By JNi.Media
'This is a real castle, which was established with a bottomless disregard for the law, on land that belongs in part to the state.'
By JNi.Media
What ensued will likely continue to divide Israeli society between those who believe terrorists have, by definition, given up their civil rights and must be killed on sight, and those who believe terrorists are not better or worse than any other criminal.
By JNi.Media
The Chief Rabbi was very critical of the fact that the terrorist attacker had not been eliminated at the scene of the crime.
By Forest Rain
The holiest place in the world for Jews is JUDENREIN on Friday and Saturday and can be “cleaned” of Jews without notice.--THIS is apartheid
The Muslims will need to decide if they either will pray quietly on or off the Temple Mount, or alternatively, resort to violence and terror.
By Zionist Organization of America
Palestinian Authority (PA) officials deny Judaism’s connection to Jerusalem and uses Jerusalem as a propaganda instrument to incite violence
Netanyahu is debating tonight what to do with the Temple Mount metal detectors.
It is not yet known if Netanyahu has agreed to capitulate to the Islamic threats of violence.
By Edwin Black
The Palestinian “Law of the Prisoner” openly rewards those convicted of even the most heinous attacks with generous monthly “salaries” and phantom jobs with automatic advancement in the PA government.
Barkat suggested the Muslim protesters direct their anger at the terrorists who established this need for the metal detectors.
By Alan Bauer
Condemning the murder of the Druse policemen does not inflame his base and helps Abbas with an important minority group in the region. Had those guarding the Temple Mount been Jews, Abbas would almost certainly never have called.
The Muslim refusal to enter the Temple Mount because of the metal detectors has finally created a peaceful environment on the Jewish holy site.
Waqf officials refuse to go onto the Temple Mount... already a change for the better.
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
No Israeli parent has the right to give birth to a child in Israel and NOT teach them why they live in Israel, why they are Jewish, why we came back to this land after 2000 years and why we need to defend it.
There were no Muslim riots or protests in Israel in response to the closure of the Temple Mount and Old City of Jerusalem.
Targeting people for being Jewish is no longer anti-Semitic, but targeting people for being progressive activists is. Thus instead of being a shield to protect Jews, charges of anti-Semitism have become a shield to protect leftists.
Two of the Border Policemen HY"D have died from their wounds.
The police seem to turn their back on the supposedly neutralized terrorist.
A number of Border Policemen have been seriously wounded.
Critics of Israel claim Israel’s security checkpoints “restrict” and “humiliate” Palestinian travelers. While that is open to debate there is one absolute fact: Checkpoints save lives.
To Jew-haters, any inconsistency is permissible. What makes this hard for many Jews to understand is that it doesn’t conform to their worldview, in which enemies are on the right and allies are on the left.
By JNi.Media
The state of mind of a husband who signed the Tzohar prenuptial agreement may be affected by the financial consequences to the point where his get may not be given in a purely voluntary manner.
By JNi.Media
While the law prevents enforcement against 2,000 structures belonging to Israelis, it is also making it difficult for the authorities and the IDF to act against more than 10,000 illegal Arab structures.
By Bennett Ruda
Why is the "favorability" level of Israel down, even with the progress made in recognition and alliances with more and more countries?
By JNi.Media
The MPCID is investigating the charge that the forbidden relations between the two officers were 'realized several times at the battalion base.'
Even the most secular Israelis don’t agree that American Reform Jews should decide what Israel does in the holy places that were regained with the blood of its soldiers. They may passionately hate the Rabbinate, but it is OUR Rabbinate that they hate.
"They'd shoot me and I'd die, and my children would receive an allowance... I don't regret what I did."
By JNi.Media
The legal owners are planning to sneak back into Machpelah House in the coming weeks, sans coordination with the powers that be, and let's see Netanyahu and Liberman evicting them from their homes in the UNESCO sanctioned Palestinian heritage site.
Since the Kotel was a rare issue on which Israel could afford to give American Jews something they wanted, it should have seized the opportunity.
By JNi.Media
With Abbas' insistence, Gaza residents are now down to a maximum of three-hour electric service daily.
By JNi.Media
According to Diardio de Chiapas, Helbrans' group of about 40 ultra-Orthodox Jewish families entered Chiapas three weeks ago legally from Guatemala, after having been expelled.
By saying that the demolition policy could also be applied to Jewish terrorists in some cases, Israel's Supreme Court is implying that there is an equivalence between Arab terrorism and certain crimes committed by Jews against Arabs.
By JNi.Media
Apparently, the folks in Gaza can go without their refrigerators, as long as somebody does something about those pesky settlements.
Netanyahu will establish the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Hebron and Kiryat Arba.
The Jewish people's ancestors, buried in Hebron, must be turning in their graves right now.
Watch this response to UNESCO's lies about Hebron and Israel.
If Sarah Halimi is to receive justice, then her murder must be tried as a hate crime. Anything else would be a mockery.
PA TV glorified the Ma'alot massacre terrorists who murdered 22 children and 4 adults: "Their souls float as martyrs above the skies of Palestine."
By JNi.Media
Only 43% of the residents of the Gaza Strip feel personally safe and secure, compared with 53% in the Palestinian Authority. Believe it or not, though, these grim figures mark an improvement: three months ago, 38% of Gazans felt secure and in the PA only 50% did.
By JNi.Media
'In the face of Palestinian criminals, the State of Israel has no teeth.'
By JNi.Media
In 2016 the PA paid 26,800 killed terrorists' families a total $183 million, and 6,500 terrorist prisoners $135 million.
By Fred Maroun
While the Lebanese terrorists’ phenomenal arsenal pointed at Israel is indication enough, the whipping up of hatred may be an even stronger indication that Hezbullah is itching for another war with Israel
Another Labor party chairman is rejected after just one term.
The Ministry of Education believes there is no justification for 12 years of education.
Seven candidates are looking to rule the party that currently barely warm up the back benches of the Knesset.
The MoD announced intermittent airspace restrictions over Israel today due to security activities.
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The Wall is not a synagogue. It never was a synagogue and should never become one. It is a place where we Jews can meet, pray and share what we have in common instead of focusing on what divides us; where we can smile at each other even when we vehemently disagree.
By JNi.Media
Last February, facing a serious challenge to his nomination from members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who are allergic to comparisons to things Holocaust, coming from the right or the left, Friedman bowed down and kissed the PC ring.
Is there a future for non-Orthodox American Jewry? The study found besides Orthodoxy, fewer Jews are getting married, those marrying are marrying later and having fewer children and intermarriage rates are increasing.
By JNi.Media
Netanyahu, who left the Sharon government half an hour before the troops descended on the 8,600 Jewish residents of Gush Katif, back in 2005, has since managed to wiggle his way out of confrontational situations by making promises to evicted settlers – promises he very rarely kept, usually after concentrated public shaming.
It is time for the Israeli Left to come to terms with the existence of “The Other” and the idea that people who think differently to them are just as legitimate as those who look different to them
By JNi.Media
Alas, this dispute is not over a connection to God but over political turf, both regarding the Kotel and the conversions.
By JNi.Media
Deri was furious at Netanyahu's request, and told the PM, while walking out of the room: "I know what you're doing to me and I will not let you do it."
The happy couple had to perform their Temple Mount wedding ceremony surreptitiously, otherwise the police would have arrested them.
If Iran is allowed to solidify its Shiite Crescent and its naval obstructionism, American allies across the Middle East and North Africa will pay a heavy price.
By JNi.Media
Amit Serfer sees his solution as an inoculation against the invading virus.
By Jeff Dunetz
After 8 years of Obama not asking Abbas to make even basic concessions to Israel when he met with the American delegation last week and was asked to stop inciting terror he got angry and accused them of siding with the Israelis
By JNi.Media
As a matter of course, Vizhnitz devotes little or no time to learning about sexual orientation, other than those well known verses in Leviticus that frown on guys behaving like girls.
By Bassam Tawil
Considering lavish payments from the PA to Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prison, why should any Palestinian go to university and search for a job when he can make a "decent living" murdering Jews?
By JNi.Media
Senior Jewish Agency officials are saying Sharansky is livid over the government's decision to cancel the Kotel plan.
The real humanitarian solution to the plight of Gaza lies not in its reconstruction, but in its deconstruction
After decades of ominous demographic statistics, the American Jewish community faces a stark choice about its future. Can Israeli culture offer a way out?
By JNi.Media
A senior PA official said Abbas refuses to meet the US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman because of his well documented support for the settlements, for which Kushner and Greenblatt rebuked the Chairman during their meeting.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
With big name rock concerts coming this summer--and the future-- to Israel, BDS movement’s cultural boycott of the Jewish state appears to be waning. Thanks Wonder Woman!
PMW has written to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informing him the ICRC is facilitating salary payments to terrorist prisoners, and suggested a means to rectify the situation.
Mahmoud Abbas will never take any deal, no matter how sweet, because "there is no way he will allow himself to go down in history as the person who gave up on the 'right' of return."
By JNi.Media
'We will build a youth movement – not for police action but to deal with the norms of our youth,' the Commissioner vowed.
Israel's new settlement policy seems to have taken the settlement issue off the boil not just with the Trump administration but also with other friendly foreign governments.
Kronfeld believes her "progressive conservativism" will have widespread appeal for New Yorkers.
By JNi.Media
'I have a recommendation to the people of Lebanon: Hezbollah has chosen to stay and infiltrate some of your homes – if you leave your homes as soon as the conflict erupts you will not be harmed.'
"We will get to every person who had any connection at all to the attack and to anyone who dares to openly express support, or to utter inciting statements or encourages people to support terror ."
By Noah Rothman
Otto Warmbier was released just last week by North Korea after they beat him near to death inperhaps the most vicious crime directed against an American citizen by DPRK. He has died this week, days after being returned to his home and family.
By JNi.Media
Jerusalem led in 2016 in number of divorces: 725 couples. Meanwhile, Modi'in Illit saw a 45% rise in divorces. In all, in 2016, 10,841 couples were divorced in Israel, compared with 10,653 in 2015.
Europeans should learn from Israel’s vast experience in confronting vehicular terror attacks. ‘Run, hide and tell’ is not a strategic concept that will discourage further attacks or limit their damage. We will have to be more robust than this.
Six out of the seven Iranian ballistic missiles completely failed to hit their intended target. Three landed in Iraq.
The newly inaugurated "Martyr Khaled Nazzal Square,"memorializes the terror leader who planned the attack leading to the murder of 22 children and four adults on May 15, 1974.
{Originally posted to the Tower Magazine website} Gaza’s sole power plant shut down on Sunday for lack of funds, leaving the nearly 2 million residents of the Strip with only four hours of electricity per day. The manufactured crisis is just another example of how “Hamas remains the same cynical organization that exploits the distress […]
“We must remain attuned to the concerns of the adjacent [Israeli] communities.”
The Prosecutor's Office said the leak of classified information could cause serious damage to state security.
A deletion of the growth hormone receptor Exon 3 was not only a marker of exceptional longevity, but it also made them taller.
By JNi.Media
The bill would reduce the great burden borne by the Supreme Court in its role as High Court of Justice, for which the justices would surely be grateful.
"It is important to make clear, before the start of a diplomatic process, that Jerusalem will never be divided under any circumstance."
By Nathan Lewin
10 federal appellate judges eradicated a presidential directive designed to protect the safety of US residents because the judges discerned religious prejudice against Muslims in the president’s motivation.
By D.S. Levi
If the Palestinian Authority is ignoring the Oslo Accords, why is Israel still moving forward with goodwill gestures to Ramallah?
By Paul Gherkin
Jews have lived throughout the holy land for millennia, including all over Judea and Samaria. International laws facilitated the ability of Jews to move back to, and throughout, their homeland.
10 years ago today, Hamas completed its bloody takeover of Gaza.
By JNi.Media
'For four years in a row now, members of Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Zionist groups have been permitted to intentionally and successfully disrupt a student-organized, pro-Israel event.'
This confidence to play hardball with the West undoubtedly stems in part from Israel’s growing diplomatic strength outside the West, as highlighted most recently by Netanyahu’s address to the recent summit of the ECOWAS
By Guy Millière
Records show conclusively that all of the anti-Semitic attacks committed in France for more than two decades came from Muslims and Islamists.The French authorities know this, but choose to hide it and look in another direction.
The idea to create a biometric database of every Israeli citizen has been controversial from the start.
By JNi.Media
The pressure to go ahead with the bill came from rightwing Likud members, as well as from Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beiteinu).
Unexpectedly, the police closed the Temple Mount to Muslims visitors and not to Jews following the attack on a Jewish group.
The “Trump bump” has produced a surge in attendance and membership at liberal synagogues, where a social justice agenda rules and rabbis are outspoken critics of the president.
By JNi.Media
All terror factions in the Gaza Strip said they had nothing to do with the tunnel in question, and they wouldn't dream of violating the neutrality of UNRWA and put schoolchildren at risk.
By JNi.Media
'The absence of children – particularly children being raised in the Jewish religion – represents yet one more missing incentive to Jewish communal engagement.'
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
From a human perspective, circumcision happens just once; but from the perspective of mission, the message conveyed by this act – the Jewish nation’s unwavering commitment to a higher mission – resounds forever
By JNi.Media
The desert soil in the midst of tank shelling, range firing and navigational tracking, is also home to thousands of marijuana plants belonging to Bedouin criminals in a large number of greenhouses.
If Trump really believes the missing ingredient for peace has been a master real estate dealmaker, he’s wrong. But his willingness to pound the table at Abbas is nevertheless significant.
"We are a law-abiding army. If this really happened we must investigate the incident and punish the offenders."
By Isi Leibler
Israel has an extraordinary window of opportunity but it requires initiative and willingness to cooperate with Trump’s peace initiatives--on condition that our security is not compromised.