Daily Archives: July 30, 2018
Pause to Rearm
DAVID BEDEIN, JERUSALEM POST, JULY 30, 2018
The Jerusalem Post mistakenly reported that a “cease-fire” was achieved with Hamas (“Shaky cease-fire after Gaza sniper kills IDF soldier,” July 22).
The paper’s use of the term “cease-fire”...
Return of the refugee crisis
Thanks to a decision by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, an international agency tasked with caring for refugees is facing budget cuts. But rather than providing more proof of why Trump shouldn’t...
Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un, and North Korean human rights
S President Donald Trump traveled to Singapore to negotiate urgent nuclear matters, and not to discuss North Korean violations of basic human rights. Nonetheless, any such willful US indifference to these violations in another...
A Jewish Revival: Communities Return to Poland, Sicily and Myanmar
The ornate colonial building on a bustling alleyway fits right in with the neighborhood. To enter, visitors don’t need to pass through any security checks or barriers — increasingly commonplace around the world, given...
Pence reacts strongly to synagogue vandalism in home state of Indiana
Vice President Mike Pence expressed sympathy and outrage on Sunday after a synagogue in his home state was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti on Saturday.
“Sickened and appalled by the cowardly act of vandalism at Congregation...
IDF Border Defense Array, which is ‘the most familiar with the enemy,’ set to...
Two months ago, Cpl. Shani Davidyan, an Israel Defense Forces video surveillance operator, was sitting in her operations room, monitoring the Gush Etzion sector south of Jerusalem, when she suddenly received a radio report...
Amid nation-state law controversy, Netanyahu urges lawmakers to ‘fight for the truth’
Israelii Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday told Likud ministers he expected them to express “unreserved and unapologetic” support for the controversial nation-state law.
“The Jewish nation-state is the basis of our existence,” he said....
Ahed Tamimi concludes eight-month prison sentence after assaulting IDF soldier
Ahed Tamimi, who gained infamy in Israel and acclaim inside the Palestinian Authority after a video of her assaulting Israeli police officers went viral, was released from HaSharon Prison on Sunday after serving an...
UN exhibit in New York shows fire damage in Israel from incendiary kites and...
An exhibition featured at the U.N. headquarters in New York this week will show viewers the damage that Gazan terror kites and flammable balloons have caused inside Israel.
An initiative of Yesh Atid Party Knesset...
Soaring unemployment pushes Gaza’s tech sector forward
“The Palestinian startup ecosystem is in its early stages and still maturing,” reads a July 11 report by the World Bank. It called the Palestinian situation “relatively similar” to those of Lebanon and Tanzania, explaining that startup...