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Daily Archives: January 18, 2019

Ari Fuld at his home in Efrat, Israel. Courtesy: Yishai Fleisher.

IDF starts to demolish home of terrorist who killed Fuld

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Israeli Security Forces have begun the process of demolishing the home of terrorist Youssef Ali Jabarin in the town of Yatta near Hebron, the Palestinian news agency Maan reported on Friday. Jabarin stabbed and murdered Israeli-American Ari...
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Official warnings pending for anti- Israel disruptors

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Organized disruptors—both students and non-students—who shut down a pro-Israel gathering at University of California Los Angeles in May 2018 might not be prosecuted, according to information from LA City Attorney Mike Feuer’s office. Instead,...
Charles Krauthammer. Credit: Levan Ramishvili via Flickr.

Book Review: Charles Krauthammer on politics, the Mideast, Judaism, sports and ‘The Point of...

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One of the biggest media personalities who passed away in 2018 was Jewish conservative intellectual and pundit Charles Krauthammer. Shortly before his death, he instructed his son, Daniel, to finish his second book that, like his...
Packed inside a temperature-controlled shipping container, Israel’s first lunar spacecraft, named “Beresheet,” was loaded onto a cargo plane at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Jan. 17, 2019, to be flown to Florida ahead of its scheduled launch in mid-February. Photo by Eliran Avital.

Ahead of moon mission, SpaceIL transports first Israeli spacecraft to Florida

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Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)’s first lunar spacecraft began a historic journey to the moon on Jan. 17, when it was transported in a cargo plane from Ben-Gurion International Airport to...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Credit: Ilhan Omar for Congress via Facebook.

Anti-Israel Democrat Ilhan Omar appointed to House Foreign Affairs Committee

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite anti-Israel statements made by the freshman Democrat, such as tweeting that “Israel has hypnotized the world,” and her support for...
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‘Hello Dolly’ is a whirl of joy

The opening performance of Hello Dolly at the Civic Theatre was dedicated to the memory of belovéd Broadway icon, Carol Channing, who recently passed at the age of 97. I first saw Channing on The Muppet Show and...
Israel Defense Forces’ soldiers work to discover and dismantle Hamas’s terror tunnels in the Gaza Strip in July 2014. Credit: IDF.

Report: Hezbollah tunnel construction started before 2006 Lebanon war

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Hezbollah began digging cross-border attack tunnels before the 2006 Second Lebanon War, as opposed to three or four years ago, as the Israel Defense Forces has said, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. The IDF declined...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at a ceremony announcing the winners of the Wolf Foundation award, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on Jan. 16, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Inaugural Israeli Global Impact Awards given for humanitarianism

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The first-ever “Global Impact Awards” were bestowed on Thursday at a gala event in Tel Aviv to those who have made a positive impact on society. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin was in attendance. “The winners here...
Marwan Barghouti (left) with Yasser Arafat. Photo: IDF.

How Saving Israel from Terrorism Could Save the World

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For Islamist and jihadist fighters around the world — ISIS, Hamas, it generally makes little actual difference — terrorism represents a sacred form of religious sacrifice. The underlying purpose of this murderous ethos is...
President Rivlin with Minister of Education Naftali Bennet, Professor Dan Schechtman and the 2019 Wolf Prize winners. Photo: GPO/Mark Neiman.

President Rivlin hosts 2019 Wolf Prize ceremony

President Reuven Rivlin today (Wednesday 16 January 2019), spoke at the ceremony announcing the winners of the 2019 Wolf Prizes. The Wolf Prizes are awarded every year for exceptional contribution to the sciences and...