יום שלישי, כ״א אב תשפ״וTuesday, August 4, 2026
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By Tibbi Singer
After a day with Lubavitch Hasidim, Oprah Winfrey says Jewish Life offers a wealth of lessons for the world.
By Tibbi Singer
President Sarkozy told an assembly of Jewish dignitaries that Israel and the victim's family must seek justice for the killers in French court.
By Tibbi Singer
As part of the nationwide strike yesterday, passengers found their path into Israel barricaded.
Kamal al-Ganzouri: Egypt "will not back down because of aid or other reasons."
According to a statement released by the president's office, Sarkozy saluted Shalit for his exemplary courage.
By dvora
Chaim Amsalem, a current member of Knesset and former member of Shas, is in the midst of establishing yet another Israeli political party, called Am Shalem.
“We feel that this is a critical moment in the history of property restitution,” Julius Berman, chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, told The Jewish Press last week, after returning from a weeklong trip to Europe.
Lavrov: "The president of Syria assured us he was completely committed to the task of stopping violence regardless of where it may come from."
NGO Monitor President calls on New Israel Fund to immediately and publicly condemn and disassociate from NIF grantee Adalah.
JERUSALEM – Thousands gathered at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center, the Kotel and yeshivot across Israel Tuesday praying for Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv – Yosef Shalom ben Chaya Mousha – the 101-year-old leading contemporary authority on Jewish law who was in a medically induced coma after suffering kidney and lung failure.
Report in Palestinian daily Al Quds quoted a source as saying "without a doubt, Haniyeh's visit to Tehran will have consequences."
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – When America’s top intelligence official said that Iran’s regime is considering attacks on U.S. soil, he cited a single incident and qualified the assessment with a “probably.”
Remarks come at the launch of political reform movement "Yesh Sicui"
Report cites two senior administration officials who say the Pentagon and the US Central Command are performing the review.
The “Syrian people” is a composite of Sunni Muslims, Alawites, Kurds, Druze, Turkmens and Circassians.
By Rafi Harkham
Russia and China, constrained by outdated Cold War outlooks, continue to frustrate attempts to end the conflict in Syria.
School children and families across Israel celebrated the holiday of Tu B’Shevat on Wednesday, planting trees and eating fruits native to the Land of Israel in honor of the New Year of the Trees.
Israel’s main labor union, the Histadrut, declared a general strike on Wednesday impacting services across the country.
By Tibbi Singer
A new method in development at Soroka Medical Center and Ben Gurion University will offer early detection using infrared light. Preliminary tests show 90% rate of success.
Border Policeman was caught on camera stealing from a shul pushkah.
Phoenix police Tuesday arrested five people in the shocking deaths of Lawrence and Glenna Shapiro, who were found tied up and burned beyond recognition.
The Histadrut is demanding that the government employ contracted workers so that their conditions are on par with workers on the government employees.
Lieberman's visit comes as the rhetoric between the West and Iran is heating up, and a day after the conclusion of the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement.
Relations between Cyprus and Israel have been intensifying since Israel's fallout with its former regional ally and Cyprus' adversary, Turkey.
Lapid: "By the 31st of July . . . behind our backs, as always, they will extend the Tal Law again."
The ban will last a month and is in response to his defiance of an earlier Knesset Ethics Committee decision to suspend him from the Knesset for a week.
The fact that the aid is conditioned on Egypt's compliance with its peace treaty with Israel is unpopular in Egypt.
Ban reportedly made the comments in a Monday night phone conversation with PA president Mahmoud Abbas.
Fatah's official Facebook page opens with a glorification of the perpetrators of the Savoy Hotel terrorist attack.
Sol Project 7 won the bid to construct a photovoltaic power generation farm that will cover 120 acres.
Rasmussen Reports also found that 83% believe it is at least somewhat likely Iran will develop a nuclear weapon in the near future.
Deputy Minister for Development of the Negev and the Galilee Ayub Kara appeared on Israel’s Knesset channel and spoke over the phone with defecting Syrian Army officer Abu Bilal, who urged Israel to support the Syrian populace against President Bashar al-Assad’s terror. Watch the video:
The funds were released as a result of intense lobbying on the part of the Obama administration.
State Department spokeswoman reiterates that any Palestinian government must abide by the international agreements and norms that the Quartet had laid out.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
Two Israeli Lubavitchers are about to be deported from southern India for what intelligence forces describe as suspicious behavior, but may only be harmless spiritual get-togethers into the night.
Boteach declared his intent to run for Congress as a Republican in New Jersey's 9th District.
Senior Palestinian official denies that thousands of rockets and missiles that have been launched from the Gaza Strip.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
The Kashrut Dept. of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate published a warning on the eve of Tu B’Shvat, cautioning against eating some of the holiday’s traditional fruits. Figs are at the top of the list, because of concern regarding insects and worms which "hide inside the fruit’s flesh and are difficult to detect."
Doctors informed MK Moshe Gafni that Elyashiv's condition has improved but is still critical.
Prime Minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu issued a statement warning that steps by the Palestinian Authority to implement a new agreement with Hamas will mean the end of peace talks with Israel.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called MK Moshe Gafni and said the country is praying for the health of "the greatest rabbinical sage of his generation."
Move comes in response to Iranian attempts to "conceal transactions of sanctioned parties."
Comments were made last month prior to Eshel's appointment, and so offer a candid look into the new IAF chief's strategic thinking.
The strike is expected to paralyze financial, government, and transportation sectors.
By Rafi Harkham
Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal came to an agreement on an interim unity government on Sunday. Mashaal: We are seeking unity "to resist the enemy and achieve our national goal."
Syrian embassies around the world bore the brunt of the outrage over the Syria regime's brutal 11-month crackdown.
The 101-year-old Lithuanian Orthodox leader, hospitalized last month after experiencing shortness of breath, has pulmonary edema.
The Obama administration has expressed serious concern about these developments and has threatened to cut billions of dollars in American aid.
Education Minister: "Being Zionist is now an accusation."
Efraim Halevy served as Mossad's chief from 1998-2002.
Obama describes the cooperation between the US and Israel as unprecedented
The agreement was based on a proposal by Qatar's emir, who is hosting the reconciliation talks.
The 350-kilometer line is due to shorten travel time to two hours.
The two leaders are in Qatar discussing the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement
Eshel, head of strategic planning for the IDF, succeeds Maj.-Gen. Ido Nehushtan.
Lapid continues to use Facebook as the main medium for his political proclamations.
News of an increased threat on Jewish and Israeli targets across North America comes at the same time as predictions of an imminent and detailed Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities arise.
The website was reportedly blocked ahead of Khamenei's sermon for Friday Prayers last Friday.
Former IDF Chief of Staff and current Minister of Strategic Affairs said he does not fear a Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of Bash al-Assad's removal.
Demonstration at US mission to the UN and Israeli consulate led by a banner reading "No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations."
Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, Chairman and Founder of ZAKA, made his comments in an extended opinion his Facebook page.
The new immigrants were taken to an absorption center in Kiryat Gat, where they will live while integrating into the Jewish state.
The Dolphin-class submarine will be Israel's sixth purchased from Germany.
Pipeline has been attacked at least a dozen times since Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak was deposed in February 2011.
A photograph that has made the rounds on the internet, supposedly depicting an IDF soldier stomping on a Palestinian girl, is exposed as a complete fabrication.
An official ballot member and secretary for the Likud primary gives a first-hand account of the controversy surrounding the election.
Germany has just raised the level of representation of the PA/PLO delegation in Berlin to "Diplomatic Mission" headed by an Ambassador. This was announced Wednesday by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle while visiting in Ramallah. The change in diplomatic status may be related to Merkel's several recent condemnations of Israel's settlement policy. France, Spain, Portugal, […]
"Team Poison", a well-known hacking group, has infiltrated numerous websites since the group was established in 2009, including that of the United Nations.
Adel Imam was sentenced to three months for his roles in a play and a movie.
Palestinian terrorists fired eight rockets into southern Israel the night before the UN Secretary-General's visit to Gaza.
A team of UN Nuclear experts will return to Iran for the talks on February 21.
Former IDF Chief of Staff makes comments at Herzliya Conference.
By Rafi Harkham
High-ranking officials from the Jewish Leadership faction of the Likud cite numerous discrepancies in vote tallies around the country.
Israel's domestic security agency recorded 56 attacks in January 2012.
Ali Akbar Salehi said that Iran is prepared to upgrade its diplomatic relations with Egypt to the Ambassadorial level.
Director-general of Jewish Leadership faction claims that Likud purposely released inaccurate results.
Palestinians were protesting Ban's apparent apathy at the fate of Palestinians in Israeli jails.
The vote in the Occupy Oakland's 'General Assembly' was nearly unanimous.
Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi: "When Khamenei gives the order to produce the first nuclear weapon – it will be done, we believe, within one year."
Proposal comes as Assad's forces intensify their assault on Syrian opposition strongholds.
Senator Diane Feinstein and CIA Director David Petraeus both mentioned that they met with Tamir Pardo earlier in the week.
JERUSALEM – Not in his wildest imagination could United Hatzalah of Israel (UHI) founder and chief coordinator Eli Beer have pictured himself giving a speech to global business leaders at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – while simultaneously starring in a documentary about the unprecedented cooperation between Jewish and Arab UHI volunteers broadcast last week across the Arab world on the al-Jazeera satellite TV network.
Western and Arab efforts to pass forceful Security Council resolution hampered by Russia.
The grant will be conveyed in yearly installments over a ten-year period.
The terror cell planned to bomb the London Stock Exchange and the American embassy, and murder London's mayor and two Rabbis.
Netanyahu: "Settlements are not the crux of the conflict, but one of its outcomes. The conflict started 50 years before there were settlements."
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Israel, the United States and Iran have all gone deep into mixed-signals territory.
Claim made by Riad Al-Assad, commander of the Free Syrian Army.
Embassy also shuts down its visa section.
Ban is on a two day trip to Israel, Judea and Samaria, and Gaza.
The violence reportedly broke out as the IDF was arresting a resident for hurling rocks at IDF soldiers.
Comments come in joint press conference with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general of the IAEA, said his team "had a good trip."
Ban Ki-Moon has requested that Israel make "goodwill gestures" to move negotiations with the Palestinians forward.
Results were derived from OECD report, Education at a Glance 2011.
Water level is now within four inches of the "red line".
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared victory over Jewish Leadership faction head and long-time activist Moshe Feiglin Tuesday night, after winning 75% of votes for leader of the Likud party.
Netanyahu has been declared the winner of the Likud primaries after winning 75% of the vote, with Moshe Feiglin getting 25%.
The woman was treated for minor injuries, while her vehicle and two others were damaged in the attack.
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