By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute— A recent hunger strike by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) prisoners held by Israel caught the attention of many journalists and media outlets. Reports about the hunger strike appeared in newspapers around the world and were included in dispatches by major news agencies. The PIJ prisoners, who have been convicted…
By Caroline Glick, JPost— A report this week about the discussions Israel and the U.S. are now holding regarding the Iranian nuclear program was nothing short of an earthquake. Tuesday, Israel Hayom ran a red headline on its front page: “Frustration in Jerusalem: U.S. Passive Against Iran.” The story, by military correspondent Yoav Limor told…
By Diana Rocco, Eyewitness News A woman caught on camera lighting a Jewish school on fire was arrested and charged Sunday. Police say 39-year-old Brooklyn resident Sharee Jones was charged with reckless endangerment as a hate crime and arson. The incident happened on Thursday at 7:27 p.m. at the Yeshiva of Flatbush on Avenue J.…
By Joseph Guzman, The Hill—- A scuba diver exploring the waters off the Carmel coast of Israel recently discovered a sword that experts believe dates back to the time of the crusaders. Shlomi Katzin was scuba diving off the country’s Mediterranean Coast earlier this month when he came across a trove of artifacts that had…
By Israel National News— MKs from the Religious Zionism party toured the area of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon following the violent riots which occurred at the site yesterday. The party’s chairman, MK Bezalel Smotrich, said that “sovereignty in Jerusalem cannot be captured in the hands of Mansour Abbas. We came here because…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— Calling Israel “Palestine” is commonplace today. However, the history of that name goes back millennia. First coined by the ancient Greeks for the five-city area in the Philistine confederacy and then adopted by Roman emperor Hadrian, Palestine was more recently copied by former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat in…
By Lahav Harkov, JPost-— Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for an official visit to India. The message was relayed by India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who met with Bennett in Jerusalem on Wednesday. “In the name of the State of Israel, I want to tell you, we love India,”…
By Marie Fischer– Before the cease-fire, Hamas terrorists rained down over 3,000 rockets on Israel. Such hostility is nothing new, since Jewish-Muslim tensions trace back to the times of Avraham (Abraham), with respective Jewish and Muslim progenitors Isaac and Ishmael. But enemies of Israel are armed with new social justice weaponry to advance their cause…
By Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel— The newly installed head of Military Intelligence warned on Wednesday night that Iran was enriching more nuclear material more quickly than ever before and said that the Israel Defense Forces would “continue to constrain” it. Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, who entered his position earlier this week, said Tehran…
By Reuters— The United States is ready to consider all options if Iran were not willing to return to the constraints of the 2015 nuclear deal, US Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley said on Wednesday. “We will be prepared to adjust to a different reality in which we have to deal with all options…