The letter that Avigdor Liberman will never write
The “letter” below has, of course, never been written; it’s a product of my imagination. Yet without a move along its lines, Israel won’t have a government and we may have to go to...
PA releases Palestinian American sentenced to life for selling land to Jews
A Palestinian-American who was sentenced to life last month by the Palestinian Authority for selling land to Israelis was released to U.S. authorities, two senior Palestinian officials told Reuters.
“Issam Akel holds an American passport, and he...
HonestReporting Canada persuades ‘CBC’ to retract Palestinian history claim
An article published by CBC News titled “B.C. minister under fire for comments about Middle East before creation of Israeli state” received multiple corrections following a critique from HonestReporting Canada.
The reporting focused on comments by Selina Robinson, British Columbia’s minister...
White House makes internal selection for Jewish liaison after months of pressure
The Biden administration has chosen a former White House Jewish liaison to resume the position on Thursday after months of pleading from Jewish communal organizations to name someone to the post.
Chanan Weissman, 37, who...
6.4-magnitude quake leaves several dead, hundreds injured in Turkey
Several people were killed and hundreds injured in Turkey on Monday by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake centered in the country’s Hatay province that was felt in Lebanon and Israel.
The country is still reeling from a...
Netanyahu, health minister meet 500,000th Israeli to receive COVID-19 vaccine
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Tuesday congratulated the country’s 500,000th person to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
“It warms the heart to see the citizens of Israel joining in to...
February 12, 1938: Judy Blume, popular young-adult author, is born
Judy Blume, who redefined the terms of acceptable discourse in children’s literature on her way to selling eighty million copies of her books and seeing them translated into thirty-one languages, was born in Elizabeth,...
Report: Egyptian Army kills 77 radical Islamic militants in Sinai operations
The Egyptian Army announced that its forces have killed 77 radical Islamic militants in the Sinai Peninsula since July 22.
The military said that the operations it has been conducting in the Sinai for the...
International Christian Embassy donates bomb shelters, protective vests
After Israel absorbed as many as 700 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem sent a delegation to the western Negev region on Monday to assess the...
Former Hezbollah leader: Nasrallah should be first to stand trial for Beirut blast
Hezbollah’s first secretary-general, Subhi al-Tufayli, said in a televised sermon last week that the group’s current leader, Hassan Nasrallah, should be first in line to stand trial over the Aug. 4 explosion at the...