By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Despite appearances, there is “no status quo.” The calm we see is nothing more than an illusion. We are living next to a ticking time bomb, and every minute that passes, facts are being established on the ground. These new facts lead to yet further facts that are pushing the State of Israel off its land.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jews have been among the first to “virtue signal” their compassion for refugees from the Syrian civil war.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The extraordinary gesture comes at the behest of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Channel 20 reports.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinian leadership is again trying to trick the international community, particularly gullible Jews who have good intentions.
Portman blames Israel for the actions of Hamas in Gaza.
Important changes and clarifications have been made in the laws regarding drone usage in Israel, Judea and Samaria.
The Diaspora is a dead end for Jews, both physically and culturally. You can make a case for the continuance of Jewish communities in the Diaspora, and you can find many areas in which Israel needs to improve. But the necessity and centrality of the Jewish state to the continued existence of the Jewish people is indisputable.
By JNi.Media
"The dismantling of the tent and shooting inside it and the intimidation of the citizens and the attack on the leadership of Fatah in the northern Gaza Strip and wounding them was a departure from national values."
By Efraim Inbar
In short, over time Israel has become stronger, while its enemies, with the exception of Iran, have become increasingly weaker.
The proposed transfer of significant parts of Area C to the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) will be detrimental to Israel’s national interest, if only because these territories are almost completely devoid of any Palestinian population. As such, they afford not only a strong security grip but the possibility of extensive Jewish settlement without threatening Israel’s Jewish and democratic character.
Thousands of civilians woke up this morning thinking we were suddenly at war.
The focus on Israel’s problems often obscures the astonishing nature of a historic turnabout for the Jewish people.
Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel presents the historic untold story of Israel's monumental Declaration of Independence.
By JNi.Media
On their first date, 45 years ago, the main topic of conversation for Yisrael and later his wife, Bella, was how much they would both like to live in Israel.
Reut Salomon, the daughter of Elad, spoke and cried at the Yom Hazikaron ceremony, talking about her father and that horrible night when her family was murdered by a terrorist.
The story of young women at the outset of their lives who, when challenged by history, responded with remarkable courage. The Jewish “Couriers” who were real life “Wonder Women”.
When the siren screams, I close my eyes and I can clearly see Yehoshua's body, lifeless! 25 years might have gone by but the wound is fresh and it is a nightmare that never ends.
If surrendering US primacy in the region to Russia was the result of US passivity and inaction, the intrusion of Iran into Syria can very definitely be attributed to ill-conceived, active American policy.
“The northern front presents a paramount strategic challenge that necessitates the IDF and the rest of the security establishment to strengthen even further its readiness."
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
The Egyptian government is concerned that the events of the Hamas “Return March” in Gaza may spill over into Egyptian territory.
Eshkol Regional Council officials told residents to maintain their normal routines but encouraged people to “keep their eyes open” for unusual incidents in the region.
Since its deployment, the system has intercepted more than 1,700 missiles and rockets fired at Israel, almost all from Gaza. The system registered a 90 percent success rate in the 2014 Gaza war.
By JNi.Media
"The White Helmets are a fake organization that exists only to create propaganda for the jihadists and terrorists," Waters asserted.
If surrendering US primacy in the region to Russia was the result of US passivity and inaction, the intrusion of Iran into Syria can very definitely be attributed to ill-conceived, active American policy.
We do not expect justice in Europe that seeks - too quickly - to forget, to eradicate the memory, to deny, to destroy evidence. But, our memory, the memory of the Jewish People, is the antithesis of the haste of the Nazis. We are a nation that remembers...
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russia aside, it is clear that Israel is determined to continue undermining Iranian efforts to entrench itself militarily in Syria and transfer game-changing weapons to Hezbollah.
Iran warned Israel Wednesday that it would exact retribution for a missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier in the week in which at least seven Iranian military officials were killed.
Dublin's mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha promotes boycotting Israel.
“Turns out the 'photographer' killed in Gaza was an officer in Hamas, a terrorist org that seeks Israel‘s destruction. On Hamas’ payroll since 2011."
“Netanyahu will light a torch and will say a few words, but he will not deliver a speech,” Edelstein’s office said.
Arab sources say Israel hit a secret Iranian command and control center in Syria.
The “March of Return” symbolizes Hamas refusal to acknowledge defeat and until such time that the Arabs accept Israel's existence as fact, true peace and resolution to the conflict will be impossible.
By JNi.Media
To date, the dismissal proceeding has been initiated only against former MK Bassel Ghattas—a Balad party and Joint Arab List member like Zoabi
Russia claims Israel hit the Syrian T4 air force base.
Speculation is that it was a US attack in response to Syria's chemical weapon attack against civilians. But Israel could also be involved.
By Forest Rain
When the agenda is to delegitimize and, ultimately destroy Israel, nothing matters. Not truth, not facts. It does not matter that these demonstrations were nothing close to peaceful. It does not matter that the only Gazans killed were males, over 18 years old, active in terrorist organizations. It’s still a 'massacre.'
The international community that demanded Israel retreat from Gaza, now attacks Israel for defending its border against Hamas, whose assault on Israel they qualify as “freedom of expression.”
The president’s support for Israel on Gaza could turn into an issue for the “resistance,” even if most Americans approve of his stance.
Even though the Palestinian “March of Return” was far from peaceful, Israel’s critics still absolve Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Without issuing a comment, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, thereby leaving the lower court ruling standing.
By Bassam Tawil
The mass protests are aimed at forcing Israel to accept millions of Palestinian "refugees" as a first step towards turning Jews into a minority in their own country. The next step? Kill or expel the Jews and replace Israel with an Islamic state
Government ministers are unhappy with the plan -- many because they were kept in the dark about it.
By J. E. Dyer
The source of the report claiming that Israeli F-35 strike-fighters flew into Iranian airspace during the past month was a sensationalist Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida. So the claim seems most suspect.
By JNi.Media
The Netanyahu government and all the Israeli governments before it, are in a Catch 22 bind.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli government controls up to 70 percent of the Palestinian Authority. Yet it chooses to continue allowing trade, and even making payments to the PA, despite the direct financial incentives the PA gives to terrorists who murder Jews. Simultaneously, Israel's Global Conference on Anti-Semitism almost entirely ignored the issue.
By JNi.Media
15 Gazan Arabs were killed on Friday. According to the IDF, they were all terrorists who attempted to use the cover of the demonstrators to shoot or otherwise harm IDF soldiers.
Wishing all a Happy Passover!
By JNi.Media
The film director Taika Waititi is half Māori father, half Jewish mother, Scarlett Johansson is half Danish father, half Jewish mother.
If the goal is two states, then why do the Palestinians keep talking about “return?”
Security forces are searching for a terrorist on his way to his attack.
By JNi.Media
The BDS letter mentions that the series’ creators, Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, are themselves veterans of IDF special forces, and “support the machinery of the occupation, Israeli colonialism and apartheid.”
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
The “return march” is a cynical exploitation of Palestinian refugees and a publicity stunt that has no political benefit.
Palestinian Authority sending payments directly to terrorists in new budget released as Talyor Force Act was being passed is a “slap in the face” to the U.S. says Members of Congress and Knesset
Abbas is fortunate to have Israel sitting with him in the West Bank. Otherwise, Hamas would have succeeded in its effort to topple his regime and "transfer" its weapons to the West Bank.
Netanyahu was admitted for tests suffering from coughing fits and a high fever.
By JNi.Media
MK Glick: I believe COGAT's Arab demographic figures like I believe Peres is still leading in the polls.
The only thing the police did not say in their angry response, was how much they actually spent on the investigations so far.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman authorized IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim to sell all the IDF's Chametz to a non-Jew.
American Jewish organizations had high hopes for the United Nations and actively promoted its establishment in 1945. It was not long, however, before its limitations and biases began to emerge.
The failure by the social media networks to enforce the prevention of terror-related content on their sites is, in fact, a direct violation of the Antiterrorism Act
Barkat announced he won't be running for a third term as Jerusalem's mayor.
By Bennett Ruda
Tsvi Misinai, a former hi-tech pioneer who has researched what he claims are the Jewish roots of the Palestinian Arabs. Who knows, maybe they will claim Israeli citizenship under the 'Law of Return'
By JNi.Media
Prime Minister Netanyahu was more amused than angry in his response tweet: "The time has come to change its name to the Council for Decisions against the Only Democracy in the Middle East."
By BESA CENTER
he multidimensional complexity with which national leaders must contend is a necessary condition for effective strategic decision-making. On many occasions, it requires that those leaders ignore, or even act in contravention of, the advice of the professional echelon.
Military drills simulate what the Israel Defense Forces will face in a new kind of ground combat in Gaza – a kind that will inevitably involve civilians amid general chaos.
By JNi.Media
Only one tenth of one percent of Poles turned millions of Jews into the hands of the Nazis, robbed them, took their homes and murdered them in well documented pogroms, during and after the war.
Former Defense Minister MK Amir Peretz tells his part in the story leading up to the attack...
The operation to destroy the reactor, code-named “Operation Out Of The Box” was carried out by fighter jets following an intensive intelligence operation over a continued period of time, and removed a nuclear threat from Israel and the entire region.
Israel is ranked as the world’s eleventh most happy nation. It is also one of the most powerful and innovative countries in the world. When you know the Israeli People you know why
Many observers have said that Israel would be better off with a fully volunteer, professional army. Paradoxically, some of the best things in Israeli life come from the years of compulsory servitude dictated by universal conscription
Modern-day anti-Semites channel their Jew-hatred into the more politically correct avenue of so-called anti-Zionism. By conflating Zionism with racism and alleged human rights abuses, they attempt to delegitimize the very existence of the state of Israel.
The victim was stabbed in the upper body by an Arab terrorist, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on Sunday afternoon.
The terrorist is dead. The victim is seriously wounded.
If the U.S. president doesn’t do anything more than declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the embassy, the Israelis would deem it sufficient.
By JNi.Media
"We're living in a topsy-turvy world. Instead of arresting the Arabs, the Hebron police arrests the victim and confiscates his weapon."
Five people were hit by the terrorist...
Zionism does not want the Old City of Jerusalem. Trump understands that and now we are beginning to hear hints of his Peace Plan. What does his plan include? The internationalization of Jerusalem--We get the embassy and we lose Jerusalem, G-d forbid. That is the danger.
Naftali Bennett surprised Miriam Peretz at home, and surprised her again when he informed her that she is receiving the Israel Prize.
The U.S. military said the drill served as a dress rehearsal for a joint response to an Iranian missile attack on Israel.
The embassy issue shared an important structural similarity with the Iran deal: The president must sign periodic waivers to keep either deal alive. Consequently, moving the embassy to Jerusalem turned out to be the perfect issue to show that Trump really would defy the world and nix the Iran deal
It’s a dangerous game: Iran wants to force Israel into a state of perpetual check; in other words, paralysis before death.
Palestinian statehood & a secure Israel are mutually exclusive goals. This was always the accepted wisdom in Israel - until the discourse was hijacked by the tyrannical diktats of politically correct dogma
During the 2016-17 school year, 18 percent of Israeli elementary school age children were obese.
By BESA CENTER
The Eastern Mediterranean has entered a new period of high volatility, with Israel and Greece in the eye of the storm. Both countries are facing an upgraded strategic challenge from Turkey and Iran. This is not simply an interstate problem but a broader crisis that will influence the future geostrategic physiognomy of the Eastern Med.
Israel integrated its brothers and sisters from the Arab and Muslim world. The Arab world put its Palestinian brothers and sisters in refugee camps, treating them as political pawns — and festering sores —in its persistent war against the Jewish state.
By JNi.Media
If the Gerrer Rebbe sticks to his guns about running the full vote on the bill to end before ever tending to the budget bill, it would effectively spell the end of Netanyahu's coalition government.
By JNi.Media
Putin claimed Russia did not possess the tools nor the will to meddle in elections.
By JNi.Media
Villa, along with Cecil Skotnes, Cecily Sash, Giuseppe Cattaneo and Sydney Kumalo, made up the artist group “Amadlozi” (Zulu for “ancestors”) for the conscious appropriation of African sculptural traditions.
The State of Israel’s identification with Jewish nationhood is under attack from large parts of the international community, and from Israeli Arabs, Palestinians, post-Zionist Jews, and anti-Jewish Jews. The “Jewish” side of the formulation “a Jewish and democratic state” is under internal assault as well.
The first reason that so many deal-makers have failed is that peace is never negotiated and is always imposed by the side that wins a war. There is not any instance in history, which is primarily a narrative of countless wars, in which an outsider has imposed peace on unwilling belligerents.
Negotiating with his security detail, Bibi said, "What the heck, I'm the Prime Minister!" and stepped out from behind the podium and took control of the entire stage to a loudly cheering audience.
By JNi.Media
Orly Levy-Abekasis, 45, is the daughter of former Likud Minister and kingmaker David Levy, who championed the downtrodden Jews from Arab countries.
Everyone thinks war is unavoidable, and most people understand, at least on an intellectual level, that this war is going to be one of the toughest in Israel’s history.
Israel is approaching a point when it must decide to destroy enemy capabilities, rather than attempting to deter the enemy from using them.
4 people have been wounded.
By Harold Rhode
The Israelis and Americans should stop worrying about who will lead the Palestinians, and instead spend time thinking about how Israel and America can address the civilizational war engulfing the entire region.
By JNi.Media
It appears that Poles are convinced the world owes them an apology for their collaboration with the Nazis as well as for murders of Jews they initiated themselves.
The Palestinian Authority leadership promised, in the Oslo accords, to disband all terrorist groups, seize their weapons, and outlaw them – in short, to put them out of business. How can it be that, 23 years after the PA took over sole control of Bethlehem, Islamic Jihad still has active terrorist cells in and around the city?