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Israeli soldiers tour the new “Before My Very Eyes” exhibition at the Ariel Sharon Israel Defense Forces training campus in the Negev Desert. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Standing on the shoulders of survivors: New Holocaust center on IDF base designed to...

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In the winter of 1945, a time when 10-year-old Yitzhak Perlmutter spent his days pushing wheelbarrows full of coal from train to factory in Möllersdorf, a concentration camp subcamp, saving his extra piece of...
Young participants in March of the Living at the Auschwitz concentration camp site. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

Annual Holocaust march faces major challenge as survivors pass away

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The International March of the Living will take place in Poland on April 28 following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Despite the ability to gather in person, organizers say they now face a...
New immigrants Charley and Shaked Smith, and their baby son, Adar, on April 27, 2022. Photo by Yonit Schiller.

Nefesh B’Nefesh welcomes 74,000th new immigrant ahead of Israel’s 74th year

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Nefesh B’Nefesh, in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and JNF-USA, welcomed its 74,000th new immigrant on Wednesday. Charley Smith, 34, made aliyah from Florida and reunited...
Art Institute lion sculpture in Chicago. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Muslim ‘Lioness’ Growls at the Christians

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Looks like I may soon have the same challenge as an antisemitic co-worker years ago at a medical publishing company in New Jersey, all thanks to U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). I was passing through...
Young American Jews. Credit: SeeSaw GmbH/Shutterstock.

Young Jews, stand up for your people!

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The Bible tells us that there is nothing new under the sun. Jew-hatred is not a new thing. But the question is not what our enemies will do. It is what we will do, how...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a Yom Hashoah ceremony on April 27, 2022. Credit: GPO.

Bennett on Yom Hashoah: ‘We cannot allow gene of factionalism dismantle Israel’

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The modern-day State of Israel must not allow “the dangerous gene of factionalism” to dismantle it from within, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Wednesday. Speaking during a Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day...
President of the German Bundestag Barbel Bas with Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy, during a welcome ceremony at the Knesset on April 27, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Head of German parliament arrives in Israel to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day

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The president of the German Bundestag landed in Israel on Wednesday, where she is scheduled to participate in a number of events commemorating Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Bärbel Bas was welcomed to the Knesset by an honor...
Yamina Knesset member Amichai Chikli attends a Knesset House Committee discussion following a request by from the party for his ouster, April 25, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Ex-Yamina MK Chikli vows to remain in Knesset after being declared defector

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Former Yamina Party Knesset member Amichai Chikli said on Wednesday that he intended to remain in parliament despite being declared a party defector by the Knesset House Committee on Monday, at Yamina’s request. Speaking to 103...
Israeli National Security Advisor Eyal Hulata amd U.S .National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in December 2021. Source: Jake Sullivan/Twitter.

White House: Iran nuclear breakout period down to ‘just a few weeks’

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Iran’s breakout time to a nuclear weapon is now “just a few weeks or less,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Tuesday. Tehran had greatly accelerated its nuclear program after the United...
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Feb. 1, 2020. Source: Official website of the President of Turkey.

‘Turkey deporting Hamas members at Israel’s request’

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Amid Ankara’s efforts to repair relations with Israel, Hamas members and associates are being deported from Turkey, according to Palestinian officials. “Dozens of people identified with Hamas, in various circles, have been deported ,” one...