Israeli minister Michael Oren tipped to become next Jewish Agency chairman
Michael Oren is tipped to replace Natan Sharansky as Jewish Agency chairman.
Mr Oren, a member of Israel’s centrist Kulanu party who is currently a deputy minister to Benjamin Netanyahu, has reportedly received backing from...
Germany averaged four anti-Semitic crimes per day in 2017, report says
Police logged over 1,400 crimes targeting Jews in Germany last year, according to a newspaper report. The vast majority of the crimes were carried out by right-wing extremists or people with far-right tendencies.
The rising...
White House: US supports Israel’s right to defend itself against Syrian, Iranian provocations
The White House Press Secretary issued a statement on Sunday declaring U.S. support for Israeli military reprisals against Syria, and calling on Iran to “cease provocative actions” against the Jewish state.
“Israel is a staunch...
Israeli F16 shot down by Syria in dramatic military escalation
An Israeli F-16 was shot down by Syrian anti-aircraft missiles and crashed in Israel’s Jezreel valley early Saturday morning, as Israel was responding to the infiltration of an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace.
The plane...
Gunfire from Syria targets Israeli drone, hits Druze house
Gunshots were fired from Syria at an Israeli drone Thursday night and missed their target, instead hitting a house in the town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
No injuries...
Trump: recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was pinnacle of my first year
Reflecting on his first year in office in an interview with the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom, President Donald Trump said that his official recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was the...
Poll: Israelis consider Trump policies pro-Israel, Obama policies pro-Palestinian
The poll published by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University on Wednesday reveals that most Israelis consider the Middle East policies of President Donald Trump to be pro-Israel, in sharp contrast to...
Trump thanks Guatemala’s Morales for Jerusalem embassy move
President Donald Trump thanked his Guatemalan counterpart, Jimmy Morales, for his announcement that he would move Guatemala’s embassy to Jerusalem.
“President Trump thanked President Morales for supporting the United States and Israel, and for his...
March of the Living will continue trips despite Polish bill denying complicity in Holocaust
The International March of the Living, an educational initiative that has brought more than 250,000 participants to visit concentration camps in Poland, has announced that it will continue its trip in 2018, despite the...
Former ambassadors Oren, Shapiro: Israel needs to win back democrats
Following a recent Pew Research Center poll that revealed only 27 percent of Democrats sympathize with Israel more than with the Palestinians, while 79 percent of Republicans side with Israel, ominous headlines flooded Israeli and American...