Daily Archives: September 5, 2018
Israel shutters diplomatic doors in Paraguay after it moves embassy back to Tel Aviv
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the foreign ministry to close the embassy in Paraguay after the South American nation announced that it would move its newly opened embassy in Jerusalem back to...
The Conspiracies That Only Seem To Exist
One of the more unusual phenomena to appear recently within the ranks of the Republican Party is the Qanon conspiracy theory. According to this theory, the chaos that has been appearing in the White...
Macron attended a pre-Rosh Hashana ceremony in the Paris synagogue
French President Emmanuel Macron attended a pre-Rosh Hashana ceremony at the Great Synagogue in Paris. It is the first time that a president of the country did it.
Macron, who received honey varieties as a...
A salute to Joan Peters
Joan Peters is sorely missed right now. Four years after her death and 34 years after the publication of her bestselling book From Time Immemorial, the U.S. administration is recognizing her claims about so-called Palestinian refugeeism.
Through...
25 years of illusions about Oslo
When the Trump administration announced that it was ending its funding of the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) last week, the protests from the foreign-policy establishment were loud and anguished. As a New York...
Haley hopeful, Friedman skeptical of upcoming Mideast peace plan
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley expressed hope over the Trump administration’s plan for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, while U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman expressed skepticism about what...
Israeli marine biologist wins UN business contest award
Israeli marine biologist Shimrit Perkol-Finkel, head of Tel Aviv-based ECOncrete, was selected as an awardee in the WE Empower U.N. SDG Challenge, the first global business competition for women entrepreneurs who are advancing United Nations Sustainable...
Central Bureau of Statistics releases Israeli demographics prior to Jewish New Year
Since last Rosh Hashanah, Israel’s population has grown by 162,000 people, to 8.907 million citizens, according to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.
In the Jewish year 5778, the Jewish population...
Survey: Half of Jewish Israelis support an independent Palestinian state
As the Jewish New Year 5779 approaches, half of the Jewish Israeli public supports an independent Palestinian state, while 43 percent do not.
In the monthly Peace Index of the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel...
UK Labour Party accepts full definition of anti-Semitism
After only adopting part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism, the U.K. Labour Party on Tuesday reversed its course and adopted the meaning in its entirety.
However, the Jewish community has been anything but fully...