BY Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel-— The IDF Galilee Division on Thursday completed a series of large-scale exercises designed to prepare the military for a potential rapidly unfolding war in Lebanon, the army said amid rising tensions in recent weeks along Israel’s northern frontier. “Conscripted soldiers, along with reservists, took part in the exercise.…
By Eric Cortellessa, Times of Israel— The new US Embassy in Jerusalem will open in May 2018 to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Israel declaring independence, two Trump administration officials said Friday. At first, the embassy will operate out of the US’s current consular premises in Arnona, south Jerusalem. The officials said Congress was…
By Ilana Mercer, Constitution— The United Nations, naturally, disapproved. Pope Francis, more enigmatically, protested, too, when President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the eternal Capital of Israel. By 2019’s end, the Trump administration plans to open the American Embassy in Jerusalem. There’s a reason Muslims living in Israel proper—1.5 million of them—don’t migrate to the…
One of the many lies that anti-Israel activists try to spread is that Israel is an “apartheid state,” despite the fact that Israelis of all religious and ethnic backgrounds share equal rights and opportunity. As the facts on the ground in Israel attest, this accusation is completely fabricated and unfounded. Danny Ayalon, founder of the…
By Caroline Glick— Amid a media circus that never died down, in April 1997, Rubinstein delivered the media the bad news. Rubinstein closed the investigations against Netanyahu, Hanegbi and Liberman for lack of evidence of wrongdoing. He kept the probe against Deri open until 2003, when it too was closed. Despite the fact that the…
This week our Torah portion covers Exodus 27:20 to 30:10. The section is called Tetzaveh which means “you command,” the first distinctive phrase in the text. Tetzaveh introduces one of the most fundamental institutions in the Jewish religion: the priesthood. Originally, the first born of every Israelite family was dedicated to the priesthood. The priestly…
BY ANNA AHRONHEIM, JPost— The UN force in Lebanon has accused Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army of hampering their work, which includes spying on the peacekeepers, in a report due to appear on the website of French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, on Friday. The report quotes a chief warrant officer for the French contingent…
By Inna Rogatchi ©. February 2018. The eye-witness testimonies of atrocities has a sad and unfair destiny. The documents are so difficult to read and perceive that it is left largely to professionals, and sometimes it stays also within families. This kind of documents usually are not read by the wide public. But at some…
By American Thinker-— In 2018, Israel celebrates 70 years since its declaration of independence. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in the “Land of Israel” (Eretz-Israel), a day before the expiration of the British Mandate. In a way, Israel replicated what the…
BY Ynetnews— The exchange of threats between Israel and Iran continued on Monday in the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, with a senior Iranian official saying Tel Aviv would be “leveled to the ground in case of the slightest folly” by Israel. Netanyahu vowed in his speech Sunday…