last year, Stan Wawrinka’s plaid shorts drew almost as much attention as his glittering play. The red, white and… Read More ›

Trump: I could ‘shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters’

Trump: I could ‘shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters’

Sioux Center, Iowa – Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of… Read More ›

‘Hezbollah is getting the most sophisticated Russian weapons’

‘Hezbollah is getting the most sophisticated Russian weapons’

Advanced weapons are going from Russia to Syria and then into Hezbollah’s hands, according to an IDF reserve officer. These deliveries likely include Onyx missiles,… Read More ›

Goodbye Iran, hello Israel? Sudan changes its approach

Goodbye Iran, hello Israel? Sudan changes its approach

While Jerusalem and Khartoum are a long way from normalized relations, the last few months have seen Sudan edge closer to the moderate Sunni camp… Read More ›

Explaining a non-existent policy

Explaining a non-existent policy

Op-ed: Something that is often conspicuously absent from the discussions of Israeli PR problems is the country’s clear lack of a consistent and clear policy… Read More ›