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All 100 US senators to UN: End ‘unacceptable’ anti-Israel bias

All 100 US senators to UN: End ‘unacceptable’ anti-Israel bias

Letter to António Guterres, with unanimous Senate support, demands wide-ranging reforms of international body   All 100 US senators signed a letter to United Nations… Read More ›

Trump Considering Israel Visit, White House Official Confirms

Trump Considering Israel Visit, White House Official Confirms

“We are exploring the possibility of a future visit to Israel as well as other countries.”   US President Donald Trump is considering a visit… Read More ›

EU-Israel relations: Trojan horses, snakes, ladders and boycotts

EU-Israel relations: Trojan horses, snakes, ladders and boycotts

Op-ed: Why the European Parliament, and other EU institutions, need to take a strong position on the movement calling for a boycott of the State… Read More ›

Hamas says it won’t be cowed by Abbas’s threats

Hamas says it won’t be cowed by Abbas’s threats

Terror group’s No. 2 in the Gaza Strip says PA president will fail to ‘make Gaza kneel’ if he goes through with drastic funding cuts… Read More ›

Trump’s Visa Policy May Harm Israeli Hi-Tech Innovators

Trump’s Visa Policy May Harm Israeli Hi-Tech Innovators

Last Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order to evaluate the H-1B visa program, which enables skilled foreign workers with a “specialty occupation” to work temporarily… 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 ›

After meeting German FM, B’Tselem calls on world to punish Israel

After meeting German FM, B’Tselem calls on world to punish Israel

Netanyahu defends decision to snub Berlin’s top diplomat Sigmar Gabriel over his meetings with leftwing advocacy groups   German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel met with… Read More ›

‘I am a Muslim Arab and an Israeli Zionist, and I love the Jewish people’

‘I am a Muslim Arab and an Israeli Zionist, and I love the Jewish people’

One of the most patriotic families in Israel lives just a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip. The father—a former Gazan—wears a medallion with the… Read More ›

‘Auschwitz Hero’ Survived Shoah so Grandsons Could be ‘Heroes in Israel’

‘Auschwitz Hero’ Survived Shoah so Grandsons Could be ‘Heroes in Israel’

“Our grandmother always said she beat Mengele during the Holocaust,” says IDF Lt. -Col.   Holocaust Remembrance Day holds special meaning for Shimon and Yair… 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 ›

Ukrainian PM to Visit Israel as Anger Over Anti-Settlement UN Resolution Subsides

Ukrainian PM to Visit Israel as Anger Over Anti-Settlement UN Resolution Subsides

One diplomatic official said that Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman’s rescheduled visit is a clear sign that relations with Ukraine have returned to normal.   Prime… Read More ›

PM hosts Holocaust survivors who will light memorial torches

PM hosts Holocaust survivors who will light memorial torches

Benjamin Netanyahu receives the six survivors who will light the ceremonial torches in memory of the six million Jews murdered on Holocaust Memorial Day. ‘You… Read More ›

Texas House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Anti-BDS Bill

Texas House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Anti-BDS Bill

  In a groundbreaking legislative act to blunt economic warfare against Israel, the Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed on Thursday an anti-boycott bill that… Read More ›

Auschwitz survivor recounts her harrowing story to Israeli president

Auschwitz survivor recounts her harrowing story to Israeli president

‘We kept walking. After a few moments, we heard the shots’—a survivor of the Auschwitz extermination camp, who lost her entire family in the Holocaust… Read More ›

French Jews put off by Le Pen now worry about another presidential candidate

French Jews put off by Le Pen now worry about another presidential candidate

Rise of communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, an anti-Israel lawmaker, has Jewish community caught between two extremes   Even before the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon emerged… Read More ›

Washington – Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump Named To Time’s 100 Most Influential People List

Washington – Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump Named To Time’s 100 Most Influential People List

  Washington – Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were named to Time magazine’s  100 Most Influential People list for 2017 The Jewish daughter and son-in-law… Read More ›

Swiss Foreign Minister Under Fire for Pro-Hamas Policies

Swiss Foreign Minister Under Fire for Pro-Hamas Policies

Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter is widely considered as unfriendly toward Israel.   Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter’s meetings with the Jihadist organization Hamas have… Read More ›

Israeli start-up invents traumatic anxiety-treating app

Israeli start-up invents traumatic anxiety-treating app

With Israel unfortunately being a leading force in dealing with traumatic events, one psychologist and three former elite IDF fighters are looking to help work… Read More ›

Russian Envoy Foreign Ministry to Discuss Recognition of J’Lem

Russian Envoy Foreign Ministry to Discuss Recognition of J’Lem

Even though Russia recognized west Jerusalem as the capital, it does not mean that the embassy will move from Tel Aviv.   Russia’s Ambassador to… Read More ›

Israel to phase out customs duties on some consumer goods

Israel to phase out customs duties on some consumer goods

The Finance Minister reveals his financial plan: taxes on the import of baby clothes, shoes, and cellular devices will be abolished. Due to the ongoing… Read More ›