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Daily Archives: August 15, 2019

David Ben-Gurion Reading the Declaration of Independence. GPO

No, the United Nations didn’t create Israel

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Hanan Ashwari, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, recently restated one of her favorite falsehoods about the creation of Israel. This falsehood—ironically often advanced by both Israel’s supporters and its enemies—holds that Israel...
Photo: Israeli 2013 election ballots (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Reasons for skepticism in Israeli election

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In this last month before the elections in Israel I find it very difficult to believe anything the political parties are telling us about themselves. (This includes Benny Gantz, the leader of Blue and White, who often says...
From left: Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) address U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks on Capitol Hill. Credit: Screenshot.

Citing their support for BDS, Israel blocks entry to Tlaib and Omar

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Israel has blocked entry to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who support the anti-Israel BDS movement. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely announced the move on Thursday, despite Israel’s Ambassador to...

Pro- BDS ethnic studies curriculum scrapped

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SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– The following is a statement from AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin on the California Board of Education’s decision to rewrite the proposed Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum: “We are pleased the...
A black pickup truck, allegedly driven by a U.S. correctional officer, drove through a crowd of Jewish protesters and their supporters at a demonstration in Rhode Island on Aug. 14, 2019. Source: Screenshot.

Jewish anti-ICE protesters injured after truck, pepper spray used on crowd

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Several Jewish protesters were injured on Wednesday evening when a pickup truck drove into their demonstration outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Rhode Island. The majority of the injuries, however,...
New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Source: Doug Letterman via Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli-based company wins 10-year contract with FAA

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The software firm NICE, based in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’anana, has won a 10-year contract to enhance airline response and investigations by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company announced on...
Evan Gershater, the 60,000th immigrant to Israel brought by Nefesh B’Nefesh, is given an Israeli identity card by Minister of Aliyah and Integration Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yoav Galant, and Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart. Photo by Shahar Azran.

60,000th new immigrant to Israel on 60th Nefesh charter flight

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A total of 242 new olim from North America landed on Tuesday at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Nefesh B’Nefesh’s 60th specially chartered EL AL flight, with the 60,000th new immigrant onboard. They came from a variety of...
Nechama Miller and her family arrive in Israel, Aug. 13, 2019. Photo by Ellie Rudee.

The daughters of two prominent American Jewish leaders make ‘aliyah’

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Lily Daroff and Nechama Miller, daughters of prominent leaders of the American Jewish community, were among 242 other North Americans who landed as new permanent arrivals in Israel on Tuesday, part of the latest...
A panel of Millenial Jewish leaders dicussing ways to combat anti-Semitism at the JNF House in New York City on Aug. 7. Credit: Courtesy.

Jewish millennials address ways to counter anti-Semitism online

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A panel organized by the Israeli-American Council of New York brought four millennial leaders together in Manhattan to grapple with anti-Semitism on the mode they use most often: social media. The event, which took place...
U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sitting alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while visiting Israel this week, August 2019. Credit: Kevin McCarthy via Twitter.

In Israel, House Republicans indicate openness to alternatives to two-state solution

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Since the Oslo Peace process, the two-state solution has been viewed by most Democrats and Republicans as the end goal in settling land issues connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet the reality on the...