WJC joins Macedonia Jewish community in marking 75th anniversary of Nazi deportation
The official commemoration ceremony in Skopje, Macedonia was held in the presence of the Macedonian and Bulgarian prime ministers, and followed three days of separate events marking the March 10, 1943 rescue of 48,000 Jews in...
Trump cites Iran-deal wrangles in Tillerson firing, Iran hawk Pompeo in at State
President Donald Trump fired U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday, while announcing that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would replace Tillerson at the State Department.
“Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our...
Israeli food for thought: 33 percent of its eats goes to waste
A new report presents, for the first time in Israel, a detailed model for the estimation of food loss in the retail and distribution sectors: in retail chains, open markets, local grocery stores and small...
Palestinian Authority PM escapes assassination attempt in Gaza
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on a rare visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
Hamadallah’s convoy was struck by an explosion shortly after he entered Gaza through the...
Oskar Groening, 96-Year-old ‘Bookkeeper Of Auschwitz,’ dies before starting jail sentence
The man known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", who in 2015 became one of the last people to be convicted for crimes in the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews during World War II, has...
Paraguay and Honduras ready ‘in principle’ to move embassies to Jerusalem
Following on the heels of the United States and Guatemala, Paraguay and Honduras have announced that they are ready “in principle” to relocate their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to Israel’s Army...
Hamas TV posts anti-Facebook video on Twitter, Telegram for ‘violations against Palestinian content’
In the framework of its campaign against Facebook, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV published a promo on Twitter and Telegram to protest what it said were the social-media networking company’s “violations against Palestinian content,” including the...
Azerbaijan has ‘pioneered’ Israeli ties with Muslim world, says ambassador
Ambassador Elin Suleymanov has been Azerbaijan’s top envoy to the United States since 2011, having previously served as consul general of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles from 2005.
Stationed in the United States for years now,...
Rabbi dismissed from IDF course for opposing growing military roles for women
The military dismissed a prominent rabbi from his position in the reserves on Sunday after he said the Israel Defense Forces was “destroying families” by encouraging women to enlist.
Under Israeli law, all men and...
Jewish groups call out Putin for hinting Jews, not Russia, meddled in U.S. elections
In an interview with NBC on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the Kremlin did not influence the 2016 U.S presidential elections, but that perhaps “Jews, but with Russian citizenship,” did.
Asked about allegations...