By Shelley Neese— After four elections in two years, it appears that Israel has a new government in place. I know for many Americans with a two-party political system, the Israeli parliamentary form of government is confusing and seems unstable. You are right. It is confusing and the last two years have shown how unstable…
DetailsBy Khaled Abu Toameh, JPost— Scenes of dozens of Egyptian bulldozers, cranes and trucks entering the Gaza Strip last Friday have left some Palestinians wondering whether Egypt is planning to return to the coastal enclave it ruled between 1948 and 1967. The Egyptian decision to send building equipment and engineers to the Gaza Strip came…
DetailsBy Rossella Tercatin, JPost— Some 2,000 years ago, Jews used formal beautifully written biblical manuscripts for public reading, but also informal and sloppily written biblical texts for personal use, new research on the Dead Sea Scrolls has shown. In addition, some of the scrolls might be more ancient than previously thought, suggesting that the current…
DetailsBy Michael Bachner, Times of Israel— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to end his 12 consecutive years in power in five days, as Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin announced Tuesday that a vote would be held on swearing in the new “change government” during a special parliamentary session on Sunday, a day before the deadline…
DetailsBy Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom—- The Jewish march of the living in Jerusalem needs to be written in deeds. There will be ample room for flags, important in and of themselves, afterward. Many years ago, Theodore Herzl noted that “If we desire to lead many men, we must raise a symbol above their heads.” The…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels, All Israel News— I am writing today with some trepidation. When I express my opinions, I try to do so honestly yet diplomatically without name-calling or negative adjectives. However, I am now compelled as a respectful supporter of Israel to add my perspective on Mike Evans comments this past week. Evans…
DetailsBy Amy Zewe— Over the last three weeks we had discussions with two experts on the issue of growing antisemitism in the US (and worldwide) while the ongoing hostilities occurred with over 4000 rockets being shot from Gaza towards civilian populations in Israel. And, Israel retaliated with 1500 surgical strikes against military targets complete with…
DetailsAmy Zewe interviews special Guest Chris Gacek, co-author of the recently published FRC (Family Research Council) paper titled “The Resurgence of History’s Oldest Hatred.” Download the PDF of this timely report!
DetailsBy Lela Gilbert, FRC Blog—- On May 20, a news alert on my computer tersely announced that Israel was launching retaliatory strikes into the Gaza Strip. And, as always, this was in response to volleys of rockets launched by Hamas from Gaza into southern Israel. In fact, since some 50 rockets had struck Israel just since April,…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBNIsrael— When United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Israel, and the United States signed the Abraham Accords on the White House lawn on August 13, 2020, it signaled a historic, miraculous opening of cooperation and benefits to each nation. Morocco and Sudan then joined the Accords, and the cooperative efforts have proven…
DetailsBy Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s May 25 announcement that the Biden administration will ask Congress to allocate $75 million in aid to the Palestinians and that Washington will reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem — which previously had served as a de facto embassy handling US relations with the…
DetailsBy Benjamin Kerstein, Algemeiner— Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz will make a snap visit to the US on Thursday for talks with the White House, the ministry said. Gantz is expected to meet with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to discuss the Iran nuclear issue. Also on…
DetailsBy Eric Teitelman, House of David Ministries—- The Apostle Paul told the church, “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and…
DetailsAmy Zewe interviews special Guest Chris Gacek, co-author of the recently published FRC (Family Research Council) paper titled “The Resurgence of History’s Oldest Hatred.” Download the PDF of this timely report! Tune in next week for the second part of this critical interview!
DetailsBy Asaf Romirowsky, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies— Walter Eytan, Israel’s first director-general of the Foreign Ministry, made the observation that “The refugees were a gift to Arab propaganda, which succeeded, by perverting the facts, in turning them into the gravest political liability with which Israel has had to contend in the first decade of…
DetailsBy Asaf Romirowsky, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies— Walter Eytan, Israel’s first director-general of the Foreign Ministry, made the observation that “The refugees were a gift to Arab propaganda, which succeeded, by perverting the facts, in turning them into the gravest political liability with which Israel has had to contend in the first decade of…
DetailsBy Ilan Berman, Al-Hurra Digital— Predictably, the latest violence in the Middle East has spawned a slew of theories about the reasons for renewed hostilities between Israel and Gaza. Conventional wisdom has settled on the notion that the conflict was driven by fresh Israeli-Palestinian frictions over things like denial of access to parts of Jerusalem,…
DetailsBy Yoni Kempinski, Israel National News— In advance of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the region, a senior State Department official says that the Biden administration is “relieved” that the violence has ended. He told reporters that they worked behind the scenes to establish the ceasefire. “We appreciate the roles of Egypt,…
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