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Street food elevated to the sublime

Street food elevated to the sublime

Review: Chef Yuval Ben Neriah’s interpretation of the street foods of India, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia has catapulted Taizu into the elite ranks of… Read More ›

Dinner event honoring terrorists held in East Jerusalem

Dinner event honoring terrorists held in East Jerusalem

Families of young people jailed in Israel for terrorist activities attended a special Iftar dinner to break the fast of Ramadan; Relatives received special commemorative… Read More ›

Entebbe thrust Benjamin Netanyahu onto trajectory leading to politics

Entebbe thrust Benjamin Netanyahu onto trajectory leading to politics

Over the years some of Netanyahu’s detractors have accused him of using his brother’s story for his own political benefit.   Forty years after a… Read More ›

IDF archives release tapes of Operation Yonatan debriefing

IDF archives release tapes of Operation Yonatan debriefing

Israel Air Force commander Maj.-Gen. Benny Peled is heard saying that his superior, IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. Motta Gur, had doubts about the mission… Read More ›

Security cabinet approves ‘aggressive steps’ in wake of recent attacks

Security cabinet approves ‘aggressive steps’ in wake of recent attacks

Hebron region cordoned off, all relatives of attackers to be investigated; Liberman, Bennett Face off in security cabinet meeting.   Israel is using “aggressive measures” against… Read More ›

A personal retrospective: Was Elie Wiesel happy?

A personal retrospective: Was Elie Wiesel happy?

To keep describing Wiesel in all the obituaries as a survivor does an injustice to the totality of his life and accomplishments.   “You came… Read More ›

Facebook rejects harsh Israeli critique over incitement

Facebook rejects harsh Israeli critique over incitement

Top minister had said ‘monster’ company’s CEO, Zuckerberg, has blood of slain Israeli teen on his hands   Facebook on Saturday night dismissed an Israeli… Read More ›

Chava Mark’s condition stable, but serious

Chava Mark’s condition stable, but serious

The mother in the car shot at on Friday near Hebron who lost her husband in the attack is improving, says the head of the… Read More ›

In response to rocket fire, IAF strikes in Gaza

In response to rocket fire, IAF strikes in Gaza

Israeli Air Force planes struck four Hamas targets in the Gaza Friday night, responding to a rocket fired from the Strip, which landed in a… Read More ›

IDF: Friday’s rocket fired by Salafi group, not Hamas

IDF: Friday’s rocket fired by Salafi group, not Hamas

The military assesses that the rocket fired from the Gaza Strip at Sderot on Friday night was not fired by Hamas and was actually contrary… Read More ›

Erdan blames Facebook for aiding recent murders

Erdan blames Facebook for aiding recent murders

Other MKs continued to blame MK Haneen Zoabi (Joint List) for inciting to violence on Wednesday by calling IDF soldiers murderers.   Facebook founder Mark… Read More ›

Analysis: The dangers of a violent spiral

Analysis: The dangers of a violent spiral

Is this a tolerable level of violence, which both sides are willing to absorb while they go about their daily routine?   For the first… Read More ›

Training activists in the social media war against BDS

Training activists in the social media war against BDS

IDC in Herzliya spearheading effort to provide students with tools to defend Israel.   Sitting in a classroom at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, a… Read More ›

Netanyahu links terror attacks to Islamic extremism, UN envoy to ‘Palestinian resentment’

Netanyahu links terror attacks to Islamic extremism, UN envoy to ‘Palestinian resentment’

UN special envoy Nickolay Mladenov, in an address to the Security Council on the Middle East, referred to Palestinian violence and terror – which he… Read More ›

ADL lauds Dems’ platform backing two states, opposing BDS

ADL lauds Dems’ platform backing two states, opposing BDS

Group’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt urges GOP to use similar language to reflect bipartisan consensus on Israel   The Anti-Defamation League commended the Democratic National Convention’s… Read More ›

Trump tells anti-Israel backer he’ll protect Israel ‘100%’

Trump tells anti-Israel backer he’ll protect Israel ‘100%’

At New Hampshire rally, GOP candidate calls Jewish state ‘very, very important ally,’ hints at concern over Muslim TSA officers   Donald Trump vowed to… Read More ›

Mother of slain girl: ‘Here’s one last hug from mom’

Mother of slain girl: ‘Here’s one last hug from mom’

Hundreds attend funeral of 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who was murdered in a terrorist attack on Thursday morning; MK Yehuda Glick weeps at funeral: ‘No… Read More ›

Settler leaders demand more security, new construction

Settler leaders demand more security, new construction

In wake of deadly terror attack in Kiryat Arba, Samaria Regional Council leader calls on gov’t to make ‘operational decisions’ to strengthen deterrence, while Yesha… Read More ›

Netanyahu links terror attacks to Islamic extremism, UN envoy to ‘Palestinian resentment’

Netanyahu links terror attacks to Islamic extremism, UN envoy to ‘Palestinian resentment’

UN special envoy Nickolay Mladenov, in an address to the Security Council on the Middle East, referred to Palestinian violence and terror – which he… Read More ›

AIPAC lauds Senate for additional foreign aid, anti-BDS action for Israel

AIPAC lauds Senate for additional foreign aid, anti-BDS action for Israel

The Combat BDS Act smoothed the wheels for state and local governments to legislate against the boycott, divestment and sanctioning of the Jewish state.  … Read More ›