Daily Archives: July 17, 2019
Internationella flyktingdagen: Perspektiv från Jerusalem
Vår nyhetsbyrå, som finns på internet på www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com, har engagerat professionell personal sedan 1 augusti 2000 för att undersöka och översätta de nya skolböcker som utfärdats av den palestinska myndigheten för utbildningsministeriet och används...
Overshadowing the battle against anti-Semitism
The U.S. Department of Justice devoted a day to a summit this week about combating anti-Semitism. With other government agencies taking part, the event represented a significant commitment to deal with an issue of...
Decision to lesson charges of Halimi murderer ‘contradictory’ at best, ‘anti-Semitic’ at worst
One day before making aliyah to Israel from France, Jewish community leader Simon Midal expressed his concern that France’s preliminary court decision to dismiss the murderer of French Jew Sarah Halimi applied an anti-Semitic double standard.
On...
Oregon enacts law requiring public schools to teach Holocaust education
Oregon public schools will be required to teach students about the Holocaust and other genocides after Gov. Kate Brown signed on Monday a bill, which unanimously passed in the state legislature, into law.
“Today more...
International lacrosse competition cradles its way to Israel
As evening approached, and the heat of another scorching summer day in Jerusalem broke, more than 300 young women from 16 different countries across Europe proudly marched into the fan-filled stadium at the Kraft...
In humiliating blow, Egypt prevents Hamas leader from leaving Gaza Strip
Egypt is preventing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh from setting out on a fundraising trip to several countries, chief among them Iran, Gaza media reported on Tuesday.
Hamas’s official mouthpiece in the Gaza Strip, Al-Risala, claimed that...
In Israel, OU leaders talk of increasing Jewish-identity initiatives in Diaspora
Orthodox Union leaders from the United States and Canada met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to talk about the need to increase and expand initiatives focused on Diaspora Jewish education and...
Report: Netanyahu expresses reservations about possible West Bank-Gaza passage
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed reservations about a $5 billion proposal for a highway and railway between the West Bank and Gaza as part of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace deal for...
Former Israeli Justice Minister Shaked calls for right-wing unity ahead of September elections
Former Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked told a group of New York Republican leaders visiting the Jewish state this week that Israel’s right-wing, which unsuccessfully ran under separate banners during the recent April elections,...
Startup nation to revitalize entrepreneurship, innovation on university campuses
Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE), the government agency overseeing colleges and universities just unveiled “The New Campus Vision,” aiming to expose students and faculty from all disciplines to the worlds of entrepreneurship and innovation....