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An Israeli Air Force F-35 fighter jet seen during the "Blue Flag", an international aerial training exercise at the Ovda air force base, Southern Israel, November Southern Israel, October 24, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

2022: The year Iran’s nuclear program becomes top priority for the Israeli Air Force

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The year 2022 is set to be the year that the Israeli Air Forces places its long-range strike capabilities against Iran’s nuclear program sites at the top of its priority list. Recent years have seen...

This Article Is Not About Trying To Squeeze More Activities In The Time We...

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For the purposes of this article, I am only interested in the notion of time from the point of view of how people experience it.  There are two fundamental ways of experiencing time.  There...
Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Jewish woman brutally murdered in her apartment, was a Holocaust survivor. She had managed to evade as a child the 1942 Vel d’Hiv Nazi-directed roundup by French police of more than 13,000 Jews who were sent to Nazi death camps.

Murderer of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll sentenced to life

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A French court on Wednesday sentenced Yacine Mihoub to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, for the 2018 murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll. A second man, Alexander Carrimbacus,...

Australian wins ORT Teacher of the Year Award

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A ‘sparkly, positive’ teacher at Singapore’s leading Jewish school has collected a global award for her dedication and commitment to her students and colleagues during the past year. Maire Clapham, a primary teacher at the...

Jeff Seidel’s Chanukah campaign to distribute menorahs across Israel to university and gap year...

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Chanukah is right around the corner. Jeff Seidel’s Chanukah menorah distribution campaign is back once again distributing nearly 1000 menorah packets to the overseas students throughout Israel. Some students have received menorahs or are...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett with members of a U.S. congressional delegation on a trip sponsored by J Street. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Did Bennett’s J Street meeting help Israel’s efforts to hold onto Democratic support?

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In its 15 years of existence, the left-wing lobby J Street has won many public-relations victories and almost none when it came to policy. Its impact in Washington has, for the most part, been...
Philafrenzy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Academic departments need to steer clear of activism against Israel

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The obsessive loathing of Israel by large swathes of academia was evident this past spring as Hamas showered Israeli population centers with more than 4,000 rockets and mortars. Instead of denouncing genocidal aggression on...
Sheba Medical Center dietitians Meital Benjamin (left) and Ayelet Gur-Arie deliver supplements to patients blended into ice-cream. Credit: Courtesy.

A healthy scoop: Sheba medical dieticians turn supplements into sweets

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Dieticians at Sheba Medical Center in Israel have sweetened the offerings for some of their older patients who require food supplements. At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when no visitors were allowed in the...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Source: Screenshot.

Pompeo: Israel has ‘duty’ to defend itself from Iran absent US support

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believes that Israel has the “duty” to defend itself from Iran if Tehran takes actions that threaten Israel absent U.S. support. “If the United States is not with...
The U.N. General Assembly commemorates the 20th anniversary of the adoption of Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, Sept. 22, 2021. Credit: UN Photo/Cia Pak.

1,500-plus rabbis rebuke US for abstention vote on UN resolution targeting Israel

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The largest rabbinic public-policy organization in the United States called the Biden administration’s decision to abstain from a U.N. General Assembly draft resolution that targeted Israel “quite disappointing.” The text, called “Assistance to Palestinian Refugees,” demands “compensation”...