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Daily Archives: June 12, 2018

Jewish and Christian South African leaders. Credit: South African Friends of Israel.

1,500-plus South African Jews and Christians learn to counter the BDS movement

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More than 1,500 Jews and Christians attended four pro-Israel events throughout South Africa focused on strengthening the local pro-Israel community and countering BDS and Israel delegitimization. The initiative, which was sponsored by the Ministry of...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in 2009. Credit: Vladimir Petkov via Wikimedia Commons.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov visits Israel

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Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and a contingent of other leaders from the country began a three-day visit to Israel on Tuesday. First, in Jerusalem, he addressed the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum, which...

Big splash at Caesarea Harbor with new Crusader market, upcoming visitor’s center

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New promenade walls and a 700-year-old Crusader market at the Caesarea Harbor were unveiled on June 10 in Caesarea National Park in the presence of Baroness Ariane de Rothschild, and various representatives from funding...
City Hall in Oviedo, Spain. Credit: Goodfreephotos.com.

Spanish city cancels Israeli concert in latest boycott move

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The city of Oviedo, the capital of Spain’s Asturias region, has purportedly canceled an upcoming concert by Israel’s NK Orchestra and a ballet performance. The producer of the concert set to take place in Oviedo...
In September 2011, a teacher leads one of the first classes of the new academic year at a Gaza-based school supported by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Credit: U.N. Photo/Shareef Sarhan.

US lawmakers introduce bill to end Palestinians teaching hate in schools

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lawmakers introduced new legislation last week aimed at holding the Palestinians accountable incitement in their school curriculum by increasing transparency on foreign aid. The Palestinian Authority Educational Curriculum Transparency Act, which was introduced by Reps....
Israeli Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on Oct. 1, 2017. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Zionist Union leader: ‘Western ‎Wall does not belong only to Jews’

Zionist Union leader Avi Gabbay sparked controversy ‎on Monday when he asserted that the Western Wall does not ‎belong ‎only to Jews.‎ Addressing an American Jewish Committee conference ‎in Jerusalem, Gabbay said, “All of you, brothers...

Largest exodus of Benei Manashe Jews underway from Manipur; 432 have left for Israel...

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“I have been weeping silently for months whenever the thought of leaving my home, my family struck me. Yet, the yearning to return to the holy land is too strong.” Nemchin Touthang, a 57-year-old...
Tasnim News Agency [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Recalling Project Daniel: Israel, Iran and Regional Nuclear War

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“In the end, we must all depend upon creatures of our own making.” (Goethe, Faust) On January 16, 2003, the private Project Daniel Group first advised then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the then already-growing threat of...

US-North Korea Summit: Good for Israel, or Great for Israel?

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A groundbreaking and historic diplomatic summit between the United States of America and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea in Singapore has the potential to reverse the course of a conflict that has...

Dans le contexte du sommet Etats-Unis-Corée du Nord, des journalistes arabes s’interrogent : la...

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Après 65 ans d’hostilité entre la Corée du Nord et du Sud, et de tensions graves entre la première et les Etats-Unis, les deux conflits semblent s’acheminer vers une résolution pacifique. Lors du sommet...