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The latest sordid details of Anthony Weiner’s sexting, after he already had quite Congress over the first publication of the scandal, have dropped from from first place in the latest New York mayoral race polls published by Quinnipiac University. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has retaken her previous place at the top of the pack, […]
Move back, Hamas, it's PLO time in Cairo. Even as deposed President Mohamed Morsi is facing prosecution for his ties with the Hamas terror organization that helped him escape from a Mubarak prison in 2011, and while Hamas, much like its mother organization, the Muslim Brothers, is terminally out of favor with the new rulers […]
As Israel begins talks with the Palestinian Authority, two rockets launched from Gaza hit Israel on Tuesday morning. The rockets fell in open areas, and no damage or injuries were reported.
The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a major faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, announced it rejected the new peace talks with Israel, According to AFP, the PFLP protested the fact that the resumption of talks was a unilateral move by President Mahmoud Abbas which did not have the backing of the […]
Former SS captain Erich Priebke lives under house arrest in Rome after being sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998 for the massacre in the Ardeatine Caves, where 335 civilians were killed in 1944, in retaliation for the killing of 33 SS officers by Italian partisans. According to Reuters, demonstrators, including members of Rome's Jewish community, […]
A fire that started in the Shifat Revivim synagogue on Nordau Street (near the Chabad neighborhood) in Netanya Monday night incinerated 10 Torah scrolls, some of them critically, the website Be'hadrei Haredim reports. There were no human casualties. Naftali David, head of the Hatzolah organization in the Sharon valley told the website that "the firefighting […]
A fox attacked a four-year-old girl in Lakewood, New Jersey on Saturday and later was shot dead when it tried to attack a policeman and an animal control officer who were called to the scene. The dead fox is being tested for the rabies, and the girl suffered light scratched on her arm, leg and […]
Police and rescue workers have found 10-year-old Shimon Zorger from Brooklyn Monday morning after a 15-hour search. The boy, who has Down Syndrome, is in good health, the Hudson Valley Times Herald--Record’s website reported. He had been visiting his grandparents in Kiryas Joel before he was reported missing. Residents, rescue units, police dogs and rescue […]
Israeli and Palestinian officials have announced their respective versions of the format for the peace talks which are expected to resume in Washington on Monday, and the two versions don't seem to be in synch, according to Reuters. In the past, the two sides agreed that, in order to avoid needless explosions in the talks, […]
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced last week the unsealing of an indictment against Russian hacker Aleksandr Kalinin, aka “Grig,” aka “g,” aka “tempo,” for hacking computer […]
The Israeli cabinet approved a bill that would require a referendum on any deal with the Palestinian Authority that would involve relinquishing sovereign Israeli land. The bill does not include Judea or Samaria, which have not yet been annexed, unlike the Golan and parts of Jerusalem after it was liberated. The bill will now go […]
The Israeli government unanimously approved the appointment of Ron Dermer, an Oleh from the US, as Israel's next ambassador to the U.S.
Hagai Amir, the brother of Yigal Amir, who shot and killed Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, wrote on his Facebook page that his brother should be freed. Hagai writes that since Netanyahu will be releasing Israeli Arabs who killed Israelis, there's no reason to not release Israeli Jews who killed Israelis, his brother first and foremost. […]
Syrian rebels claimed on Saturday that the Israeli Air Force bombed a convoy of missiles headed from Syria for Hezbollah, while Lebanon reported that IAF planes flew over several regions of the country. The Lebanese El-Nashra website reported that Israeli jets bombed Syrian posts. .No other source has confirmed a strike on a missile convoy. […]
Naftali Bennett, Economy Minister and Jewish Home party chairman, wrote on Facebook Saturday night, “Terrorists should be killed, not released. All my life I fought towards fulfilling the two parts of this sentence. Tomorrow I will vote against.” A former IDF combat officer, Bennett said he has ordered his party ministers to vote against the […]
One is immediately reminded of how Rabin and Sharon stacked the deck, to push through legislation and decisions that wouldn't otherwise have passed.
President Shimon Peres is flying on Sunday to Latvia and Lithuania, temporary president of the European Union whom he will thank the European Union for blacklisting the Hezbollah military wing as a terrorist organization. The EU decision does not affect the Hezbollah political party, which gives orders to the branch. He will return just in […]
The good news for New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is that the heat he has been taking for sexting is shifting to someone else. The worse than bad news is that the subject is his wife, Huma Abedein. Her problem is not sexting. Her story is far less sordid than his husband's but […]
Palestinian Authority entrepreneurs are not interested in politics and concentrate on business in a Cisco-Israel training program, Forbes business magazine reported. Israeli Jewish high-tech experts coach PA CEOs and middle-level managers in the sessions. Cisco CEO John Chambers began thinking about the program after meeting with chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in 2008. “I personally went […]
The Hamas terrorist government in Gaza has shut down the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency and the Al-Arabiya satellite channel bureaus in Gaza, Ma’an reported. It said that Hamas officials questioned its Gaza bureau chief over an article translated from an Israeli newspaper reporting that six Muslim Brotherhood smuggled themselves into Gaza to plan an uprising […]
IDF soldiers identified and arrested a Palestinian Authority terrorist who was carrying a pistol and ammunition in Samaria with the intention to open fire on a bus traveling nearby. Two buses were hit by gunfire in the same area in two separate incidents over the past four weeks. “Security forces conducted surveillance operations in anticipation […]
The leader of the Tunisian opposition party and a fierce critic of the ruling Islamist regime was assassinated by armed killers shooting from a motorbike outside of his home in the capital of Tunis on Thursday. Mohammed Brahmi, leader of the nationalist Movement of the People party, was the second opposition party leader to be […]
Arabs hurled rocks at Israel buses in the Old City of Jerusalem twice in several hours Thursday and injured 10 people, one day after one or two possible terrorist attacks that sent two men to the hospital with serious wounds from separate stabbing attacks. The second rock attack on a bus at the Shechem Gate, […]
Yesh Atid and party chairman Yair Lapid are facing their first charges of unethical conduct following the revelation that one of Lipid’s advisers is a part-owner of a beer company that is due tor receive aid from the Finance Ministry that Lapid heads. Hillel Kobrinsky is an adviser to Lapid and holds a 4 percent […]
147 out of 150 members of the election body voted.
General Abdel-Fatah Sisi, the army chief who forced Mohamed Morsi from power, has called for mass protests against the Muslim Brothers' terrorism, after an explosion outside a police building killed one policeman and injured 29 officers and civilians. The explosion brought the death toll from fighting since the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi close to […]
Two Jews were stabbed in separate attacks in Jerusalem on Wednesday, and police are investigating the possibility that one or both of them were terrorist attacks. Arabs are suspected in both knifings. One man, 52, suffered moderate to serious wounds when he was stabbed by an Arab in a bathroom at Shechem Gate in the […]
President Barack Obama’s approval has sunk to only one percentage point above the all-time low in November 2011, according to a new poll released Wednesday by NBC and The Wall Street Journal. Only 45 percent approve of his job as president, and 50 percent said they disapprove, mainly because of their view of his handling, […]
A New York court sentenced on Tuesday Palestinian Authority Arab-American Andy Ashkar up to 25 years in jail for stealing a winning $5 million lottery ticket from its rightful owner, Robert Miles. Miles, in 2006, took the scratch-off to a convenience store operated by Ashkar’s parents in Syracuse, New York. When he showed the ticket […]
One policeman was killed and at least 29 others were wounded Wednesday when an unknown attacker hurled a high-powered bomb, or possibly rocket-propelled grenades, at a police station north of Cairo and near El Arish. Shortly before, the Egyptian military called on people to rally on Friday against violence, in effect a call for a […]
Rabbi Ratzon Arusi withdrew his candidacy for Chief Sephardi Rabbi, one hour before balloting began Wednesday afternoon. His withdrawal leaves three candidates in the race. On Tuesday, Be’er Sheva Chief Rabbi Yehuda Deri and Jerusalem Rabbinical Court head Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel quit the race. The remaining candidates are Hazon Ovadia yeshiva Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, son […]
Israel’s increasing arms exports has made it one of the most important in the world, with a record $7.5 billion worth of arms exported in 2012, according to a Minister of Defense’s Export and Cooperation report on Tuesday. The new record is even more impressive when taking into account budget cuts in Western countries. "The […]
Ryan Braun, whose father is from Israel, not only lost the chance to play out the reason of the season with the Milwaukee Brewers after he accepted his 65-day suspension for drug use, he also lost his image of the “good guy” who had convinced many that he was innocent of using performance drugs. "As […]
Tonight we may no who the two chief rabbis are, and it might very well be the last time there are two instead of one.
Shortly after 10 pm on Tuesday evening, a shock grenade exploded near soldiers manning the Maccabim checkpoint on Road 443, near Modiin. One person was lightly injured. It is not clear if the grenade was thrown at the soldiers, or if one of the soldier's grenades exploded.
Six people were killed and 33 injured in clashes early Tuesday, between supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, outside Cairo University, the Egyptian health ministry said in a statement. The statement noted that clashes also broke out between the two sides in Tahrir square of downtown Cairo and Rabia al-Adawaeya square of […]
President Peres sent a special message of congratulations on Tuesday in honor of the birth of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's new baby. He also sent a special gift of a baby suit with an embroidered message on it – "From Israel with Love" "From Jerusalem, Israel, I want to express our happiness […]
A Cleveland area synagogue is raising funds to help Ursuline College repaid serious damage caused by a tornado that ripped through its athletic center on Saturday. No one was injured because the twister tore through the area in the pre-dawn hours, tearing the off the roof and blowing away one wall. The conservative B’nai Jeshurun, […]
President Barack Obama is closer to presenting a plan to directly arm Syrian rebels, but he still faces Congressional opposition. “The House Intelligence Committee has very strong concerns about the strength of the administration's plans in Syria and its chances for success," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan, said in a […]
Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles have convinced a company to take down a billboard that showed a mostly naked woman promoting an energy drink, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported Monday. A message on a local email stated, “The largest Orthodox Jewish community on the West Coast was horrified to see a completely inappropriate pretzus […]
A shooting has just occurred in the Mercaz Clal building, in the center of Jerusalem. Two people in a third floor law office were just shot and killed. A man in his 60s and a woman in her 20s. Police are saying it appears to be a personal/criminal attack. Mercaz Clal on Yafo street houses […]
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas will not be satisfied even if Israel surrenders to all of his territorial demands, said Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beiteinu faction of the Likud-Beiteinu party. “Let’s assume theoretically that Israel would return to the 1967 borders,” he told Voice of Israel radio Tuesday morning. “The next day, there […]
Watch the Nefesh B'Nefesh Landing Ceremony
Apparently only the Palestinian Authority is to receive "gestures" for peace talks.
Duchess Kate Middleton gave birth to a baby boy on Monday. The baby weighed in at 8 lb. 6oz. No word yet if the local Rabbi will be called in to perform a circumcision. It's been the tradition of the British Royal Family for the past 150 years to circumcise their boys, though rumor has […]
The Israeli clothing chain Fox is only a few months away from opening a local franchise in Ramallah. Many local Arabs are outraged that an Israeli chain is opening in territories under their control, as it increases normalization between Jews and Arabs. Furthermore, it goes against the boycott that Abbas has called against all Israeli […]
JewishPress.com will be offering a live feed from the Nefesh B'Nefesh landing ceremony on Monday night/Tuesday. The ceremony begin at 7AM Israel time (Tuesday) / Midnight NY time (Monday night), and you will be able to access the live feed on JewishPress.com tomorrow and watch the whole thing. Welcome home.
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An appeal has been filed with the High Court of Justice against Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, over his ruling that Tsfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu is not a suitable candidate to become Israel's next chief Sephardi rabbi, Ynet reports. The petitioners argue that Weinstein is overstepping his authority by intervening in the elections for chief […]
Senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath told Ma'an on Sunday that a return to direct negotiations is subject to several conditions. "We are waiting. Returning back to negotiations depends on two steps we asked the American side to agree on," Shaath said. "If they agree, we will go to the next step which is preliminary negotiations […]
An 11-year-old boy was picked up by police on Sunday, after he wrote "Death to Arabs" and "Price tag" on cars near Beit El, in the Benjamin region of Judea and Samaria, Ynet reported. Police caught the boy red handed, with the marker he was using to write on Arab owned cars. They suspect him […]
At least 6 Egyptians were killed and 11 injured in a series of attacks in the Sinai overnight. Among the dead are two Egyptian soldiers, 2 policemen, and 2 citizens. Overall there were 10 overnight attacks that hit police stations, and military outposts in El Arish and Rafiach.
Muslims torched 20 cars on Sunday in a Paris suburb, in the second day of Islamic violence in France. The rioters are protesting the French ban on Islamic face veils, according to an AP report. 50 people were involved in the riots. They also threw fire bombs at the police, as well as possibly shooting […]
Apparently to celebrate the upcoming peace talks, the Gazans launched a rocket at Israel at 10 pm on Sunday. It landed in an open area in the Eshkol region. No injuries or damage was reported. The air raid siren went off in time.
The Palestinian Authority leadership in Ramallah is a victim of delusion and does not realize that the agreement in principle to return to direct talks with Israel is a “disaster,” Hams terrorist organization spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency Saturday. "Stopping political reconciliation for negotiations between the PA and Israel is very […]
Egyptian security forces have stormed the office of the al-Alam Channel in Cairo, and arrested its director Ahmad al-Siyoufi, an al-Alam correspondent reported Saturday. Al-Alam is an Arabic news channel broadcasting from Iran, owned by the state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). “The security forces also seized equipment and devices from the channel without […]
Helen Thomas, who in this paper's view, is most famous for her anti-Semitic statement that Jews "should get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Germany, Poland and the United State, died on Saturday at age 92.
Egypt’s net international reserves rose to reach more than $20 billion due to the oil-rich Gulf States’ recently sent aids, Al-Ahram reported, citing the Central Bank of Egypt’s governor Hisham Ramez. Egypt’s net international reserves dropped in June to $14.9 billion, CBE announced. Foreign reserves had risen in April for the first time since October […]
When announcing their anti-Israeli directive, the EU thought they had Israel over the barrel, but Israel clearly has plenty of powerful ammunition it can fire back in return.
A dozen Jewish drivers woke up Wednesday morning to find that their tires had been slashed by Arabs in the Jewish-Arab neighborhood of Abu Tur, located on a hill opposite the Old City. No Arab-owned vehicles were touched, and police are investigating. As in other areas of Jerusalem where Jews and Arabs live in the […]
An American drone strike in Yemen has killed Al Qaeda’s number two terrorist, Said al Shehri, who was freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2007 to Saudi Arabia and later fled to Yemen. Al Shehri has been rumored several times in the past to have been killed, but this time, a senior Al Qaeda official confirmed […]
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor told the U.N. Security Council, “ I urge you to condemn the incident and the Syrian government's grave violation of the Separation of Forces Agreement” in which Syrian mortar hit the Golan Heights on Tuesday, Tisha B’Av. “The fasting and prayers of thousands of Israelis commemorating the […]
Saudi Arabia Airline refuses to issue tickets in New York for Israelis, even if they are only stopping off in Saudi Arabia for a connecting flight, a policy that contradicts federal law. The airline’s website asks travelers for their citizenship but does not have an option available for “Israel” although it does have options for […]
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and This World: The Jewish Values Network is hosting Dr. Mehmet Oz and his family on their first visit to Israel from July 28th - August 4th. The trip was initiated by Rabbi Shmuley who recently awarded America's most famous medical practitioner and his wife as Champions of Jewish Values, together with […]
IKEA is considering extending its operations in Israel and opening up a branch in Ramallah, in the Palestinian Authority, and in Be’er Sheva and Jerusalem, the Hebrew-language newspaper Yediot Acharonot reported. Matthew Bronfman, who holds the IKEA franchise for Israel, reported said that “we'll be happy to help establish the store” in Ramallah. The planned […]
A 17-year-old Turk died of his injuries in the small Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar on Wednesday, after being hit by stray gunfire from across the border in war-torn Syria. Mahsun Ertugrul died in hospital after receiving a gunshot to the chest on Tuesday, the Dogan news agency said. A 15-year-old boy from the same […]
Remember the papal indulgences that pushed Martin Luther into starting a new Christian concession back in the 16th century? Well, what would Luther say to the Vatican's latest offer of indulgences—meaning divine forgiveness—to followers of Pope Francis' tweets. The Church's granted indulgences reduce the time Catholics will have to spend in purgatory after confessing and […]
Two Syrian rebels crossed over into the Golan on Tuesday night. The IDF now believes that it was Syrian army soldiers who simultaneously opened fire at the IDF patrol, from across the border. The IDF soldiers shot back at the source of the fire. No IDF soldiers were injured in the attack. The status of […]
On Tuesday evening, two Arabs stabbed a Haredi Jew near Sha'ar Shechem (Damascus Gate), one of the entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem. The 35 year old man was stabbed in the stomach, chest and back, and was taken to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in serious condition by MDA. The man was on his way […]
France has arrested a new-Nazi singer who it said was preparing a “major terrorist attack” after his wife bought four rifles. Kristian Vikernes, who was convicted nearly 20 years ago for knifing one man to death and burning down several churches, is linked to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. BBC reported that the French […]
Attorney General Weinstein told Tzfat Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu that the courts probably would not allow him to be Chief Sephardi Rabbi have not dissuaded him from continuing his campaign for the post. Weinstein wrote the rabbi that his controversial statements, such as, “Must I explain why I am against mixed marriages?, “a number of serial […]
Anthony Weiner is leading the pack in a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Monday, with a three percentage point lead over City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. His 25 percent support still is far less than the 40 percent needed to prevent a run-off vote after the primaries elections in early September. The same poll […]
Today is the 407th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Google is celebrating it with a Goodle Doodle of the Dutch artist's 1659 oil on canvas self portrait.
The safest bet in Israel is that the national lottery Mifal HaPayis will make money. It announced Sunday that it raked in $810 million in the first six months of 2013, 14 percent more than in the same period last year. The most popular game is the lotto, which brought in $214 million, one-third more […]
Jordan’s official news agency told its readers on Sunday that police on the Temple Mount protected Jews from angry Muslims to allow them “to perform their Talmudic prayers and rituals.” Palestinian Authority and Saudi Arabian media routinely incite Muslim furor with false reports about Jews on the Temple Mount, where they are not even allowed […]
An alleged shoplifting incident in Hong Kong in 2006 has become a major issue over whether Yaakov Frenkel will return to his former post as Governor of the Bank of Israel, replacing Stanley Fischer who is quitting in mid-term to return to the United States. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s nomination of Frenkel two weeks ago […]
An Egyptian military source told state news agency MENA that a member of a terrorist group was killed on Sunday as he was attempting to plant an explosive device on El-Sheikh Zuweid road in north Sinai. The source further denied media reports that the explosion happened in the vicinity of a vehicle owned by security […]
At least three people were killed and 17 wounded early Monday morning in the northern Sinai when terrorists used rocket-propelled grenades to attack a bus carrying workers employed at a cement factory, security and medical sources told Al Ahram. They said the bus was set on fire in El Arish, part of a sharp rise […]
Law for Day Commemorating the Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries Receives Government Support as MK Shimon Ohayon Writes Letter to Arab League Secretary General Calling on His Organization to Accept Historic Responsibility for Jewish Refugees
Liberal opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei was sworn in on Sunday as Egypt's vice president—incharge of international relations, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported. ElBaradei was nominated last week as prime minister in the transitional period, but he could not get his appointment past his Islamist opponents. ElBaradei served as director general of the International Atomic […]
European governments including Britain are increasing their back-channel contacts with Hamas, all but ignoring the official EU policy of maintaining political isolation over the terrorist organization that continues to see the destruction of the Jewish State as its primary goal. According to the Guardian, four senior Hamas officials have stated that their ongoing communication with […]
On Sunday, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Israel, two Haredim attacked a religious IDF soldier. The soldier did not require medical treatment. A brawl erupted after the attack, and the two suspects fled. Police are trying to locate them. This is the sixth such attack on religious soldier in Jerusalem in recent months.
Cory Monteith (31), who plays Finn Hudson in the popular TV series 'Glee' was found dead in a Vancouver hotel on Saturday. Monteith played opposite Lea Michele in the series, and the two were also dating. Lea Michele plays the Jewish character Rachel Berry in the series. No foul play is suspected at this time, nor […]
It’s amazing how an election victory can change the stripes of a tiger, namely Yair Lapid. The sensation of Israeli politics who campaigned on behalf of the middle class and denounced the government for promising their situation will be better, now says the same thing. Barely three months in office and weeks after imposing austerity […]
A Saudi court has sentenced a man to 15 years in jail for offering to spy for Israel while he was visiting Jordan, Saudi Arabia media reported Sunday. He allegedly went to the Israeli embassy in Amman to “offer them to cooperate with Israel and provide them with any information they want about Saudi Arabia.”’ […]
Iranian TV reported that official sources in Syria are denying the CNN report from Friday, that the IAF last weekend bombed Latakia harbor in Syria. Friday's CNN report cited three unnamed U.S. officials who said that the blasts that took place at the critical Syrian port of Latakia were the result of airstrikes by Israeli […]
After much jockeying and infighting, it appears that Shas has finally chosen its candidate for Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel. Among the candidates were former Chief Rabbi, Rav Ovadia Yosef's two sons, as well as Shas leader Arieh Deri's brother, and the brother of Shas MK Ariel Attias. In the end Shas chose Rav Ovadiah's […]
On Thursday evening, three Arabs attacked a young Jewish man in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The three attackers ran, but were eventually found and captured by a Border Police unit. During Ramadan, Arab attacks on Jews always increase inside the Old City.
On Shmuel Hanavi Street Thursday night, passengers in a commercial vehicle threw objects at a Haredi soldier who was walking on the sidewalk, and yelled insults at him, Reshet Bet reprted. The soldier was not hurt, and took shelter in a nearby building. Later he filed a complaint with the police. The suspects have not […]
Satellite imagery indicates that Saudi Arabia has built a previously unknown desert missile site with launch pads that can be aimed at Iran and Israel, the London-based IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review reported Thursday. Saudi Arabia has long been one of the most anti-Israel countries on the diplomatic front but reportedly has cooperated with the Jewish […]
The director of a Washington-based security forum warns that Israel’s innovative plan to go digital could compromise its national security. “There is national security and innovation and you have to find the right balance,” Cyber Security Forum Initiative chief Paul de Souza told Bloomberg News. The government plans to work with Cisco System to make […]
An emergency was declared at Ben Gurion Airport after an airplane declared an emergency.
Egypt's caretaker Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said that deposed President Mohamed Morsi, whose current location is unknown, is receiving good treatment. Amr told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on that Morsi "is not free to go around, but he is treated very well.” "And this is also for his own safety; we are going through a […]
New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind has made sure his two sons are employed, with each of them having a legislative job, The New York Daily News disclosed Wednesday. Hikind admitted that his sons work as a legislative aide to Assemblyman Peter Abbate Jr. and as a community liaison for Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs, but explained, "I […]
Ron Dermer, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s choice to succeed American-born Michael Oren as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, moved to Israel 16 years ago but his mother Yaffa told the Miami Herald, “ I think he’ll do a wonderful job because he’s a red-blooded American.” Yaffa Dermer, a resident of Florida but born and […]
An Israel court partially lifted a gag order Wednesday on the case of a second "prisoner X,” held in secret in a high-security prison, and identified him as Wael Abu Reda of Gaza. He is charged with committing “crimes against the security of the country.” Australian media earlier this year exposed the secret incarceration of […]
Chief Rabbi of Holon, Israel, Rabbi Avraham Yosef, was interrogated on Wednesday by police for some 8 hours, on suspicion of breach of trust violations. Police say Rav Yosef is suspected of being allegedly involved in a conflict of interests in the performance of his duties, and in issuing a "mehadrin" (superior) kosher certification unlawfully. […]
Headstones of hundreds of Jewish graves, which were buried to hide them from the Nazis, have been unearthed in Vienna, a discovery of “high historical value,” according to one local Jewish official. Senior Jewish community official Raimund Fastenbauer told Fox News Wednesday that the significance of the discovery is on scale with that of the […]
American born Ari Harow, PM Netanyahu's former Bureau Chief, will be returning to politics, this time as Netanyahu's Chief of Staff. Harow was born in Los Angeles, and made Aliyah to Israel at age 12 with his family, He grew up in Karnei Shomron. Harow is highly trusted by Netanyahu.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador says he has given the U.N. secretary-general 80 pages of 80 pages of photos, formulas and graphs that support Russia's claim that Syrian rebels used chemical weapons outside Aleppo last March. Back then, the Syrian government asked the United Nations to investigate its claim rebels used chemical weapons in the town of […]
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