יום שלישי, ד׳ תשרי תשפ״זTuesday, September 15, 2026
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The coronavirus panic has hurt the president, but the prime minister’s handling of it reminds Israelis of his best qualities and has changed the dynamic of the government coalition standoff
Blue&White are trying to maneuver the Likud into accepting the Joint Arab List as a kosher party.
Israeli authorities announced that they had facilitated 105,495 humanitarian crossings for Palestinians to receive medical treatment in Israel during the last week of February. Yet, rather than showing gratitude toward the Israeli authorities for their assistance, the Palestinian Authority and its media outlets and officials are continuing their campaign of incitement against Israel.
Excluded from the closures are nursery schools and kindergartens, classes up to 3rd grade, special education, and at-risk schools.
This is an unprecedented American-Jewish leadership response to the spread of Coronavirus by the Bergen County Jewish leadership.
By BESA CENTER
Ever since the 2006 war, Israel has preferred to contain Hezbollah rather than fight it directly. So determined was Israel to avoid going to war with the terrorist group that it tolerated its significant military buildup. Since 2012, however, the IAF has carried out hundreds of sorties inside Syria aimed at stopping the delivery of advanced weapons to Hezbollah. Israel can continue to delay the arming of Hezbollah, but it has already become quite strong, and a war could occur even if neither side wants it.
Netanyahu: "With G-d's help and the cooperation of all of us, we will overcome this crisis."
There seems no rational explanation for Blue and White's manifestly irrational behavior other than that Netanyahu’s rivals’ seemingly pathological ad hominem hatred for him has totally unhinged them from any reasonable and responsible political action.
MK Ayman Odeh: "Al-Aqsa is a place of worship for Muslims, and East Jerusalem should be the capital of the Palestinian state."
The degree to which the key people in Blue and White – as well as their partner Avigdor Lieberman – have both personal and political animus against Binyamin Netanyahu can’t be overemphasized. But the fact that they appear to be ready to become indebted to and wholly dependent on anti-Zionist parties in order to accomplish their goal of forcing him out is shocking.
For the next 2 weeks, everyone entering Israel will be required to enter quarantine for 2 weeks.
In America, voting is the only game in town and voters are the source of power. In Israel, the courts are in charge.
Those liberal or progressive American Jews that still feel themselves a part of the Jewish nation will have to choose: Make aliyah or work in the diaspora to support Israel,.
By targeting Israeli companies that employ mostly Palestinians, the UN Human Rights Council only helps to keep the latter in poverty—an end that serves the interests of the corrupt Palestinian Authority, which the UN automatically supports.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Blue&White Party leader Benny Gantz must abandon plans to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and reject the idea of a “Jewish majority” government, says Joint List's Ayman Odeh.
By BESA CENTER
Donald Trump is a longtime admirer of Benjamin Netanyahu, in part because of the Israeli PM’s willingness to go toe-to-toe with Barack Obama. Obama’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was to support the Palestinians at Israel’s expense; Trump’s is the exact opposite.
The Court stated it was rejecting the petition as final election results had not yet been published.
If you think that elections in Israel are finally over… think again, because the fun is just about to begin! The only part that’s over is election day
By Bassam Tawil
Abbas and his officials, in short, are telling the Israelis: "Look, we have a problem here. This man, Netanyahu, will not surrender to us -- and that is why you need to elect a new leader."
By Isi Leibler
All the polls indicate that neither Likud nor Blue and White will be able to realistically form a government alone.
Which of the candidates for Israeli prime minister is truly going to build, and who is going to bury the building in years more of sterile peace processing and doomed attempts to achieve “international consensus”?
By Naomi Kahn
The failure of Zionist organizations, spokespeople and politicians to address the dangers of the “Peace to Prosperity” proposal is nothing short of alarming.
Not even the victory of a Socialist backed by a coalition of Israel haters will persuade liberal Jews to abandon their party, let alone vote for a president they hate.
“If we agree to the “Deal of the Century” map, the Gaza model will be reproduced right in the heart of the Land of Israel."
Love of Israel is in no way contradictory to love of America. American Jews are very appreciative to live in a country that is not only welcoming of Jews but also a staunch ally of Israel. The pride of being American is part and parcel of the pride of being a Jew and a Zionist in America.
By BESA CENTER
The claim by the elected representatives of the Israeli Arab public that they are the original owners of the land while the Jewish citizens of Israel (and, by implication, the State of Israel itself) are “colonialist invaders” is a complete inversion of historical reality. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration about the legality of the West Bank’s Jewish communities, along with President Trump’s peace plan based on that principle, offers a unique opportunity to correct that mistaken notion by applying sovereignty to all Israeli West Bank communities.
By Guy Millière
None of the countries represented at the ceremony to commemorate the Holocaust, except the United States, appeared interested in the threats to Israel or the genocidal intentions of its enemies.
By BESA CENTER
The U.S. plan’s suggestion that a group of communities disputed between Israel and Jordan following the 1948 war be part of a potential state of Palestine has drawn harsh criticism from all sides, and is based on a faulty reading of history.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Israeli Ministry of Defense stated that its discussions with PA officials led to a mutual lifting of the boycotts.
“Happy are those who dwell in Your house.” — Psalm 84
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The filing of the construction plan is the first step in an approval process that is projected to take years before it receives approval, if it does.
The consistent and enduring Palestinian rejection of any and all peace initiatives with Israel, most recently the “Deal of the Century,” calls into question the commitment of the Palestinian leadership not only to peace but to the very welfare and safety of the Palestinian people.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar apparently avoided meeting with members of an Egyptian delegation out of fear that Israel would assassinate him.
Facing the uncertainty of upcoming elections in both Israel and the U.S., what should Jerusalem do? Any move has to be based on a general understanding of how to fight anti-Semitism.
Despite several scares, Israel itself has yet to contend with a patient suffering from COVID-19, as coronavirus is officially named.
The policeman noticed the man was shaking and acting strangely, so he decided to check him again, and that's when the terrorist stabbed him.
The status quo is unacceptable. It is expensive, it prevents the development of Judea and Samaria – despite what the Left says, there is almost no actual Jewish construction across the Green Line – and it leaves us vulnerable to terrorism. And no other proposed “solution” is practical.
The prayers called upon God to have mercy and cure the Chinese people from the Coronavirus and for the health of all people around the world.
By Isi Leibler
We should remind Netanyahu and Gantz that with Trump soon facing his own election, there may be only a small window of opportunity to transform this plan into reality.
“We suspect MoleRATs are carrying out these campaigns to obtain sensitive information from its victims to leverage for political purposes.”
President Trump’s peace plan must be understood as a systemic impetus toward a new breakthrough rather than as a practical blueprint for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By Bassam Tawil
"Other stateless people can only dream of being offered independence and $50bn by the US president.... If only the Yazidis or Baluchis or Kurds or Rohingya Muslims were so lucky." – Tom Gross, January 29, 2020.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Other than the Democrats circling the wagons around their anti-Israel radicals, it's not clear exactly what AIPAC should be apologizing for.
Then there are those Jews, both in the diaspora or Israel, who simply see a profit in signing up with the forces of misoziony- the extreme and irrational hatred of the Jewish state.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"We oppose killing and targeting civilian targets, including children. Obviously, this is our moral stance and we will never say or think otherwise."
Antisemitism has fragmented into many subcategories in the postmodern era, which has made it ever more confusing and opaque. One concept that can shed new light on contemporary antisemitism is confirmation bias: the idea that people are often receptive to information, even if dubious, that confirms their existing opinions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his team have been mediating between Israeli and Saudi Arabia for the past few months, Israel Hayom reports.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Last week, settlement leaders said Prime Minister Netanyahu told them there are some technical differences within the US administration.
The Palestinian Authority chairman wants to see wide-scale acts of violence against Israelis.
Leaders from around the world recently visited Israel to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Concurrently with that visit, another important historical visit took place: for the first time, a delegation of leading Arabs visited the Nazi extermination camp.
“I don’t see any reason why residents of Beirut can go on sipping coffee in coffee shops while we are being bombarded by rockets.”
Whether or not it is actually implemented, the “deal” cannot effectively address Israel’s demographic menace, but only perpetuate it.
More than a dozen soldiers were wounded in the early morning attack.
A policeman was shot in the terror attack.
The wounded are IDF soldiers from the Golani Brigade who were in Jerusalem for their swearing in ceremony.
Israel's Foreign Ministry stressed that at this stage, Israelis are not among those suspected of having the virus.
Many Arab citizens of Israel see how Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip are subject to human rights violations on a daily basis.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is “especially concerned” by Israel’s statements on the prospect of the annexation of the Jordan Valley and other parts of Judea and Samaria ad stressed that it does not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over “the territories occupied since 1967.”
By Justin Amler
We shouldn’t seek permission from anyone in determining our own future and we shouldn’t be happy with scraps of land that is ours anyway. The ‘Palestinians’ will reject the deal and we all know that. But we should already draw the line before and say with confidence and pride and the weight of thousands of years of history.
By Daniel Pipes
The Trump plan repeats the old, failed approach of promising the Palestinians benefits.
The plan sends a clear message to the Palestinians. “First, time is not on your side. Second, you used to have support, but now you do not have the same level,” said Professor Eytan Gilboa, director of the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan.
The Trump plan’s reported parameters closely hew to the broadest political consensus in Israel. It is a peace paradigm that makes eminent sense to at least 75 percent of Israelis, in my estimation. Therefore, Israel should act swiftly to lock-in the concrete diplomatic gains that can be derived from this outline for regional accommodation. Hopefully the Palestinians will come to see the plan’s advantages too, including its framework for Arab regional investment in Palestinian-Israeli joint projects.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
Fate has sent Israel a rare set of circumstances that is unlikely to come our way again. The “deal of the century” really is a once-in-a-century opportunity, and Israel must seize it.
The Trump plan focuses entirely on behavior. It rejects the notion of a Palestinian state as a matter of right, entitlement, or justice. It says that if the Arabs living under Israeli control change course, accept the largesse they’ve been offered, focus on their own internal development, and make peace with Israel, they will have earned self-governance.
Minister Bezalel Smotrich sees an historic opportunity in the Deal of the Century, but (only) the good parts of the plan must be grabbed and implemented.
The Jordan Valley, in its full scope and broadest definition, is essential to Israel’s national security. Its retention by Israel requires not only military deployment but a comprehensive development plan—i.e., the construction of housing, roads, and infrastructure—that will establish this territory as Israel’s eastern wing.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hamas recruited Israeli citizens who have family in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of gathering military intelligence in Israel to be used for terrorism against Israeli targets.
Trump may have cut the Gordian Knot in the Middle East. If the American voters give him time to follow through, he may be able to prevent Iran from going nuclear and might even end the Arab war against Israel, after some 100-odd years.
By Ariel Kahana
US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft was supposed to arrive in Israel later this week, but will remain in New York to handle the peace plan fallout.
It’s not clear whether it will bail out Bibi or hurt Gantz, but imagining a future Middle East that accepts most of these terms is actually a practical idea.
Israel's Amb. Dani Dayan: "When an American elected official retweets an unfounded blood libel against Jewish Israelis, I cannot remain silent."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on the world to unite against growing anti-Semitism, and notably called out Iran for its Holocaust denial and threats to wipe out Israel.
It seems that even after the Holocaust, and with increasingly violent attacks in America and elsewhere, Jews still haven’t learned the lesson of active self-defense.
The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I’m upset and outraged by it—that we are targeted like that—but at the same time I’m not entirely surprised,” said Temple Sinai chair Matthew Smith.
The tragedy of the Jersey City attack taking place on a street named after Martin Luther King is that while there are streets in every major city named after the civil rights activist, civil rights has fallen to identity politics. Where civil rights called for equality, identity politics is nationalism and supremacism.
It’s clear that all this Holocaust memorializing and education hasn’t put anti-Semitism back in its putrid box.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The balloon bomb landed in the town of Mesilat Zion. A sapper dismantled the explosives.
As raw anti-Semitism around the world has risen and morphed into virulent anti-Israel sentiment—making the two phenomena almost indistinguishable—the State of Israel has moved from indifference to active involvement in the struggle against such hate.
“One shot will disrupt the ceremony and one dead body will cancel the ceremony.”
By J. E. Dyer
Probably the most overlooked aspect of the “flags on the sidewalk” phenomenon in Iran is that, as the regime paints those flags everywhere, hoping Iranians will step on them, it is basically symbolizing its – the regime’s – effective “occupation” by its obsession with the Great Satan and the Little Satan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Minister of Public Security and Strategic Affairs, applauded the move.
By BESA CENTER
Soft power and coercive diplomacy tools have not worked for almost 20 years against “peaceful Iran” (as Obama used to call it), and America has opted instead to exercise hard power. Trump’s order to kill Qassem Soleimani exposes once again the vast gap between the US and Europe on the problem of Iran.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jordan’s news agency reported that Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount had “performed Talmudic rituals.”
Israeli leaders do not share the neoconservatives’ pro-democracy perspective. Israel aims to develop good relations with authoritarian regimes to avoid conflict, and, in the Arab world, Israeli leaders are often more frightened by the prospect of a democratic government led by antagonistic political factions than they are of iron-fisted dictators who prefer to avoid hostilities with Israel.
Whatever the operational efficacy of targeted assassinations may be—or not be—the conscience of every decent individual should rebel at the thought that arch-purveyors of terror should be permitted to pursue their deadly profession with impunity
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Meanwhile, the small parties on the right are still squabbling.
Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details of Solemani's location.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We’re disavowing the deeply flawed 1978 Hansell memo, and we’re returning to a balanced and sober Reagan-era approach.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"Whoever tries to attack us will receive a crushing blow in return. We stand steadfast against those who seek our lives."
The American Jewish Left has once again fallen in line with the Palestinian demand that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict always be conflated to a problem of “occupation,” regardless of facts or history. By leaping to condemn Mike Pompeo’s factual statement that Israeli West Bank “settlements” do not violate international law, American Jewish leftists joined forces with the BDS movement, which views the entirety of Israel as “occupied.”
“The elimination of Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s Quds Force commander ... strengthened our assessment of the possibility of escalation."
A source said Haniyeh sent a back channel message to Israel that Hamas does not seek an escalation and will not attack Israel as part of the Iranian revenge.
To fight the onslaught of bigotry being unleashed against its members, America’s overwhelmingly Democratic and deeply liberal Jewish community needs to recognize some hard truths.
By BESA CENTER
The 2020 presidential and congressional elections will to a large extent determine whether the current trends of populism, polarization, and incitement coursing through American society, and of withdrawal from international leadership, will continue or come to an end; whether the phenomenon of “Trumpism” will persist or be remembered as an aberration;
In our “woke” world, discussing Jewish achievements can lead to accusations of racism. Such controversies also tell us a lot about the persistence of anti-Semitism.
The teenage terrorist attempted to stab a soldier.
Here’s a New Year’s resolution for the complacent and the cowardly: Assuring the safety of religious Jews in 2020.
The phenomenon of a growing reluctance to go to war and commit ground troops to combat can be seen around the world, not only in Israel. Citizens are increasingly demanding clarity on the purpose of the wars their armies are expected to fight.
If antisemitism is to be fought effectively, three priorities have to be set. First, the Israeli government should establish an anti-propaganda agency. Second, an effort must be made to achieve a broad recognition that antisemitism is an ancient and integral element of Western culture. Third, there should be a consistent exposure of Jewish masochists who claim that Israel alone has to be perfect while others do not.
September 11, 2026 
