By Michael Bachner, Times of Israel— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to respond “with great force” to a barrage of at least 28 mortar shells fired in the morning at communities in southern Israel, one of which landed just outside a kindergarten less than an hour before children were due to arrive. “Israel views…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPost— On Monday, NATO ally Turkey withdrew its ambassador from Washington. The severe step is meant to punish the U.S. for opening an embassy in Jerusalem on Monday. Also Monday, Turkey expelled Israel’s ambassador to Turkey. It had already withdrawn its ambassador from Tel Aviv. In a speech at Chatham House on…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPost— Monday’s ceremony marking the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Israel, had a clear message: It is time to embrace truth. Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, put it plainly when he said, “In December last year, President Donald Trump announced to the world that the U.S.…
DetailsBy The Media Line— In an interview with the Reuters news agency on Wednesday, Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said that control of the area for the past 51-years is now top priority in diplomatic talks with the United States. “I believe there is great ripeness and a high probability this will happen,” Katz said, predicting…
DetailsBy Gerald McDermott, JPost— In 2009 my photographer son and I walked across the Galilee, staying with Jews some nights and Arabs other nights. We were doing a photo essay for Christianity Today on what residents of the land of Jesus think about him today. More than a few times Arab Christians pulled us aside,…
DetailsThink of this: “I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made of everyone — for kings and all those in in authority, that we might live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.” (I Timothy 2:1-2) Pray like this: Father Yahweh richly bless Israel’s new Jewish- Christian…
DetailsBy David Lazarus, Israel Today— The following first appeared in the April 2018 issue of Israel Today Magazine. Dr. Michael Brown will tomorrow participate in the 5th biannual Christ at the Checkpoint conference, so we have decided to republish the interview here in full. Dr. Michael Brown is a radio host, author, professor and a…
DetailsBy Omri Ariel, Jerusalem Online— Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday he is “certain” that the terrorist organization would defeat Israel in the next war. In a televised speech aired as part of Lebanon’s commemoration of 18 years since the Israeli withdrawal from its territory, Nasrallah said Hezbollah does not seek a military conflict…
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DetailsBy Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, YNetnews.com The US Embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and the White House’s official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is an impressive diplomatic achievement of the Netanyahu government, and influential Jewish groups likely contributed to the move too. But there is another group whose contribution to this move should…
DetailsBy YNETNEWS-— Israel will be harming itself if it chooses to recognize the Armenian Genocide, Turkey warned on Friday in the latest verbal sparring match that has bedevilled the two countries’ relations in recent weeks. The warning comes two days after Knesset Speaker Yoel (Yuli) Edelstein said Wednesday that “Israel must recognize the Armenian Genocide,”…
DetailsBy Asaf Romirowsky, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies— In Mandatory Palestine, Jews began to accumulate power – economic, political, and military – which caused other Jews to immediately question the enterprise itself. Old anti-Semitic tropes came to the fore, like the notion that a Jewish state would be based on “exploitation” or even Zionist “world…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 4:21 – 7:89, “Nasso” (Take a census … ) Haftorah; Judges 13:2 – 25 New Testament: Acts 21:17 – 26 Gospel: John 17:20 – 26, “Hodati shecha” (I have declared your name …)
DetailsThis week’s Torah portion covers Numbers 4:21 to 7:89. The text is made up of seemingly unrelated passages that are out of any chronological order. The reading begins with a continuation of the census in the camp. Over 8,000 Levites are counted responsible for transporting the Tabernacle. Details are given for exactly which pieces go to which…
DetailsBy Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard— As Israel celebrated the 70th anniversary of its independence and the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Palestinians last week commemorated their 70th “Nakba Day.” The Nakba, or catastrophe, in question is meant to be the founding of the state of Israel, but this year Palestinians had a real…
DetailsBy Michael Sax, Israel Unwired— When a person says something so true and so embarrassing to the media that they pretend it didn’t happen, you know it’s priceless. This message from Stanley Goldfoot is a prime example of exactly that. Stanley Goldfoot was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. When he was 18 years old, he…
DetailsA preacher on official Palestinian Authority TV threatened that the Palestinians or Muslims in general will “soon” conquer Jerusalem “by force,” unless it is handed over “peacefully”:
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Avi Lipkin, a well-known lecturer who has spoken in over 1,000 churches, announced that he has formed the first joint Jewish-Christian party and intends to lead it in the next Knesset elections. A closer look at his motives reveals that this may be the wave of the future.…
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