By Stephen Weizman, Breaking Christian News— Excavations in Israel’s Galilee have uncovered remains of an ancient church said to mark the home of the apostles Peter and Andrew, the dig’s archaeological director said Friday. Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret Academic College, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, said this season’s dig…
By Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler, Breaking Israel News— Boris Johnson, the newly-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, isn’t Jewish. But his Jewish ancestry and personal experiences volunteering on an Israeli kibbutz as a young man positively impact his feelings about the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. It’s all in the name Johnson’s…
By Israel Today— There is an ongoing debate among Messianic Jews in Israel as to whether or not the rabbis and their rulings should have any authority over the lives of Jews who believe in Jesus. A well-known local Jewish believer from an influential Israeli ministry rejects the idea that the rabbis still have authority…
By JNS— The Palestinian aspiration to a have a capital in Jerusalem is “not a right,” and “international consensus is not international law” when it comes to creating a Palestinian state, said U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt on Tuesday. “It is true that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority continue to assert that east…
By Associated Press and Israel Hayom— Jordan’s king is standing by a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ahead of a meeting in Amman with White House’s Middle East adviser Jared Kushner. King Abdullah II met on Wednesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and restated his position that the creation of a Palestinian state…
by Benjamin Kerstein, Algemeiner— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked the US House of Representatives for passing on Tuesday a bill rejecting boycotts of Israel. House Resolution 246, which “opposes the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS Movement) targeting Israel, including efforts to target United States companies that are engaged in commercial activities…