By Seth J. Frantzman, JPost— In power for ten years, the Israeli Prime Minister appeared to stumble on Wednesday when he drove the Knesset to dissolve itself and call new elections. Ostensibly this was because Netanyahu had failed to form a coalition government. But how could the master politician who has dominated Israeli politics for…
On October 8, 2018, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem unveiled a 2,000-year-old limestone column drum bearing the inscription: “Hanania son of Dudolos from Jerusalem.” The reason why the column drum made international headlines was not because Hanania is known from history or because Second Temple period finds are unusual. The inscription is the earliest full…
By Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— In his short announcement last night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged that Avigdor Liberman is ready to send Israelis back to the voting booth over semantics. Knowing that the new government depends on him, Liberman, with his five Knesset seats, is leveraging the situation for a senior cabinet posting and…
By JNS and Israel Hayom—- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas slammed the Trump administration’s peace efforts on Monday, saying the “The ‘deal of the century,’ or the deal of disgrace, will go to hell.” Speaking of the U.S.-sponsored conference in Bahrain scheduled for June 25-26, Abbas added that “the economic project they are working on…
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News—- The Israeli Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Bible last week in a case brought by the Palestinian Authority in which they tried to have archaeology in Judea and Samaria declared a crime. Undeterred, the PA turned to UNESCO to intervene while threatening archaeologists around the world…
By Martin Oliner, JPOST— Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl wrote in his utopian novel Old New Land that when it came to the establishment of a Jewish national home in the Land of Israel, “If you will it, it is no dream.” The book was published in 1902, 46 years before the founding of the State…
“It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.” — Herbert Hoover
Psalms 91 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
By Toby Axelrod, JTA— It is dangerous to identify publicly as Jewish in Germany, including wearing a kippah, Germany’s commissioner on anti-Semitism said. In a wide-ranging interview, Felix Klein told the Berliner Morgenpost on May 24 that he could not recommend that Jews wear a kippah everywhere and any time in Germany. He also said…