Daily Archives: December 8, 2020
In first, IAF chief names female officer as bureau chief
In a first, Israeli Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin on Monday named a female officer to serve as his bureau chief.
Maj. N., who serves as deputy commander of the 119th Air Force...
Naftali Bennett: Approving a Palestinian state would be Israel’s ‘biggest mistake’
Israeli Knesset Member Naftali Bennett has warned that approving a Palestinian state would be the “biggest mistake in Israel’s history.”
Bennett, a member of the New Right Party, made the remark during a Zionist Organization of...
GOP Congress members move to ensure US embassy in Jerusalem stays put
Ahead of the three-year anniversary of U.S. President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, more than three-dozen Republican members of Congress have called for language in an upcoming must-pass appropriations bill that would...
Four happy songs with Bodo
Recently, the young Yiddishist and movie lover Aaron Bendich uploaded to YouTube some disco songs in Yiddish from the Israeli film, "When you give, you take."
Until recently, almost no one outside of Israel saw...
December 8, 1978: Golda Meir, Labor Zionist leader, diplomat and fourth Prime Minister of...
In October 1973, the State of Israel was caught off-guard by a ruthless surprise assault on two fronts by the Egyptian and Syrian armies, supported by half-a-dozen additional Arab countries. The first lines of...