Daily Archives: January 18, 2022
Historic scroll found at Ben-Gurion House ‘shines with the Zionist story’
A scroll presented to Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, during a tree-planting ceremony in 1949 was recently found at Ben-Gurion House in Tel Aviv.
The scroll was presented to Ben-Gurion by students at the...
Budapest: 77 years of ghetto liberation marked with 77 live survivor testimonies
A website dedicated to the recollections of Holocaust survivors and their rescuers was inaugurated this week by the Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities (EMIH), marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest...
Aiming for the moon … again
I expected the office of SpaceIL—the company that created “Beresheet,” the first-ever private spacecraft to attempt a moon landing, in 2019—to be in an industrial zone, filled with highly classified, space-age robotics. Instead, it’s in...
Together against hate
We all anxiously followed the unfolding on Saturday of the tragic hostage event at the Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. Unfortunately, this was not the first incident to occur during a Shabbat prayer...
Bennett to World Economic Forum: Iran an ‘octopus of terror and instability’
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the 2022 Davos World Economic Forum virtually on Tuesday, where he urged the international community to avoid financially supporting the Iranian regime.
“Iran is an octopus of terror and instability. Their...
New Berlin poster campaign aims to get Germans to recognize anti-Semitic biases
There is no such thing as “soft” anti-Semitism, or put more bluntly, Jew-hatred.
That’s the message from the city of Berlin, Germany, which is in the midst of a poster campaign meant to educate the...
Doctors find bullet in woman’s back three months after she felt ‘crazy pain’ at...
An Israeli woman recently discovered—three months after the fact—that she had been shot in the back while attending a wedding in Samaria, Israeli media reported.
Adi Bloy was celebrating at a friend’s wedding at Psagot...
‘It didn’t look good’: Texas rabbi describes escape from gunman in synagogue hostage situation
When Malik Faisal Akram knocked on the glass doors at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday morning, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker thought he looked like he could use a little shelter and let...
Beijing latest key player in nuclear negotiations, edging closer towards Tehran
As nuclear talks between Iran and world powers continue in Vienna, Iran appears to be already eying its next moves.
On Jan. 14, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian visited China to discuss the 25-year cooperation...
Israel’s ever-changing COVID policies wreak havoc on Jewish American travelers
Israel’s ever-changing coronavirus travel policies during the spread of the Omicron variant have wreaked havoc on Israelis, Jewish Americans and the Diaspora alike.
Jerusalem barred travel from Dec. 22 to Jan. 7 to and from...