UNRWA announces job with overly high salary, benefits
Despite major budget cuts, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) posted a job last month paying 14 times the average annual Palestinian income.
The position of director of external relations...
France bestows its highest award to Nazi-hunter couple
Famed French Nazi-hunters Serge Klarsfeld and his German wife, Beate, received the highest honors last week in a ceremony led by French President Emmanuel Macron.
France’s highest award, the Grand Cross of the Legion of...
Anti-Israel boycotters disrupt Holocaust film in Berlin
Two supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign disrupted the showing of a Holocaust movie in Berlin, holding up a banner bearing their message in front of the screen, Benjamin Weinthal reported on...
Documentary on Gaza by French public television ‘will incite hatred against Jews’
A great number of members of the Jewish community in France have expressed their deep concern regarding the broadcast on Thursday evening by French public-television Channel France 2 of a report on Gaza that...
French say ‘Non’ to Islamist performer at Bataclan
A series of Islamist terrorist attacks shook the city of Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. One hundred thirty people were killed and hundreds others injured in coordinated shootings and a suicide bombing that hit the Bataclan...
Russia to deport Siberia’s chief rabbi over ‘espionage’
A Russian court has ordered Siberia’s Chief Rabbi Asher Krichevsky deported, along with his wife and six children for alleged espionage.
The court in Omsk, the second-largest city in Siberia, rejected an appeal by Krichevsky...
William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer win the Nobel Prize in Economics in...
Americans William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics 2018. The first to integrate climate change into economic analysis by determining the costs and benefits of reducing...
Nadia Murad, former ISIS slave, wins Nobel Peace Prize
A former sex slave of the Islamic State, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient Nadia Murad escaped from her captors in 2014 and has since fought on behalf of those affected by sexual violence as an act...
German Chancellor Merkel: Palestinians must recognize Israel as a ‘Jewish state’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
“There was a series of internal discussions in Israel about this. It’s not like this was the most...
Relations between Israel, Austria are expected to thaw
Could the tension that has characterized Israeli-Austrian relations since the latter government elected a far-right government a year ago under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz be coming to an end? Since Austria established its current ruling...