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Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

An Israeli Italian Strike

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Israeli version of the Italian strike left hundred of travelers stuck at the airport with long delays, and one flight was completely cancelled.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Settlements

Terrorist Caught Near Efrat

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The IDF captured a terrorist just as he was about to throw a firebomb at a car near the southern entrance to Efrat.

News Briefs / Boycott / BDS

More Bands Tell Roger Waters: 'We Don't Need No Thought Control'

By Avi Tuchmayer

Roger Waters may be ramping up his anti-Semitic attempts to discourage other musicians to boycott Israel, but the music world is saying “We don’t need no thought control.”

Politics / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Egypt

Sisi: I Would Uphold Treaty With Israel

By Avi Tuchmayer

Once again, peace with Israel is a major campaign issue in Egypt. Frontrunner al-Sisi says treaty is 'stable'; challenger is long-time opponent of treaty

Terrorism / US / News Briefs / Islamists

NY Islamists Object to 'Jihad', Muslim Descriptions of al-Qaeda Terrorists

By Avi Tuchmayer

Radical Islamist groups in the US have asked the National September 11 Memorial Museum to censor derogatory references about al-Qaeda in order not to offend Muslims.

Terrorism / News Briefs

Uri Ariel: No More Prisoner Releases

By Avi Tuchmayer

Housing Minister Uri Ariel told the family of murder victim Shelly Dadon that Israel must not release murderers, NRG reported in Hebrew. “We must not release killers,” Ariel said during a condolence visit to the Dadon home in Afula. When you release murderers, every one of them does the simple math. Every release encourages the […]

Israel / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

Israeli Ambassador to The UN Warns: "Next Major Conflict Could be Sparked by Rockets Being Smuggled Across the Middle East"

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Ambassador Ron Prosor said: "...One of those missiles could trigger the next terror attack. One of those shipments could carry a dirty bomb."

Terrorism / Hamas / News Briefs / Canada

Canada Bans Hamas Fundraisers

By Avi Tuchmayer

Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness has banned a Muslim charity that officials believe has funnelled more than C$15 million (US $13.7 million) to Hamas. Lawyers for the International Relief Fund for Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN-Canada) slammed the decision, which now makes it a criminal offence “to knowingly deal in the property or […]

Government / News Briefs

Netanyahu: Basis for Israeli Law Should be Talmud

By Avi Tuchmayer

Prime Minister Netanyahu says his proposal to enshrine Israel’s status as a Jewish country should include a provision establishing the Talmud as the basis of Israeli law. “I want to anchor provisions into this basic law to ensure that the State of Israel was created and exists on a foundation of the Torah and of […]

Uncategorized / Israel / News Briefs

Conservative leader: Israelis More Racist Than French

By Avi Tuchmayer

Yizhar Hess, director general of the Masorti (Conservative) movement in Israel, apparently believes that graffiti attacks against Arab targets are at least as serious as physical violence against Jews. Writing in the Hebrew-language Yedioth Aharonoth, Hess said that per capita there were more racist attacks in Israel than anti-Semitic attacks in France during the year […]

News Briefs / Holocaust

Muslims Planning 'Shadow Holocaust' Event on Dutch Memorial Day

By JTA

A Dutch Muslim group is planning to commemorate “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” on Holland’s memorial day for victims of Nazism. The Platform Bewust Muslim group is planning to hold the ceremony on Sunday at a mosque in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, under the banner “Palestine, the Shadow Holocaust,” the Jewish television channel Joods Omroep reported […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs

Missile Attacks Can be Fun, Entertaining and Magical

By Shalom Bear

Let Uri Geller tell you how long you have to run for cover from a missile attack. Who's the idiot behind this idea?

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / European Union

After EU Audit, Corruption Could Become an Expensive Problem for Ramallah

By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA

The EU parliament called for future EU funding to be conditioned on Palestinian compliance with reform recommendations.

Israel / News Briefs / Egypt

Angry Arab Support for David HaNachlawi (Video)

By Shalom Bear

This Arab is angry that everyone in the media is picking on poor David HaNachlawi.

IDF & Security / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

IDF Arrests Bedouin Soldier Who Wants to Kill Jews

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Bedouin IDF soldier was arrested after posting comments on Facebook calling for "Death to Jews" and praising Hitler.

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Settlements

UPDATED: House Shot in Psagot

By Jewish Press News Desk

A house in Psagot was hit by a bullet on Wednesday evening.

Iran / News Briefs

Rouhani Needs His WhatsApp

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani must be addicted to WhatsApp, because he reportedly applied his official veto and overrode the decision to outlaw WhatsApp in Iran.

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Haredi Man Charged with Conspiracy to Kidnap in Get Case

By Avi Tuchmayer

A haredi man from Lakewood, N.J. has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping, in order to force a man to give his wife a get (Jewish divorce document). The Lohud online news service reported that Fifty-one-year-old David Wax also implicated residents of Brooklyn and Monsey. Two of the men, Rabbi Mendel Epstein of Brooklyn […]

Israel / News Briefs

Haaretz Columnist: Israeli Parents Must Not Love Their Children

By Avi Tuchmayer

Radical columnist Gideon Levy summed up the week’s Yom HaZikaron/ Yom HaAtzma'ut events in the left-wing with a blistering attack on Israeli society, including a “suspicion… that Israeli parents don’t really love their children.” To “proove” his point, Levy criticises Israeli schools who encourage small children to light memorial candles to honor Holocaust victims and […]

Haredim & Hassidim / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Florida

Bkln Construction Worker Indicted for Murder of Menachem Stark

By JTA

A Brooklyn construction worker has been indicted for the kidnapping and murder of Haredi real estate developer Menachem Stark. A grand jury in Brooklyn on Monday indicted Kendel Felix, who was employed by a contractor hired by Stark, the New York Post reported. Felix was arrested on April 30 and admitted that he and two accomplices accidentally suffocated […]

Uncategorized / News Briefs

Hamas TV: Kill All Jews

By Avi Tuchmayer

The Hamas al-Aqsa TV channel called on Palestinian children to kill all Jews, wherever they are. According to Palestinian Media Watch, which posted a YouTube video of the cartoon with English-language subtitles, the children's show Tomorrow's Pioneers instructed children to shoot "all the Jews," and featured a young girl who dreams of shooting Jews. Child host (Rawan): "Tulin, why […]

Government / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Is Shimon Peres Preparing to Undermine Netanyahu?

By Avi Tuchmayer

At 91, most people would be happy to retire. As his career in public office draws to a close, however, is Shimon Peres preparing one last push to resuscitate the failed Oslo process?

Terrorism

Key Lawmakers Ready to Defund Palestinians Over PA-Hamas Unity Pact And Terrorism

By Edwin Black

Hundreds of operatives from Hamas as well as Hizbullah, operating with millions of money-laundered dollars, have created a lawless domain that funnels money back to the Middle East, according to a 2010 report by the Crime and Narcotics Center of the Central Intelligence Agency.

US

Donald Sterling's Dollars: Charities Face Dilemmas With Tainted Donors

By Uriel Heilman

“Last year we took the $10,000 from him,” Jay Sanderson, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, told JTA. “We’re not going to take it anymore.”

Israel

Officials Fear Spiraling Price Tag Violence Could Provoke Third Intifada

By Steve K. Walz

We must strive to be a state… that fights to the end against racism, against violence and against xenophobia.

News Briefs

Cardinal John O'Connor Was A Jew

By Jewish Press Staff

According to halacha, or Jewish law, anyone with a Jewish mother is considered Jewish.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

National Symbols Degraded and Defaced in Jerusalem

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

"We thought that an incident like this would bring here a march of MK’s, ministers and maybe even the president, but evidently an incident like this doesn't particularly bother the leaders of the state; it only bothers the citizens," said a resident.

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

With Talks At A Halt, U.S. Negotiators Pin Most Of The Blame On Israel

By Ron Kampeas

President Obama in an April 25 press conference seemed ready to take a break. “There may come a point at which there just needs to be a pause and both sides need to look at the alternatives,” he said.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Police Respond to Graffiti Attack, Ask 'Where are the reporters?'

By Avi Tuchmayer

Students at the Or Menachem yeshiva in Tzfat told reporters that police only responded to a graffiti attack on the grave of the Talmudic Rabbi Halafta when they believed the media would be covering the response. The students who discovered the vandalism told the Hebrew-language Col.org website that police showed no interested in the swastika […]

News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount

Teen arrested at Temple Mount; Arabs Shout at Jewish Visitors

By Avi Tuchmayer

Arresting Jewish activists on the Temple Mount cannot change the facts: More and more Jews are vying for the right to pray at Judaism's holiest site

IDF & Security / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / Settlements

Police Arrest Pregnant Yitzhar Woman for Inciting Against IDF Soldiers

By Jewish Press Staff

Israel Police arrested an eight-month pregnant woman in Yitzhar before dawn Wednesday on suspicion of incitement.

Iran / News Briefs

Massive Explosion in Iran

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iranian Fars news agency reports a massive explosion in Qazvin city in Iran. The explosion supposedly happened in a "storage facility".

Israel / News Briefs

PM Netanyahu's Independence Day Message (+Video)

By dvora

PM Netanyahu's message to the world on Israel's Independence Day.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Egypt

Tshuva To Export 20% of "Tamar" Gas Field to Egypt

By Shalom Bear

Egypt is to receive 4.5 BCM (billion cubic meters) each year for 15 years, valued at 1.1 to 1.3 billion dollars a year.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

Cell Which Killed Shelly Dadon Captured

By Jewish Press News Desk

Four suspects were arrested in connection to the murder of 20 year old Shelly Dadon of Afula.

US / News Briefs

Israel’s Declaration of Independence Printed in Major U.S. Newspapers

By JTA

A full-page advertisement reproducing Israel’s Declaration of Independence appeared in The New York Times and USA Today.

News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

66 Israeli Heroes Share a Message for 66 Years of Israel

By Jewish Press Staff

The purpose of the video is to inspire Jews around the world while reminding them of the significance and miracle of the Jewish State.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

HaTikvah at the Kotel

By Jewish Press Staff

The IDF sings HaTikvah, the Jewish national anthem, at the kotel in the Jewish holy city of Jerusalem.

Israel / News Briefs

Thousands of Israelis Usher In Yom HaAtzma'ut

By Avi Tuchmayer

Young, and young-at-heart Israelis flood streets of downtown Jerusalem to celebrate return of Jewish sovereignty to Land of Israel.

Israel / News Briefs

Self-hating Jews Promote Nakba on Yom HaAtzma'ut

By Avi Tuchmayer

A group of self-hating, anti-Zionist Israelis has used Yom HaAtzma'ut to launch a smartphone application to memorialise the Palestinian “narrative” of Israel’s War of Independence, and to promote the memory of the Arab towns destroyed as a result of the Arab decision to attack the nascent Jewish state in May, 1948. The Zochrot organization was […]

US / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

San Francisco Jews to Ramp Down Yom HaAtzma'ut Celebration

By Meir Halevi Siegel

Community officials say Yom HaAtzma'ut celebration will be 'non-political', but Bay Area remains hub of pro-Palestinian activity

Terrorism / News Briefs

Terror Victim Heckles Netanyahu at Yom HaZikaron Ceremony

By Avi Tuchmayer

Netanyahu admitted the decision to release Arab murderers was 'too tough to bear', but failed to acknowledge that the moved failed

Israel / News Briefs

The Holocaust Survivors Who Fell in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

A special monument is located at the end of the trail that connects Israel’s Yad Vashem, the official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and Mount Herzl, the national cemetery for Israeli leaders and fallen soldiers.

Israel / News Briefs

Israel‘s 66th Independence Day: Israel's Population Grew by 2% Over the Past Year

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The Central Bureau of Statistics released its traditional Yom Ha’atzmaut statistics report on the citizens of Israel.

Israel / News Briefs

Orot Etzion Efrat's Yom HaZikaron Ceremony

By Jewish Press News Desk

The students of Orot Etzion Elementary School in Efrat performing a Yom HaZikaron ceremony in memory of those killed in the wars and terror attacks against Israel.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Haredim Confound Israeli News Media on Yom HaZikaron

By Jewish Press News Desk

The TV station sent out a cameraman to get a video of Haredim during the siren. They got a video, but not the one they wanted.

Jewish / News Briefs / Local

Animal Rights Extremists Force Cancellation of Shechita Class

By JTA

Urban Adamah organization feared for safety of class participants.

News Briefs

Netanyahu: Fallen Soldiers 'Heroes'

By Avi Tuchmayer

Prime Minister Netanyahu has praised the 23,169 IDF soldiers who have died in Israel’s wars. “You are our heroes,” said Netanyahu in his address to the opening ceremony at tonight’s Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) ceremony. The prime minister. who lost his brother Yoni Netanyahu during the Entebbe rescue mission in July, 1976, then paraphrased the […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Gantz: Fallen Are With Us At Every Step

By Avi Tuchmayer

Speaking at the opening Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) ceremony at the Kotel, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz said, “From our nation’s wall of memory that we stand before tonight, from these stones of hope that have accompanied our country in our fight for life and our dreams of peace, from this place […]

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

IDF Program for Haredim Combines Torah, Army Service

By Avi Tuchmayer

 IDF and the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev) have teamed up to create the first pre-army military academy (mechina) for the haredi community.   There are 16 students in the inaugural class at Yeshivat Derech Haim, located in the Bayit Vegan neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Students will spend two years involved in full-time yeshiva study, […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Brussels mayor bans ‘summit meeting' for anti-Semites

By JTA

A mayor from Brussels banned an event that European Jews have called a “summit meeting for anti-Semites.” Eric Tomas, the mayor of Anderlecht— one of 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels autonomous region of the federal Belgian state — on Sunday said he would ban the “European Congress of Resistance,” saying it was a […]

Israel / News Briefs

Yom HaZikaron Siren

By Jewish Press News Desk

The siren marking the commencement of Yom HaZikaron, Israel's Memorial Day, just sounded for one minute across Israel.

Government / News Briefs

Cabinet Approves Israel's Air Force One

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel's cabinet, at its weekly meeting approved the recommendations of the public committee that considered the purchase of a plane for the President and the Prime Minister, as well as the construction of an office and official residence for the Prime Minister. The plane will cost between NIS 50-70 million.

Israel / News Briefs

Netanyahu: The State of Israel is the Nation-State of One People Only – the Jewish People

By Jewish Press News Desk

Netanyahu: The State of Israel provides full equal rights, individual rights, to all its citizens, but it is the nation-state of one people only – the Jewish People.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

3000 US-Trained PA Officers to Serve Hamas in Gaza

By Shalom Bear

3000 Palestinian Authority soldiers/policemen are set to go to Gaza, and serve together with their Hamas compatriots.

Israel / News Briefs

Lapid: Contractors Shouldn't Be So Greedy

By Avi Tuchmayer

Finance Minister Yair Lapid seems intent on avoiding the most obvious solution to Israel's housing crisis: Building in Judea and Samaria.

News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

Israeli-Arab Students Rebuild Shul in Response to Graffiti Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

Fixing the ancient synagogue was the right step in fighting extremism and hatred.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Poll: Netanyahu Riding High, Livni In the Dumps

By Avi Tuchmayer

Public sees HaTnua leader Tzipi Livni as face of "peace" process. As a result, her party wouldn't make it into the Knesset were elections held today.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Suspicious Family Illegally Opens Mt. Herzl Grave - Finds It Empty

By Shalom Bear

For 40 years, the family of Tzion Tayib have been fighting for proof their son's body was found and buried in the Har Herzl military cemetery - it wasn't.

Iran / News Briefs

Iran Outlaws WhatsApp

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iran has outlawed WhatsApp, reportedly because it is now owned by that wily, Jewish, Zionist Mark Zuckerberg.

Israel / News Briefs

Former Shabak Head Criticizes Organization's Failures as Self-Imposed

By Jewish Press News Desk

Gilon, who failed to prevent Rabin's murder said of his former organization's recent failures, "There’s no such thing as can’t – there’s don’t want to.”

News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Yesha Council: “Peace Now’s Report is Manipulative”

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The Yesha Council said the latest Peace Now report was part of an effort by Peace Now to malign the State of Israel and mislead the reader.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Civil Rights Groups Urge NYU to Discipline 'Mock Eviction' Leafletters

By Jewish Press Staff

The NYU mock eviction notices raised serious questions about sensitivity for the reasonable concerns of Jewish students.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Hamas Makes Inroads into Ramallah and Shechem

By Jewish Press News Desk

One of the first signs of Hamas gains in Judea and Samaria, due to the reconciliation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, are the amount of Hamas flags that are being waved in PA controlled areas (or areas the PA controls at the moment) in Ramallah protests. Hamas is planning to openly run in elections […]

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Taglit-Birthright to Allow Visits to Parts of Judea and Samaria

By Jewish Press News Desk

Taglit-Birthright will finally allow participants to see important parts of their heritage, hopefully they will expand this further to include more, important sites.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Cancels Jail Time for 3 IDF "David HaNachlawi" Protesters

By Jewish Press News Desk

IDF cancelled jail time it ordered for three battalion commanders in the Hetz unit - one of them an officer - who participated in the "David Hanachlawi" Internet protest, according to a report in Nana10. Many, many thousands of IDF soldiers have participated in the protest, and over 115,000 Israelis have Liked the Facebook page. […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Family of "David "HaNachlawi" Adamov to Receive Cash Grant and Bravery Certificate

By Shalom Bear

Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe's organization often awards IDF soldiers and civilians.

Israel / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Two Beit Shemesh Shuls Desecrated, Robbed, and Torah Stolen

By Shalom Bear

The thieves were after the gold and silver - and damaged the shuls in the process.

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs

Baby Injured by Stone Throwing Attack on Route 443

By Jewish Press News Desk

The bus's windshield was smashed in, and an infant was injured in the attack.

US / News Briefs / Religion / Judaism

Thank You J Street (You Too, Reform Movement)

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

J Street claims that its rejection from the Conference of Presidents is proof its voice is needed.

Israel / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

Jay Leno to Visit Israel

By JTA

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno will visit Israel to host the presentation of the inaugural Genesis Prize. The May 22 ceremony in Jerusalem will honor former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the $1 million award. “Jay Leno is a comedic icon who has entertained millions of people around the […]

Jewish / NY / News Briefs

NY's Cardinal John O’Connor was a Jew

By JTA

Is this really a big deal? Let’s say the cardinal really was Jewish. It runs in the family, because so was his boss.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Brass Knuckles Arab Caught and Released

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

He didn't even need to wait for peace talks. IDF arrested and released the brass knuckles wielding Arab in the "David HaNachlawi" video.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Israeli Arabs / Judaism

Leading Muslim Cleric Urges Mass Pilgrimages to Temple Mount

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Islamic law is not based on the Quran so much as it based on the Arab world’s struggle to destroy Israel as a Jewish country.

Terrorism / Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Rocket Hits Eshkol Region

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Eshkol region spokesperson has reported that a rocket fell in an open area. There were no injuries or damage reported. The Red Alert warning for rocket attacks did not go off.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Lecturer: Universities Don't Protect Jewish Students

By Avi Tuchmayer

A university lecturer has called on administrators to protect Jewish students on campus

US / Politics / Government / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Israel Distances Itself From Danon's Assessment of Kerry

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Strongly titled, but Danon's op-ed captured the feelings of many Israelis and Israel supporters.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Settlements

Netanyahu ‘Astonished’ at Demands to Surrender Israel as Jewish State

By Jewish Press News Desk

People who refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state are trying to “undermine the historic, moral and legal justification for the existence of the State of Israel as the national state of our people.” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday during a tour of Independence Hall. He noted, “The Declaration of Independence sets, […]

News Briefs / Judaism

Torah Book Fetches Record $3.87 Million at Paris Auction

By JTA

A 15th century printed book of the Torah fetched a record $3.87 million at an auction in Paris. Three buyers attempted to outbid each other over the telephone during the sale which the Christie’s auction house organized on April 30, the news website actualitte.com reported Thursday. Christie’s listed the buyer as “anonymous” but said the […]

Jewish / News Briefs / Obituaries

Mad Magazine’s Al Feldstein Dies

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Al Feldstein, the former long-time editor of Mad Magazine who turned Alfred E. Neuman into an American icon, died in Montana on Tuesday at the age of 88. Neuman, a freckle-faced nerd without a front tooth, was Feldstein’s vehicle to pan everyone, without regard to race, creed, religion or social status. After George Bush was […]

Israel / News Briefs

Illegal Infiltrators Continue to Leave Voluntarily

By Jewish Press News Desk

The number of illegal African infiltrators in Israel went down by another 329 in April, but there still are thousands who will have to leave during the coming months unless their claims for asylum can be verified. Israel completed a fence across the entire Egyptian-Israeli border last year to reduce to virtually zero the number […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

David HaNachlawi Facebook Breaks 100K

By Jewish Press News Desk

Thursday 3:47 PM: 100,000+ people have liked the page showing support for David of the Nachal Unit. Thursday 2:12 PM: 97,776 people have liked the page showing support for David of the Nachal Unit. Thursday 10:33 AM: 91,071 people have liked the page showing support for David of the Nachal Unit. Thursday 7:44 AM: 83,270 people have liked […]

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Antitrust Authority Approves Sale of Makor Rishon

By JTA

Religious-Zionist paper had been in danger of closing, will now join Sheldon Adelson's stable of media

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Five Soldiers Questioned Over David HaNachlawi Support Photo

By Jewish Press News Desk

Five  soldiers were called into questioning by a Colonel from their unit in response to the photo of themselves they posted on the internet. The soldiers had posted a photo showing support for David "HaNachlawi" Admon, as have many thousands of other IDF soldiers. IDF senior brass are upset and concerned by what some are […]

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Yom HaZikaron Ceremony to Mark Twenty Years Since Attack on AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

JERUSALEM - The annual ceremony in memory of victims of anti-Semitic incidents and terror attacks around the world that takes place on Yom HaZikaron, Israel's Remembrance Day, will mark twenty years since the murderous terror attack at the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed. […]

Israel / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances

Beaches are Open, Time for Sand and Fun in the Sun!

By Jewish Press Staff

Israel’s beach season began officially Thursday morning, May 1, with a bright sunny day and breezy skies, and continues till October 23.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Holidays & Observances / Israeli Arabs / Local

Desecration of Israeli Flags in Jaffa (Yafo)

By Jewish Press News Desk

Unknown vandals splattered red paint on a line of Israeli flags set up in the city of Jaffa (Yafo) in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Mainstream American Jewish Groups Reject J Street

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Hubris is what propelled J Street through the starting gate; it's also what slammed the door shut in J Street's face.

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs / Islamists

Jihadists Execute 7 in Syria, 2 by Crucifixion

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

In photos of the two bloody crucified Syrians, passersby don't even give them a second glance.

Israel / Global / News Briefs / Science and Tech

FIFA World Cup in Brazil to be Protected by Israeli Security Systems

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

The FIFA stadium, which will seat 44,000 fans, will be protected by an Israeli company’s advanced security systems.

Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Intel's Multi-Billion Dollar Upgrade to Kiryat Gat Plant

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Intel Corporation has announced a multi-billion dollar upgrade to its plant in Kiryat Gat.

News & Views

‘Agitated And Angry’: White Supremacists Still A Danger, Experts Say

By Anthony Weiss

Behavioral patterns among hate groups are notoriously difficult to track, as members tend to be secretive and deeply suspicious of outsiders.

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Israel Responds To Abbas Legal Challenges

By Steve K. Walz

Senior PA officials continue to threaten members of the Israeli government, high-ranking IDF officers and settlement leaders with “war crime” legal actions in The Hague’s International Criminal Court (ICC).

Terrorism / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Another Arab Terror Cell Captured - This Time in Jerusalem

By Jewish Press News Desk

It's been a good week for Israel's security services. Not only have they captured a number of terror cells, they're also allowed to talk about it.

News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Jerusalem

Yes Planet Multiplex to Overlook Old City of Jerusalem

By Jewish Press Staff

The city of Jerusalem has big plans for the Sherover Promenade overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, with a new Yes Planet multiplex.

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