Daily Archives: February 8, 2019
Kushner to visit Middle Eastern nations for talks on Trump peace plan
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will reportedly travel throughout the Middle East later this month to promote the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
His weeklong trip, which is scheduled to include stops in Bahrain,...
How is the EU funding NGOs with ties to BDS?
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs came out with a scathing report last month—its second on the issue—accusing the European Union of funding Palestinian and European organizations that promote BDS, the boycott of Israel. In...
Israeli technology comes to the rescue in Brazil to help with water crisis
Brazil will receive 10 generators that use Israeli technology to produce pure, clean-drinking water from ambient air, according to Brazilian Minister of Science Marcos Cesar Pontes.
The revelation came to light on Tuesday when Pontes...
Report: Israel discovers new Iranian precision missile factory in Syria
Iran has constructed a new precision missile factory in Syria, reported Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday.
It’s in the same location where Israeli airstrikes destroyed another factory last year.
Israel uncovered the factory, built just outside Latakia,...
Abbas pledges security cooperation with Israel
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas pledged to continue security cooperation with Israel, despite the United States cutting all security assistance to the P.A.
In front of a gathering of Israeli and Palestinian activists on Wednesday,...
Has the US intelligence community misread Iran’s nuclear program?
U.S. President Donald Trump clashed with the intelligence community last week over the threats posed by Iran and North Korea, a position that has some U.S. and Israeli experts nodding in agreement.
Former weapons’ inspector...
Volunteers bond with residents at ‘special’ center in the Negev
When Nina Paul first visited ALEH Negev Nahalat-Eran several years ago, she wept.
“Having experienced so many of the residential rehabilitative facilities in the States, I saw immediately the difference at ALEH Negev,” she said....
Israel’s ‘secular yeshivah’ opens first American branch in California
Operating four secular yeshivahs in Israel, BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change is now opening its first branch in the United States.
From Feb. 13 through May, the organization will offer its 90-minute egalitarian and pluralistic classes at...
IDF cyber chief: Iran tried to hack missile-alert system
Iran tried to hack Israel’s missile-alert system more than a year ago, Israel Defense Forces’ Cyber Defense Division Commander Noam Sha’ar told Israel Hayom.
In an interview with Israel Hayom’s weekend magazine, Sha’ar says the cyber attack was...
Qatari school texts encourage jihad, martyrdom at young age – Part I
Qatari Islamic Education textbooks for grades six, eight, nine and 12 deal extensively with the Islamic ethos of jihad and martyrdom. The books present jihad as the factor that led to the victories of...