By Israel National News—- The mandate given by President Reuven Rivlin to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government following the elections to the 24th Knesset expired at midnight on Tuesday. Moments before the expiration of the mandate, the Likud released a statement indicating that the Prime Minister had returned the mandate to the…
By Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post— Some 2,000 years ago, an individual scribe wrote at least eight of the Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts, making him the most prolific scribe ever identified, a group of scholars have found out. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a corpus of some 25,000 fragments unearthed in caves on the shores of…
By Yair Altman, Israel Hayom— State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman announced Monday that he will launch a special review of the events leading to the April 30 disaster at Mount Meron. The tragedy saw 45 people killed and 150 wounded in a stampede that took place in a narrow passageway at the prayer compound, where over…
By Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel— The Israel Defense Forces declared itself coronavirus-free on Sunday as it recorded zero active cases of the disease among its ranks for the first time since the outbreak of the virus. The military reported its first coronavirus case on March 2, 2020, when a soldier who worked part-time…
By Eric Teitelman, House of David Ministries—- We read in Jeremiah: “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; He shall recompense her” (Jeremiah 51:6, NKJV). There are varying theological opinions about this verse.…
In February, I began to share some of Jim Hutchen’s commentary on the “One New Man,” a teaching that is especially important for us in these unprecedented times. You can see the other parts on our channel. But now I want to finish it up the One New Man teaching over the next two weeks.…
By Amy Zewe— What’s Your Perspective on History? Sometimes it seems like decades and centuries past by and are but footnotes or textbook chapters for us to know about and then move on with our everyday lives. But let us really look at history in some context. For example, Prince Philip recently passed at age…
By Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker— What if Iran doesn’t actually plan to use a nuclear weapon? What if Iran wants, as various of its officials have said over the years, to prevent being toppled the way Saddam Hussein was, or Moammar Gaddafi or Hosni Mubarak? To prevent a 20-year U.S.-led invasion like that of Afghanistan?…
By Seth Frantzman, JPost— An Iranian tanker was reportedly attacked off the Syrian coast on Saturday, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It was unclear what had happened, as Iran media was slow to report details. However, the Syrian state media did quote an oil ministry member as saying a fire took…
By Rob Charry, JTA, Jerusalem Post—- Is it possible to play Major League Baseball while being a Sabbath-observant Jew? It’s a question that could have an answer within the next few years if Elie Kligman, an 18-year-old from Las Vegas, has anything to say about it. Kligman is considered one of the top high school…