By Brian Schrauger, Israel Today— Foreign capital flow to Israeli assets hit a record high of $285.12 billion last year, nearly triple of what this figure was in 2005, Bloomberg News reported last week. And while the Israeli economy has been slowing as of late, it is still performing better than that of the United States…
DetailsBY OLIVIER MELNICK, New Antisemitism— There are several ways to look at Israel’s right to exist. Historically, Israel was reborn as a modern nation on May 14, 1948 when Ben Gurion declared statehood at Tel Aviv Independence Hall. This was the result of a November 1947 vote by the United Nations. But there is also…
DetailsBy: Sarah Stern, EMET— The Iranian nuclear deal is a paradigm study in the art of deception. If one looks into the history of U.S. foreign policy, one can find instances of deception, such as when the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson exaggerated our gains in the conflict in Vietnam and understated our losses.…
DetailsTorah: Number 1:1 – 4:20, “Bamidbar’ (In the desert … ) Haftorah: Hosea 2:1 – 23 New Testament: Acts 1:9 – 11 Gospel: Luke 24:50 – 52, “Uverchem” (He blessed them … )
Details“Therefore I will teach them– this time I will teach them my power and might. Then they will know that my name is the LORD.” (Jeremiah 16:21)
Only three weeks after the song was published, the Six-Day War broke out. The song was the battle cry and morale booster of the Israeli troops. Shemer even sang it for them before the war and festival, making them among the first in the world to hear it. On June 7th, 1967, the Israel Defense…
DetailsThink on this: “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.” (II Kings 21:7) Pray like this: Gracious Father, bring your people world-wide to affirm that Jerusalem and the Temple Mount belong to you and the Israelis you have appointed…
DetailsBy David Harris, Huffington Post— Mention history and it can trigger a roll of the eyes. Add the Middle East to the equation and folks might start running for the hills, unwilling to get caught up in the seemingly bottomless pit of details and disputes. But without an understanding of what happened in the past,…
DetailsBy Yoram Ettinger, Israel Hayom— Contrary to conventional “wisdom,” most Arabs in British Mandate Palestine — and most of the 320,000 1948 Arab refugees — were migrant workers and descendants of 1831-1947 Muslim immigrants from across the Arab world. At the time, Britain enticed Arab immigration and blocked Jewish immigration. Thus, between 1880 and 1919,…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 26:3 – 27:34, “Bechutai” (In my statutes … ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 16:19 -17:14 New Testament: James 5:14-16 Gospel: Matthew 21:23 – 32, “Al ha’micdash” (In the Temple … )
DetailsBy Shira Sorko-Ram, Maoz— There is a minority of Palestinian Christians who love Israel and believe what the Bible says about God’s purposes for His chosen people. These Christians risk their lives when they share this truth with the other 98% of Palestinians who are Muslims. Their belief that the Word of God foretold the rebirth of…
DetailsBy Ari Soffer, Israel National News— At the height of the UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism crisis in April, former British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks penned a blistering critique of anti-Zionism, which he branded “the new anti-Semitism.” In an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, Rabbi Sacks elaborated on why today’s anti-Israel movement is the…
DetailsBy Michael Laitman, JPOST— We did not need Bernie Sanders’ pick of BDS backer and Israel basher, Cornel West, to partake in writing the Democratic platform, to know how he feels about Israel. Back in May of 1985, when Sanders was still mayor of Burlington, VT, he invited fellow (Jewish) Israel critic, Noam Chomsky, to…
DetailsBy Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director ICZC— It has been said that it only takes one day to fly a Jewish person out of the diaspora but it will take many more than one day to fly the diaspora out of the Jews. This is especially true today when we see how Tel-Aviv, proudly in…
DetailsBy Globes— One-third of American students believes that a boycott of Israeli is justified and represents a legitimate means of bringing pressure to bear, according to a survey carried out in the US in advance of a United Nations conference tomorrow, Channel 2 News Online reports. Channel 2 originally reported that the survey covered the…
DetailsBy Jay Sekulow, Fox News— For decades, the State of Israel has been battling bullets and bombs. Now, a new weapon is being used against our most cherished ally – a weapon that poses grave danger. The rise of anti-Israel sentiments is apparent in this country and worldwide. A product of that hatred is the…
DetailsBy Marissa Newman, Times of Israel— “Our roots are deeper than any other nation’s, including to the Temple Mount. Jerusalem was ours and will remain ours,” he said, speaking in a special Knesset session marking Jerusalem Day. Israel doesn’t need to “make excuses for presence in Jerusalem,” he added, but he did not definitively rule…
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