Daily Archives: January 21, 2019
Trump and Destruction of the American Mind
An open loathing of intellect has become substantially de rigeur for Donald Trump and his supporters. Accordingly, the nation’s chief executive regards terms like “intellectual” or “analytic” as epithets rather than positive attributes or prospectively gainful...
![Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1024px-Steve_King_by_Gage_Skidmore-324x235.jpg "Don’t tolerate hate in the name of inclusion")
Don’t tolerate hate in the name of inclusion
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is the poster child for the Republican Party’s problem with right-wing extremism. His fate also provides an object lesson in how American democracy has always had a knack for dealing...
IDF distributes 10 tons of dried fruits, nuts to soldiers for holiday of Tu...
In honor of the Tu B’Shevat holiday—the day on the Hebrew calendar marking the “New Year for Trees”—Israel’s Defense Ministry purchased 10 tons of nuts and dried fruits to distribute to Israeli soldiers across...
Netanuyahu’s lawyers meet with attorney general on indictment
Isreli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team—attorneys Navot Tel-Zur, Amit Hadad, Tal Shapira, and Judge (ret.) Oded Mudrik—met on Monday with Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit in an attempt to dissuade him from announcing his...
Israel set to revoke UNRWA permits for Jerusalem schools
Israel will revoke permits issued to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) due to accusations that the organization incites terror against Israel.
According to a Hadashot television news report on Saturday, Israel’s National Security Council...
Netanyahu asks Romania, Ukraine to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
Israel is moving full steam ahead with its efforts towards foreign recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s official capital.
In a meeting with visiting Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă in Jerusalem on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
‘We will not change nation-state law,’ Israel’s justice minister tells Druze
Days after former IDF chief of staff and head of the Israel Resilience Party Benny Gantz told Druze leaders that he would “change” the controversial nation-state law, which the Druze argue makes them second-class citizens,...
Palestinian Authority spends six times more on terrorists than on own population
In its 2017 budget, the Palestinian Authority allocated NIS 550 million ($150 million) to pay salaries to terrorist prisoners and released terrorist prisoners.
The salaries paid to these recipients, among them murderers, ranged from NIS...
Netanyahu makes historic visit to Muslim-majority Chad to renew formal ties
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a historic visit to the central African nation of Chad on Sunday, where he announced the re-establishment of ties.
“Chad is a very important country and very important for...
Israel unveils memorial to Argentine prosecutor killed seeking justice for bombing
Jewish and Israeli leaders on Friday marked the fourth anniversary of Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s murder by unveiling a monument in his memory at the Ben Shemen forest in central Israel.
The monument in...