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Daily Archives: March 13, 2018

WJC joins Macedonia Jewish community in marking 75th anniversary of Nazi deportation

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The official commemoration ceremony in Skopje, Macedonia was held in the presence of the Macedonian and Bulgarian prime ministers, and followed three days of separate events marking the March 10, 1943 rescue of 48,000 Jews in...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 2018 AIPAC policy conference. Credit: AIPAC.

Looking Beyond Power Politics: A Longer Term Israeli & Global Imperative

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For many years, I have been lecturing and publishing widely about Israel's nuclear strategy. By definition, of course, much of this work has been irremediably speculative; hence, it's derivative policy prescriptions have had to...

Don’t repeat nuclear history

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It’s not clear what U.S. President Donald Trump thinks he can accomplish when he meets with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in May. The decision to hold a summit with the leader of...

Trump cites Iran-deal wrangles in Tillerson firing, Iran hawk Pompeo in at State

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President Donald Trump fired U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday, while announcing that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would replace Tillerson at the State Department. “Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our...

Iraqi TV host: ‘Apologize to Jews who were driven out, restore property of those...

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Iraqi TV host Anwar Al-Hamadani went on record as saying “that it is our duty to apologize to our Iraqi Jewish compatriots for the tragedy that befell them” during the 1941 Farhoud massacre of...

Israeli food for thought: 33 percent of its eats goes to waste

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A new report presents, for the first time in Israel, a detailed model for the estimation of food loss in the retail and distribution sectors: in retail chains, open markets, local grocery stores and small...

James Grover McDonald (1884–1964)

Few individuals have contributed as much to the cause of the Jews and Israel as James Grover McDonald. An unwilling witness to the pivotal events that led to the Holocaust, McDonald was a fervent...

Palestinian Authority PM escapes assassination attempt in Gaza

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Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on a rare visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Hamadallah’s convoy was struck by an explosion shortly after he entered Gaza through the...

Israeli attractions: Givat Sher, the Judean lowhills

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In the town of Modi’in, which is situated between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, lies Givat Sher (“The hill of Sher”). At the base of the hill to the east are the remains of Um-el-Umdan, one...

La députée algérienne Naïma Salhi s’oppose au retour des juifs en Algérie : un...

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Voir les extraits vidéo sur MEMRI TV La députée algérienne Naïma Salhi, secrétaire générale du Parti de l’équité et de la proclamation, a mis en garde contre un « plan infernal visant à créer une seconde...