Daily Archives: March 18, 2019
Varför Gaza attackerar Tel Aviv?
Efter missilattackerna mot Tel Aviv i veckan:
Nyheten om att araberna avfyrade missiler klockan 9.30 på torsdagen den 14 mars mot centrum av Tel Aviv fick många människor att bli chockade. Av någon anledning är...
Nuclear Avoidance in the Middle East: Background (Part I)
“For there is nothing on earth more acceptable to that Supreme Deity who rules over this whole world than the councils and assemblages of men bound together by law, which are called States.”
Cicero, Somnium Scipionis
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Rabbi Achiad Ettinger, father of 12 who fired back at Ariel terrorist, is laid...
Rabbi Achiad Ettinger, a 47-year-old father of 12 who was critically injured in a terrorist attack near Ariel on Sunday, succumbed to his wounds on Monday morning and was laid to rest.
“The passing of...
Supreme Court bans Otzma Yehudit candidate Ben-Ari from Israel’s April elections
Israel’s Supreme Court banned Otzma Yehudit candidate Michael Ben-Ari from running in the upcoming national elections—the first time Israel’s highest court has ever prevented a single individual from running in an Israeli election—in opposition...
Madeleine Albright on criticizing Israel without being anti-Semitic
The latest wave of anti-Semitism controversies within the Democratic Party, beginning in January when Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., made comments critical of Israel that many Jews felt were anti-Semitic, and continuing more recently with similar remarks by the...
Rare Books That Kept Prayer Alive During the Jewish Migrations of the 19th Century
The third gathering of the Global Forum of the National Library of Israel will take place in Jerusalem on March 17-19, 2019, bringing together prominent figures to discuss this year’s topic: “Migration-Borders-Identity”. The following article is...
What Elie Wiesel taught his students
Witness: Lesson’s from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York © 2018, ISBN 9781328802699.
Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016), Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate, perhaps best known for his memoir Night, and...
Syrian scholar: Al-Aqsa in Koran is not in Jerusalem
Syrian scholar Firas Al-Sawwah said in a March 3 interview on Al-Hurra TV (U.S.) that the Al-Aqsa Mosque that was mentioned in the Koran was not in Jerusalem, and that the caliph Abd Al-Malik...
Two Iranians arrested entering Argentina with fake Israeli passports
Two Iranians were arrested in Buenos Aires traveling on forged Israeli passports, just a day before the 27th anniversary of the March 17, 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.
The male and...
Trump, Omar and Tlaub should cool their rhetoric
Donald Trump, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaub all issued hollow statements after 49 Muslims praying at two New Zealand mosques were mowed down by gunfire on Friday – after Trump, Omar, and Tlaib played...