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Qatar and the Jews: The scandal that just won’t go away
Qatar’s foreign minister last week declared that his country will not normalize relations with Israel. And yet, not long ago, a number of American Jewish leaders visited Qatar and announced that the Qataris were becoming moderate...
Knesset memorial session turns heated as Israel marks 26 years since Rabin assassination
Israel marked 26 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as part of a series of memorial events that began on Sunday night and continued through Monday. The date is recognized annually on...
Report: 89 percent of Netflix ‘Palestinian Stories’ directed by BDS backers
Nearly 90 percent of the Palestinian films in a collection launched last week by Netflix are directed by BDS supporters, Israeli NGO Im Tirtzu reported on Monday.
The collection, titled “Palestinian Stories,” is made of up...
Election of atheist Harvard chaplain to leadership role continues to stir up controversy
Greg Epstein, the new president of the Harvard chaplains, is an avowed atheist. His election has led to a perception gap between the Harvard chaplains who voted for him and the general public, which...
US reassurances of weighing ‘other options’ on Iran start to ring hollow
Israel could be forced to attack Iran due to U.S. “appeasement,” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday during a visit to Jerusalem. Such appeasement was made clearer during a press conference the...
Israel to showcase space tech at International Astronautical Congress in Dubai
Israel Aerospace Industries will lead the Israeli Space Exhibit at the 72nd International Astronautical Congress to be held in Dubai from Oct. 25 to Oct. 29.
In a statement on Monday, IAI said that as...
German Jewish singer at crux of anti-Semitic hotel incident accused of fabricating story
Gil Ofarim, the German Israeli singer who accused the Westin Hotel in Leipzig, Germany, of refusing him service because he wore a Star of David pendant is now being accused of fabricating the story.
Hotel surveillance video released to...
Scuba diver stumbles on 900-year-old Crusader sword off Israel coast
If there’s proof that you can’t go anywhere in Israel without stumbling on some kind of ancient artifact, it’s got to be the news this morning that a scuba diver has discovered an ancient...
‘Simply put, the journalist must change the world for the better’
Last Monday’s edition of Novaya Gazeta was perhaps one of the most festive ever. It was the first edition following the announcement by the Nobel Prize Committee that transformed the newspaper’s editor, Dmitry Muratov, into an...
Lebanon’s top cleric condemns Beirut violence, calls to respect judiciary
Lebanon’s top Christian cleric called on Sunday for all parties in the country to respect the independence of the judiciary, and condemned as “unacceptable” violence of the sort that erupted in Beirut last week.
“We...