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By Moshe Herman
Yishai gives his commentary about Michelle Bachmann’s talk at the Manhigut Yehudit Yom Haatzmaut dinner.
By Dov Gilor
We created an organization of former Bnei Akiva of North America members who have fulfilled the dream of living in Eretz Yisrael.
By JTA
Stanley Fischer was confirmed as a member of the Federal Reserve, clearing the way for the former Bank of Israel governor to become the Fed’s vice chairman.
Communists saw no anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union; modern radicals deny Arab anti-Semitism.
Evaluating forces us to consider the gift of every moment we have.
Beautiful Site, Joy of all the Earth; two of the seventy names provided for Jerusalem.
"Bring you own popcorn," says Minister Naftali Bennett on his Facebook page after the Knesset bill passed the popcorn bill.
Israeli authorities obsessed with conflating graffiti with terrorist attacks have distributed restraining orders to an unknown number of right-wing activists they suspect might disrupt the Pope's visit to Israel.
Silvan Shalom has droped out of the race for President of Israel, according to a Jerusalem Post report. Shalom decided that he did not have the support of PM Netanyahu, and without it, he'd have no chance. Likud support is now expected to be focused on Ruby Rivlin, who also doesn't have the Prime Minister's […]
Israel has surpassed the U.S. and Europe in recycling plastic bottles, according to a statement by EDI, a Jerusalem marketing and communications firm. The report cited a new report by the ELA Recycling Corporation, a private organization that works to promote bottle recycling in Israel. The report said that 54% of Israel's plastic bottles were recycled in 2012, […]
Last Friday, Iranian officials claimed the West was making “excessive demands” and cautioned that “The Iranian nation has shown that pressure…always backfires.”
AIPAC’s dominion – reinforced by Christian Zionists and the usual cast of neocon hawks – is destructive on many fronts.
By dvora
While the UN had designated it for an Arab state, the Arabs did not accept the idea, choosing instead to make war on the newborn state of Israel.
Critics have suggested that the survey is flawed because the statements are not fair indicators of real anti-Jewish bias.
13 years since his father's brutal murder in Ramallah, David Vadim Norzhitz became a bar mitzvah.
While grateful not to be returned to Germany, the passengers understood they were still in the middle of a danger zone.
By JTA
Greece may be the cradle of democracy, but anti-Jewish feeling runs deep in the country
Veiled threats against the Maronite leader from hard-line Islamic radicals in Lebanon have been posted on the Internet.
Generations of Jews who could not live in the Holy Land dreamt only of being buried on the Mount of Olives. Today, Jews who visit take their lives in their hands.
By Josh Hasten
“This legislation is anti-liberal and makes no sense in a free market where anyone can do what they want as long as it’s legal and ethical,” Pollak told JNS.
By Darryl Egnal
Naale Elite Academy is a unique, exclusive, top quality Israeli high school program for Diaspora Jews. Students receive a full scholarship with all expenses paid until they graduate.
Mohammed al-Dura, take two: Left-wing groups say security cameras captured death of Palestinian rioters in real time, but footage is staged.
"When we landed in Beijing, a Chinese army captain and soldier, weapons drawn, boarded the plane and swiftly collected all passports. Since we had no entry visas to China, we were summarily hauled off the plane and marched to the terminal..."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Brig. Gen. Tevet-Wiesel spoke to global military representatives on the IDF’s opportunities for women, which are considered advanced relative to those of other armies.
By dvora
If bitcoins aren’t issued by any sort of government agency, or printed in any mint, where do they come from, and how do you get them?
Ashkelon launched a new separate gender beach this week, but only on land.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Haifa was crowned the ‘smartest’ city in the Middle East by the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona.
Israel Police asks the public to help find 19-year-old Bat-El Aminov, missing since Tuesday.
The Palestinian Authority is hoping to use the upcoming visit by Pope Francis as a political pipebomb.
The school took all the classes and parents down to Ma'arat Hamachpelah in Hebron for a graduation ceremony.
Declaring sovereignty over the country is a necessary reaction to the revelation of Divine loving-kindness in our era.
Now Hamas is being given a strategy for making acceptable its unalterable hostility towards the Jewish state.
By Batya Medad
Naftali Bennett's staff put together a brilliant video clip explaining the dangers of a nuclear Iran.
There is going to be a march in Bet Shemesh, protesting that charedi soldiers are being harassed.
Allow Chloé to help you and those you know how to stop punishing truth and rewarding intimidation.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about Lag B'Omer in Meron, Israeli Arabs finding their identity, and French Jews leaving France en masse to preserve their identity.
By Chabad.org
Felder said he and his fellow students learned well the teaching of the Rebbe.
Palestinian Arab Government corruption makes normal economic development virtually impossible.
Presumably, Bat Ayin children suspected of price tag crimes, but no charges have been filed; several teens held for more than a week without seeing a lawyer
Ties set to expand between Israel and developing world
Hundreds of students, relatives and family friends accompanied Rabbi Moshe Horowitz, rosh yeshiva of Jerusalem's Beit Midrash LeTorah yeshiva, on his final journey to the capital's Har Menuchot cemetery Monday night. The rav was eulogized by his son, grandson and one long-time student, Eli Dordek.
By JTA
The heads of UCLA and the University of California system criticized a student-led pledge that urged candidates for student government to refuse trips to Israel sponsored by certain pro-Israel groups. In a statement emailed Friday to students, staff and faculty, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said the pledge was protected speech under the First Amendment, but added that “just because […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Three Israeli students from Ben Gurion University of the Negev won second place at the International Cultural and Academic Meeting of Engineering Students conference (ICAMES), a world-wide engineering project competition organized by the Engineering Society of Bogazici University in Istanbul.
IDF soldiers fought their way through gunfire and Molotov cocktails to arrest suspected terrorists in Samaria.
Two illegal workers from the Palestinian Authority died in a moshav fire near Latrun.
The Knesset has passed an amending eliminating the term “single parent family” from the lexicon of the legal system.
By Shalom Bear
Soros's organizations are quietly trying to influence politics. While Adelson does his influencing openly. Why is only Sheldon attacked?
U.S. rapper Macklemore apologized after a firestorm over appearing in costume as what looked like an eastern European Jew.
By Fred Reed
One plausible explanation for this rigid evolutionary monotheism, though I think an incorrect one, is a fear that the children might come to believe in Creationism.
While they continue to hate Israel and seek its destruction, many Arabs admire the independence of Israel's judicial system.
UNRWA's numbers mean half the refugees in the world are Palestinian Arabs.
Just because speech is constitutionally protected doesn’t mean that it is wise, fair or productive.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and activist Joe Sebag talk about the current relationship between Israel and the United States.
Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball players celebrate with fans after the Israeli team won the Euroleague Finals Sunday night.
The Jew-Nazi drinking game has trivialized, even fictionalized, the Holocaust into a mode of entertainment.
The Holocaust Cellar will serve as a learning center dedicated to the 13,000 local Jewish Holocaust victims.
By JTA
95.2% of all respondents to the online survey said they viewed anti-Semitism as “very worrisome” or “worrisome.”
By Chanie Katz
Living in Eretz Yisrael I learn our land is so much more than the politics and terror described in the papers.
US Army Specialist Adrian M. Perkins, 19, of Pine Valley, California, was shot and killed on Saturday. He died in an Amman, Jordan hospital from his injuries. US military officials said the shooting was not combat related, but there are no other details known about the incident, other than officials say the shooter was not Jordanian, […]
Palestinians are the only refugee group in the world with a relief organization dedicated to their issue. Other refugee populations have been resettled; why are Palestinians different?
Having a baby is hard work. But Israel really makes it worth all the effort – starting with one particular hospital in Jerusalem.
The International Solidarity Movement claims to be a non-violent protest movement, but why do it's members consistently support violence?
Senior IDF officers visited the Western Wall today to prepare for next week’s Jerusalem Day celebrations in the capital. Members of the IDF Joint Chiefs of General Staff held prayer services led by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites, including special prayers for the State of Israel and the […]
Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial and museum, will present a replica of a Holocaust-era drawing to Pope Francis when he visits the site next Monday. Like Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II, Francis will visit the Hall of Remembrance, where he will deliver an address and greet six Holocaust survivors. The Pope will be invited to kindle the eternal […]
Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority are putting the final touches on preparations for Pope Francis' arrival next weekend. But police spokesmen are frustrated they haven't been able to crack the 'price tag' nut
Israeli MKs from Likud and Labor plan to submit a bill allowing Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City.
By Moshe Herman
(((CLICK BELOW TO HEAR AUDIO))) Yishai broadcasts on a beautiful evening from Jerusalem’s Mamilla Mall and is joined by Knesset insider Jeremy Man Saltan. Together, they discuss what is currently happening inside the Knesset Summer Session including a proposed law to eradicate Presidential pardons for those that have been convicted of murder. These pardons have […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“We met with Israeli residents who just want to live their lives, to coexist with their neighbors. They want to leave politics out of it. It was impressive to see how these communities actually function and how well they get along with their surroundings.”
The video shows a passenger train traveling between Ashkelon and Sderot being filmed from within Gaza - how long until a missile targets it instead.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Corporal Diego Tapia, 28, is not your typical IDF soldier. Born a Catholic, in Bogota, Colombia, Diego discovered Judaism during his research in university, converted and immigrated to Israel. After completing three years of study in Yeshiva in Jerusalem he enlisted in the IDF.
More than 265,000 Egyptian expats voted in the Egyptian presidential elections.
Police report that tens of thousands of people visited the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron this year. It's become a popular tradition in Israel to visit Meron on Lag B'Omer. There were fewer complaints of traffic jams, as police didn't allow private transportation to the site.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
For 10,000 Israeli fans that filled the Mediolanum Forum Arena in Milan, Italy, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv’s win against Spain’s Real Madrid was a sweet victory.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Israel Ministry of Tourism is investing approximately NIS 10 million ($2.9 million) in marketing initiatives and infrastructure projects before, during and after the visit of Pope Francis to Israel, on May 25-26 May.
Rabbi Hier explains what must be learned from the Holocaust, and why it is important never to forget.
Instead of a time when a race of sentient robots will roam the Earth, we prefer to focus on the time when humans will live according to their fullest potentials.
Bows and arrows are what I remember from the Lag B'Omers of my childhood. None of this bonfire stuff. There are three reasons for the bow and arrow. 1) As a reminder of Bar Kochvah's war against the Romans. 2) Because the Jews used to go out to the woods to learn Torah, but tricked […]
The Clinton administration whitewashed Yasir Arafat and the PA then; Team Obama now whitewashes Abbas.
Severe birth pains have accompanied Libya's lurch towards democracy.
Australia has always had a vocal far-left constituency, but they are a minority that have had little voice in mainstream politics. Is that changing?
From its inception in 1926, Tnuva has been a household name, for children as they learned to talk up through adulthood. How do you say "Tnuva" in Chinese?
By Rhona Lewis
Roni Tzur, a counselor with OneFamily, explains that Sara “is mourning a mother who is actually alive."
IDF has a support center for women, and a women’s adviser in every unit of the IDF. No other military has that.
The Palestinian Authority-run Ma’an news website is well known for promoting baseless Arab propaganda, but you’d have thought they could at least get their basic geography right. But in an article bemoaning the “nakba” - the “tragedy” of having lost a war they started - Ma’an seems to have forgotten some of the basic geography of […]
Political arrests continue unabated in both Ramallah and Gaza; Freedom Committee spokesman: Arrests have "strained reconciliation atmosphere."
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and IBM have launched a Center of Excellence in the field of protection of infrastructure and assets. The Center will be housed at the university’s campus in Beer-Sheva. The center will focus on research and development of solutions for the private and public enterprise markets, with a focus on the […]
Text of Netanyahu's weekly cabinet address.
By JTA
An Israeli held for 14 years in an Egyptian prison accused Israel’s prime minister of not doing enough to secure his release. The prisoner, Ouda Tarabin, is a former resident of the Bedouin city of Rahat, in the Negev Desert. He was arrested in 2000 while visiting Egypt, charged with being an Israeli spy and given […]
By Shalom Bear
The police spend so much time failing to find graffiti vandals, they can't seem to stop actual terror attacks against Jews that everyone else knows about.
By Shalom Bear
This is what Gaza currently looks like. The PA-Hamas unity government will soon bring this to Judea and Samaria.
Is this a new Lag B'Omer tradition in the making?
There was an obvious appearance of prejudice – even if there wasn’t any in actuality.
November 6, 2026 
