Monthly Archives: August 2022

The Biden administration authorized two large-scale defense sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, to help defend against threats from Iran, the Associated Press reported. The more than $5 billion in missile defense...

Roads in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip remained closed on Wednesday for a second day amid fears of reprisal attacks following the arrest of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad figure in Jenin on Monday. Local media...

Since being launched by the Israel Defense Forces in March this year, “Operation Breakwater,” aimed at stopping a wave of deadly Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis, has significantly dented the motivation and intent of...

Attempts at mediation in the lawsuit filed by the board of ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s against its parent company Unilever for transferring the rights to produce its ice-cream in Israel to an Israeli...

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt stated on LBC TV (Lebanon) on July 26 that a war between Hezbollah and Israel could result in mutually assured destruction—and that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah should be made aware of...

Sixteen-year-old Tevel Argental, from the northern Israeli town of Yokneam, has been battling brain cancer since she was two years old. She has undergone multiple surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments that have allowed...

Auburn University’s men’s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl is in Israel with his team for the inaugural “Birthright for College Basketball” tour from July 31 to Aug. 10. The reigning SEC regular-season champion Tigers will...

There are Jewish comedians. And then there is Jewish comedy. The first-ever Chosen Comedy Festival, set for Aug. 16 in Brooklyn, N.Y., will bring both. “There’s so much about Jewish comedy that is talked about in...

Israel’s Ambassador to Morocco David Govrin signed a construction contract on Tuesday for building a headquarters for a permanent Israeli embassy in Morocco. “I am very happy to share with you this photo, which witnesses...

“Civilization is the never-ending process of creating one world and one humanity.” Lewis Mumford, In the Name of Sanity (1954) Biological Sameness and Species Unification The unity and interdependence of humankind is not subject to reasonable challenge. Beginning with our biological sameness,...