Israeli Police insists on need for 5 billion shekels, 5,000 more officers
The Israel Police say they need 4,000 to 5,000 additional permanent officers, and 5 billion extra shekels to address gaps in personnel and human resources and meet its resources, Ynet reported on Wednesday in the wake...
Can the Border Police become Israel’s National Guard?
The recent string of deadly terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians has once again brought into focus the Israel Police’s large number of missions and how these can stretch it to the limit.
It was police...
Former US Ambassador Dan Shapiro leaves Iran-deal advising role for think tank
Former U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro said this week that he will be leaving his role at the U.S. State Department to take a position at the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington, D.C.
Shapiro...
US imposes sanctions on suppliers to Iran’s ballistic-missile program
The United States announced on Wednesday that it is sanctioning Iranian individuals and entities related to its ballistic-missile program.
The designation is pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass...
IDF arrests terrorist’s brother, four other suspects, in raid near Jenin
In a counter-terrorism raid, Israel Defense Forces soldiers apprehended the brother of Diaa Hamarsheh, 27, on Wednesday, a day after Hamarsheh entered Israel illegally from the West Bank village of Yabad, near Jenin, and...
Victims of terrorist shooting in Bnei Brak laid to rest
Some of the victims of the deadly terror attack in Bnei Brak carried out Tuesday night by a Palestinian gunman were laid to rest on Wednesday.
The terrorist, Diaa Hamarsheh, 27, who entered Israel illegally...
Jewish teens sue two airlines for discrimination after being banned from flights
A group of Orthodox Jewish girls from New York has filed a complaint against Delta Air Lines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for the discrimination they say they faced on flights last summer, reported Insider.
The...
Efrat high school makes pointed stop to visit family of murdered Druze officer
A group of students from the Derech Avot High School of Ohr Torah Stone educational network in Efrat decided to deviate from their previously scheduled itinerary on a yearly outing to make a condolence...
University of California system considers mandatory ethnic-studies requirement
The University of California higher-education system is considering adding a new admission requirement that will force high school students in the state to learn a controversial and anti-Semitic ethnic-studies curriculum if they want to...
Ahead of Passover, Homeland Security steps up effort to protect Jewish facilities and congregants
Colleyville. Pittsburgh. Poway.
Too many Jewish institutions are wondering if they’ll be next. Too many in Brooklyn, N.Y., and elsewhere already deal with the reality of anti-Semitic attacks that keep on coming.
The federal government says...