The seven member Hamas-affiliated cell were producing and testing improvised bombs for a terror attack.
Apparently, US Secretary of State John Kerry needs a lesson on what Apartheid is, and which state is not an apartheid state. We recommend he watches this video: H/T IsraelEmpowered
By Shalom Bear
Tens of thousands of angry IDF soldiers are displaying grassroots support for IDF soldier, "David the Nachlawi", who may go to jail following a premeditated Arab instigation.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Tensions are continuing to rise and violent incidents are increasing in the Old City of Jerusalem, the latest taking place Tuesday night.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Tensions continue to rise as violent incidents increase in the Old City in Jerusalem.
The JMA will “Ride to Remember” to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust and to raise money for organizations that support and promote Holocaust education and awareness.
Kerry has made such a mess that no matter what he says about Israel or the PA, he is wrong. And he is a diplomat?
Grimm said the indictment was a "political witch hunt" against him because he "was an outsider who wasn't supposed to win."
And Ephron told Abraham the land is worth 400 silver shekels, and between us, that’s peanuts. (Genesis: 23:15)
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian media Watch (PMW) has exposed op-eds that appeared in an official PA daily, in which Israel was accused of "enthusiastically imitating everything the Nazis did to them".
By JTA
An Ethiopian-Israeli Knesset Member called racist statements attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, “disgusting” in a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “As a Jew, as a citizen of a country founded on the ruins of racism in Europe, it hurt me to hear Mr. Sterling, especially on this […]
Striking workers at the Israel Postal Company put their stamp on a second day of a strike that has left citizens, the military and businesses without ground communication. Bails, checks bad orders for IDF reservists cannot reach their destinations. Employees are striking over management plans to fire 2,000 workers as part of a program to […]
Syrian soldiers and rebels killed more than 50 people and wounded more than 100 others in a car bomb blast in a regime-held neighborhood in Homs and mortar shelling attacks in Damascus. The car bomb explosion killed 36 people and wounded more than 85, most of them civilians. In Damascus, at least 17 died and […]
The IDF retains the right to limit the number of Torah students and to tell them when they can pray and learn.
By JTA
The Jewish mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city was airlifted to Israel early Tuesday morning for treatment for a gunshot wound shot in a suspected assassination attempt. Kharkov mayor Gennady Kernes was shot in the neck while on his routine morning jog and initially was reported to be struggling for his life. Kernes underwent surgery at […]
Get ready for a media onslaught blaming for “war talk” that really is no different from the “peace talks.”
By JTA
Jewish Democrats called on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Monday to apologize for warning that the failure to achieve a two-state solution could lead to apartheid. “We express our deep disappointment that the Secretary of State has chosen to invoke the specter of ‘apartheid’ in discussing his concerns about the failing peace process,” the […]
Kerry: I do not believe nor have I ever said that Israel is or intends to become an Apartheid State.
Used car chain CarMax, KIA, energy drink producer AQUAhydrate, auto title company LoanMart and State Farm are cancelling or suspending their sponsorship of the LA Clippers following the reported racist rant by the team’s Jewish owner, Donald Sterling. “CarMax finds the statements attributed to the Clippers’ owner completely unacceptable,” the company said in a statement. […]
Kerry’s mouth is too big for him or his spokespeople to put their foot into it.
"This is the worst nightmare for any Jewish college student."
Israel Postal Co. workers are going on a nationwide strike Tuesday, one day after they closed offices in central Israel in protest of the Post Office's plans to fire 2,000 workers. The employees committee said the move was not coordinated with them.
By JTA
The Graduate and Professional Student Association at the University of New Mexico passed a non-binding resolution on Saturday calling for the university to divest from companies that operate in Judea and Samaria. The resolution calls on the university to divest from companies that “directly profit from the ongoing violations of international law and human rights, […]
By JTA
Tens of thousands of Jews and Jewish supporters participated in the 12th March of the Living Hungary in Budapest in what is considered the largest civil anti-fascist event in Hungary. It was held on the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of Jews from Hungary by the Nazis. Holding posters saying “Never again” and “History […]
By JTA
Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director labeled as “reprehensible” the racist remarks attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and other Jewish groups chimed in with condemnation. “If the National Basketball Association’s investigation reveals that Mr. Sterling in fact made these racist and intolerant statements, we expect and anticipate […]
Rand Paul, looking for the key to the White House, is trying to turn around his image of not being pro-Israel.
Government prosecutors told a sentence hearing on Monday that the former prime minister should be jailed for at least 6 six years and fined nearly $400,000 for bribery. He was convicted last month for buying favors in the development of the Holyland apartment complex while he was mayor of Jerusalem. The prosecutor also asked the […]
The U.S. concept of separation of church and state means separating Jews from Judaism in Israel.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) seeks to repay the debt of gratitude to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust by providing financial support to those non-Jewish rescuers in need.
Ze’ev’s childhood dream was to wear a uniform and be farmer. First, it was a nightmare. In Israel, it was a dream come true.
Former Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner, who now heads the Israeli Council of Journalists, has called on the powers-to-be to prevent the closure of the bankrupt national religious newspaper Makkor Rishon that American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson wants to buy. Adelson also owns the highly successful freebie Israel HaYom newspaper, which staunchly supported Prime Minister […]
The mayor of Ukraine’s second largest city was shot in the back Monday and was rushed to a hospital where he is “fighting for his life,” a Kharkov City Council stated on its website. Different sources reported that the mayor was swimming, cycling or jogging when he was shot from a nearby forest. Kharkov has […]
John Kerry has once again threatened Israel with "apartheid". The Emergency Committee for Israel says it is time for Kerry to go.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman examined the piece of Torah parchment, cut from a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue, and used by a Luftwaffe officer to wrap his ID card during World War II.
On Sunday evening, April 27, 2014, six Holocaust survivors lit six torches representing the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide during the opening ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem.
Just as sad as Sterling’s racist comments is that Jewish leaders tacitly accept his having a non-Jewish mistress.
By JTA
The convicted murderer of an 11-year-old Jewish girl in 1969 will not receive a new trial, a Baltimore judge ruled. Circuit Judge Edward Hargadon, in his ruling on the appeal by Wayne Stephen Young, said jurors who found Young guilty of killing Esther Lebowitz in 1972 were adequately advised of how to try the case, […]
It is one thing “never to forget,” and it is another to remember not to let it happen again.
EMET wants the US to stop funding the PA, given its merger with Hamas. Doing otherwise contravenes US law.
Its estimated that the "Oz" field has between 93 to 607 million barrels of oil, and 2.5 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas.
Two Arab terrorists attempted to stab an Israeli security man in Hebron, on Sunday afternoon. One of the terrorists was captured, the second managed to escape. IDF forces are searching for the second terrorist. The Israeli man was not injured in the attack.
The government approved a plan to increase financial assistance to Israel's 193,000 remaining Holocaust survivors.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Findings point at an intensified feeling that personal safety and communal wellbeing are jeopardized.
Antitrust Commissioner David Gilo has delayed signing off on Sheldon Adelson's purchase of the paper.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Parents of a 1 month old infant, who was unable to breath, quickly brought her to an IDF checkpoint near Beit El on Friday night where a medical officer on site managed to revive her.
A group of six Arabs attacked an Israeli man in Berlin, according to a report by Benjamin Weinthal in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The six Arabs first confirmed the man was an Israel, and then identified themselves as "Palestinians". He was taken to the hospital by ambulance to be treated for facial injuries.
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day begins on Sunday night in Israel.
By JTA
Vandals seriously damaged several graves in a more than 400-year-old Jewish cemetery in Split, Croatia.
By JTA
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is establishing a Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California.
A terrorist released in the Gilad Shalit deal was recaptured after he threw a firebomb. The Shalit terrorist, along with another terrorist, were captured by the IDF after they threw 4 firebombs at the Gush Etzion checkpoint.
The overwhelmed police made sure the Arab mob didn't snatch any of the Jewish children during the attack.
NYU SJP students crept into a primarily Jewish dorm and shoved propaganda under the doors of the sleeping students.
Even after the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation, Tzipi Livni won't give up on her obsession with negotiating with the Palestinian Authority - "the door is still open."
By JTA
The Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour will play this year in Israel, the first time that Israel has hosted an ATP tournament since 1996, according to the organization. The tournament, offering $1 million in prize money, will take place at the Israel Tennis Center in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat HaSharon Sept. 15-21 […]
The Boycott Movement, like the Palestinian Authority, is slowly but surely dissolving itself.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Israeli security cabinet unanimously decided today that Israel would not negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas, the terrorist organization that calls for Israel's destruction. Considered a severe blow to peace talks, the ‘historic’ Hamas-Fatah unity pack was announced on Wednesday following a seven-year power struggle between the two factions. After Hamas’s victory […]
Ostrovsky was beaten and blindfolded during his captivity
By JTA
Northeastern University has provisionally reinstated the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on campus. The SJP chapter will remain on probation through January 2015, according to a notification letter from Dr. Laura A. Wankel, the university’s vice president for student affairs. Students for Justice in Palestine was suspended from campus on March 7 for at […]
HAS and El Al are no longer flying the friendly skies together - and loyal customers are getting hurt the most.
Ellen Degeneres gave away SodaStream products to audience members as an eco-friendly Earth Day gift.
Turkey “will strongly support the reconciliation agreement and offer all humanitarian aid” for the Hamas-Fatah unity government that was announced Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Gaza’s de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan became a fan of Hamas five years ago, at the same time relations with Israel […]
Two worshippers in a synagogue on Passover saved a child from death in a burning car that exploded shortly after the rescue. The worshippers rushed to the burning vehicle after hearing the family’ scream for help, and they found the toddler strapped in a car seat. The worshippers, Moshe Kupperman and a second man, identified […]
At the press conference with the Israeli reporters, Abbas threatened to cancel the Oslo Accords, dismantle the Palestinian Authority, and force the Israeli government to pay the salaries of PA employees and the police.
A survivors’ daughter serving in the IDF brings pride and joy to a Holocaust survivor.
By dvora
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Abbas must choose between peace with Israel or Hamas.
Border Police in Yitzhar’s yeshiva have plenty of time on their hands to learn a bit of Torah.
There is lobbying going on both for and against including J Street in the Conference of Presidents.
The last one out of the Peace Talks Cemetery is requested to please lock the gate and throw the key away.
Arabs throwing stones at bus #65 on its way to Pisgat Zev in Jerusalem, injured one of the passengers. The woman was transported to Hadassah Har Tzofim hospital. Several other passengers were treated for shock.
Jeb Bush told a crowd at a NY fundraiser that he is thinking for running for President, according to a report on Fox News. He said he would make his final decision this year.
Dozens of Arabs are going wild near the Flower Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. They're burning tires, blocking the main road around the Old City, and shooting fireworks at the local police station in the area. Tazpit News Agency is unaware of any police response at this point, other than Jews are not permitted into […]
Egypt receives an estimated $700 million of oil every month from Arab countries, according to a report in the Egyptian Independent. Egypt's Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail said that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have been supplying Egypt with the needed oil and financing since Morsi was deposed in July, to the tune […]
The Palestinian Authority has granted itself its death wish, unless Obama wants to make a death wish for Israel.
By JTA
William Rapfogel, the ousted leader of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty in New York, reportedly will plead guilty for his role in a scheme to steal more than $7 million from the social service agency. Rapfogel, who had served as CEO and president of the Met Council from 1992, was scheduled to enter a […]
Hatred of Israel is thicker than anybody’s blood.
By JTA
Closed-minded liberal sophomoics think that anyone against Ground One Mosque and for profiling possible terrorists is a racist.
By Roman Mokrinsky / Tazpit News Agency
Tensions continue to mount in eastern Ukraine, with reports of casualties continuing to stream out of the provinces in dispute,
The US has decided to begin restoring its military aid to Egypt, apparently in response to the Egypt-Russia MiG-35 deal that is on the table.
By Shalom Bear
Attacks against former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar get as petty as which robe he is wearing, and when he is running his Lag B'Omer bonfire.
By JTA
A Holocaust memorial and the grave of the brother of the late Lubavitcher rebbe were vandalized in Ukraine, amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the country.
Bashar Assad will be running for president of Syria again...
This massive Russian-Egyptian arms deal is a slap in the face for President Obama and his failed foreign policy.
It is no wonder that Marionville is ”the home of the white squirrels.” Black ones wouldn’t stand a chance, forget about Jewish ones.
By JTA
Jordan’s foreign minister summoned the Israeli ambassador to protest what it called Israel’s “violations” on the Temple Mount. The Jordanian government told Ambassador Daniel Nevo that recent clashes between Muslim worshippers and Israeli soldiers on the Temple Mount a violation of the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. The Temple Mount was closed to visitors […]
The chisel was found along with a gold bell that may have been on the clothes of the High Priest.
The IDF has announced it will begin to offer Israeli Christians the chance to enlist in Israel’s army.
The United States has announced it possesses evidence the Syrian government is using chemical weapons against its own civilians.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
At least ten rockets were fired by Gaza terrorists at Israeli civilian targets over the holiday.
Chabad.org interviews Nikolayev 's chief rabbi on the firebomb attack in the Ukraine. Here is an excerpt...
The US Supreme Court has agreed to examine the question as to whether or not an American citizen born in Jerusalem can have "Israel" listed on his (or her) passport as their country of birth.
Carole Zabar, longtime supporter of BDS promoters, is now in a pickle - Zabar's is a BDS target.
By Shalom Bear
PA president Abbas, who is about 9 years late for democratic elections, has threatened to dismantle the PA and annul the Oslo Accords. Sounds good to us...
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and his family's visit to the Temple Mount was cut short when violent rioting once again broke out on the holy site.
Anti-semitic attacks have escalated with the firebombing of a synagogue in the Ukraine. Watch the video of the attack...
A surprised group of hikers stumbled across human bones in a Gush Etzion cave. But what they actually found was even more astounding.
Many Pakistanis consider bin Laden a "hero of Islam."
By JTA
Two major obstacles have kept Israel from joining the program: Allegations by U.S. officials that Israel has discriminated against Arab- and Muslim-Americans seeking entry, and a proliferation of young Israelis traveling to the United States as tourists and then working illegally.
By JTA
A Lebanese man who was arrested in Thailand on suspicion of belonging to Hezbollah admitted to targeting Israelis, Thai media reported.
On Friday afternoon, Syrian fighter jets hit opposition/rebel targets and villages on the Syrian side of the Ramat HaGolan (Golan Heights), in the Quneitra region. Large pillars of smoke are seen rising from struck areas. Quneitra is the site of an official crossing between Syria and Israel on the Golan. IAF jets were sent out […]
By Shalom Bear
As Rabbi Stav said, "You’re free to think what you want. But do you want me to recognize Chelsea Clinton’s child as a Jew?"