Daily Archives: February 4, 2021
Bnei Menashe couples from India remarry near Netanya
Eleven Bnei Menashe couples who immigrated to Israel from northeastern India were remarried in a group ceremony at Shavei Israel’s absorption center near Netanya after completing their formal conversion to Judaism by the Chief Rabbinate.
The 11...
Don’t think a ‘reality czar’ would spare Israel and the Jews
It’s easy to scoff at some of the latest ideas being floated in some prestigious quarters for new limits on freedom of expression. But at a time when Big Tech companies are flexing their...
Biden’s foreign policy: A preliminary assessment
It is customary to give new U.S. administrations a grace period before assessing their policies, but no administration in modern history has changed so much so fast. Literally dozens of executive orders signed by...
Syria demands UNSC take ‘immediate’ action following alleged Israeli strike
The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Thursday demanded that the United Nations Security Council take “firm and immediate” action in the wake of missile strikes on Syrian targets allegedly carried out by Israel on Wednesday...
German cabinet officially recognizes IHRA as an international institution
The German cabinet officially recognized the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) as an international institution on Wednesday.
The move will grant the IHRA certain immunities, including tax privileges, said German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in...
Belgian court convicts Iranian diplomat of bomb plot in France
A Belgian court sentenced an Iranian diplomat to 20 years in prison for his role in planning a 2018 bomb attack on the annual rally of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)...
A sensitive Holocaust history for teens
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust by Albert Marrin, Alfred A. Knopf, 2019; ISBN 9781524-701215l; 334 pages plus 54 pages of notes, bibliography, and index; $19.99
Notwithstanding its title, this...
UAE official: Israel could ‘easily’ take out Iranian nuclear facilities
Dubai deputy police chief Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim said on Wednesday that Israel could easily destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“Israel can attack the nuclear facilities in Iran. And it would be easier than you...
UAE, Israeli soccer clubs to play first friendlies since normalization
United Arab Emirates soccer club Al-Ain will play Israel’s Maccabi Haifa in two friendly matches, the Emirati club announced on Wednesday.
The announcement was made during the virtual signing of a deal between the two...
Former Shin Bet chief calls for Israel to ‘initiate military operations against Iran’
In light of Iran’s fast-moving efforts to develop a nuclear bomb, Likud Knesset member and Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter, a former director of the Shin Bet, has called “to...