By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Report: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has increased the demand for advanced technology weapons, particularly combat drones, loitering munitions and missile-defense systems.
“It is a real fight against good and evil. The challenge is so much bigger, and, of course, the world as [the Russian president] wants to change is not the world in which Jews and Israel want to live,” said Natan Sharansky.
"There were videos ‘borrowed’ from other armies and even Star Wars movies,” says psychological and information warfare expert Dr. Yaniv Levitan.
Two baby girls born to surrogate mothers and abandoned in Kiev had to be rescued from the shelled city and delivered to their Israeli parents.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken to lawmakers in the United Kingdom and European Union, where he has received standing ovations in the attempt to rally the world to help Ukraine.
The humane logistics of humanitarian aid.
“I can’t afford to be a citizen of a country that kills children of other countries and tortures their children who don’t agree with it,” said Nevzlin.
After a few minutes, the woman began to calm down and her excitement at the prospect of immigrating to Israel took over.
I never imagined I would be putting my school-days' connections to use in this way, but we do whatever is in our power to help.
The call center will provide assistance in a variety of areas including medical needs, bureaucracy, and coordination with professionals.
Many times we watch as the refugees gain a sense of calm the moment they cross over the border, once they are finally out of danger.
An Odessa website claims Israeli special forces veterans are arriving in Ukraine to fight the Russians.
By Israel Hayom
The move has stunned many inside and outside the IDF, both due to the unilateral nature of the decision and due to the choice of alternative destination.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Praying for the safety of those Ukrainians fighting against Russian oppression, Elisheva Avidar is on stage in Jerusalem, playing a Soviet anti-Semite.
“Since the end of World War II, we haven’t seen such a painful crisis where large numbers of Jewish families are being torn apart and literally running for their lives.”
“This was a joint operation and would not have succeeded without the effort of all three organizations."
Raisa was one of 160 refugees brought to Israel on Thursday by United Hatzalah.
Alumim is not an orphanage, but a home filled with warmth that inspires Jewish children to succeed and achieve the very best life has to offer.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is enabling and funding the Fayyad Plan to take over Judea & Samaria.
These olim escaped the harrowing fighting in Ukraine.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some of the refugees have been walking for days on end and waiting for hours in the freezing cold at the border until they are given entry.
And in my head echoes the voice of a little boy asking, "Where's daddy, where’s mommy?"
"Our goal is to empower the refugees and give them back a sense of control over their situation."
In Israel, an affinity for Germany was tied to ethnic identification: Jewish or Arab.
“Through you and your contacts back in Ukraine, the message is, first, we're with you, and secondly, Israel is the home of every Jew."
In light of the information we received from the Israeli Foreign Ministry we decided to head out to Palanca this morning to rendezvous with a convoy of yeshiva students from Dnipro.
“As of this morning, 97 passengers from different countries around the world have arrived in Israel with a Ukrainian passport..."
We hope and pray for a speedy solution to the travails in Ukraine, for the world in general, and our Jewish brothers and sisters.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has established an inter-ministry team that will examine the effects and consequences of the sanctions on Russia on the Israeli economy and policy.
“As the fighting continues in Ukraine, we can only expect the number of refugees traveling across the country’s western borders to grow,” IsraAid said.
Zelensky is “the kind of leader I’d want to go into combat with.”
In less than an hour, we will arrive in Kishinev to assess the situation.
Unable to return home due to the war, three groups of Birthright Israel participants are being put up in Israel until the situation improves.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russia’s military coordination with Israel in Syria is “useful” and will continue, Russia’s embassy to Israel said on Saturday.
The organization asked the Arab students in Ukraine to hold up a sign for Israel so they can be identified.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We stand with the people of Ukraine and hope for an immediate end to this war,” says NGO StandWithUs on Facebook, along with a photo of the event.
The humanitarian aid mission will make its way to the Moldova/Ukraine border over the course of the next few hours.
Brighton Beach is home to one of the largest Ukrainian populations outside of Eastern Europe, so much so that the neighborhood is known by its nickname of “Little Odessa,” named for the Ukrainian port city on the shores of the Black Sea.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The funds will go to humanitarian aid, such as food, medicine, winter relief and emergency services; bolster security at Jewish institutions; respond to emerging needs such as the displacement of people from their homes and provide mobile medical units for the homebound.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“NCSEJ is deeply concerned about the onslaught of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Ukraine,” The National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry (NCSEJ) said in a statement. “All appropriate steps must be taken to ensure the safety and well-being of Ukrainians.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The consequences of the crisis, in its diplomatic, economic and security aspects, were reviewed in the discussion,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
By COLlive.com
All the rabbis and Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries are staying in order to be with their communities, but add whoever has the ability to leave Ukraine in a safe way should do so.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Most of the rabbis and Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Ukraine have stayed behind to be with their community members in these difficult moments.
By Israel Hayom
Kyiv’s Chabad House is preparing to host all Jews in need.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced military operations in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine late Wednesday night.
There's two ways to make Aliyah, because you have to, or because you want to.
Yoseph Haddad, an Arab-Israeli social activist, was invited to speak next week at the Parliament of Ireland, but his arrival provoked opposition from the Sinn Féin party.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Workers took down “Flowers,” painted by German artist Lovis Corinth in 1913, and packed it for the family of Gustav and Emma Mayer.
Some 32 percent of parents say their children have been the target of anti-Semitic insults, with 18 percent say their children have been physically attacked in 2021.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The $22 million contract will supply man-portable anti-tank weapons.
Due to the sensitivity of the issue and Israel's good working relationship with the two countries, officials are treading carefully to avoid appearance that they’re taking sides.
Speaker Levy becomes the first Israeli head of parliament to address the Bundestag.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Civil servant Michael Blume defends allegations of impropriety by going on the offensive against his Jewish accusers.
“This survey reveals the urgency of studying the multidimensionality of Israeli-European relation."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
President Alar Karis has called for an increase in NATO troop numbers in his country amid tensions with Russia.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PA employs about 600 workers in some 100 registration branches who are engaged in a huge project to map properties, including in Area C, which is under full Israeli control.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Netherlands found what it called a “worrisome” number of board members linked to the PFLP, in addition to the fact that two employees were arrested in connection to a bombing that killed an Israeli in 2019.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UAWC is one of six PFLP-linked civilian organizations that Israel proscribed in October after they were shown to act as conduits for funneling funds to the terrorist organization.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In late August, France adopted a controversial separatism law that the government said aims to fight Islamic radicalism.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The NGO-Monitor report was published ahead of a special Knesset conference on the de-legitimization of Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU has been funding the illegal Palestinian Authority seizure of state land.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The majority of materials were taken in July 1942 from Thessaloniki, which once had a thriving Jewish community.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
An Egyptian company will buy 85 billion cubic meters of gas, worth an estimated $19.5 billion, from Israel’s Leviathan and Tamar offshore fields in the Mediterranean Sea over a period of 15 years.
"A bad deal with the Iranians will have implications for our national security."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
US law professor Eugene Kontorovich stated that the ECJ’s ruling “is putting a new ‘Yellow Star’ on Jewish-made products.”
The team at HU developed a system that uses fluorescent crystals in the form of specks so tiny that special microscopes are needed to see them.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PA and EU celebrated the inauguration of the new headquarters of the PA’s Central Elections Commission (CEC) in Ramallah.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Czech Senate officials have issued a call to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the Hamas terror organization.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The system displayed a 90% interception rate, as well as accurate detection of the source of the fire, thus proving the success of integrating the system on the German tanks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It showcases a historical collection dedicated to the Dreyfus affair, including more than 500 documents, objects, photographs, songs, posters and other items.
Vertical Field’s indoor farm is a mobile unit that grows leafy greens such as lettuce, oaky green lettuce, spinach, and basil.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel said its decision was due to NGO financing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It's funny how the Europeans think they have any moral authority.
The event was a show of the strength of the German-Israeli relationship.
The Jewish cultural organization that let go of this treasure said they were forced into it because of their steep debts.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Smash Hopper, the remote-controlled weapon station, provides a “one-shot—one-hit capability while remotely controlled by an operator from a safe distance.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
EU representative: "For us, East Jerusalem is part of the occupied Palestinian territory."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Yad Vashem recognized Angel Sanz-Briz as a Righteous Among the Nations in 1966 for saving approximately 5,200 Jews from the Nazis.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Every year these negotiations become more and more critical; as this last generation of survivors age, their needs increase,” said Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It’s part of an agreement for developing and bolstering Estonian coastal defense capabilities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 100-year-old man was allegedly complicit in executions done by firing squads and poisonous gas.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some 42,000 Jews live in Belgium, about 0.4% of the total population.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is the Palestinian Authority’s largest donor.
Professor Rabinovici’s main field of research is theoretical high-energy physics, in particular quantum field theory and string theory.
The Assembly also demands that the national parliament adopt legislation to exclude any possible grant and public aid to entities that promote Antisemitism according to the IHRA Definition.
By Israel Hayom
The new law defines anti-Semitism as hatred of Jews, including attacks, false or hateful statements and denying the mass extermination of Ukrainian Jewry during the Holocaust.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The “real story” with these EU-funded projects is that they are part of the Fayyad Plan activity to take over Area C.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It threatens targeted sanctions on Lebanon for “obstructing and undermining the democratic political process.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The donation will finance “sustainable economic development in [Palestine] over the next two years,” according to P.A. Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
A few years ago, Dr. Jon Seligman's visit to Vilna as part of a roots trip sparked the idea of digging up what was left of the compound and the synagogue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It comes days after Poland passed a new law that sets a 30-year limit on restitution claims for property stolen by the Nazis during World War II, which has led to a row between Israel and Poland.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the US is “deeply concerned” by the law and urged Duda not sign the bill into law or refer the bill to Poland’s constitutional tribunal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The passage of time is no barrier to justice when it comes to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust,” said Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Education Trust.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Advocates for the family of the Jewish woman killed in Paris by her Muslim neighbor are seeking the killer’s prosecution in Israel after he was found unfit to stand trial in France.
The European Union's funding of illegal Arab construction in Area C of Judea and Samaria is a path to establishing a de facto Palestinian state.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Greece is experiencing its worst heatwave in more than 30 years and in the last 10 days, more than 56,000 hectares have been burnt in hundreds of fires.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Greece is experiencing its worst heatwave in more than 30 years and in the last 10 days, more than 56,000 hectares have been burnt in hundreds of fire.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Attorney David Foster said the parents of 2-year-old Alta Fixsler hoped the ECHR would see that the original ruling “did not give adequate cognizance to their religious beliefs.”
“Our results present a comprehensive picture of the impact of COVID-19.”