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Daily Archives: August 4, 2020

Israeli soldiers patrol near the northern border with Syria on Aug. 3, 2020. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.

Israel strikes key Syrian military sites in response to earlier attack in Golan

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The Israel Defense Forces has carried out several airstrikes on Syrian military targets late Monday in response to an earlier attempted IED attack in the Golan Heights. “IDF aircraft have struck various military targets belonging...
U.S. President Donald Trump at a press conference at the Bioprocess Innovation Center at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies in Morrisville, N.C., July 27, 2020. Credit: White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

Trump fundraiser to be held at New Jersey home of late Syrian-Jewish leader

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U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a private fundraiser at the New Jersey home of Syrian-Jewish leader Stanley Chera on Aug. 9. Chera, a real estate developer and friend of the president, died in...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on July 5, 2020. Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL.

Netanyahu: Sovereignty is ‘not off the table,’ issue in Washington’s hands

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the issue of Israel applying sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria remains on the table. “The issue of applying sovereignty is in Washington … it’s not off...
Israeli soldiers near the Israeli-Syrian border, in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on August 3, 2020. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90

IDF’s border alertness prevents second attempt at purported retaliation by Hezbollah-Iran axis

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For the second time in less than a week, the border alertness of the Israel Defense Forces border has proven itself, allowing the military to stay one step ahead of the Hezbollah-Iran axis and...
Ysselsteyn German war cemetery in Holland. Credit: Alex Hoekerd/Flickr.

US ambassador to Holland visits cemetery that includes graves of Waffen-SS

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U.S. Ambassador to Holland Pete Hoekstra visited a Dutch cemetery on Thursday where Nazis are buried. “Walked among the graves at Ysselsteyn, a cemetery for German soldiers from WWI & WWII. A terrible reminder of...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Jan. 11, 2019. Credit: U.S. House of Representatives Official Photo.

Pelosi gives $14,000 to Omar’s re-election campaign

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has donated $14,000 to the re-election campaign of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, according to Federal Election Commission records released on Thursday. Pelosi gave $10,000 from her political action...

August 4, 1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead due to a tragic overdose

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Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortensen), who became a convert to Judaism when she married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956, was found dead of a drug overdose in her home on this date in 1962. Monroe...