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Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Israel's Sovereignty and Security aren't The Responsibility of POTUS Trump!

By Batya Medad

Israel is not part of the US; it is neither a state nor a "commonwealth." It's up to our own government led by Netanyahu. If he is clear world opinion doesn't matter, most opposition will fade away.

Israel / Sports

Israel’s First Regulation-Sized American Football Field

By Israel 21C

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft donates $6 million to build field for 1,350 active football players in Israel.

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria

Report: Jewish Population Growth Rate in Judea, Samaria, Double Israel's National Average

By JNi.Media

The growth rate would have been even higher were it not for the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria.

The Ettinger Report

Israel's Globalized Economy Sets New Records

By Yoram Ettinger

Israel, a well-established military and intelligence powerhouse is increasingly integrated into the global economy, emerging as an economic and technological powerhouse

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: The Fundamental Truth About Israel's Soldiers

By Paula Stern

Elor Azarya is a soldier of Israel. 10 months ago we sent him into battle. His friend was stabbed in that battle. Elor raised his gun and shot the terrorist. It wasn't murder. It wasn't even manslaughter.

Op-Eds

The Issue is Israel's Existence

By Dr. Ephraïm Herrera

The UN resolution effectively demands that Israel withdraw from the Jewish Quarter, from Jerusalem's new neighborhoods and from all of Judea and Samaria.

Rebbetzin's Viewpoint

Israel’s Dismal Public-Relations Record

By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis

Why has Israel has done such a dismal PR job of making its case to the international community? How is it that Jews areabsolutely inept at imparting to the world our glorious history?

Interviews and Profiles

Defending The ‘Fourth Front’: An Interview with Israel’s UN Ambassador, Danny Danon

By Stephanie Granot

It can get exhausting sometimes when you sit in the Security Council for eight hours and one after another the other representatives get up and speak against us.

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / The Knesset / Media / Jerusalem / Religion / Israeli Arabs

Vatican's Emissary Distorts, then Maligns Israel's 'Muezzin Law'

By JNi.Media

The legislative initiative was defined by Abbas as a provocation which is likely to 'make the region plunge into an abyss.'

IDF & Security / Politics / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Science and Tech

Israel's Biometric Database Law Passes Preliminary Vote

By JNi.Media

All the objections at the plenum debate had to do with the fear of government abusing the collected data.

Analysis

The Myth of Israel's Demographic Doomsday

By Gregg Roman

In Secretary Kerry's drive to wrest Israeli concessions he believes will break the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic logjam, he has repeatedly warned of a demographic doomsday for Israel. He's wrong.

The Ettinger Report

Israel’s Economy Defies BDS

By Yoram Ettinger

Israel is unprecedentedly integrated into the global economy, highlighting the successful battle against BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions), while rejecting pessimism and fatalism.

The Ettinger Report

Israel’s Unprecedented Global Economic Integration

By Yoram Ettinger

A Bloomberg study: "An examination of foreign capital flow into Israel shows a near tripling from 2005 when the so-called BDS was started" Amazing! The harder they try to stop Israel, the more we grow

InDepth

Israel's Resilient Decency Despite Extreme Terrorism

By Noah Beck

In 2015, Israelis suffered about 10 terrorist attacks every day. Adjusted for population size, the violence would equate to a staggering 150,160 attacks in a year in the US (roughly 411 per day)

Jewish / Obituaries / Jerusalem / News Briefs / Government

President Reuven Rivlin’s eulogy at the funeral of Israel’s Ninth President Shimon Peres

By Jewish Press Staff

Your eyes saw far ahead, while your feet covered great distances on the landscape of Jewish and Zionist history.

Government / News Briefs

As 5777 Rolls In, Israel's Population at 8.585 Million

By JNi.Media

About 189 thousand babies were born in Israel in 5776, and an estimated 46 thousand passed away.

Israel / Politics / News Briefs / Obituaries

Israel's 9th President Shimon Peres Dead at 93

By JNi.Media

Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres, who took part in establishing Israel's security apparatus and served 48 consecutive years as MK passed away following a stroke.

Interviews and Profiles

Fighting Israel’s Battle Online An Interview with Influential Blogger: ‘Elder of Ziyon’

By Elliot Resnick

The question was: Would you support a two-state solution if it meant the conflict was completely over and no more claims could be made?

Goldstein on Gelt

FATCA is Here to Stay Regardless of Israel’s Supreme Court’s Temporary

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

Do you really think Israel will jeopardize its relationship with the United States to protect information about Americans’ accounts here that those Americans are supposed to be reporting to the IRS anyway?

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria / United Nations (UN) / Settlements

UN Report on Failed Gaza, PA Governments: It's All Israel's Fault

By JNi.Media

We went looking for those items that best reflect how the report turns facts and figures on their heads to come up with the preconceived conclusion: it's all the fault of the Israeli occupation, and once Israel is out of the picture you'll see how those Palestinians will become Switzerland of the Middle East.

Terrorism / Israel / Middle East / Levant / Jewish / US / Politics / Elections / News Briefs

Rightwing Pundit: A Vote for Donald Trump Is a Vote for Israel's Enemies

By JNi.Media

Beres has no illusions about a Hillary Clinton presidency when it comes to Israel's interests, but he is deeply concerned by Trump's "endless litany of barren clichés, emotional arguments and thoroughly empty witticisms."

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Sports

Israel’s Wix Teams Up with New York Yankees in Sponsorship Deal

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Wix may be the first Israeli company to work with a Major League Baseball team.

Interviews and Profiles

Israel’s First Patient Advocate

By Rivkah Lambert Adler

Patients who have “barriers to care,” such as cultural or language differences or physical disabilities, are particularly interesting to Kilim.

Into the Fray / Dr. Martin Sherman

INTO THE FRAY- To: “Bogy” Yaalon; cc: Dore Gold; Re: Israel’s Security Imperatives

By Dr. Martin Sherman

Despite my personal bias in favor of Former Defense Minister,Moshe “Bogy” Yaalon, I must confess that I have been disturbed, disappointed and, at times, even dismayed at some of his recent decisions

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Politics / Global / Government / News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Chabad / Aliyah / Geulah / Judaism / Assimilation

Bennett Relying on Orthodox to Lead Israel's Jewish Identity Project for Diaspora Youth

By JNi.Media

The fact that the first two of these organizations is completely Orthodox, while the third varies from one campus to another has irked many, in Israel and abroad.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Health and Medicine

Israel’s Hospitals Go On Strike to Demand More Resources For Public Health System

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman said that the strike itself would not at all contribute towards reaching a solution.

The Ettinger Report

Israel’s Economy – an Island of Stability

By Yoram Ettinger

Israel is one of the top 5 world high-tech powers. The others? USA, China, Russia and India

The 10 Minute Parsha

The Parsha Experiment - Matot-Masei: Israel's Psychological Journey

By Immanuel Shalev

The Torah is not just a list of laws and stories, So, how does the travel log in parshat Masei teach us some sort of timeless lesson?

Op-Eds

Israel’s Strategy Shift Bears Fruit

By Evelyn Gordon

Guinea resuming ties with Israel almost half a century after severing them is a nontrivial piece of good news. It proves Israel's shift in foreign policy is bearing fruit.

Politics

Sustaining Israel’s Friends On Capitol Hill: NORPAC’s Mission – and Missions – in Washington

By dvora

While the efforts did not lead to the result that was hoped for, the work was not in vain.

The 10 Minute Parsha

Balak - What Is Israel's National Mission?

By Immanuel Shalev

For the first time in a while, the main characters of the parsha--Bilaam and Balak-- are NOT the people of Israel.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

One Third of Public Complaints to Israel's Ombudsman 'Justified'

By JNi.Media

"At the Israel Postal Company, for instance, some 69 percent of the complaints were found to be justified."

The 10 Minute Parsha

The Parsha Experiment - Chukat: A Turning Point In Israel's Relationship With God

By Immanuel Shalev

This week, we get even more complaining from Israel - this time, about the lack of water. How can they continue to complain after everything God had done for them? Join us as we explore the baffling story of Israel’s complaints.   Video: This video is from Rabbi David Block and Immanuel Shalev.

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Sorry, Ivanka, Israel’s High Rabbinical Court Doesn't Recognize Your Conversion

By JNi.Media

"I feel humiliated, they were actually saying they're not recognizing my being Jewish. I love Rabbi Lookstein, he is my rabbi, he brought me into the Jewish world."

The 10 Minute Parsha

Korach: Rejecting Israel's Leaders

By Rabbi David Fohrman

We’ve seen Israel complain over and over, but never before have they tried to undermine and dispose of their leaders. Join us as we make sense of Korach’s shocking complaints, this week on the Parsha Experiment. This video is from Rabbi David Block and Immanuel Shalev.   Want More? Join our growing community: https://goo.gl/xv0UbG Help […]

Op-Eds

Israel's Kidnapped Yemenite Children Bogeyman

By Steven Plaut

This year, as usual, demagogue politicians are joining the calls for yet another state commission of inquiry into the hysteria of "kidnapped Yemenite children"

IDF & Security / Global / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Arts and Entertainment / Science and Tech

Google Acquires Israel's Air Force

By JNi.Media

"What's next?" Yachimovich wondered. "Soldiers modeling the Nike logo? Tanks laid up in the shape of the Gerber Baby? Fighter planes leaving behind streaks promoting a coffee and croissant campaign?"

News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Israeli Arabs

Meet Mohammed Zeidan, Israel’s Smartest Student

By Israel 21C

19-year-old achieves perfect score on Israel's college entrance exam.

Op-Eds / Analysis

Israel's Socialist Dreams vs. Capitalist Realities

By Steven Plaut

Modern Israel has developed into an economic miracle, as a result of economic liberalization, driven by entrepreneurship, innovation, investment, and the accumulation of human capital.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Global / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Analysis: Herzog Mocks Netanyahu, Israel's SpongeBob SquarePants

By JNi.Media

“What's the greatest mistake of the right wing government?" Herzog joked, answering his own trick question: "That there is no real left wing to blame.

Analysis

Israel's Odysseus vs. the Seductive Sirens

By Yoram Ettinger

Modern day 'Sirens of the Western media' try to seduce Israel from the proper course of combating terrorism, contending that "one group's terrorist is another group's freedom fighter"

Moshe Feiglin

What’s Wrong With Israel’s Right?

By Moshe Feiglin

What’s wrong with the Right? When the Left is in power, it rules and leads the nation according to its principles, while when the Right is in power, the Left continues to impose its principles?

Analysis / Into the Fray / Dr. Martin Sherman

INTO THE FRAY: Like manna from heaven—for Israel’s detractors

By Dr. Martin Sherman

Any allusion that Israel is somehow comparable to Nazi Germany is not criticism. It is a blood libel

Politics / Global / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Jerusalem

Is Jerusalem Truly Israel's Capital?

By JNi.Media

Since the international community relies on the 1947 UN partition plan regarding the legal status of Jerusalem, it refuses to recognize Israeli sovereignty over any part of the city.

Video of the Day

Israel's Amazing New 'Namer' Troop Carrier

By Video of the Day

The Combat Engineer's can seemingly cross any obstacle.

Government / News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

Meet Israel’s New-Old Immigrant Absorption Minister

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Sofa Landver, an immigrant from Russia, has returned to the office she headed between 2009 and 2015.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Sunday Off? Israel's Unions, Employers, Clash over Shorter Work Week

By JNi.Media

Will Israel, known for its national obsession with plunging into new, radical changes, take on this moderate change? We'll know more on Sunday.

Op-Eds

A Visit to the Old and New Hells of Europe Provides a Reminder of Israel’s Importance

By Alan M. Dershowitz

My visit to Europe made one thing unmistakably clear: if there is any group in the world that needs a safe homeland—a sanctuary from bigotry and hatred—it is the Jewish people

IDF & Security / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Report: US Using Foreign Aid to Damage Israel's Military Industry

By JNi.Media

An American decision to keep the entire aid package in dollars, to be spent only with US manufacturers, could mean serious out of pocket costs for Israel.

Op-Eds

Israel’s Independence Day: We Have a Lot to Celebrate

By Isi Leibler

We have cause to celebrate the ingathering of our exiles, ranging from broken survivors of concentration camps to Ethiopian Jews – and the nation's extraordinary success

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Arts and Entertainment / Jerusalem

Watch full Version: Knesset 'Songs in their Memory' Event Honoring Israel's Fallen

By JNi.Media

The evening featured performances by Shiri Meimon, Ninet Tayeb, Harel Skaat, Idan Haviv, Chief IDF Cantor Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, Uziya Tzadok and military bands.

Guest Blog

Israel's Dilemma...Independence, or 'Dependence'?

By Shifra Hoffman

ISRAEL will soon celebrate its 68th INDEPENDENCE DAY as a strong and sovereign Jewish State! Yet, the question arises: "Is Israel truly independent?"

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Israeli Arabs

Israel's Material Well-Being and National Wealth Stats Up Across the Board

By JNi.Media

Israeli Jews were more satisfied than Israeli Arabs — 60% vs. 48% respectively.

IDF & Security / Politics / Police and Crime / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset

Israel's Justice Ministry to Criminalize Torture in Interrogations

By JNi.Media

The proposed new law is yet to receive the endorsement of Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked or of AG Avichai Mandelblit.

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: UNESCO's Anti-Jewish Policy Due to Israel's Ambivilance

By Batya Medad

There has been a big hue and cry here in Israel about the UNESCO's Anti-Jewish Statements re: Israeli/Jewish connection to our holy sites by the very same people who are complicit in perpetuating the problem. UNESCO adopts resolution ignoring Jewish ties to Temple MountResolution refers to Temple Mount area solely as Al-Aksa Mosque/Al-Haram Al Sharif, except […]

David Bedein's Behind the News in Israel

Leading Israeli Analysts Can't Agree on PA Strategy

By David Bedein

Netanyahu should formulate an interim solution to the "West Bank."

Daniel Pipes / The Lion's Den

The Right Moment for Israel's Danny Danon?

By Daniel Pipes

As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister

America's Rabbi / Shmuley Boteach

My Week in Israel with Dr. Oz

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Mehmet, perhaps the world’s most famous Muslim who is not a head of state, is a righteous and proud Ambassador of his faith and feels an innate kinship and brotherhood with the Jewish people.

Moshe Feiglin

Looking For God In Our Skyscrapers

By Moshe Feiglin

The collective subconscious that pulls the young people of Tel Aviv’s trendy Shenkin Street to alternative lamentations on the city rooftops discovers something in Tisha B’Av.

MUSSAR – Avi Ganz

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Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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