On October 24, 2020, Amy Zewe was a guest on Aaron Fruh’s radio show Israel and You: Bringing the Jewish people and Israel into Focus. This aired on American Family Radio (AFR.net) and local stations nationwide. The goal of this discussion was to focus on the increase in antisemitism, particularly among young people aged 18-40,…
DetailsBy Hezki Baruch, Israel National News— MK Gideon Sa’ar of the Likud party visited the communities of Amichai and Shilo, in the Binyamin region, on Sunday. The focus of his visit was on ongoing attempts by the Palestinian Authority to seize control over open areas near Israeli settlements. Following his tour, Sa’ar told his hosts,…
DetailsBy Yochanan Visser, Israel Today— Yossi Cohen, the current director of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, has earned himself a reputation as an out-of-the-box thinker and a highly intelligent man who has restored the agency’s allure. The Mossad was responsible for the spectacular operation in Tehran in which much of Iran’s secret classified nuclear…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, Jpost—- The Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s decision to award the prize to the World Food Program this year assuaged the fears of elitists from New York to Paris and Berlin. The Abraham Accords, which include bilateral peace treaties between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and most recently Sudan, and Israel have fundamentally…
DetailsBy Erik Strandness, Patheos— Dave Rubin is one of the bright lights of the intellectual dark web. He occupies that unique niche inhabited by the likes of Jordan Peterson and Douglas Murray, where the sacred and secular rub shoulders. Tired of living in a contentious world of non-overlapping magisteria, these men seek a parley. They…
DetailsBy JNS News Service The Israeli Cabinet has approved the extension of the COVID-19 State of Emergency by 60 days, from Nov. 5 until Jan. 3, 2021. The measure was approved Thursday via conference call and will take effect upon approval by the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, according to a joint statement of…
DetailsBy Palestinian Media Watch— Today, on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the PA portrayed Arthur Balfour as a devil with horns, fangs, and large red ears. In 1917, Arthur Balfour, then British Foreign Secretary, wrote the letter stating that Britain was in favor of “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the…
DetailsIt is month old news but so much has been happening lately that I never mentioned the big new find that was announced last month by the Israel Antiquities Authority. On September 3rd, the IAA had a special reveal of three complete limestone proto-Aeloic capitals that date to the First Temple period. In case your…
DetailsBy Rivkah Lambert Adler, Israel 365— Along with the prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Zephaniah, Rabbi Amichai Cohen of Tzfat in the Galilee is a descendant of Aaron, the first High Priest of Israel. These male descendants are known as kohanim. I hereby take your fellow Leviim from among the Israelites; they are assigned to you…
DetailsBy Times of Israel— Hundreds of people protested at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Friday against French President Emmanuel Macron’s vow to protect the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad, with three arrested after scuffles with police. The protestors chanted, “with our souls and with our blood we sacrifice for our prophet, Muhammad,” and what Israel…
DetailsThe Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast (JPB) is a prayer movement initiated and chaired by Knesset Member Robert Ilatov, and co-chaired by U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Each year the JPB brings together government leaders and influential Christian leaders from all walks of society for a gathering in Israel’s capital city to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.…
DetailsBy Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel— Israel has begun mass-producing a potential coronavirus vaccine ahead of its human trials and plans to distribute it to both Israelis and Palestinians if it is approved for use, officials said Monday. The Defense Ministry on Sunday announced that the first human trials of its coronavirus vaccine will…
DetailsBy Alan M. Dershowitz, Gatestone Institute— Now that the Sudan has joined the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in normalizing relations with Israel, the future seems bright for even more Arab countries to make peace with their former enemy. The big prize, of course, would be Saudi Arabia, and already we are hearing rumors from…
DetailsBy Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post— The High Court of Justice on Tuesday heard arguments whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial on several corruption counts, could be forced to resign when he swaps roles with Blue and White’s Benny Gantz in November 2021 and takes up the position of alternate prime minister.…
DetailsBy Ruthie Blum, JPost— An overwhelming majority of Israeli parliamentarians, including those in the opposition, voted on Thursday to ratify the US-brokered Abraham Accords. With 80 members of 120-seat Knesset in favor of the treaty with the United Arab Emirates and 27 in absentia, the remaining 13 lawmakers were unable to block the historic peace…
DetailsBy Hannah Brown, JPost— The easing of coronavirus restrictions will be less than nine stages, but will proceed at a gradual pace, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the coronavirus cabinet meeting, adding that restrictions could be reimposed should the situation begin to worsen. “When we approach the , we must first…
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By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute—- Shortly after Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority in January 2005, Egypt’s then President Hosni Mubarak was asked what advice he would give Palestinian leaders. Mubarak, in an interview with the Al-Arabiya television network, replied: “There has to be a new thinking about the Palestinian issue.…
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