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‘No point in normalizing relations with Jews,‘ says Sudan cleric on TV

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During a Dec. 7 Friday sermon in Khartoum, which aired on Sudan TV, Sheikh Muhammad Tannoun talked about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and said that the Jews want to control the world...
Israeli troops operating in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Nov. 20, 2023. Credit: IDF.

Securing the Gaza humanitarian corridor

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It's noon. Salah ad-Din, the Gaza Strip's main road, is filled with thousands of residents moving south along the humanitarian corridor established by the Israel Defense Forces. The adults among them, men and women, raise their hands,...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with Austrian President Alexander Van at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on Feb. 5, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Two months before elections, Netanyahu hits back after rival Gantz takes off gloves

Israel Resilience Party leader Benny Gantz took off his proverbial gloves on Tuesday, inexplicably deciding to attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his military service, of all things. In a conference in which he...
View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building during a strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

GOP senators to Blinken: UNRWA has outlived its mandate

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Saying that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has outlived its mandate, a group of Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter last week to U.S....
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order on June 24, 2019, targeting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Credit: Screenshot.

Trump signs bill to help boost synagogues, other nonprofits against potential attacks

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U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill on Friday that allocates $375 million over five years to synagogues and other houses of worship, as well as additional other nonprofits, to help protect themselves against terror attacks. The...
The Supreme Court of the United States. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

SCOTUS to hear case that could affect issues directly relevant to American Jewry

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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to hear a case that could have ramifications for the American Jewish community. The highest court in the land agreed to hear arguments in Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning...
A Hamas terrorist releases Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 28, 2023. Credit: Flash90.

Israel signals readiness for another hostage exchange

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Israeli leaders have signaled their willingness to negotiate another hostage exchange with AFP reporting that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh will visit Egypt on Wednesday to hold talks. Hamas still holds 129 hostages. One hundred ten have been...
Israeli Border Police in Jerusalem's Old City, during the first Friday of Ramadan, April 8, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Jerusalem police on high alert ahead of Passover seder, second Friday of Ramadan

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The Israel Police have directed hotels across the country to ramp up security ahead of the Passover seder, which this year falls on the second Friday of Ramadan. Amid the tense security situation in...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the annual Cyber Week conference at Tel Aviv University, on July 21, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Iran ‘working systematically to build serious cyber-attack capabilities’

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Recent revelations about Iranian cyber-attack plots serve as the latest confirmation of how seriously Iran takes this arena, a leading Israeli cyber expert has said. On July 26, Sky News reported that classified documents from Iran “reveal...
A man-faced stink bug, or catacanthus incarnatus, also called a “Hitler bug.” Credit: Wikipedia.

Insect named for Hitler draws criticism from organizational, academic circles

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Connections between the Nazis and Volkswagen Beetles are well known. But an insect that looks like Adolf Hitler bearing his name? That’s like letting the bed bugs bite. An insect endemic to Southeast Asia and...