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Israel not surprised by US/UK spying but says changes needed

Israel not surprised by US/UK spying but says changes needed

In Israel, it’s a given that foreign intelligence agencies active in the Middle East monitor Israeli military activities.   Israel’s defense establishment will probably not… Read More ›

The untold story of a Jewish Freedom Rider

The untold story of a Jewish Freedom Rider

A tribute to Rabbi Allan Levine, who fought for civil rights in the segregated US South.   NEW YORK – In the early seventies, Ori… Read More ›

Jewish groups join protests greeting ‘executioner’ Rouhani in Paris

Jewish groups join protests greeting ‘executioner’ Rouhani in Paris

Human rights activists express disapproval at president’s warm welcome with mock hanging near Eiffel Tower   PARIS — As France’s government welcomed the Iranian president… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Noted Charedi NY Rabbi Passes Away At 78 Share Tweet Share Mail

Brooklyn, NY – Noted Charedi NY Rabbi Passes Away At 78 Share Tweet Share Mail

Brooklyn, NY – Charedi rabbi and noted posek Rabbi Chaim Yisroel Belsky passed away this evening at the age of 78 at Maimonides Hospital in… 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 ›

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 ›

Netanyahu associate at meeting with Iranian FM

Netanyahu associate at meeting with Iranian FM

French Jewish MP attended parliamentary meeting with Foreign Minister Zarif during the latter’s latest visit to France. They discussed the Holocaust, Israel, Iran’s infamous cartoon… Read More ›

Obama’s Jewish heart

Obama’s Jewish heart

Op-ed: Even those who see Obama as hostile to Israel have to admit he went all the way in his expressions of affection during a… Read More ›

World Medical Association affirms trust in Israeli doctors in response to BDS campaign

World Medical Association affirms trust in Israeli doctors in response to BDS campaign

Organization’s president writes the Simon Wiesenthal Center, following a call by a group 71 British doctors to expel the Israeli Medical Association over accusations of… Read More ›

Washington – VIDEO: Obama Honors 4 Who Protected Jews During Holocaust

Washington – VIDEO: Obama Honors 4 Who Protected Jews During Holocaust

  Washington –  President Barack Obama is honoring four people, including Americans from Indiana and Tennessee, for risking their lives to protect Jews during the… Read More ›

1,700-year-old rabbis’ tombstones reflect Jewish life in Galilean city

1,700-year-old rabbis’ tombstones reflect Jewish life in Galilean city

Archaeologists unearth Greek and Aramaic funerary inscriptions from Tzippori, showing strong Jewish presence during period   Three 1,700-year-old funerary inscriptions written in Aramaic and Greek… Read More ›

Khamenei airs Holocaust denial video on international Remembrance Day

Khamenei airs Holocaust denial video on international Remembrance Day

Iran’s supreme leader says Europeans are silenced when they try to question historically accepted account of genocide against Jews   As the global community marked… Read More ›

UN chief rejects criticism from Israel: ‘Nothing justifies terrorism’

UN chief rejects criticism from Israel: ‘Nothing justifies terrorism’

After PM Netanyahu accused him of ‘giving terror a tailwind,’ Ban Ki-moon’s spokesman says the UN secretary-general stands behind remarks to the UN Security Council… Read More ›

Civilians apprehend stabber in Givat Ze’ev

Civilians apprehend stabber in Givat Ze’ev

Terrorist attacks a man about 50 years old outside a gas station restaurant, seriously wounding him; civilians tackle attacker to the ground, lightly wounding him.… Read More ›

Israel and Greece send message to Turkey: Our friendship is not aimed against you

Israel and Greece send message to Turkey: Our friendship is not aimed against you

“Our cooperation with Greece and Cyprus stands on its own,” Netanyahu said at a joint press conference in Jerusalem with Tsipras.   Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

One Israeli in serious condition after suspected terror stabbing in West Bank

One Israeli in serious condition after suspected terror stabbing in West Bank

  A Palestinian assailant stabbed an Israeli at a gas station in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze’ev, according to initial reports. MDA paramedics… Read More ›

‘I never implied Swedish FM should be assassinated,’ ex-government official says

‘I never implied Swedish FM should be assassinated,’ ex-government official says

Dr. Zvi Zameret, the former head of the Education Ministry’s pedagogical secretariat, wrote a stinging op-ed in ‘Makor Rishon’ on Friday that was harshly critical… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Survivor Sheds Light On Divisive WWII-era Jewish Councils

Jerusalem – Survivor Sheds Light On Divisive WWII-era Jewish Councils

  Jerusalem – Throughout the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, and while incarcerated in two prison camps, Mirjam Bolle wrote letters to her fiance that she… Read More ›

After stabbing attacks, army ordered to rethink settlement security

After stabbing attacks, army ordered to rethink settlement security

Netanyahu directs army to prepare widespread program to protect West Bank communities following three attacks in eight days   After a third terror attack inside… Read More ›

US envoy to UN condemns recent West Bank terror

US envoy to UN condemns recent West Bank terror

Samantha Power says while US ‘strongly opposes settlement activity,’ it ‘can never in itself be an excuse for violence’   US Ambassador to the UN… Read More ›