Daily Archives: August 21, 2019
Who says that crime does not pay?
Nahum Nevies, 17, from Elazar, now fights for his life. His sister, Noam, 19, is in moderate condition, but has a long, painful road ahead to recovery . The siblings are from Elazar in Gush Etzion. Nahum...
Trump clarifies: Voting Democrat is being ‘disloyal to Jewish people’ and ‘very disloyal to...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday clarified his remarks on Wednesday regarding how Jewish voters could support the Democratic Party knowing the anti-Israel bias among certain congressional members, such as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)...
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Life in Israel is good, despite tension and headlines
There is no doubt that we are living on the edge. Palestinians, Hezbollah, Iran, and no shortage of Europeans and Americans, including some Jews are dreaming of ending the Israeli existence.
But how bad is...
‘The eyes of the country’: IDF’s maritime command center protects Israel from seaborne threats
The Israeli Navy’s maritime control centers play a crucial role in securing the country’s coastline from a range of hostile threats. To achieve that objective, the centers are equipped with cutting-edge cameras, radars and...
Israel makes red lines clear as Washington prepares peace plan
“If the Trump administration’s peace plan contains elements that run counter to Israel’s interests, Prime Minister Netanyahu won’t hesitate to oppose them,” a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday.
The official told Israeli daily Israel...
Abbas: ‘martyrs’ are ‘the most sacred thing we have’
The Palestinians cannot be removed from their homeland, and every building built by the Zionist occupation will be destroyed, said Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in a video uploaded to his Facebook page earlier...
Netanyahu: Israel is preparing for a ‘forceful strike’ against Hamas
Israel is readying plans for a “forceful military strike against Hamas,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
Speaking with reporters while visiting Ukraine, he was asked whether his government could properly deal with the...
Eleanor Roosevelt’s efforts to save Jewish refugees from the Holocaust
In 1940, a passenger cargo ship called the SS Quanza left the port of Lisbon carrying several hundred Jewish refugees to freedom. But no country would take them in, and so the passengers became trapped on...
Trump: Jews who vote for Democrats show ‘total lack of knowledge,’ ‘great disloyalty’
U.S. President Donald Trump continued his criticism of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who held a press conference on Monday to blast Israel’s decision to deny them entry from the country last...
New RJC political director eyes shifting trends, saying Republicans could gain Jewish votes
The last time more Jews voted for Republican candidates than Democrats was 1920, when 43 percent of Jewish voters selected Warren G. Harding. Democratic candidate James Cox received only 19 percent of Jewish votes,...