Daily Archives: November 21, 2019
Covering JFK’s Funeral for my school paper, at age 13.5
When you undergo a traumatic experience, especially at a young age, you remember details of that experience for the rest of your life.
And so it was for so many on the day of the...
Sanders, Warren misrepresent Gaza situation
The numbers kept expanding. One day 150 rocket attacks. Then 250. Finally upwards of 400.
As the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported, two Israelis were struck by shrapnel last week. Two dozen were injured simply running...
Who are the real anti-Zionists in Israel?
In a speech that sparked condemnations from the left, right and center, Avigdor Lieberman, the head of Israel’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party, ended speculation as to whether he would support a minority government that would...
Vatican: US new stance on settlements undermines Israeli-Palestinian peace
The Vatican said on Thursday that the announcement on Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the United States would no longer view Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria as illegal under international law...
TIME magazine includes Israeli-water technology as top 100 inventions of 2019
A machine that makes safe, clean drinking water out of ambient air—manufactured by the Israel-based company of Watergen—was included in Time magazine’s list in 2019 of the top 100 inventions published on Nov. 21.
Resembling a typical...
Dershowitz: Criticism of police and prosecution ‘perfectly appropriate’
Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit is expected to decide in the coming days whether or not to formally indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on multiple charges of breach of trust, following lengthy investigations...
With Gantz having failed to secure a coalition, what’s next for Israel?
Just hours before Wednesday’s midnight deadline, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz returned the mandate to form a government to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. Like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before him, Gantz was...
In fifth Democratic debate, Sanders says Palestinians should be treated with ‘respect, dignity’
In the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate on Wednesday night in Atlanta, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) remarked that Palestinians should be treated with “respect and dignity.”
“It is no longer good enough for us simply to be...
Friend of Anne Frank’s opens up about German official who saved her family
A friend of Anne Frank’s from Amsterdam released a new memoir about the little known German official and lawyer Hans Calmeyer, who saved her family and others from the Holocaust.
In Shedding Our Stars: A Story of Hans...
Danon: European ‘automatic support’ for Palestinians is ‘a propaganda campaign’
The U.N. Security Council convened on Wednesday in the aftermath of the U.S. State Department’s policy change on Tuesday regarding the legal status of the Jewish communities in the West Bank.
“All settlements are illegal...