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Jewish educators called to UK authority meeting on Rosh Hashana

Jewish educators called to UK authority meeting on Rosh Hashana

The Rosh Hashana meeting, which is meant to brief schools on a new inspection framework, has angered and bewildered Jewish educational heads.   LONDON –… Read More ›

Israeli safety app Musketeer saves lives

Israeli safety app Musketeer saves lives

Musketeer is a cellular safety application based on the premise that help is most efficient and effective when it comes to those in need quickly.… Read More ›

US candidate Huckabee says Obama marching Israelis to ‘door of the oven’

US candidate Huckabee says Obama marching Israelis to ‘door of the oven’

Reacting to the Iran nuclear deal, the former Arkansas governor called Barack Obama “feckless” and “naive.”   The Obama administration’s nuclear accord with Iran is comparable… Read More ›

UK student organization censures president over Coca-Cola ties with Israel

UK student organization censures president over Coca-Cola ties with Israel

Megan Dunn and her vice president, Richard Brooks, decided to ignore the NUS boycott of Coca-Cola by accepting its financial backing for an NUS awards… Read More ›

Washingotn – Officials Deny Report That U.S. Preparing To Release Israeli Spy

Washingotn – Officials Deny Report That U.S. Preparing To Release Israeli Spy

  Washington –  U.S. officials on Friday denied a Wall Street Journal report that the Obama administration was considering early release for Jonathan Pollard, a… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Pollard’s Ex-Wife: Israel Should Fund His Legal Defense

Tel Aviv – Pollard’s Ex-Wife: Israel Should Fund His Legal Defense

  Tel Aviv – The former wife of Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, called Saturday on the Israeli government to pay… Read More ›

Israel lands in World Cup qualifier with Italy, Spain

Israel lands in World Cup qualifier with Italy, Spain

National team faces long odds to make cut for 2018 tournament in Russia after being chosen for same group as European titans   Israel’s national… Read More ›

Video: Former pilot explores the other Jerusalem

Video: Former pilot explores the other Jerusalem

Eliezer Yaari pens a book on the other side of the ‘invisible’ divide, probing Israel’s bi-national dilemma Eliezer Yaari, a native of Jerusalem, lives along… Read More ›

Adam Sandler: I always had a great connection with Israel

Adam Sandler: I always had a great connection with Israel

In his new movie ‘Pixels,’ funnyman and long-time Israel supporter is fighting to save the world from Pacman and Donkey Kong; his co-star Kevin James,… Read More ›

Beit Shemesh area fire leaves 1,500 dunams scorched

Beit Shemesh area fire leaves 1,500 dunams scorched

Damage to woodland is so severe it will take nature 20 years to recover; jackals, snakes and tortoises were all trapped in the flames and… Read More ›

IDF branches linking up in era of networked warfare

IDF branches linking up in era of networked warfare

IDF’s Communications Corps is constantly improving its systems to fight a networked war, including home front warning systems, saving hundreds of millions from the budget.… Read More ›

BBC under fire for documentary on Jerusalem Light Rail

BBC under fire for documentary on Jerusalem Light Rail

The 30-minute documentary in the BBC’s flagship ‘Panorama’ series was contentiously titled “The Train that Divides Jerusalem.”   LONDON – A BBC documentary examining the role… Read More ›

Defense Ministry D-G blasts Locker report

Defense Ministry D-G blasts Locker report

Defense establishment continues public campaign against call to cut IDF budget.   The defense establishment continued its intensive public campaign Wednesday and Thursday against the… Read More ›

Liberman: Netanyahu incapable of stopping the Iran deal

Liberman: Netanyahu incapable of stopping the Iran deal

In scathing rebuke, Yisrael Beytenu leader says PM lacks the leadership qualities required for the task, is ‘getting us nowhere’   Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor… Read More ›

Saudi FM: Iran deal may stop Tehran from getting a nuke

Saudi FM: Iran deal may stop Tehran from getting a nuke

After US defense secretary’s visit, Riyadh puts aside reservations, expresses support for nuclear accord   Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister expressed support for the Iran nuclear… Read More ›

Israeli archeologists find evidence of cereal cultivation 23,000 years ago

Israeli archeologists find evidence of cereal cultivation 23,000 years ago

Dig at Ohalo II prehistoric site on the shores of the Kinneret uncovers ‘proto-weeds’ indicating hunter-gatherers tried to cultivate wild cereals 11,000 years before the… Read More ›

Israeli Cobras gifted to Jordan for ‘border security’

Israeli Cobras gifted to Jordan for ‘border security’

US source says about 16 decommissioned attack helicopters given to Jordan last year to fend off potential attacks from ISIS. Israel has given retired US-supplied… Read More ›

Study: Diaspora Jews are growing increasingly critical of Israel

Study: Diaspora Jews are growing increasingly critical of Israel

The study, released this week by the Jewish People Policy Institute, an influential think tank based in Jerusalem, comes a year after Israel’s war in… Read More ›

Queens, NY – Police Release Video In Famed Jewish Jeweler’s Hit And Run

Queens, NY – Police Release Video In Famed Jewish Jeweler’s Hit And Run

  Queens, NY – Hoping for a break in the murder of a Queens man, the NYPD has released surveillance footage of the vehicle that… Read More ›

Borough Park – Brooklyn Jewish Org. Honors NY Board Of Regents Chancellor Tisch As Dedicated Advocate For Special Needs Children

Borough Park – Brooklyn Jewish Org. Honors NY Board Of Regents Chancellor Tisch As Dedicated Advocate For Special Needs Children

  Brooklyn, NY – Tapping into her own Jewish roots, an emotional Dr. Meryl Tisch, Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, spoke… Read More ›