Daily Archives: April 11, 2019
Mission (almost) accomplished: Israel’s ‘Beresheet’ spacecraft crashes into surface of moon
In the end, the Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” did not land on the moon on Thursday after a failure in its main engine just before touchdown that caused it to crash into the lunar surface.
“Beresheet,”...
The right still rules in Israel. Will it continue?
Is Benjamin Netanyahu’s dominance of Israeli politics the product of a consensus he helped build, or is he merely a convenient beneficiary of forces that were beyond his control? Like the old question about...
WATCH: Israel gears up for moon landing, to be broadcast live from SpaceIL control...
The Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” prepared to make history on Thursday night, making Israel the fourth country on the planet to have landed a spacecraft on the Moon.
“Beresheet,” named after the first word and the...
Unlike other UC university branches, Santa Barbara rejects anti-Israel resolution
After more than nine hours of debate, students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, rejected a resolution early Thursday morning that, had it passed, would have followed other student governments in the University of California...
Of annexation and Trump’s peace plan, what’s next on the post-Israeli election agenda?
Things move fast in the Middle East.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just declared victory for the fifth time, and now, as he gets busy building the next coalition for the 21st Knesset, much attention...
Iconic South African Jewish journalist to get top honor
One of South Africa’s premiere journalists, Benjamin Pogrund, will receive a top honor for his decades-long work, which included exposing the country’s apartheid system that lasted between 1948 and 1994.
On April 25, South African...
Confusion, controversy as doubts loom over New Right’s possible entry to Knesset
Confusion around the possibility that the New Right Party passed the minimum threshold to enter the Knesset only increased on Thursday morning as announcements that the party succeeded were quickly followed by announcements that...
Israeli student at Cornell told by pro-Palestinian campus group to ‘quit complaining’
An Israeli student at Cornell University whose home was hit by a rocket launched by Hamas from Gaza was told in a Facebook comment by a pro-Palestinian campus group to “quit complaining about how...
Pompeo declines to answer if US would support Israel’s annexing the West Bank
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to answer during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday if the United States would support Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow on Saturday to, if he won...
Who can argue with a $5 million donation to promote civility?
Remember the anguished plea of Rodney King: “Can we all just get along?” The L.A. victim of police brutality spoke those words 27 years ago and they still plead from his grave marker in...