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French police reportedly arrested a 21-year-old man suspected of scrawling “death to Jews” on a synagogue near Paris. The man is suspected of writing the message with a black marker on Nov. 7 or Nov. 8 on the entrance to the synagogue of Pantin in Seine-Saint-Denis near Paris, according to the municipality. The radio network […]
In an interview with CNN last night, President Shimon Peres said that if "Gazan mothers want to sleep at night, they must understand that all mothers want to sleep at night" including Israeli mothers.
The Palestinians believe Arafat was poisoned by Israel. Now they plan to exhume his body to prove it.
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States declined by 13% in 2011, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The annual ADL Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents reported a total of 1,080 incidents of assault, vandalism and harassment, compared to 1,239 incidents reported in 2010. It is the lowest number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded by […]
Left-wing German MPs are threatening to oppose their government's attempt to keep male circumcision legal in Germany. More than 50 MPs from three parties are now proposing that parents should have to wait until their son is 14 so he can give his informed consent to the operation. Last summer, a regional court ruled that […]
At age 99, Isaac Volinsky was given the opportunity to put on tefillin for the first time in his life, the Australian J-Wire reported. He did it at the “120 Club” for elderly expatriate Soviets in Sydney. With more than 50 club members looking on, Lubavitch Rabbi Eli Schlanger helped Volinsky put on the tefillin. […]
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Some 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and communal leaders from more than 75 countries gathered in New York for their 29th international conference. Many of the rabbis attending the conference over the weekend brought relief supplies and funds from their communities around the world to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, and volunteered their time for relief efforts. […]
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Officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center met with Ecuadorian authorities to seek their support in asking Cuba to release American prisoner Alan Gross. The meetings came on the sidelines of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Latin American gathering of Jewish communities in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Sergio Widder, the Wiesenthal Center's Latin American […]
The plan is to stagger their recruitment, to allow IDF manpower officials to study the process.
Hamas called the meeting to try and avoid further casualties.
After this morning's missile attack, residents of Ashdod, north of Gaza, have had their nerves frayed further Tuesday morning with the booms of numerous explosions. It turns out, the IDF is now conducting training for their new Patriot missile system, as well as testing out a new Iron Dome. So that's what the latest booms […]
Residents of Ashdod heard an explosion, but no "Red Alert" siren at just after 6 AM Tuesday morning.
Late Monday afternoon, Israel time, a mortar shell hit an open area in the vicinity of an IDF post in the central Golan Heights, as part of the internal conflict inside Syria, causing no damage or injuries.
Angry and frightened Israeli civilians in southern Israel are imploring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to unleash an IDF military strike against Hamas and its terrorists allies in the Gaza Strip in response to the recent spate of rocket and mortar attacks emanating from there. Those attacks have caused damage to commercial and residential structures and have sent thousands of residents to local trauma centers.
Given President Obama's win and victories of many of their candidates, a reasonable morning-after position for J Street would be quiet satisfaction, or even – why not? – gleeful rejoicing. But J Street, which has rarely met a critic of Israel it didn't like, instead tried to promote itself as an integral part of the campaign, a driving wind propelling Democratic victories. So eager to claim a starring role, J Street released details of several exit polls they commissioned which, upon examination, tell far more about how little J Street matters.
Chairman of the Knesset State Comptroller’s Committee MK Uri Ariel reacted to the deteriorating security situation in Southern Israel, saying: “Israel’s weakness in the face of the escalating terrorism against residents of Southern Israel must end. It’s about time to let the IDF win again, to stop allowing the fear from the International Community’s reaction […]
Israel’s gross domestic product is expected to grow at a much higher annual rate than the United States for the next 48 years, according to a report by the OECD.
Following a stabbing incident in which a visitor to the Jewish community of Maale HaZeitim adjacent to the historic Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery was attacked by Arabs in the Ras Al-Amud neighborhood, an Egged bus transporting Jewish residents to and from the enclave was smashed by rock-throwers, who committed the attack from the same place at which the stabbing took place.
Last Sunday, representatives of Neturei Karta participated in the annual memorial service in Ramallah marking the day of the passing of PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat.
As rocket barrages assault southern Israel, Iran launched its own air operations Monday, in the form of massive air defense drills.
As Israel’s border with Gaza heats up, Israeli officials from the highest echelons have declared that the State will defend Israeli citizens.
A barrage of rockets eight hours after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has brought a quick end to the quiet, with Israel ramping up preparations for possible ground reprisals to end attacks from Gaza on civilians in Israel’s south.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
It was a daunting, dismal weekend for Israel’s south, particularly for Israelis living in communities bordering the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Along with the rain, more than 100 Gaza rockets struck the south, wounding four Israelis and sending countless others into shock and trauma, while damaging homes, businesses and vehicles.
By David Wilder, Tazpit News Agency
Toward early mid-afternoon the tents start popping up on the lawn in the park across from the Cave of Machpela.
DowJones Newswire reports that Delek Drilling Partnership and Avner Oil Exploration announced Sunday that the Karish prospective offshore gas field may hold as much as 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. A survey said the field may contain as much as 3.5 trillion cubic feet of gas. Delek and Avner own 26.47% of the field, and […]
We've decided to open up a new list of rocket launches/strikes for Sunday. For all the previous launches up to Sunday morning go here. Watch a video of a Red Alert in Sderot. 11:18 PM Sdot HaNegev, Shaar HaNegev 9:11 PM Netovot, Rahat, Bnei Shimon, Sdot Negev 8:1 5 PM Eshkol 8:00 PM Sderot 7:58 PM Sderot […]
Dr. Aryeh Bachrach, chairman of the Almagor Bereaved Parents Forum, said: “The terrorism switch may be in the hands of Ismail Haniyeh and Hamas, but Netanyahu and Barak are able to influence them to turn it off. At the very least they should switch off the power to Gaza—immediately. Yet Netanyahu and Barak never do. […]
TAZPIT NEWS AGENCY--A short while ago, a mortar shell hit an IDF post in the Golan Heights adjacent to the Israel- Syria border, as part of the internal conflict inside Syria. No damage or injuries have been reported. In response, IDF soldiers fired warning shots towards Syrian areas. The IDF has filed a complaint through […]
At least 20,000 Jews from all across Israel, and some coming in from around the world, converged on the biblical city of Hebron this shabbat to honor the memory of the Matriarch Sarah, whose burial in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron - Maarat HaMachpela - was chronicled in this week's Torah portion.
A campaign by a group of 12 French imams to portray themselves as friendly to Jews is set to take place on Sunday when they arrive in Israel for a five-day visit.
A mortar from Syrian internecine fighting fell Sunday afternoon on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights. The mortar fell near the town of Alonei HaBashan. No injuries or damage were reported.
At the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said terrorists would be “hit hard” in response to attacks on Israeli soldiers on civilians over the weekend. “The world needs to understand that Israel won’t just sit by… we’re ready to heighten our response,” Netanyahu said. “The IDF is acting, and will act, with force in Gaza.”
President Obama on Friday renewed America's 33-year-old state of emergency against Iran.
The Bahá'í Shrine in Haifa has been voted Israel’s most beautiful building by 40,000 readers of Yedioth Ahronoth.
Thousands of Syrian refugees poured across the border into Turkey on Friday after heavy fighting between Syrian opposition and loyalists to President Bashar Assad led to the deaths of 46 people in two days in the northeast and 68 throughout the rest of the country, including 47 civilians.
Soroka Hospital Completed the Surgeries on the Injured Soldiers.
Details will be updated here.
According to the IDF Spokesperson, in response to recent events, overnight IAF aircraft targeted a weapons manufacturing facility, two weapons storage facilities, and two rocket-launching sites in the northern Gaza Strip, as well as a weapons storage facility and a terror activity site in the southern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed. The Ma'an Palestinian news agency reported that Israeli tank shells killed 4 Palestinians and wounded 30 in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to medics and other witnesses.
Radio Darom (South) reports that 3 people in Sderot were injured from shrapnel from a rocket launch. The injuries are listed as light to moderate. A 4th person has been injured, but no details are available yet. At least 10 rockets were launched at Sderot between 7:55 AM and 8:15 AM on Sunday morning. Click […]
Below are any changes to the starting time of schools in Southern Israel. 9:15 AM All schools around the Gaza border have canceled classes. ---------------- Ashdod schools will be open. Ashkelon schools will be opening 2 hours late. Residents are advised to stay within 15 seconds of their bomb shelters. S'dot HaNegev classes delayed until 9:00 canceled. […]
AP reports that Western diplomats announced that the long planned meeting of the NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty) countries has been cancelled because Israel, not a signatory on the NPT treaty, has declined to show up. The Arab states and Iran (yes, that's right), all signatories of the NPT want Israel to sign the NPT and […]
Latest rocket launches and alarms [Editor: Sorry, we're having trouble keeping up with all of them.] Trivia: As of 11:03 PM 858 rockets were launched at Israel from Gaza in 2012. More than 60 rockets this evening. 4 injuries reported, and 25 Kassams just on Sderot alone between 8:00AM-9:00AM Sunday morning. 8:50 AM Shaar HaNegev […]
The Palestinians are reporting that the IDF his a 4 man terror cell in Northern Gaza. The terrorists are being transported to a Gazan hospital. 11:49 PM Israel TV reporting that Israel killed 1 terrorist and injured 4. 12:31 AM Palestinians reporting that IDF Apache helicopters hitting targets in Jibalya.
10:44PM: The two suspected terrorists who were seen crossing near the security fence, near Be'eri, have been captured. They have been taken in for interrogation. 10:40 PM: Two suspected terrorists were seen crossing into Israel from Gaza between Be'eri and Re'im near the Gaza border. The army has closed down Road 232 as it searches for them.
Red Alerts in Eshkol and Kissufim. Iron Dome took out two missiles targeting Ashdod and Ashkelon. School is cancelled tomorrow in Ashkelon, Gan Yavneh, and Ashdod.
The four soldiers injured in Saturday evenings attack are being treated at Soroka hospital. They were very seriously injured.
The "Red Alert" missile siren has been going off in cities and towns around Gaza for the past half hour. Residents have reported hearing explosions. Ten rockets have been launched at Israel so far, including at Ashkelon and Gan Yavneh. No one has been injured from the strikes. Islamic Jihad has been taking credit for […]
The IDF has told Israeli residents near the Gaza border to stay within 15 seconds of their bomb shelters as they are expecting barrages of missiles tonight from Gaza.
Noam Shalit has officially thrown his hat into the political arena and is running for a spot in the Labor party, with the goal of removing the Likud from power.
Gazans hit IDF jeep with anti-tank missile and soldiers were injured. The IDF hit back harder than is usually does of late.
Palestinians and anarchists seem upset that Arabs and Jews can peacefully work and shop together, as once again they protest in front of the Rami Levy shopping center.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The 12-person delegation will be offering rescue, rehabilitation, and communal resource services to New York residents of Far Rockaway and Long Beach, as well as the Atlantic City-Margate area along the Jersey Shore. They will also be identifying areas with vulnerable populations and allocating resources to older people and families with young children who have suffered significant damages to their homes and have no power.
An update from the IDF Spokesman's office: An engineering force that operated at the site located a number of powerful explosive devices. With the end of this force's activity, as it worked to repair the border fence, an explosion occurred in a terror tunnel. This was a very large explosion that exposed a tunnel roughly four meters deep and four meters wide. An empty IDF vehicle that was in the area was thrown into the air from the force of the explosion.
A construction worker building the security fence along the Gaza border was lightly injured in an attack Thursday evening. The man was injured from a nearby explosion. It was originally thought that it was from a mortar that had exploded nearby, but Palestinians have been talking about an IED they placed alongside the fence, and […]
Puerto Rico voted in favor of full U.S. statehood.
The Israel Defense Forces galvanized its internationally-recognized emergency response team to assist in a search and rescue operation in Ghana Wednesday night, after a shopping center collapsed in the country’s capital.
In an interview published on November 7 by Israel’s Globes online business magazine, Ha’aretz editorial board member Gideon Levy spoke frankly and openly about his “hatred” of Jews making their lives in Judea and Samaria.
A gun battle took place between Israel Defense Force soldiers took place early Thursday when Israeli soldiers defended a work crew near Kibbutz Nirim which came under fire from terrorists across the border fence in Gaza.
Three mortar shells landed in Israel’s Golan Heights on Thursday morning, in what security officials are saying is an accidental firing as part of the bloody battle between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and a growing militant opposition.
New York’s Republican party has little to celebrate Thursday, seemingly close to losing control of the state Senate in addition to losing the state for the presidential election.
The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of a rare well dating back to the Stone Age, used by the first firmers of the Jezreel Valley.
"We know, Netanyahu came to France as part of his elections campaign," French President François Hollande has quipped last week, according to a report published on Tuesday in the French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchainé. Holland referred to the participation last week of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a ceremony commemorating the victims of the […]
The Jerusalem Post's Gil Hoffman told this college audience that Iran is the issue Israelis care most about. He also told them that war is the last approach Israel wants to take.
Some of the supervised, ‘bug-free,’ leafy vegetable growers are using higher levels of pesticides than allowed by Health Ministry standards.
According to the RJC, there was an increase by nearly 50% of the number of Jews choosing the Republican candidate to run this country.
With U.S. politics over for now, Silverman turns her attention to Israeli politics.
NEW YORK—Hurricane Sandy stormed into New York and New Jersey with unmitigated force, carrying death and destruction, disrupting lives, and devastating neighborhoods in America’s most densely populated regions – which happen to be home to some of the country’s largest Jewish populations.
JERUSALEM – More than 100,000 American voters in Israel cast their ballots for a presidential candidate, with nearly 80,000 of them having submitted a ballot provided by iVoteIsrael, a local non-profit organization that spent the past few months aggressively encouraging American expatriates living in Israel to register and vote. The remaining registered voters cast their ballots via the absentee route.
By Jacob Kamaras and Alina Dain Sharon
Capping a race that on a national level was largely defined by the economy but in the Jewish community turned into an extended debate over which candidate would steer the best course for U.S.-Israel relations, President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Tuesday to earn a second term.
The National Union (HaIchud HaLeumi) released the following short statement following President Barack Obama's reelection: "Obama's re-election gives a tailwind boost to the Israeli left-wing. The upcoming Israeli elections will be about building a national coalition that will help Netanyahu withstand the pressures put upon him. A Jewish coalition that is strengthened by the new […]
Former Councilman Simcha Felder is the new State Senator for the newly cobbled “super Jewish district,” having won 65 percent of the vote against the GOP incumbent Senator David Storobin. Felder, an Orthodox Jew, has been endorsed by the Jewish Press, to represent a district that includes Borough Park, Midwood and Homecrest. Although he was […]
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President Obama won 69 percent of the Jewish vote according to an exit poll.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu congratulated re-elected President Barack Obama.
While he lost out on becoming the Vice President, Paul Ryan did manage to win in Wisconsin and keep his congressional seat. Ryan was competing against Democratic businessman Rob Zerban.
Thanks to a report in The Washington Post, a transcription of the concession speech of US Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney
Police in Gaza have finally captured a five-foot-nine crocodile which escaped two years ago from a zoo in the Gaza city of Umm al-Naser.
Jose Ramos, imprisoned for 20 years for molesting children and the prime suspect in the case of six year old Etan Patz, a Jewish boy from Manhattan who disappeared on his way to school on May 25, 1979, is set to be released on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama, who has won a second term as President of the United States, tweeted a victory photo which has garnered over 440,000 retweets across Twitter and over 1.6 million Likes on Facebook
In a race we closely watched, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach lost the NJ 9th District race to his opponent Bill Pascrell 76.1% (97,646) to 22.8% (29,214).
Businessman and former Sayeret Matkal (Special Forces) officer Naftali Bennett parachuted his way into the top position of the Bayit Yehudi ("Jewish Home") party on Tuesday, at the first of two Primary votes in the party.
Come to the Jewish Press Election Chat online.
Avigdor Liberman's new and very creative YouTube video highlighting his party's achievements over the past 4 years.
Arabs in Shuafat stabbed a policeman in the back and threw rocks at others after an undercover operation in the Jerusalem neighborhood went south. Nine policemen were injured, and police arrested a 17 year old Arab as the suspected stabber.
FoxNews reports that residents on the Jersey Shore may have caught a break as the nor'easter will apparently veer away from them a bit. But parts of Connecticut and New York are still at risk of getting hit. Source: FoxNews
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Israel's government approved the immigration of the Bnei Menashe, an Indian tribe that claims Jewish ancestry.
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Voters in New York and New Jersey affected by Hurricane Sandy will be permitted to vote at any polling place in their respective states using a provisional ballot. “Just because you’re displaced doesn’t mean you should be disenfranchised,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday, a day before Americans went to the polls to pick […]
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UJA-Federation of New York released $10 million in Hurricane Sandy emergency relief aid to its network agencies and synagogues. The agency made the funds available on Monday morning; its board of directors had decided unanimously to make the money available in a special session the previous evening. "The emotional and economic impact, especially on the […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The company’s employees are mostly immigrants who have come to Israel from places like the United States, Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia. The Levys’ business philosophy is firmly rooted in social responsibility and philanthropy.
Despite the verbal confrontation between Israel and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, Israeli and Iranian officials participated this week in secret talks in Brussels, Belgium, on dismantling both countries' arsenals of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.
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The building at 125 Maiden Lane may remain closed for months while transformers, boilers and other equipment are replaced.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said ion Monday that an estimated 115,000 New Yorkers are still without electrical service, down from 145,000 yesterday. The lack of electrical service is affecting the health and safety of those living in those areas, particularly during the current cold snap which is expected to continue for much of the week. […]
Ynet reports that an IDF patrol jeep was hit by Syrian gunfire. The incident happened at 8:30 pm on Monday, when the Golani jeep, on routine patrol along the border came under fire. It is believed the shooting were caused by stray bullets from the fighting between the Syrian factions. No IDF soldiers were hurt […]
Jihad marketers are making militant Islam cool, according to a new article in Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper.
Coinciding with the American elections Tuesday, the National Religious – Bayit Yehudi primaries to determine the Party chairman will take place in Israel. 54,000 registered members of this united right-wing party will decide between Naftali Bennett, former director of the Council of Judea and Samaria, Knesset Member Zevulun Orlev, or the relatively unknown candidate Yehuda […]
While Obama's proposed budget decreased funding for Israeli anti-missile systems, it was Congress which, in the end, nearly doubled the funding.
Yedioth Aharonoth has just published a story that appears so far to be a last-minute, pre-election leak from the Israeli prime minister's office, regarding the presence in Iran of White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett to "assist the U.S. government" in negotiating with a representatives of supreme leader Ali Khamenei. the termination of Iran's nuclear weapons program. […]
Just ten days after the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer arrived in Jerusalem to discuss a memorandum of understanding between his company and Israel’s Finance Ministry to form a strategic partnership to develop and promote technology.
Long-time Ha'aretz columnist Neri Livneh has been ordered by a court to pay $50,000 for slandering two residents of the settlement Itamar.
The hype over a potential independent Knesset bid by popular Likud Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon has been quashed with news that Kahlon is putting his name behind prime minister and Likud chief Binyamin Netanyahu and announced that he will not abandon the party.
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