יום חמישי, כ׳ תשרי תשפ״זThursday, October 1, 2026
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When nothing can go wrong, something usually does. Everything was carefully planned for Obama’s visit – except for the man who put the wrong kind of gasoline in Obama’s limo.
Adina Feldman, daughter of a New York rabbi, sings every Sept. 11 in Tel Aviv in memory of 9/11. On Thursday, she will sing the Star Spangled Banner in Jerusalem for President Barack Obama.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
In addition to providing impeccable services to the hundreds of dignitaries and members of the press, both hotels have also had to contend with the food limitations of next week's Passover holiday.
By David Wilder
We cannot and must not allow responsibility for our security to be in the hands of anyone else but ourselves. Not at any time.
Coming to Israel this afternoon or late morning on Wednesday, or going to the airport to meet friends and relatives? President Barack Obama also is coming, and you are well-advised to take the train and forget about driving. President Obama has not yet boarded Air Force One in Washington, but Highway 1, the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv […]
PA Arabs already have put banana peels on a spiked carpet for Obama’s visit to Bethlehem. Vandals sprayed swastikas on an Obama banner. Then a car ran over it and others set the banner on fire.
At around 10 PM, Egged bus #59 was hit by Arab stone throwers as it drove through French Hill, in the northern part of Jerusalem. One passenger was taken to Hadassah Har HaTzofim hospital, after being injured in the head with a stone.
“Operation Unbreakable Alliance” also will be ”Operation Unbreakable Traffic Jam” next week. Motorists as well as tourists coming into the country for the Passover holiday are advised that parts of Jerusalem will be off limits during President Barack Obama’s visit next week. The road passing by the KingDavidHotel, which will be completely occupied by Obama […]
The year’s biggest photo op gets underway next week. Obama will smile in Jerusalem and Ramallah and pray in a church that he can “fool all the people all of the time.”
By Shalom Bear
Safety and security of the Jewish residents of the Binyamin region has been compromised.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
We must remember, too, that Abbas has said no Jews would be allowed to live anywhere in a Palestinian state.
“Here I come, ready or not” is the message from the White House, but it might be putting on a good face. What would be the reaction if Obama said, “If you can’t get your act together, I’ll stay home.”
Peter Beinart now has the Jerusalem Light Rail, which services Arab neighborhoods, in his cross hairs.
President Barack Obama remains morally and strategically” committed to Israel, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington Monday. “Obama has acted swiftly and decisively to make clear that our deep commitment to Israel has not changed,” he said, citing America’s shared interests with Israel that […]
On Friday, people were running in Jerusalem again, but this time for a marathon.
By JTA
The Iron Dome anti-missile defense system was tested near the city of Modi'in, located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, before being removed on Wednesday, Haaretz reported. A battery stationed there would protect the Jerusalem area from rocket attacks. At least two rockets were fired from Gaza at Jerusalem during last November's Operation Pillar of Defense, […]
The chances of Obama visiting the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount are the same as his praying at the Kotel – zero - but Arabs pulled a PR stunt Sunday warning him how to enter when he visits.
Purim is an upside-down holiday, but Women of the Wall Rabbi Silverman takes the cake. She calls the Knesset Achasverous, a wicked goy, and suffers “tragedy” for her regarding them as enemies.
By Orat@Muqata
Jews of 14th century Jerusalem celebrated Purim on both the 14th and 15th of Adar.
US State Department spokesmen on several occasions have refused to give a straight answer to reporters’ questions concerning the location of Israel’s capital.
Living in Israel is often a study on kindness between people.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
It appears that when the dust settles after Obama's upcoming visit, Israel's housing market is very likely to take a big hit - in the form of a construction freeze.
In what country do people act this way? Stop to deliver soup to a stranger; give a blessing; ask someone to fix your bracelet...or fix someone's bracelet. In Israel.
East Jerusalem has become code for: where Jews shouldn't be.
Lapid lacks intellectual depth, is ignorant of historical facts, sees settlers as extremists to be battled, and wants to divide Jerusalem.
The UN conceived of Jerusalem of extending from just south of Ramallah to Bethlehem and from Motza east to almost where Maaleh Adumim is today.
By Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes: I predicted that 'Israel's troubles will really begin' should Obama win a second term. These have begun; Jerusalem, brace for a rough four years.
A Hebrew University professor suggests that the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheik Jarrah is actually the Biblical town of Nob, where David fled from Saul.
President Obama, one could easily accuse the US of not knowing what is in their best interests. After all, they re-elected you, didn't they?
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Police arrest everyone involved in the anti-Semitic attack in Jerusalem.
Israeli security forces have begun removal of the illegal Arab tent encampment in E1, the area between Maaleh Adumim and Jerusalem. Last week, Israel security forces were taken by surprise by an Arab initiative to try to illegally settle on the E1 location, and create facts on the ground. At the time, the Israeli Supreme […]
The Jewish state is supposed to be a place where people are not humiliated for being Jews.
During the early hours of Sunday morning, the Israeli police successfully managed to evacuate, without violence, 100 Arab activists/provocateurs who entered the E1 area between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim and set up an illegal tent camp, claiming the area as a new Arab village. The government's plan to evacuate the activists on Friday was derailed […]
Snow and rain cover Israel.
Palestinians evil ambitions are not even constrained on the holiest site to Judaism.
Storms and floods hit Israel, as the Kinneret rises.
EMET focuses its attention on educating members of Congress about issues crucial to Jews and to Israel.
By Rafi Farber
It was not a political statement or a planned exercise in disobedience. It was a spontaneous act of religious devotion meant to provoke no one.
Jerusalem police refused to provide protection after days of consecutive rock attacks on Jewish.
How would the Beit HaMikdash fit into the landscape of the Old City?
Jerusalem's besiegers are a captive audience. It's time for Israel to speak.
The biggest obstacle to peace, of course, is the Palestinian intention to establish an Arab state from the river to the sea.
Egyptian blogger, Maikel Nabil Sanad, was shouted down today during his visit to Israel... by Arab students studying at Hebrew University.
In what the Israeli police are now calling a nationalistic (terror) attack, an Arab taxi driver drove into a border policeman at the Oz police station near Jaabel Mukaber in Jerusalem.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
With the international community barely having finished expressing its outrage over Israel's decision to build in E-1, between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim (reported at length in last week's column), two other similar decisions have been made that are sure to re-ignite the flames.
Israel this week took an important step toward strengthening Jerusalem and preventing any chance of its future division. Despite increasingly strident objections from the U.S., Europe and the Palestinians, the Jewish state is moving forward with plans to expand the capital’s Jewish population.
A significant portion of the new Jewish neighborhood in Givat Hamatos, one of the new eastern Jerusalem projects announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the Palestinian Authority’s decision to unilaterally seek non-member observer state status at the UN, has been rejected by the Jerusalem municipality.
Chanukah commemorates the physical and spiritual resistance that is required of us sooner or later in all times.
In the 2013 Terravino wine competition held this year in Jerusalem, 13 wines won the coveted double-gold medal. Four of those wines are from Israel. 21 countries and 500 different wins participated in the contest. One of the winners was the Tura boutique from the Shomron, which won 2 gold medals.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Rabbi Shimshon Nadel to talk about Chanukah and finding light through the holiday.
By Rachel Weiss
Our Jewish calendar is based on the lunar year, and Rosh Chodesh, literally the head of the month, occurs when the moon renews itself. It is a holiday — in that we daven mussaf, just like on Shabbos and Yomim Tovim, we do not conduct fasts, and the pious among our people eat a special seudah. Traditionally, women do not sew on Rosh Chodesh and refrain from performing heavy-duty tasks.
For most observant Jews, the eruv is invisible. Each week we prepare for Shabbos: ready our food, conclude our mundane affairs, shower, dress and put the house keys in our pocket and check the web that the local eruv is up. Unless there has been a storm or other physical disaster, we can assume everything is okay. Just like the Shabbos calm that descends for 25 hours, the eruv operates for us in the background: essential but unnoticed.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Alternative Peace Activist Baruch Widen to discuss Jewish construction in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabul Mukaber along with the recent Palestinian statehood bid.
As one Hamas official put it, "In the next war with Israel, Israelis will be forced to flee not only their homes, but the whole country."
Forget the cluster bomb and the mine, the poison gas shell and even tailored viruses.
On Wednesday, the Civil Administration Planning Council rushed through approval on the plan to build 3000 apartments in E1, between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah discuss his father's yahrzeit, the approval of Jewish housing in Jerusalem, and Canadian singer Alanis Morissette in Israel.
It's all about a mountain that sits between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem.
Olmert now claims that Netanyahu's decision to move forward with construction in E-1 is 'beyond my comprehension,' but he himself supported building there in the past.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian was under no obligation to consult Israel before making allegations, but they could at least consult a map.
Celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, commemorated through the lighting of the traditional Hanukkah menorah, will be taking place across the world, according to an article by the Washington Post.
The E-1 area was always viewed by Israel and the U.S. as an area which would remain in Jewish hands.
By David Wilder, Tazpit News Agency
Three thousand new apartments should be transformed into 30,000 new apartment buildings.
The first totally new Israeli-built neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem since Har Homa will soon be approved, introducing 2,610 Israeli homes to an area called Givat HaMatos.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah introduce Yosef and Emuna Murray, recent converts visiting Jerusalem. The Murrays present their story and how they came to embrace Judaism.
By CAMERA
The media claims that Jewish construction in E1 preempts the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state, but that is not the case.
Hamshushalayim is the central cultural festival of the winter season in Israel that attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year and offers a unique combination of hundreds of quality cultural events coupled with tourist and culinary attractions, all concentrated into four fun packed weekends during December. Thanks to a sweeping collaboration of Jerusalem’s cultural […]
An initiative of some members of the Jerusalem Likud branch could help keep soon-to-be-former MK Dan Meridor gainfully employed: The Begin Heritage Group, led by Avi Moyal, Yoram Gamish and Jerusalem city council member Meir Turgeman, yesterday proposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would throw his support behind Meridor, who had been rejected […]
By Moshe Herman
Yishai broadcasts from Jerusalem's International Convention Center to talk about the Likud Primaries.
By David Wilder
Frequently, when speaking with groups here in Hebron, I ask if anyone knows where the name ‘Palestine’ originated? More often than not, no one replies. So, let’s set the record straight.
Few believe we won't be going back in to Gaza in the future to stop the missiles at our cities, the Fajir 5 and its next generations.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“When will all this end already?” exclaimed one Israeli to another. “Politicians shaking hands has never ended terror.”
By Meir Indor
The same government that caved to the media and the Schalit Task Force by releasing 1,027 terrorists from prison last year has caved yet again—this time despite the fact that Hamas violated red lines by shooting missiles at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
For probably the first time since the Yom Kippur War nearly 40 years ago, air raid sirens sounded this week in Jerusalem and environs. The sounding of the sirens occurred about two minutes after sundown on Friday, such that Sabbath-observers had no direct way of ascertaining where, what, how many, or who, if anyone, was hurt.
Israel is a sideline in a regional struggle by fractured populations who are divided by ethnicity and religion, language and natural resources, to unite into a single commonality.
Scenes of jubilation over the rocket attacks on Israel were also reported in several Palestinian cities in the West Bank, including Ramallah, the center of Palestinian "pragmatism and moderation."
Shabbat has kept the Jews throughout the generations.
A bomb decoy was discovered on Jerusalem's light rail Monday morning, the second time in a week that a fake device was planted on the popular commuter route.
On Friday evening two rockets hit the Gush Etzion area, south of Jerusalem. Residents were on their way to synagogue on Friday night, when the sirens went off. A short time later 2 rockets hit in the Gush Etzion area. No injuries or damage were reported from those strikes.
The funeral for Mira Sharf has begun in Jerusalem. Sharf was killed in a rocket attack on Thursday in Kiryat Melachi. She was a a Chabad Shaliach. Her husband Shmulik and their children are currently still in the hospital. Aharon Samdaja and Itzik Amsalem were also killed in the rocket attack.
The Israel Zionist Council has organized a day of fun for children from Israel's south. According to a report by Israel National News, 25 buses containing 1,200 children will be in Jerusalem for a day of rest, including a visit to the Biblical Zoo.
You can help the residents of Sderot in a way that will really help.
Arab and Leftwing Students from Hebrew University in Jerusalem will be demonstrating for solidarity with Hamas tomorrow at 12:00 PM at the Mount Scopus campus.
● The president of the United States, in the midst of a policy dispute with the Israeli prime minister, glared into the television cameras and angrily declared, “It is not the business of other nations to make American foreign policy.” Barack Obama? No, Ronald Reagan.
As residents of areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy struggle to pick up the pieces, Americans and their Israeli loved ones thousands of miles away from the aftermath are getting free emotional and psychological support to cope with the disaster thanks to experts at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
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.
By Hadar Sela
Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem has its roots back in the late nineteenth century when it was known as Shuk Beit Ya’acov after the nearby neighbourhood of the same name which was established in 1885. Two years later, the Machane Yehuda neighbourhood was built and the market continued to grow. Under British Mandate rule the market was given a make-over, permanent stalls and roofing were built and the new name caught on.
The Bahá'í Shrine in Haifa has been voted Israel’s most beautiful building by 40,000 readers of Yedioth Ahronoth.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Fatah wing of the Palestinian Authority, was forced last week to retract some controversial remarks and in the process only succeeded in thoroughly confusing much of the Israeli public.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah discuss American elections, a stabbing on the Mount of Olives, and an upcoming trip to Hevron
By JoeSettler
It's been said that if Obama wins, that would be a big push for Aliyah. I'm not sure how that works out considering the fact that 70% of Jews who voted, voted for Obama. I guess it's that 30% that might be considering their options.
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.
By Tzvi Fishman
A few readers have written me lately, saying that my blogs are too hard-hitting, and that I would have better results with honey than with smashing people over the head with a sledgehammer. I am not totally convinced
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.
I grew up in Edison, New Jersey and lived in the same house until I left for college. My parent had moved in several years before I was born. I had the same rabbi for my baby naming, my bat mitzvah and my wedding (this was a first for him). My husband and I even brought our daughter back to my old synagogue for her naming.
As Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi looked on smilingly, the cleric told the crowds that, "We can see how the dream of the Islamic Caliphate is being realized, Allah willing, by Dr. Muhammad Morsi and his brothers, his supporters, and his political party. We can see how the great dream, shared by us all -- that of the United States of Arabs …shall, Allah willing, be restored. The United States of Arabs will be restored by this man and his supporters."
By Orat@Muqata
A year after the Crusaders captured Jerusalem, they turned to conquer Israel's coastal cities. Haifa's Jewish community is mentioned in the Genizah documents. The city was one of three forts (מבצר) that we know of - Haifa, Dan (Banias) and Rafah (Rafiah). Each had a major Jewish community. Haifa was probably mostly Jewish, if not exclusively so, with a small Muslim military presence. The story of Haifa's conquest, in the summer of 1100, is reported by Christian chroniclers.
September 25, 2026 
