Daily Archives: September 16, 2019
Join JNS for a special live video 2019 Israel Elections 2.0 broadcast
Join JNS for a special live video 2019 Israel Elections 2.0 broadcast
Filmed in front of a live audience from the Kirk Douglas Theater at
the Aish World Center just outside the Western Wall plaza of Jerusalem’s Old City
September...
Critics deny Jerusalem’s past and its future
Its critics have accused Israel of a lot of terrible things over the course of its 71 years of existence, but The New York Times has now added one more to the list that will particularly...
In face of growing Iran threat, debate resurfaces over US-Israel mutual defense pact
Although proposals for a U.S.-Israel mutual defense pact are not new, the concept has recently gained momentum and attracted growing media attention in Israel.
On Sept. 14, U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter to...
New York City adds an office to fight bias crimes
We will learn eventually if New York’s $1.7 million investment to contend with bias-related incidents will work, but the outbreak in attacks against Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn exposes ongoing drawbacks in the system.
Deborah Lauter,...
Ultra-Orthodox rally in Jerusalem ahead of elections draws tens of thousands
An estimated 50,000 ultra-Orthodox Israelis converged on Jerusalem’s Bar-Ilan intersection on Sunday for a United Torah Judaism Party election rally.
Top religious leaders urged them to get out and vote, while UTJ leader Deputy Health...
Days before election, Cabinet approves new Jordan Valley settlement
At its weekly meeting on Sunday, held in the Jordan Valley, the Cabinet approved Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to officially recognize the community of Mevo’ot Yericho. Netanyahu also reiterated his pledge to...
Survey: Arab Israelis consider Netanyahu best suited to be prime minister
Almost a quarter (23.6%) of respondents to a poll of Israel’s Arab public published this month said that Benjamin Netanyahu was best suited to be Israel’s next prime minister.
The poll, commissioned by Arik Rudnizky...
Secret diary of Jewish teen killed by Nazis to publish after nearly 70 years...
The Holocaust diary of Polish Jewish teenager Renia Spiegel will finally be published after being sealed away in a New York bank vault for nearly 70 years, CNN reported.
Spiegel was born in 1924 and lived in...
Netanyahu calls for emergency election committee meeting on ‘voter fraud’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called for an emergency meeting with the head of the Central Election Committee, Supreme Court Judge Hanan Melcer, to discuss possible voter fraud in this week’s election.
Netanyahu’s...
Trump: ‘I look forward’ to discussing defense pact with Netanyahu
U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Saturday that he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone earlier to discuss the possibility of “moving forward with a mutual defense treaty”...