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“It is a real fight against good and evil. The challenge is so much bigger, and, of course, the world as [the Russian president] wants to change is not the world in which Jews and Israel want to live,” said Natan Sharansky.
"It was Armenia who started the conflict. The Azerbaijanis want to make peace, yet this is how they are being repaid.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on the world to unite against growing anti-Semitism, and notably called out Iran for its Holocaust denial and threats to wipe out Israel.
Unlike Naama Issachar, Putin won't be arrested for trying to take the coin out of Israel.
“One shot will disrupt the ceremony and one dead body will cancel the ceremony.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We do not abandon anyone to his fate,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes to Naama Issachar, 27, who was arrested in Moscow on drug charges in April.
"We are distressed and angry. . . We ask the prime minister – do not allow President Vladimir Putin to land in Israel without Naama returning home.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
In the phone conversation, Putin invited Netanyahu to Moscow for the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
Among the issues discussed were Iran and the situation in Syria, and strengthening security coordination.
By JNi.Media
The Russians believe the Israeli Air Force is to blame for the crash of Russia’s Ilyushin Il-20 aircraft in Syria on September 17.
By JNi.Media
In 1983, Kobzon was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and reprimanded for performing Jewish songs.
By JNi.Media
"The task is to facilitate relations between Russia and the United States in the humanitarian field, including cooperation in culture, the arts, public and youth exchanges, and so on."
By JNi.Media
The PM did not offer an explanation as to why he had chosen not to order stopping those incendiary weapons before an estimated 6,000 acres had gone up in smoke.
By JNi.Media
Back in June, President Putin invited both PM Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to attend the July 15 final in Moscow.
By JNi.Media
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the summit, noting, with a hint and a nudge to the White House, "As long as we remain united (within NATO), we can dialogue with Russia."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Russian request also places constraints on Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is dependent on Russia in his fight against the rebels.
Russia is widely believed to have agreed not to interfere with Israeli military action taken against Iranian forces and Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters in Syria.
By JNi.Media
"I have clarified to our friends in Washington and our friends in Moscow that we will operate in Syria, including southern Syria, in accordance with our understanding and in accordance with our security needs."
By JNi.Media
In the end, President Trump who has been so adamant about the folly of Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, is signing off on allowing the Iranian threat against the Jewish State to come in a thousand miles closer.
By JNi.Media
"This is a transparent attempt by career staffers in the State Department to [expletive] with the Israelis and derail the efforts of Congressional Republicans and President Trump to rebuild the US-Israel relationship."
By JNi.Media
On Thursday morning, Israel delivered a daring message to all the powers involved in the war in Syria, that it was prepared for military confrontation with any one of them if it saw such confrontation as being vital to its security.
Iran is trying to create a new reality in the region with Iranian air force and naval bases in Syria, with Sh’ite militias with thousands of mercenaries and by manufacturing precise weaponry in Lebanon.
By JNi.Media
'The message is that the establishment of Iranian arms factories will be intolerable for Israel,' the diplomat said.
By JNi.Media
Never mind historical and theological inaccuracies, PM Netanyahu is all about the future, and business.
By JNi.Media
The meeting will pay special attention paid to the PA's 'struggle against terrorism.'
By JNi.Media
Also on Thursday, the PM met again with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and members of his Cabinet, for the signing of agreements and memoranda of understanding (MOUs).
By JNi.Media
'Simon Wiesenthal Center, take disciplinary action against Hier if he refuses to desist from this shameful action.'
By JNi.Media
Netanyahu's spokesman David Keys said Israel has ironclad information that the Obama administration helped craft the anti-settlements UNSC resolution.
By JNi.Media
In August 2016 two Be-200s were sent to Portugal to help in extinguishing forest fires. Four days later it was reported that the fire was prevented from spreading in the direction of two settlements and a national park.
By JNi.Media
Somebody should tell Ivanka Trump and Jason Greenblatt as soon as Shabbat is out.
By JNi.Media
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted that "we must adjust to the fact that American foreign policy will get less predictable in the near future."
By JNi.Media
The White House has been watching helplessly as Putin suspended the treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium.
By JNi.Media
Overall, the debate veered to the Iran deal four times, and Gov. Pence was not able to turn any of them into a knockout, or even a win on points.
By JNi.Media
The timing of the revelation did not escape PA Arab representatives, who have been flooding Israeli media Thursday morning with profuse denials of the charges.
By JNi.Media
When Netanyahu and Putin spoke on the phone last week, the summit idea was part of their discussion.
By JNi.Media
A week ago, Putin’s Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa, discussed advancing Palestinian-Israeli peace talks with Abbas in Amman.
By JNi.Media
The annual Arab League summit's agenda includes combating terrorism and the ongoing civil wars in Libya and Syria.
By JNi.Media
The current president of the İHH, Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım, has been under investigation by specially authorized prosecutors in Istanbul and Diyarbakır for financing al-Qaeda through his organization.
By JNi.Media
"The content of the letter is very clear. We express our regret. We say that we are sharing the pain felt by those who lost loved ones. We say that we will pay compensation, if needed."
By JNi.Media
"It's very sad that the prime minister and the media follow misinformation."
By JNi.Media
The Russians are supplying Iran with advanced S-300 long range surface-to-air missile systems, and are in the process of selling the Iranians many more weapons.
The tank was used by the IDF during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War. On June 10, 1982 it was captured by the Syrian army and eventually transported to the Soviet Union.
By JNi.Media
According to reports, the meeting between Putin and Netanyahu took place even as two separate reports on the Russian jets opening fire on Israeli aircraft were coming in.
Netanyahu told Putin that Israel has clear red lines for self-defense.
Israel's President Ruvy Rivlin met with Russian Prime Minister Medvedev and with members of the Russian Jewish community.
The surprise visit is the first time Assad has left Syria since the Arab Spring of 2011 that evolved into civil war.
Russia gets along with Israel much more than it does with the United States.
NATO expressed "concern" while Russia rips off the mask that the only reason its forces are in Syria is to defeat ISIS.
Kerry unleashes a new weapon to defeat ISIS: $5 million for information that can disrupt ISIS trade.
The Syrian ambassador to Russia said Wednesday he hopes that the Russian Armed Forces will attack all the terrorist organizations present in Syria, including the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra." Ambassador Riad Haddad told Moscow's Sputnik news that the Russian Air Force headquarters would be determined by the military command. It is inevitable that Russia […]
Russian control of Syrian airspace places both Israeli and American air forces in immediate danger.
A Federation Council resolution makes it more possible for Russia to carry out air strikes in Syria to defend Assad. Syria demands US remove its planes.
By JNi.Media
Obama was vehement about the need to replace Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, while Putin insisted removing him would be a wrong move. Obama suggested Putin’s engagements in both Syria and Ukraine has been damaging to global instability.
Obama finally understands: "There are no simple answers to the changes that are taking place in much of the Middle East and North Africa."
Artillery units responded to the second straight day of fire on the northern Golan Heights.
Russia and Israel create coordinating group to avoid mishaps in the region.
By JNi.Media
Vladimir Putin is clamping down on “foreign” influences and intellectuals, and as Jews feel they are the natural targets of his ire, they have been leaving Russia for Israel in droves.
The emails are unclassified but include sensitive information of correspondence with ambassadors.
In the past, both Russia and Israel stopped their weapons sales to avoid excess friction between the countries. Not anymore.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev joined up with terrorists near the area of Islamists looking to disrupt the Olympics.
By JTA
Prison authorities in Russia released a Jewish schoolteacher whose controversial bribery conviction triggered protests by leading politicians. The teacher, Ilya Farber, was released Friday from the Tver correctional prison after serving three years of a 7-year sentence for accepting $13,000 in bribes. “The campaign to resolve the issue of [political] prisoners just got another devoted […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not known for being gentle with those who oppose him. Putin's current opponent, Islamist mass terrorist Doku Umarov, is similarly steadfast.
By JTA
A Russian court ordered the early release of a Jewish teacher whose bribery trial was marred by anti-Semitic statements and whose lengthy prison sentence was criticized by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Tver Regional Court last week reduced Ilya Farber’s sentence from seven years to three for accepting bribes and abusing his position while working […]
By JTA
Ben Bernanke, the outgoing Federal Reserve chairman, was No. 7 on the Forbes annual World’s Most Powerful People list topped by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The only other Jewish person to make the Top 20 on the list released Wednesday was Google co-founder Sergey Brin at No. 17. Putin displaced President Obama at No. 1; […]
"Syria is already in the grips of the civil war ... and Egypt is moving in the same direction," Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti on Sunday. Hours after he spoke, the Egyptian daily Al Ahram reported that a new compromise choice has been picked as Egypt’s next prime minister […]
By JTA
Russia is ready to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights, President Vladimir Putin said. Putin’s statement on Thursday, Reuters reported, was in reaction to an announcement by the Austrian government, which said it would recall its troops from a U.N. monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria. “Given the complicated situation in […]
News from Russia: Putin says he has not yet shipped any S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria. Even bigger news: Putin is telling the truth for once.
Bombing Syria’s chemical weapons would cause a humanitarian disaster. No one wants to hit Assad and end up with Al Qaeda. There’s no diplomatic way out without Russia, an expert tells the Jewish Press.
By JTA
London forensics experts found no traces of hazardous materials to explain the mysterious death of Boris Berezovsky, a 67-year-old Jewish oligarch and Kremlin critic. Russia's Channel One reported that his body was found on Saturday in the bathroom of his home in the London area, and that he had suffered a heart attack last week. […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Russian dignitaries joined Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar for a special tour of the Russian Jewish Museum of Tolerance, considered the largest Jewish museum in the world. Federation of Jewish Communities president Alexander Boroda also was present to escort Putin at the museum exhibits in the 90,000-square-foot former bus […]
Recent news of a massive natural gas well have turned eyes on Israel’s struggle to adopt an energy policy in the wake of its first-time gas wealth. Trying to measure the value of energy independence against short-term profits, Israel has shown that its unexpected blessing comes with a price.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about a recent trip to Netanya along with a new Jewish prize and Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to Israel.
July 10, 2026 
