Daily Archives: July 28, 2021
Ruth Pearl, mother of slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, dies at 85
Ruth Pearl, the mother of slain Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl, died on July 20 at the age of 85.
In 2002, Ruth Pearl and her husband, Judea Pearl, were thrust into international attention after Al-Qaeda...
National Library of Israel digitizes personal effects, poetry of Hannah Senesh
In celebrating 100 years since the birth of Jewish war hero and poet Hannah Senesh (Szenes), the National Library of Israel has digitized dozens of items from her recently acquired archive, many of them never previously...
WIZO dedicates new day-care center in Tel Aviv to Los Angeles philanthropists
The Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) opened a new day-care center in Tel Aviv sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation.
Named the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Day Care and Early...
Will Lapid’s charm offensive work better than Netanyahu’s realpolitik?
Like all new governments determined to show that it is an improvement over its predecessor, the unlikely coalition cobbled together by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid—though formally led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett—is determined...
Human Rights Watch’s new report is a dud
Human Rights Watch has just published a new report supposedly examining Israel’s conduct during its 11-day war with Hamas in May, and it comes as little surprise that their conclusion is that Israel committed war crimes.
Little...
Deceptive nature of current quiet in the West Bank
A recent mass arrest of Hamas members in the West Bank offers a glimpse into the deceptive nature of the ongoing quiet in the area and how hard the terror organization based in the...
‘Hate can’t stop us’: Boston’s Shaloh House fights back after anti-Semitic attack
No one ever expected a pile of Gan Israel camp T-shirts to be used to stop the bleeding of one of the campers’ teachers—certainly not Rabbi Shlomo Noginski himself.
But on July 1, that was...
IDF increases number of Palestinians eligible to work inside Israel
The Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, informed Palestinian Authority senior officials of a rise in the number of Palestinians eligible to work in Israel, the Israel Defense...
Republican lawmakers introduce bill to block US foreign aid to UNRWA
Republicans in Congress are responding to the resumption of U.S. foreign aid to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) by the Biden administration earlier this year by introducing a...
Israeli aid NGO dispatches team to flood-afflicted western Germany
Following the floods that recently devastated communities in Western Germany, the Israeli NGO IsraAID sent out a response team to help with relief distribution, clean-up efforts and psychological first aid.
The floods, which hit Germany...