Daily Archives: August 11, 2021
Lessening the labor of Labor Day Rosh Hashanah
I know, I know; it’s summer! Must we think of all the cooking now? With the sun beating down, camp finishing up and vacations still in the works, and long evenings to sit outside...
Future lone soldiers arrive with Nefesh B’Nefesh during summer ‘aliyah’ peak
Twelve future lone soldiers were among new immigrants who landed this week on a Nefesh B’Nefesh Group Aliyah Flight, in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren...
145 Jewish Agency young emissaries set to arrive in communities around world
A total of 145 ShinShinim (gap-year emissaries) will depart this month for communities around the world on behalf of the Jewish Agency for Israel to begin a year of voluntary service to help strengthen world Jewry’s...
The BDS ice-cream war has created a political taste test
It’s the kind of a controversy that leaves a lot of Israelis cold. Citizens of the Jewish state may not have been pleased about the news that the Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream company had bowed...
Biden’s military strategy for Iraq should be applied in Afghanistan
A few weeks ago, the night before he was to meet with President Joe Biden, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani broke bread with a group of friendly diplomats, military officers, scholars and journalists. The dinner...
Israeli and American militaries tighten air-defense cooperation
Representatives from the U.S. and Israeli Air Forces met last month to discuss a remarkable development: what the Israel Defense Forces described as “updated orders for the cooperation between the two nations’ air-defense systems...
Hamas bars UN inspectors from examining tunnel under UNRWA school in Gaza
Hamas prevented a team of U.N. inspectors from examining a tunnel discovered in June under a school in Gaza city’s Zaitoun neighborhood, Israel’s Kan news reported on Tuesday.
Citing Palestinian sources, the report stated that a U.N. Mine Action...
German prosecutors prepare dozen-plus cases against Nazi war-crime suspects
Prosecutors in Germany are getting ready to bring forward more than a dozen legal cases against elderly men and women for their alleged work at Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Prosecutors confirmed last week that a...
Palestinians blast Fatah in West Bank protests against corruption, suppression
Ongoing Arab protests in recent weeks in the West Bank against the Palestinian Authority over the killing of opposition activist Nizar Banat by security forces have led to heavy criticism of the P.A. for suppression.
According to...
Report: Family of Sarah Halimi, murdered in France, files complaint in Israel against killer
The family of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman murdered four years ago in Paris, has filed a criminal complaint in Israel against the perpetrator, who was found unfit for trial in France due to...