Monthly Archives: November 2020
ZOA urges Saudi government to include Israel on official maps
The Zionist Organization of America is urging Saudi Arabia to include Israel on its official maps.
Earlier this year on a trip there, ZOA national president Mort Klein met with Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Saudi...
Israel’s Joint List outraged after member says ‘Arab parties not in left’s pocket’
Deputy Knesset Speaker and Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas was the target of outrage within his own Joint Arab List faction after he told the right-leaning Israeli Channel 20 on Tuesday that “the Arab parties are...
Jewish-Arab Hackathon aims to model new projects and ties in Jerusalem
A group of 20 young entrepreneurs took part in a new initiative by Jewish and Arab entrepreneurs to build new projects for the benefit of Jerusalem.
The first Jewish-Arab-Jerusalem Hackathon took place this month in...
An insider’s look at Israel’s next satellite: A ‘smartphone in space’
Work is on track to develop and build Israel’s next-generation communications satellite, ensuring that Israel will retain its independence in the critical domain of space-based communications, executives from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), which is...
Israeli envoy calls for UN action against Iran over its actions in Syria
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan has called on the U.N. Security Council to take immediate steps to end the Iranian presence in Syria.
The Islamic republic has been largely credited for keeping...
Israeli military sees 160 percent rise in number of females in combat roles
The number of women in combat roles in the Israeli Defense Forces has risen by 160 percent over the past six years, it was revealed on Tuesday during a discussion at the Knesset’s Foreign...
Can Biden renew foreign aid to Palestinians while still adhering to Taylor Force Act?
The incoming Biden administration has made clear it intends to renew funding to the Palestinian Authority and reopen the PLO mission in Washington, D.C. In November, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris said in an interview,...
Netanyahu talks with Pollard, looks forward to his arrival in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked on the phone on Tuesday with Jonathan Pollard, a former intelligence analyst who served three decades in prison for spying for and giving classified information to Israel, and...
JNS ‘top 40’ global advocates for Israel online assemble for Knesset panel
More than 30 influential pro-Israel advocates participated in a special Knesset panel to address the diplomatic challenges Israel faces amid a growing wave of global anti-Semitism and anti-Israel media bias.
The panel was the result...
Historians, biographers probe Jewish Cleveland
Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community, edited by Sean Martin and John J. Grabowski; Rutgers University Press; 2020; ISBN 9781978-809949l; 242 pages including end notes and index.
I’ve always perceived a difference...