Postcard written by David Ben-Gurion declares: ‘The State of Israel has been born!’

By JNS and Israel Hayom— A postcard written and signed by Israel’s founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion,just one day after he officially declared the State of Israel’s independence, was recently discovered. The postcard, dated on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Iyar in the Jewish year 5748 (May 15, 1948), was…

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Enews: Rocket Weekend

This past Saturday, around nine in the morning in Israel, Hamas and Islamic Jihad initiated a new round of rocket attacks against Israel. In the course of two days, they indiscriminately launched 690 rockets. Air-raid sirens and phone alerts took over as Israel’s national soundtrack. Tens of thousands of southern Israelis in harm’s way spent…

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Israeli Rabbis Call for MKs Who Supported Gaza Disengagement to Admit Mistake

By Breaking Israel News— The leaders of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace stated this week that “a situation in which millions of Jews are being held hostage by terrorists is unacceptable.” The RCP is an organization of over 400 rabbis founded in 1993 by many of the most prominent rabbis in Israel. While government officials…

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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about this one day

By Jonathan Tobin, Jewish News Syndicate— Much of the discussion about Israel and the Palestinians revolves around one question: Why does the conflict continue? Most of those who offer answers, especially veteran Middle East “experts” who have been advocating for and helping to promote the peace process for decades, spin a complicated tale in which…

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The Middle East Anti-Peace Movement

By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute— Ibrahim al-Karaki, the mayor of the Jordanian city of Al-Karak, 87 miles to south of Amman, with a view to the Dead Sea, is under attack for hosting Israeli (Jewish) tourists during the Jewish Passover holiday. His critics have accused him of promoting normalization with the “Israeli enemy” and…

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Senators Introduce Resolution Condemning Antisemitism

By Rom Kampeas, Forward—- A bipartisan slate of 44 U.S. senators, almost half the body, sponsored a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, the latest congressional bid to address an issue that has roiled American politics. The resolution introduced Thursday, which was observed as Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Tim Kaine, D-Va., lists…

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Israel honors those who fell in battle and at the hands of terrorists

By Israel Hayom— Israelis came to a complete standstill on Wednesday morning to observe two minutes of silence in honor of 23,646 fallen soldiers and 3,134 terror victims. Sirens blared across the country at 11 a.m., bringing traffic on roads and highways throughout Israel to a halt as pedestrians stopped in place to bow their…

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Report: Israel provided tip about possible Iranian attack on US interests in Gulf

By Jewish News Syndicate— Israel tipped the United States about a possible Iranian plan to “attack U.S. interests in the Gulf” prior to U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton warning Iran on Sunday night with “unrelenting force,” reported Israel’s Channel 13, citing senior Israeli officials. “The officials said intelligence gathered by Israel, primarily by the…

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Peace, Peace, but there is no Peace!

By Victor Sharpe— The Jewish prophet Jeremiah said those words millennia ago and it is telling when applied to peace between Israel and the Arab aggressors, yet still the hope for a true and lasting peace is resurrected again and again. But is it a case of “blessed are the peacemakers” or just another attempt…

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Trump, Pence Voice Support for Israel Amid Gaza Rocket Attacks

BY Omri Nahmias, JPost— President Trump addressed Sunday the continuing rocket attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad against Israel, and tweeted words of support for the Jewish state. “Once again, Israel faces a barrage of deadly rocket attacks by terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” the president tweeted. “We support Israel 100% in its defense…

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How the Media is Fueling Antisemitism

By Yochanan Visser, Israel Today— Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning 10 AM in commemoration of the Holocaust during World War II. The annual memorial of six million Jews who were brutally murdered by the Nazis came after a shocking anti-Semitic event involving the world’s largest newspaper The New York Times. The paper…

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