By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— On Thursday morning, for the first time since the Temple stood in Jerusalem, a minyan (quorum) of ten Jews stood and prayed on the Temple Mount. Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount was legally mandated in a 2015 Jerusalem magistrate court decision but a clause in the ruling…
DetailsBy Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute—- Iran seems concerned that its Palestinian allies in the Gaza Strip may reach a long-term ceasefire with Israel. That is probably why Iran summoned leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to Tehran after reports in the Arab media suggested that the Egyptians have made significant progress in their efforts…
DetailsBy Mati Tuchfeld, Israel Hayom— The prolong electoral crisis is taking its toll on Israeli politics, as a recent poll shows that Likud and the right-wing bloc as a whole will face an uphill battle ahead of the March 2 elections. The 2020 election campaign was announced on midnight, Wednesday, as the 22nd Knesset dissolved…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPost-— The past week has clarified a lot of things about the state of the American Jewish community — and its antagonists. The two assailants who walked into the kosher supermarket in Jersey City Tuesday and opened fire intentionally targeted the Jews. They killers belonged to the black supremacist, virulently anti-Semitic “Black…
DetailsBy BBC— A Jewish supermarket in New Jersey was the target of a gun attack which left six people dead including two suspected assailants, say officials. No motive has been confirmed, but the mayor of Jersey City tweeted that “hate and anti-Semitism” had no place in the city. The suspects are believed to have…
DetailsBy Caleb Parke, Fox News—- President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that would cut federal funding to colleges and universities that don’t curb anti-Semitism against Jewish students. Trump’s new order is set to hit the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement head-on. It invoked Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to…
DetailsBy Lahav Harkov, JPost— The Knesset missed its deadline to nominate a candidate for prime minister, officially launching a third election in less than a year overnight Wednesday. Debate in the Knesset continued on a bill that would have the election be held on March 2 instead of the automatic date, March 10, which is…
DetailsBy Ron Jager— Meeting and engaging American Jews from both sides of the political aisle has left me increasingly bewildered. Despite the Congressional impeachment inquiry lead by Democratic Jewish Congressional leaders, or the high profile given to American Jews in the anti-Trump campaign with two prominent Jews running for the Democratic presidential nomination; Bernie Sanders,…
DetailsBy Yoni Hersch and Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom— US President Donald Trump said Saturday that Israel has never had a better friend in the White House than him because, unlike his predecessors, “I kept my promises.” Trump energized a large audience at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Florida by recounting his record on…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPost— In recent remarks before a Knesset meeting marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of Israel’s peace treaty with Jordan, Netanyahu explained that the basis of Israel’s peaceful relations with Egypt and Jordan is not emotional. The Egyptians and Jordanians haven’t embraced Israel as a neighbor and friend. Rather, Israel’s peace…
DetailsBy Jonathan S. Tobin, Israel Hayom— The news out of Iran should shock the conscience of the world. As The New York Times reported in a front-page article published on Monday, when Iranians tried to protest their government’s arbitrary decision to drastically raise gasoline prices, the regime responded with unprecedented force. Throughout the country, security…
DetailsBy Israel Today— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed in a frantic attempt on Sunday morning to quickly garner the 61 signatures of Knesset members needed to compel President Reuven Rivlin to give him a second chance (third, if you count this year’s earlier election in April) to form the next government. Both Netanyahu and his…
DetailsBy Alex Traiman, Israel Hayom— While Israel’s government remains in a period of unprecedented paralysis, embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains entrenched in his position, despite being handed a series of criminal indictments that have been followed by calls from political opponents as well as longtime supporters for him to step aside and allow someone…
DetailsBy Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post— Israel is working to stop Iranian belligerence throughout the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday in Lisbon, at the start of his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Lisbon. Netanyahu made the statement hours after Arab news outlets reported an explosion in an Iranian Revolutionary…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels—- The “warmth factor” reflects an all-time high between Israel and the evangelical Christian community. Abundant evidence not only shows in 2018 Christian tourism- its highest at 2.5 million-but also in full display at the third Christian Media Summit. (CMS) Sponsored by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) PM Bibi Netanyahu, President…
DetailsBy Victor Sharpe— Liberals, leftists, socialists and secular folks may not like being told this, but the following are truths that cannot shrivel away. So when did it become an accepted truism that a delusional peace between Israel and the predominately Muslim Arabs, those who call themselves Palestinians, require that Israel give to them it’s…
DetailsBy Gill Hoffman, JPost— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz heard many compromise proposals on Tuesday but none of them brought Israel closer to preventing its third election in under a year, sources close to the two men said. One proposal floated would have allowed Netanyahu to remain prime…
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