Monthly Archives: July 2021
Taiwan to open extensive Jewish community center, kosher restaurant
Taiwan’s Jewish community announced the expected December opening of an extensive center to serve tourists and locals alike.
The Jeffrey D. Schwartz Jewish Community Center will house a synagogue that can hold more than 100...
Turkey’s empty charm offensive
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has again sought to warm ties with Israel, yet the regime’s Islamist ideology and hostility to the Jewish state make any improvement of relations extremely unlikely.
Erdoğan called Israel’s new President Isaac...
Tokyo Police using Israeli aerostats to help secure Olympic games
Israeli aerostats are in use by Tokyo Police to help secure the Olympic games, announced RT, the manufacturer of the systems, on Thursday.
RT’s SkyStar 180 tactical aerostats are being used by law enforcement for...
Israel’s Technion to scrap throwaway cutlery for more sustainable alternatives
In less than three months, on Oct. 1, the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology will stop buying disposable utensils.
The decision by Technion executive vice president and director general Professor Boaz Golany came after a lengthy...
Casualties in the 2021 Gaza conflict: How many and who were they?
During the 11 days of Hamas’s rocket assault against Israel, twelve civilians in Israel and an IDF soldier, Omer Tabib, were killed by Hamas terrorists. An additional 312 civilians and three soldiers were wounded in Israel.
In Gaza, the Hamas-run...
Delta passengers outraged at airline’s serving Ben & Jerry’s on flight to Israel
Bitter scoop: Passengers on a Delta flight from New York to Tel Aviv on Wednesday were displeased when they discovered that the in-flight service included a less-than-sweet treat—Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream.
Many of the passengers...
Israel faces Russia policy change, or perhaps political posturing, regarding Syria
Lebanese media outlets as well as Saudi Arabia’s London-based Asharq Al-Awsat have reported that Israel’s freedom of action against Iran in Syria is dwindling as Russia makes changes to its policy vis-à-vis its relationship with Israel....
On ever more hostile campuses, CAMERA teaches strategies to combat anti-Israel hate
Dozens of college students from the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and elsewhere gathered online for the annual CAMERA on Campus conference aimed at empowering young adults to be advocates for Israel in...
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...