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Avi is a news writer for The Jewish Press. In the past, he has covered Israel and the Jewish world for Israel National News, Ami magazine and other international media.
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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
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?
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."
Police find three-meter tunnel in South Hebron Hills; last week, local communities ran dry thanks to hundreds of illegal taps into water main
There is lots of evidence that Hilary Rodham Clinton, the former senator from New York, first lady and secretary of state, will to try to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. Even before formally announcing her candidacy, she's been campaigning and making waves, all in an attempt to keep her name not only […]
"I would prefer Abu Mazen to worry about making things better here than holding Nakba protests," said one taxi driver.
Orange County campus has been hotbed of Jewish-Muslim tension for years, since Muslim students prevented Israel's ambassador from speaking
Even by Arab standards, the Ma'alot terror attack was a shock: Teenage hostages, murdered in cold blood
“The phenomenon of Israeli Arabs going to Syria presents a tremendous threat to the State of Israel," said Shabak officials
During previous papal visits to Israel no one cared about David's Tomb. Why has it suddenly become "disputed"?
Aliya support organizations to host event for immigrants who have left their families in order to serve the Jewish state.
The United Nations is considering the possibility that Iran just might have figured out how to avoid international sanctions in order to continue that country’s drive to develop nuclear weapons. According to a confidential new report by a U.N. panel that compliance with international sanctions, Tehran appears to be using its petrochemical industry as a […]
On the face of things, Jewish life in France appears stronger than ever: Jewish schools are thriving, there are kosher butchers all over the country, and the Jewish population has more than doubled since 1945. So why are people talking about the end of Europe's largest Jewish community?
After reaching the pinnacle of the American medical profession by the age of 30, Glick packed it all up for the opportunity to build the Jewish state. Ahead of his latest award ceremony, Glick sat with The Jewish Press to talk about Israel, medicine and everything in between
The Israeli and international press have barely noted Arab attacks against Jewish sites around Israel, including swastikas and anti-Israel graffiti - apparently neither have the police.
Amnesty International reporter admits Palestinian Arabs often mislead human rights activists.
Clinton's State Department refused to name Boko Haram as foreign terrorist organization in 2011.
Government finally moves to bar release of murderers; terror victims' families long sought this step
Oz claims graffiti or slashed tires are today’s equivalent of Dr Mengele; what is left to discuss?
An Israeli rabbi and American Christian pastor have joined together to combat discriminatory practices against non-Muslimes at the Temple Mount. Rabbi Yehudah Glick Glick, chairman of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation, and Pastor Ketih Johnson, founder of the Biblical Foundations Academy International group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, say they will use Pope Francis’ visit to Israel […]
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on Sunday a discovery that could have important implications for the treatment of heart failure. The research, conducted by doctoral candidate Inbal Rachmin, under the supervision of Prof. Ehud Razin and Dr. Sagi Tshori shows that the use of a protein called Erbin acts as a brake […]
Roger Waters may be ramping up his anti-Semitic attempts to discourage other musicians to boycott Israel, but the music world is saying “We don’t need no thought control.”
Once again, peace with Israel is a major campaign issue in Egypt. Frontrunner al-Sisi says treaty is 'stable'; challenger is long-time opponent of treaty
Radical Islamist groups in the US have asked the National September 11 Memorial Museum to censor derogatory references about al-Qaeda in order not to offend Muslims.
Housing Minister Uri Ariel told the family of murder victim Shelly Dadon that Israel must not release murderers, NRG reported in Hebrew. “We must not release killers,” Ariel said during a condolence visit to the Dadon home in Afula. When you release murderers, every one of them does the simple math. Every release encourages the […]
Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness has banned a Muslim charity that officials believe has funnelled more than C$15 million (US $13.7 million) to Hamas. Lawyers for the International Relief Fund for Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN-Canada) slammed the decision, which now makes it a criminal offence “to knowingly deal in the property or […]
Prime Minister Netanyahu says his proposal to enshrine Israel’s status as a Jewish country should include a provision establishing the Talmud as the basis of Israeli law. “I want to anchor provisions into this basic law to ensure that the State of Israel was created and exists on a foundation of the Torah and of […]
Yizhar Hess, director general of the Masorti (Conservative) movement in Israel, apparently believes that graffiti attacks against Arab targets are at least as serious as physical violence against Jews. Writing in the Hebrew-language Yedioth Aharonoth, Hess said that per capita there were more racist attacks in Israel than anti-Semitic attacks in France during the year […]
A haredi man from Lakewood, N.J. has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping, in order to force a man to give his wife a get (Jewish divorce document). The Lohud online news service reported that Fifty-one-year-old David Wax also implicated residents of Brooklyn and Monsey. Two of the men, Rabbi Mendel Epstein of Brooklyn […]
Radical columnist Gideon Levy summed up the week’s Yom HaZikaron/ Yom HaAtzma'ut events in the left-wing with a blistering attack on Israeli society, including a “suspicion… that Israeli parents don’t really love their children.” To “proove” his point, Levy criticises Israeli schools who encourage small children to light memorial candles to honor Holocaust victims and […]
The Hamas al-Aqsa TV channel called on Palestinian children to kill all Jews, wherever they are. According to Palestinian Media Watch, which posted a YouTube video of the cartoon with English-language subtitles, the children's show Tomorrow's Pioneers instructed children to shoot "all the Jews," and featured a young girl who dreams of shooting Jews. Child host (Rawan): "Tulin, why […]
At 91, most people would be happy to retire. As his career in public office draws to a close, however, is Shimon Peres preparing one last push to resuscitate the failed Oslo process?
Students at the Or Menachem yeshiva in Tzfat told reporters that police only responded to a graffiti attack on the grave of the Talmudic Rabbi Halafta when they believed the media would be covering the response. The students who discovered the vandalism told the Hebrew-language Col.org website that police showed no interested in the swastika […]
Arresting Jewish activists on the Temple Mount cannot change the facts: More and more Jews are vying for the right to pray at Judaism's holiest site
Young, and young-at-heart Israelis flood streets of downtown Jerusalem to celebrate return of Jewish sovereignty to Land of Israel.
A group of self-hating, anti-Zionist Israelis has used Yom HaAtzma'ut to launch a smartphone application to memorialise the Palestinian “narrative” of Israel’s War of Independence, and to promote the memory of the Arab towns destroyed as a result of the Arab decision to attack the nascent Jewish state in May, 1948. The Zochrot organization was […]
Netanyahu admitted the decision to release Arab murderers was 'too tough to bear', but failed to acknowledge that the moved failed
Prime Minister Netanyahu has praised the 23,169 IDF soldiers who have died in Israel’s wars. “You are our heroes,” said Netanyahu in his address to the opening ceremony at tonight’s Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) ceremony. The prime minister. who lost his brother Yoni Netanyahu during the Entebbe rescue mission in July, 1976, then paraphrased the […]
Speaking at the opening Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) ceremony at the Kotel, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz said, “From our nation’s wall of memory that we stand before tonight, from these stones of hope that have accompanied our country in our fight for life and our dreams of peace, from this place […]
IDF and the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev) have teamed up to create the first pre-army military academy (mechina) for the haredi community. There are 16 students in the inaugural class at Yeshivat Derech Haim, located in the Bayit Vegan neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Students will spend two years involved in full-time yeshiva study, […]
Finance Minister Yair Lapid seems intent on avoiding the most obvious solution to Israel's housing crisis: Building in Judea and Samaria.
Public sees HaTnua leader Tzipi Livni as face of "peace" process. As a result, her party wouldn't make it into the Knesset were elections held today.
Dear Abir I read with interest your blogpost objecting to having been included in Haaretz’s list of 66 Israeli Women You Should Know, published by that newspaper ahead of Yom HaAtzma’ut. Of course, respect your right to self-definition, and your desire to be known as a Palestinian, not as an Israeli (although I would point […]
A university lecturer has called on administrators to protect Jewish students on campus
