Daily Archives: May 17, 2021
Children’s Literature: ‘The Rabbi and the Painter’
The Rabbi and the Painter; story by Shoshana Weiss; illustrations by Jennifer Kirkham; Kalaniot Books, 2021; ISBN 9780998-852782; 28 pages plus historical notes.
This children’s book imagines a fictional friendship between the Mannerist painter Tintoretto and...
‘AP,’ ‘Al Jazeera’ and the mainstream media are tools in Hamas’s war against Israel
Journalists are expressing their outrage that the 12-story Al-Jalaa building housing the Gaza headquarters of Associated Press and Al Jazeera was targeted during retaliatory Israeli airstrikes on Saturday.
Al Jazeera Jerusalem bureau chief Walid al-Omari said that by striking the building,...
Facing the real cause of the long Arab war
The time has come for Israel to stop giving a pass to Arab Jew-hatred.
In his book From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, the late historian Robert Wistrich documented how before, during...
Netanyahu: Gaza media tower housed terrorist intelligence office
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the Israel Defense Force’s strike on a Gaza high rise that housed the Associated Press and Al Jazeera bureaus, saying that it hosted a terrorist intelligence office.
“An intelligence office for the Palestinian...
Two Jordanians with knives arrested after crossing into Israel
Israeli security forces arrested on Sunday two Jordanians carrying knives after crossing into Israel during the night.
The Jordanians were arrested in the Mount Gilboa in northern Israel area as they were walking near Road...
IDF thwarts infiltration from Lebanon; Hezbollah claims member ‘martyred’ in clash
Israeli troops on Friday night opened fire on a number of individuals attempting to infiltrate into the country from Lebanon, the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement. The suspects fled back into Lebanese...
As rockets rain down on Tel Aviv, foreign airlines suspend flights to Israel
Amid ongoing rocket attacks from Gaza, one after another foreign airline has suspended flights to Israel, multiple media outlets reported on Sunday, citing civil aviation officials.
According to the reports, most of the flights arriving...
‘Queen’s Speech’ outlines measures to halt UK officials from implementing BDS
Queen Elizabeth II has tasked the government of the United Kingdom with stopping local councils from implementing BDS activity against Israel and Jewish companies.
Though BDS is not specifically mentioned in her “Queen’s Speech” before...
IDF demolishes building used by Hamas, media agencies
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday demolished a multi-story building in Gaza that it said contained military assets belonging to Hamas’s military intelligence division.
The building also hosted the Al Jazeera and Associated Press media agencies.
The Hamas terror organization...
Arab-Israeli doctor injured saving Jew from Arab lynch mob
In an extraordinary act of bravery, an Arab Israeli doctor was injured trying to save the life of a Jewish Israeli man during an attempted lynching in Tamra, a Muslim city in the Galilee,...