Daily Archives: February 25, 2019
What the Trump Middle East Plan of the Century Needs Most; PEACE EDUCATION
US President Donald Trump passionately calls for the renewal of peace talks between Israel and Palestinian Authority. In that context, President Trump is preparing to release his “deal of the century” after the Israeli...
Guy Nattiv wins Short Film category, first Israeli to win Academy Award in 41...
Israeli government officials congratulated Israeli director Guy Nattiv for winning the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film on Sunday—the first Israeli Oscar in 41 years.
“Skin,” a 20-minute movie, focuses on hate crimes and...
Israel ranked 10th healthiest country in the world
Israel has been listed as the 10th healthiest country in the world, according to the 2019 edition of the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index.
The list ranked 169 economies according to factors contributing to overall health.
Though...
Report: Ehud Barak was behind Gantz-Lapid merger
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his staff could be behind a campaign that urged the center-left parties to unite and run on a joint ticket in the April 9 elections, according to...
Pittsburgh mayor visits Jerusalem memorial for Tree of Life synagogue victims
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto visited the memorial plaque in Jerusalem on Sunday, established to remember the 11 Jewish victims of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue shooting in October.
The memorial was established several weeks after...
Israel Hayom-i24NEWS poll predicts 62 seats for the right
The new center-left list under Israel Resilience leader Benny Gantz and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid would win 36 seats if the Knesset election were held today, compared to 31 seats for the Likud...
The space race in the Middle East
A team of Israeli scientists launched what will be the first privately funded mission to land on the moon on Feb. 22, 2019. The craft, named “Beresheet” (Hebrew for “in the beginning” and the...
Relevant, responsive, ready: Birthright at 19, still growing strong
For Birthright Israel, 2018 was nothing short of a banner year—a year that accomplished something organizers could only have dreamed of back in 1999. That’s when a few key philanthropists linked arms with the...
Mass grave of more than 1,000 Jews shot by Nazis unearthed in Brest, Belarus
mass grave of more than 1,000 Jews shot in the head by the Nazis during the Holocaust has been uncovered in Belarus.
Currently, 600 skeletons have been unearthed by Belarusian soldiers in a pit at...
American national security and the rediscovery of ‘mind’
President Donald Trump likes to brag about America’s “much bigger and more powerful” weapons, but the core bulwark of American national security is not to be found in more lethal forms of destruction; rather,...