Daily Archives: November 12, 2018

Hundreds of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel on Monday amid renewed tensions following the death of an Israeli special-forces soldier earlier in the day. According to the Israeli Defense...

October 30 was Israel’s local election day. More than six million people were eligible to vote, and the government provided a free day, with public services closed down. That meant that a large percentage...

Some people are born on days coterminous with holidays like the 4th of July, Christmas and even New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Others are born on Mother’s Day or Thanksgiving that are Sundays...

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on whether to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal—one of the nation’s highest civilian honors—to a rabbi who tried to save Slovakian Jews...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his condolences for the death of a special-forces soldier in an intelligence gathering operation gone awry in Gaza overnight on Sunday. “I bow my head in sadness at the...

For thousands of Jewish teens and young adult leaders in the former Soviet Union, building Jewish life, connecting with one another and serving their communities have become central tenants to their Jewish identity. That achievement—a...

“I am deeply humbled and moved by this exceptional honor,” Dr. Miriam Adelson noted on Saturday after the White House announced that she would be receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom—America’s highest civilian honor. The...

A new proposal by three major car-related companies will bring self-driving vehicles to Israel as early as 2019. A proposal submitted during the Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv by Volkswagen Group, Champion Motors and...

Israelis from the Gaza border region blocked trucks laden with goods and fuel for Gaza with their bodies on Sunday morning in protest of the government’s decision to allow the products into the region,...

After Israeli and Armenian flags were torn down and other items were thrown to the ground by anti-Israel protesters at an event in May at the University of California, Los Angeles, the school’s Students Supporting...