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Daily Archives: April 4, 2019

Le député jordanien Tarek Khoury appelle à attaquer les bases militaires israéliennes à l’intérieur...

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Le député jordanien Tarek Sami Khoury a déclaré dans une interview accordée à la chaîne Al-Manar (Liban) du Hezbollah qu’Israël était un ennemi lâche, ce dont le peuple palestinien devait profiter. Il a affirmé...
The Union Jack and European Union Flag. Credit: Publicdomainpictures.net

Of compromise and betrayal: From the Golan to Brexit

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Two current sources of uproar tie Britain, the United States and Israel into a matrix of hypocrisy, double standards and spinelessness. The first was the welcome announcement by President Donald Trump that the United States...
Israeli political candidates address the “Jerusalem Post pre-election event” in Tel Aviv, April 2019. Photo by Israel Kasnett.

As Israel’s election day nears, politicians whet their knives

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The not-so-packed Jerusalem Post 2019 Elections Conference held at the InterContinental David Tel Aviv hotel attracted mostly older people interested in hearing representatives of each political party outline their platform ahead of next week’s elections. While...
Leah and Simcha Goldin, the parents of late IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin, whose body is being held by Hamas in Gaza, attend a rally outside of Israel's Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on Aug. 31, 2018, calling on the government to do more to return the bodies of Goldin and IDF soldier Oron Shaul. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Parents of slain Israeli Lt. Hadar Goldin react to news of Zachary Baumel remains

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The mother of an Israeli soldier who was killed more than four years ago, and whose body is still being held by Hamas, expressed appreciation on Thursday that the remains of Zachary Baumel, an...

German military to include rabbis, offering pastoral care for Jewish soldiers

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Germany’s military will consist of rabbis for the first time in nearly a century, making its pastoral services available for the some 300 Jews serving in the Bundeswehr. The country’s Jewish Council will initially offer...

Verter fun der Vokh: טראַנסמיניקײט און אומצװײיִקײט – Trans and non-binary

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מיט אַ פּאָר חדשים צוריק האָט סאַשע בערנשטײן, אַ מין־פֿליסיקער ייִדישיסט פֿון אָרעגאָן, צוגעשיקט דער ייִדיש־ליגע אַ פֿירלייג אויף אַ רשימה "װערטער פֿון דער װאָך" װאָס זאָל אָנגעבן די נײטיקע טערמינען, אַז דער טראַנס־, קװירער און...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 4, 2019. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

In Moscow, Netanyahu thanks Putin for helping recover body of IDF missing soldier

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, just days before Israel’s general elections on April 9. In their public remarks, the two leaders discussed Russian assistance in...
The sherd of the rare oil lamp depicting a menorah. Credit: Anat Rasiuk/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Remains of Jewish settlement dating from Second Temple period found in Beersheva

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The remains of a Jewish settlement of the Second Temple period, including the sherd of a rare oil lamp depicting a menorah with nine branches, have been discovered in Beersheva for the first time,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with Austrian President Alexander Van at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on Feb. 5, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Netanyahu interview: ‘We’re on the brink of losing the election’

“We’re very close to losing the battle,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Israel Hayom in a special interview days before the Knesset election. “We found a factor we hadn’t noticed until last night. That factor...
The Star of David logo of the Jewish Agency on Keren Heyesod Street in Jerusalem. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish Agency launches partnership between US, Israel, Poland communities

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The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Partnership2Gether (P2G) Peoplehood platform has added the Polish capital of Warsaw as the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s third partner region within the program, creating enduring relationships between Israel...