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Supporters of the Parents Circle-Families Forum rally outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, July 30, 2013. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Education Ministry bans Israeli-Palestinian NGO from schools

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Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch has recently moved to ban an Israeli-Palestinian NGO accused of whitewashing terrorism from conducting programs in public schools. Under the new regulations, the Parents Circle-Families Forum (PCFF) is also barred from receiving...
A traveler holding a biometric passport is seen at passport control in the departure hall at Ben-Gurion Airport, May 20, 2015. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

US monitors Israeli border crossing pilot for Palestinian Americans

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A U.S. delegation was in Israel this week to observe border crossing conditions for Palestinian Americans. The inspections are part of an Israeli bid to join the U.S. Visa Waiver Program and are taking place during a...
Bernard Mensah, president for international affairs at Bank of America. Credit: Bank of America.

Bank of America executive bullish on Israel’s economy

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Bernard Mensah, president of international affairs at Bank of America, remains positive about Israel's economic outlook despite recent warnings by credit-rating agencies concerning possible negative fallout from the government's push for judicial reform. Mensah, who...
Jerusalem Venture Partners and Margalit Startup City host an innovation summit in Jerusalem celebrating tech ties and cultural collaboration between Israel and Morocco, August 2023. Photo by Ricky Rachman.

Jerusalem summit promotes Israel-Morocco tech, cultural ties

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Jerusalem Venture Partners and Margalit Startup City hosted an innovation summit this week in Jerusalem celebrating tech ties and cultural collaboration between Israel and Morocco. The event served as a platform to foster cross-cultural...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog looks across the border into Lebanon, August 2, 2023. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

At Lebanese border, Herzog warns Hezbollah not to test IDF

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Israel's President Isaac Herzog visited a military post on the Lebanon border on Wednesday, delivering a stern message to Hezbollah amid increased provocations by the Iran-backed terror group. "Let no one among our enemies be...
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (second from left) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant near the border with Lebanon, March 16, 2023. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

The dilemma of a preventive Israeli strike on Hezbollah

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Hezbollah’s provocations on the Lebanese–Israeli border continue, while deeper within Lebanon, the Iranian-backed terror army continues to amass a monstrous arsenal of some 200,000 rockets, mortar shells, missiles and drones. Hundreds of these threats are capable...
A satellite view of Alderney, the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA via Wikimedia Commons.

UK government reviewing number of deaths at Nazi camps on British soil

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The British government announced a landmark review last week into Nazi camp deaths on the island of Alderney, which the Germans occupied between 1940 and 1945. Officially, 389 marked graves have been found, but some estimates...
Pennsylvania State Rep. Jared Solomon. Credit: www.pahouse.com.

Pennsylvania’s presidential primary conflicts with Passover

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Pennsylvania State Rep. Jared Solomon doesn’t want to have “to choose between celebrating Passover and going to the polls.” The Jewish Democrat, who represents Philadelphia in Pennsylvania’s General Assembly, is one of many prominent voices in the...

Longtime Jewish journalist suggests ‘BBC’ may have exposed her to cancer

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Dame Esther Rantzen, a prominent Jewish British journalist, recently told the Daily Mirror that her cancer diagnosis may be connected to her time working for the BBC. The 83-year-old spent a significant part of her early career in the former...
Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) take part in a military show in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the group's founding, Dec. 11, 2014. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

German minister defies Berlin on Israel’s terror listing of Palestinian NGOs

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Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior believes Israel provided sufficient evidence to justify its listing of several Palestinian non-governmental organizations as terrorist entities, Der Spiegel reported. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser's position reportedly has put her at odds...