Iran has enriched uranium to 60%, parliament speaker reports

By News Agencies and Damian Pachter, Israel Hayom— Iran began enriching uranium up to 60% purity Friday, its highest level ever, after an attack targeted its Natanz nuclear site, Parliament Speaker Mohamed Bagher Qalibaf told state TV. The comment by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, quoted by state television, did not elaborate on the amount Iran planned…

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Enews: How Studying in Israel Changed All of Us!

Over the last seventy years, Christian Zionists have given generously, in the hundreds of millions, to support Aliyah, aid victims of terror, and care for Israel’s poor. Jerusalem Connection has been deeply involved in all of these needs and remains involved. Scholarships for American students to study in Israel is a new venture for us…

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The Flag of Israel: 7 Facts

By Dr. Yvette Alt Miller, Aish— Israel’s beautiful flag seems so familiar, yet when it was adopted one fine October day a generation ago, it was only after months of intense debate. Here’s the story behind Israel’s national flag – and some facts about the hopes and hatreds that Israel’s flag has stirred through the…

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Red Alert: What about Life in Israel?

By Amy Zewe Just a few bits of ministry updates from our end. Spring is in the air, we just celebrated Easter and Passover. The world is slowly opening back up with COVID mortality and hospitalization rates going down and vaccination rates going up. All good news! And as life is reborn this spring, we…

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A Closer Look at Israel’s New High-Tech Barrier

By Jacob Nagel and Jonathan Schanzer, Gatestone Institute—- Israel reported significant progress last month on an underground fence around the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Officials say Israel is close to completing the underground component and can see the finish line with the above-ground elements (roughly 80% complete). Once fully assembled, the three-layered barrier may be the…

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Netanyahu, Bennett meet: ‘Now is the time for national responsibility’

By Israel National News—- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Thursday night with Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett to discuss efforts to form a right-wing coalition. Before entering the meeting, Bennett said that “since the election, countless Israelis have appealed to me, really begging me, to get the State of Israel out of this ongoing chaos. I…

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Two Alexes, a family reminiscence

By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— The story of two Alexes appeared to me from old photographs, new documents, all kinds of papers, maps, clips, and fact leads of my ongoing art historical research with regard to the art looted by the Nazis during World War II, and on my family history as well. This…

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The problem with Holocaust education

By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe— LAST SEPTEMBER, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany — an international organization that provides financial support and social services to survivors of the Nazi genocide — reported on a study of basic Holocaust knowledge among Americans younger than 40. The study comprised interviews with 11,000 millennial and Generation…

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Red Alert: What is the latest campus craziness?

What is the latest campus craziness? And why do we care? We care because university professors are teaching our young adults how to critically think (or at least they are supposed to) and university professors are very influential on students and can, either on purpose or inadvertently, skew and frame students’ perspectives and knowledge on…

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NYT: Israel informed U.S. it struck Iranian vessel

By Daniel Salami,Yoav Zitun, AP, Ynetnews— The New York Times reported Wednesday that Israel informed the United States it had struck an Iranian vessel off the coast of Eritrea in the Red Sea on Tuesday. An unnamed U.S. official told the newspaper that “the Israelis had called the attack a retaliation for earlier Iranian strikes…

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Talking Won’t Solve the Iran Problem

By Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker— The Biden administration has made clear its intention to talk with Iran. Since every negotiation has to have an endgame, consider both parties to the proposed conversation and what they intend to get. Before the election, Biden told a journalist he wants to “build on” the JCPOA with a new…

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US: “It’s our longstanding position that the West Bank is occupied”

By Tovah Lazaroff, Jpost— The Biden administration on Wednesday clarified that it considers the West Bank to be occupied territory, but ducked a question as to whether it held that settlements were illegal. “It is a historical fact that Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after the 1967 War,” US State…

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Enews: Studying in Israel during the Second Intifada

By Shelley Neese— On June 10, 2000, I married my college sweetheart. We met when we were both working as youth ministers at a chapel right next to Louisiana State University. Three weeks after our nuptials, we moved to Beer Sheva, Israel. I still had two semesters left of college to finish my undergraduate degree,…

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Red Alert: Can a Jewish Student Support Israel?

By Amy Zewe— Jewish students face widespread hostility—as told by Isaac De Castro,  a Cornell student, who published in NEW YORK DAILY NEWS on MAR 29, 2021 I wanted to bring this article to your attention because it is vital that we all understand that bigotry and hatred have many forms, and some longstanding types are…

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