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Daily Archives: November 5, 2020

Knesset member Bezalel Smotrich at a conference in Lod on July 22, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

MK pushes Netanyahu to apply sovereignty before new US president sworn in

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Yamina Party Knesset member Bezalel Smotrich called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to apply sovereignty to Judea and Samaria before the next U.S. president is sworn in, in case former U.S. Vice President...

Barozzi Veiga Wins Competition to Design and Renovate the Jewish Museum of Belgium

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Barozzi Veiga, in collaboration with Tab Architects and Barbara Van Der Wee Architects, has just won the competition for the renovation of the Jewish Museum of Belgium. Discrete yet present and integrated into the urban fabric, as the jury stated, the proposal...
Photo by: Ted Eytan Creative Commons

Pennsylvanians glory in their election role

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It is almost all up to the surviving Pennsylvanians whose votes have yet to be counted. That means me. My head swelled for awhile as Joe Biden, Donald Trump and their surrogates traversed Pennsylvania’s 46,000...
Francisco Goya Disasters of War - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Strategy, Plague and War: Israel’s Complex Nuclear Future

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“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”-T S Eliot, The Waste Land Despite the noise and aggressive self-promotion, Trump administration diplomacy in the Middle East and Africa has always been a net-negative for...

Grave of Samuel Cohen, composer of Hatikvah is restored

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Shmuel Cohen, or Sam Cohen to us less Yiddish aware, is a relatively common Jewish name.  There are 708 Sam Cohens in just California and New York alone.  There is only one Shmuel Cohen...
Shuttered retail shops on a normally busy street in Jerusalem, Nov. 4, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Retail shops to reopen Sunday with four-customer limit

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that retail shops will be allowed to resume business on Sunday, with a four-customer limit. Netanyahu said that the decision was reached during Wednesday’s coronavirus Cabinet meeting,...
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan, in his first address to the Security Council, Oct. 26, 2020. Source: Facebook/Gilad Erdan.

Erdan: UN resolutions only perpetuate Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan criticized U.N. bodies on Wednesday for consistently supporting anti-Israel resolutions that he said perpetuated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Erdan made his remarks at the U.N. General Assembly Fourth...
Cyber attackers around the world—ranging from criminals to state actors—are taking advantage of the massive global shift to working from home in the age of the coronavirus pandemic. Credit: PXhere.com

Cyber attackers are ‘taking advantage’ of mass shift in working from home

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Cyber attackers around the world—ranging from criminals to state actors—are taking advantage of the massive global shift to working from home in the age of the coronavirus pandemic and escalating cyber attacks, senior former...
A view of the Hadassah-Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Jordanian officer airlifted to Israeli hospital for emergency treatment

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A Jordanian army officer was airlifted to Israel on Wednesday for urgent medical treatment at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, according to senior Jordanian sources. The hospital confirmed that “a Jordanian army officer was...
Jordanian cleric Abu Qatada al-Filastini (MEMRI)

Prominent Jordanian cleric urges followers to read anti-Semitic texts

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A prominent Jordanian cleric on Tuesday recommended that his followers read Machiavelli’s The Prince, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Hitler’s Mein Kampf if they wished to understand modern political history. In a Telegram post, Salafi-jihadi ideologue Abu...