By Tovah Lazaroff, JPost— Israel is pushing to sway the 21 nations on UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee to reject a resolution disavowing Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, when the committee meets in Krakow, Poland, July 2-12. The diplomatic battle comes at the same time Israel is dealing with the American Jewish community over the centrality of…
DetailsBy Debkafile— In the last 48 hours, Israel has conducted air strikes on and aimed tank fire at Syrian army positions near Quneitra’s northern suburb of Baath city, 3km from IDF Golan border defenses. (See map). Those positions were the source of the mortar shells that exploded on the Israeli Golan – 10 on Saturday,…
DetailsBy JNI MEDIA— The meetings last Wednesday and Thursday, between resident Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner and US special envoy to the peace process Jason Greenblatt with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, were described as “disheartening” by PA officials who spoke to Al-Hayat. According to the PA officials, the…
DetailsBy Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, Israel Hayom— Can Israel afford to defy US presidential pressure to concede land, which is historically and militarily critical to the future of the Jewish State? US presidential pressure has been an integral part of the US-Israel saga since 1948. However, in retrospect, US pressure on Israel has been based…
DetailsThink on this: “The law will go forth from Zion and the Word of God from Jerusalem.” (Isaiah 2:3) Pray like this: Father, be pleased to fast forward the events that must transpire before the Messiah comes. Cause all other man-made attempts at bringing peace to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to fail and to allow Jesus…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPOST— Earlier this month Norway, Denmark and Switzerland did something surprising. Norway announced that it was demanding the return of its money from the Palestinian Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Secretariat, for the latter’s funding of a Palestinian women’s group that built a youth center near Nablus named for PLO mass murderer…
DetailsBy Lev DODIN and his theatre. Fear, Love, Despair at the stage of the MDT-Theatre of Europe By Dr Inna Rogatchi (C) Lev Dodin is indisputably the best theatrical director in Russia, and the one of the very best ones in the world. He is a rare director who does not know how to do…
DetailsBy Judith Bergman, WorldIsraelNews— Academic and media professionals, journalists and diplomats, governmental, non-governmental and international organizations have been rewriting the history of Israel – both ancient and modern – for decades, portraying Israel as an abhorrent state, guilty of the lowest forms of crimes. The concerted and massive effort to denigrate a modern state –…
DetailsBY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN, Times of Israel— More than a decade ago, a diverse focus group of Americans was asked to describe a typical Italian house. Words like “lush, food, cooking, maternal, welcoming” quickly rolled of the tongue. The same group was asked about an Israeli home and a very different vibe was described: “concrete, strict,…
DetailsBy Elad Benari, Arutz 7— Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the UN, on Tuesday urged the global body to take action against the Hamas terrorist organization as well as countries that support it. “A few weeks ago, UN officials discovered a tunnel underneath two schools run by the UN in Gaza. It was…
DetailsBy Algemeiner— Jason Greenblatt — US President Donald Trump’s international negotiations representative — met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday, but remained tight-lipped as to the substance of their discussions. Greenblatt said on Twitter that he “appreciated” the sit-down with Netanyahu and his staff in advance of further talks when Jared…
DetailsBy Adam Abrams/JNS.org The strategic importance of Christian Zionism was featured this week at the 2017 Herzliya Conference, one of Israel’s most prominent annual policy summits. Organizers describe the conference, which is hosted by the Institute for Policy and Strategy at the IDC Herzliya research college, as a platform that “facilitates and encourages an informed…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 16:1 – 18:32, “Korach” (Korah … ) Hafforah: Isaiah 66:1 – 24 New Testament: Romans 13:1 – 7 Gospel: Matthew 23:1 – 12, “Kiseh Moshe” (The seat of Moses … )
DetailsBy Bassam Tawil, Gatestone— For many Palestinians, the stabbing murder of a 23-year-old Israeli Border Police officer in Jerusalem on June 16 is an act of “heroism” that proves that the “revolution against the Zionist entity will continue until the liberation of Palestine, from the (Mediterranean) sea to the (Jordan) river.” For many Palestinians, the…
DetailsBY RAOUL WOOTLIFF, Times of Israel— Education Minister Naftali Bennett formally proposed legislation Sunday that would require a special two-thirds Knesset majority on any decision to divide Jerusalem under a future peace deal with the Palestinians, saying that the bill would effectively make such a move “impossible.” Bennett, who leads the pro-settlement Jewish Home party,…
DetailsBY RAPHAEL AHREN, Times of Israel— Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner is to travel to the Middle East this week to meet with Israeli and Palestinian officials in an effort to advance peace efforts pursued by his father-in-law US President Donald Trump. Kushner will travel along with special envoy Jason Greenblatt to meet with…
DetailsBy Earl Cox, Israel Always— Autism spectrum is a developmental disorder with a range or “spectrum” of differing skill and disability levels. Affected people have social problems—difficulty communicating and interacting with others, and controlling their emotions. Autism has carried a stigma in Israel where, until 2014, schools often expelled students for misbehavior due to a…
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