By Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel— The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday launched an operation to destroy a number of cross-border attack tunnels that it says were dug by the Iran-backed Hezbollah group into northern Israel from Lebanon. Announcing the launch of Operation Northern Shield, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said “a number…
By Chris Mitchell, Breaking Christian News— Political opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are calling for him to resign after Israel Police recommended his indictment on charges of bribery and breach of trust. Netanyahu denies the allegations, and some believe the entire investigation adds up to a political coup by legal means. MK Tamar Zandberg,…
By Israel Hayom— A heartwarming meeting took place at the annual conference of the Israeli American Council in Florida on Friday, when twice bereaved Israeli mother and Israel Prize laureate Miriam Peretz embraced U.S. Vice President Mike Pence after his speech at the event. “U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech about love and…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— We are all are having our favourite and most favourite holidays in our annual circle of life. I am not sure if preferences are changed during one’s life. I doubt it. To me, these preferences are the marks of one’s character, poignant and tangible ones however subtle it might…
“Twenty-two centuries ago, when Israel was under the rule of the empire of Alexander the Great, one particular leader, Antiochus IV, decided to force the pace of Hellenisation, forbidding Jews to practice their religion and setting up in the Temple in Jerusalem a statue of Zeus Olympus. This was too much to bear, and a…
By JNS— Hussam Ayloush, a senior Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) official, in a tweet on Sunday called for the Jewish state to be “terminated.” “Iran’s regime calling Israel a ‘cancerous tumor’ is like the pot calling the kettle black. All the people of that region will be better off once both murderous regimes are…
By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, JNS— Palestinian children are still being taught that “Palestine” includes all of Israel. Decades after the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority and Fatah still don’t recognize Israel’s existence. The photo above is a prime example of this. The Palestinian Authority Presidential Guards posted this image of a young…