יום ראשון, י׳ אלול תשפ״וSunday, August 23, 2026
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Yishai and Malkah share stories of liberation in a week when the Torah portion (Vaeira) describes the beginnings of the Jewish people’s fight against Egyptian slavery three and a half thousand years ago.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen met with Jordan's King on his recent trip to Washington.
Valerie Amos presented annual report on humanitarian conditions in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
The negotiations Abbas is conducting with Hamas are intended to create a joint Palestinian strategy in the aftermath of the failure of the peace process with Israel.
Barely five weeks after the Wehrmacht’s onslaught against Russia, Reich Marshal Hermann Goering issued the following directive on July 31, 1941 to Chief of Gestapo Reinhard Heydrich:
A celebration of the 100th birthday of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of over 20,000 Hungarian Jews in the final days of World War II, also marks the renewal of investigations into the events surrounding his death. In attendance - the Iranian Ambassador to Hungary
JERUSALEM – Even as Mossad agents and a team of IDF cyber-warfare specialists began an intensive global hunt for “Ox Omar,” the alleged Saudi hacker who exposed the financial records of thousands of Israeli credit-card holders, the defiant cyber-terrorist launched a second wave of “virtual jihad” attacks on a number of Israeli websites including some government sites and those of El Al and several Israeli banks.
There is a sweetness like no other when people who have been friends for more than sixty years have a chance to get together for a couple of hours and just schmooze and catch up on life.
In February we conducted a thorough discussion of the mitzvah of techeilet. The following guest piece by Baruch Sterman, marking 20 years since the establishment of the Ptil Tekhelet Foundation (www.tekhelet.com), is a follow up to that discussion.
Danny Ayalon takes issue with UK Deputy PM's "irresponsible" comments.
Israeli hackers take down Saudi, Abu Dhabi financial websites.
The law is being challenged as an unconstitutional limitation on free expression.
Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts college, is slated to open in 2012-13.
EU Heads of Mission Report calls for the reinstatement of the PLO in East Jerusalem.
Turkish intelligence report claims Israeli drones gathered data on potential Kurdish training sites.
Barak insists Israel coordinating with US on Iran.
Two-day old strike ends after paralyzing local services in Israel.
Lieberman is accused of receiving "millions of dollars" between 2001 and 2008 while serving as MK and government minister.
Organization highlights a role in protest it had previously denied.
Government Press Office presents recent findings of Hebrew University professor.
Move follows the downing of El Al and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange websites by anti-Israel hackers.
Senior military official: Hamas, Hizbollah would be "under the Iranian nuclear umbrella."
Recent talks have been "good" and "tough".
Coin voted best among 95 coins.
The message reportedly said that Netanyahu "will be a victim just like Rabin."
Cyber attacks come one day after Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al websites downed.
Amr Moussa is said to be leading the Egyptian presidential race.
Yishai uncovers vastly different tastes in everything from Jewish comfort food (with help from Malkah) to Knesset candidates to peace policy in this episode. Colorful culture, deep ideas, and a few tempers running high are all part of the mix as we search for new solutions to age old problems and end with inspiration from the Torah.
International body reneges on pledge not to invite Hamas to meeting.
Hamas: Cyber attacks "a new field of resistance against the Occupation."
Institutes serving children with disabilities will open Tuesday.
Comments come as Clegg meets with Mahmoud Abbas in London.
Tibi proposes bill recognizing Jerusalem as Palestinian capital.
Is Islam the solution for hunger? Unemployment? Ignorance? Violence? Poverty? Illness? Neglect? The leaders of the Islamist movements, like the leaders of the nationalist movements, shout one thing and mean the opposite.
By Sam Ser
Hackers followed through with their pledge to step up their cyber war with Israel, shutting down the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al Airlines on Monday.
Over 2,000 people have had their eyesight restored.
Comments follow recent incident at IDF base and inflammatory statements by MK Ben Eliezer.
Hizbollah planned to target Israelis, Jews in Thailand.
Anti-Israel hacker ox0mar responsible.
Now, because of our efforts, the police have committed to arrest anyone who merely screams at a girl. Success for our present! The national government now wants to work with us to build future neighborhoods for all populations. Success for our future!
The much-publicized joint defense drill planned between Israel and the United States has been postponed in the wake of quickly escalating tensions between the two countries and Iran.
PA official says January 25 meeting with Israeli delegation in Amman is crucial for progress.
We too cannot be so capricious of nature, so weary of our national responsibility, as to give away what is, in truth, not ours alone to barter... We cannot be so selfish as to sacrifice a holy heritage for what is, at best, transitory expediency.
Internal Security Minister presents plan to improve the situation.
"Austere Challenge" was to be largest-ever anti-missile joint military exercise between Israel and United States.
Move made in recognition of the increasingly dangerous cyber warfare threat.
Israel’s intensifying readiness to launch a military strike against Iran has met with a negative US response, with top government officials being dispatched to the Jewish state in the attempt to thwart an attack.
Obama fears Israel will strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
Ban Ki-moon blames "the Israeli occupation."
Third meeting in Amman yields agreement to meet again.
Palestinian cyber-warfare follows hacking of Deputy FM Ayalon's website last week.
Terrorists fire rocket into southern Israel;no injuries sustained.
Move comes as a result of US efforts to defuse tensions between Israel and Turkey.
Obama reiterates "unshakable commitment to Israel’s security".
Peres: "Fashionable" for Iran to blame US, Israel.
The European Union, fearful that the "window for the two-state solution is rapidly closing" has decided to skirt Israeli building regulations in Area C of Judea and Samaria.
On the twentieth day of Teves we mark the 808th yahrzeit of Rabeinu Moshe ben Maimon, the Rambam (Maimonides). The Rambam (Maimonides) lived from 1135 to 1204. His scholarly works are world-renowned and it is about him that we say, “From Moses to Moses there never arose so great a person as Moses.”
Judge: "Human rights are not a prescription for national suicide."
The hoax in question has been developed over the past 40 years or so and is calibrated to be effective on people like you. Its objective is to make you believe that in a particular context, black is white, evil is good, lies are truth and genocide is justice.
After weeks of negotiations, computer mega-giant Apple has acquired its first Israeli company, Anobit Technologies, for $390 million.
It is wrong to throw rocks at IDF soldiers. We must do all that we can to uproot this phenomenon. But the mad witch-hunt that raged recently has nothing to do with concern for and loyalty to the IDF.
By Dov Gilor
After a good meal in Houston Thursday night, we spent the evening at the Quality Inn near the Space Center. Early Friday morning we left for the Space Center so that we could get an early start before Shabbat.
Back in September 2011, in an editorial titled "Magen David Adom: No Time to Blink," we expressed our dismay over reports in several Israeli newspapers that Israel's national ambulance service – its version of the American Red Cross – was in the process of removing the display of the Magen David symbol on its ambulances operating over the Green Line as a sop to the International Red Cross and the Palestinian Red Crescent, which are averse to the display of the Jewish symbol there.
We do not mean to denigrate the impressive military support and cooperation the Obama administration has directed toward Israel.
It will take a major change of mindset in the religious world before we are able to face down the extremists and not merely be silent in the face of such desecration of the Torah and God’s holy name.
There was a time when no one living in Israel needed a reminder of what was at stake when the Jewish state was created in 1948 in the aftermath of World War II and the Nazi Holocaust.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Steve Rothman is accustomed to being re-elected to his northern New Jersey congressional district by wide margins.
JERUSALEM – Three days after the 12th annual Siyum Hashas celebration at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey next summer, thousands of English-speaking devotees of Daf Yomi in Israel will descend on Jerusalem’s Binyanei Ha’uma Convention Center to partake in similar festivities.
“Tens of thousands visit here – ordinary Jews, educators and their students, Knesset members and government ministers, soldiers and their officers, members of European parliaments, and U.S. congressmen. And after their visits, something happens in the minds of all of them. Even left-wing Knesset members, with tears in their eyes, have written in the visitors’ book, ‘Never again!’ ”
Jewish Agency Chairman applauds appointment of Jack Lew by President Obama.
By Sam Ser
As Arab League observer leaves in disgust and Turkey seizes weapons, Israel prepares for end of Bashar Assad’s regime
Egyptian Foreign Ministry says it informed Israel that it would not be "appropriate" for Jewish pilgrims to make the annual visit.
Presidential hopeful also criticizes Obama's “failed”leadership.
Israeli President Peres lavishes praise on India, highlights strong and deepening ties.
Senator Daniel Inouye makes statements while on a visit to Israel
Ehud Barak and Dimitris Avramopoulos pledge to deepen bilateral ties.
Israel is weighing options against Iran with the help of Britain's Institute for National Security Studies.
By Sam Ser
New law aims to deter African job seekers and asylum seekers, who have flooded across Israel’s southern border by the tens of thousands
Measures include longer prison terms and the power to detain migrants for longer periods without charge.
Second meeting in a week yields no progress.
By David Wilder, Tazpit News Agency
Rav Dov Lior is not only a Torah scholar; he is quintessential Jewish patriot, whose allegiance is pledged fully to God, Torah, the People and the Land. His courage in speaking the truth is undeniably tangible, without regard for any public controversy or dispute.
Tamar gas field will supply Dalia with 1.38 billion cubic meters of gas over 17 years.
New law passed in a 21-8 vote.
Ismail Haniyeh receives a warm welcome in Tunis.
By dvora
We have all been raised in a culture which we are taught to believe in the “miracles of modern medicine.”
Defense Secretary, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff counter Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Thoughts on the "The Best Plans" alternative peace conference and on Israel's Air Force wing-man graduation.
Ormat Technologies Inc., an Israeli company developing geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants, scored two major contracts with American energy providers.
The Israeli military will take part in a major missile defense drill in partnership with the United States, following a 10-day Iranian naval exercise near the Strait of Hormuz. The Israel-US Drill is called “Austere Challenge 12”, and will work to improve defense systems. No date has been announced. On Wednesday, Iran announced that the […]
The hacker, going by the username ‘0xOmar’, said he has an additional 60,000 numbers he intends to release.
By Sandy Eller
If you are anything like me you may have noticed that slowly but surely the Internet is creeping further and further into your everyday life as you turn towards the web for countless tasks.
The family: Parents Avinadav and Hanna Kalef; son, Ortal; daughter, Kinneret and son, Ronen. All of three Kalef children married while the family lived in Gush Katif and are themselves today, parents.
“Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night,” Wilders said in a speech in New York, “parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.”
Charedi rabbinical leaders in Israel, and I imagine globally, are greatly perturbed, even horrified by the “chumrah” some Orthodox Israeli women have taken upon themselves – that of covering their bodies up in a manner similar to traditional Muslim women, who wear head to toe, shroud-like black burkas.
There we, Manhigut Yehudit’s strategy team, sat for our first strategy meeting ahead of the upcoming primaries. “According to Likud law, primaries for the party chairmanship will be held in about a year,” I said, “and we have to prepare now.”
By Aaron Klein
“Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” is broadcast live from Israel and heard on New York’s 77-WABC Radio, the largest talk station in the U.S.
By Steven Plaut
So Hillary Clinton thinks Israel does not treat its women nicely or respectfully enough. This is the same Hillary Clinton who never had much to say about the treatment of women in the Clinton White House.
Should Israel treat pro-Palestinian news manipulators as if they were serious journalists?
In recent months a new theme has replaced the media’s past obsession with Israel’s alleged mistreatment of the Palestinians.
August 21, 2026 
