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Analysis: Is the next ‘Arab Spring’ implosion around the corner?

Analysis: Is the next ‘Arab Spring’ implosion around the corner?

Report of increasing restlessness of young Arabs will surely be on the Israel security establishment’s radar screen.   The alarm bells sounding the impending youth… Read More ›

Austria’s Nazi past encroaches on election campaign

Austria’s Nazi past encroaches on election campaign

As elections in Austria approach Sunday, politicians are superimposing rivals’ faces onto likenesses of Adolf Hitler; Austria has only come to terms with its Nazi… Read More ›

New York – New York City Woman Finds Lost Wedding Ring In Trash Dump

New York – New York City Woman Finds Lost Wedding Ring In Trash Dump

New York – It took two hours of sifting through more than 200 bags of garbage at a New Jersey trash-transfer station before a New… Read More ›

Colombia plane crash: Jet without fuel, crew member said

Colombia plane crash: Jet without fuel, crew member said

Just before LaMia Flight 2933 crashed into a hillside near Medellin, Colombia, a crew member onboard told air traffic controllers, “The plane is in total… Read More ›

Kurdistan in Iraq commemorates Jewish history

Kurdistan in Iraq commemorates Jewish history

Regional gov’t hosts event for second year recalling Iraq’s discrimination against Jews in 1940s.   “Kurdistan has always believed in living peacefully and with respect… Read More ›

Victim in Buchris trial opposes plea bargain

Victim in Buchris trial opposes plea bargain

In response to a proposed plea bargain in which Brig. Gen. Ofek Buchris admits to inappropriate behavior instead of rape, the lawyer of one of… Read More ›

Analysis: First reported IAF strikes in months hint at importance of targets

Analysis: First reported IAF strikes in months hint at importance of targets

Israel said to act on declared ‘red lines’ with overnight air raids on Syrian military base, Hezbollah weapons convoy   For the first time in… Read More ›

London – Philip Morris CEO Says Looks Towards Phasing Out Cigarettes

London – Philip Morris CEO Says Looks Towards Phasing Out Cigarettes

  London –  Philip Morris International, the world’s largest international tobacco company, could eventually stop selling cigarettes, its chief executive told the BBC on Wednesday,… Read More ›

A pattern is emerging with Trump’s deals to save US manufacturing jobs

A pattern is emerging with Trump’s deals to save US manufacturing jobs

  Donald Trump said during his campaign that he would, if elected president, convince the air-conditioner manufacturer Carrier not to shutter a plant in Indiana… Read More ›

Int’l law does not deal with attack tunnels, say experts

Int’l law does not deal with attack tunnels, say experts

It is unclear to what extent an armed force is obliged to check whether civilians are hiding in a tunnel before attacking it as a… Read More ›

The anti-Zionist right

The anti-Zionist right

Op-ed: Instead of having the state’s best interest in mind, Likud Knesset members are insisting on enacting damaging laws in order to gather a few… Read More ›

When a Muslim MK beseeched Israel to fund a Moroccan synagogue

When a Muslim MK beseeched Israel to fund a Moroccan synagogue

In impassioned plea, Zouheir Bahloul says Jewish state has ‘duty’ to support upkeep of holy places abroad, but local Jewish community ‘surprised’ by request, says… Read More ›

Washington – Dems Concerned About Sessions, But Have Little Recourse

Washington – Dems Concerned About Sessions, But Have Little Recourse

  Washington – Senate Republicans are hoping to move quickly to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, but Democrats say they have concerns… Read More ›

Troop carriers seized: Is China sending Singapore a message?

Troop carriers seized: Is China sending Singapore a message?

  Singapore is scrambling to recover nine armored troop carriers that have been impounded in Hong Kong for almost a week after they were used… Read More ›

Jewish Democrats cry hypocrisy over US general’s Israel remarks

Jewish Democrats cry hypocrisy over US general’s Israel remarks

Gen. James Mattis, contender for Trump’s defense secretary, said settlements could lead to ‘apartheid.’   WASHINGTON – After defending US President Barack Obama’s credentials on… Read More ›

The reality of women in combat roles

The reality of women in combat roles

Op-ed: Research shows that not only has operational preparedness suffered as a result of women’s incorporation in combat units, but that female soldiers themselves have… Read More ›

Top US firefighters ‘dropped everything’ to help Israel battle the blazes

Top US firefighters ‘dropped everything’ to help Israel battle the blazes

39 firefighters, mostly not Jewish, answered Israel’s call for help through the Emergency Volunteers Project   TEL AVIV (JTA) — Call them Israel’s American volunteer… Read More ›

Aleppo, Syria – Young Syrian Girl Sends Harrowing Tweets Of Being Bombed In Aleppo

Aleppo, Syria – Young Syrian Girl Sends Harrowing Tweets Of Being Bombed In Aleppo

Aleppo, Syria – A seven-year-old Syrian girl, whose depictions of daily life in Aleppo have gained a large Twitter following, has sent harrowing messages describing… Read More ›

Petraeus takes center stage amid infighting about Trump considering Romney for secretary of state

Petraeus takes center stage amid infighting about Trump considering Romney for secretary of state

  Retired Gen. David Petraeus met with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday to discuss the possibility of serving as the next secretary of state. “I… Read More ›

Analysis: IDF meets Islamic State

Analysis: IDF meets Islamic State

Is ISIS trying to provoke Israel?   The cross-border incident Sunday morning on the Golan Heights between the IDF and Islamic State-linked terrorists in Syria represented… Read More ›