Daily Archives: May 15, 2023
Israel’s Noa Kirel finishes third at Eurovision
Israeli pop star Noa Kirel finished in third place at Saturday night’s Eurovision Song Contest final in Liverpool behind Sweden and Finland.
The 22-year-old IDF veteran from the central Israeli city of Ra’anana was aiming to become the fifth...
Remains of the day: Cheese, in all its glorious forms
According to tradition, Shavuot—the two-day holiday that begins on the eve of the evening of May 25, the sixth day of the Jewish month of Sivan—marks the Israelites’ receiving of the Ten Commandments at...
Thieves caught robbing 2,000-year-old Galilee archaeological site
Authorities caught five suspects red-handed trying to rob a 2,000-year-old antiquities site in northern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday.
The suspects were trying to rob a Roman-Byzantine site in the village of...
Turkey’s 2023 elections: The beginning of the post-Erdoğan era?
General and presidential elections will be held in Turkey on May 14. The elections were brought forward by a month to avoid the pilgrimage to Mecca (the hajj), university entrance exams and the start of...
Can Israeli resilience inspire alienated Americans?
Israelis had a rough week. The country was subjected to a barrage of nearly 1,000 rockets and missiles fired at it by Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists. Though for the most part, the Iron Dome air-defense...
More than 30 countries boycott UN ‘Nakba’ Day
In a seemingly never-ending war of narratives, the Palestinians got center stage on Monday at the United Nations, though Israel was victorious in dwindling the audience down.
May 15 marked the first official U.N. “Nakba...
King Charles to visit Israel
Preparations are underway for newly crowned King Charles of England to become the first British sovereign to visit the Holy Land, British media reported on Sunday.
“The preparation has been done by his team to...
Calgary Peace Prize going to Palestinian poet who spews hate against Jews
The Anti-Defamation League has called Mohammed El-Kurd an “unvarnished, vicious antisemite.” Yet in spite of widely available evidence attesting to his prominence as a hatemonger, Mount Royal University in Canada chose to award the writer with...
Jerusalem Day flag march to test Gaza truce
This week’s Jerusalem Day flag march through the capital’s Old City will be a significant test for the recently brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.
In an article published in the...
Violence breaks out at protest of Israeli minister’s visit
A violent altercation occurred between opponents of judicial reform protesters and security personnel during a visit by Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat to a hotel in northern Israel on Monday.
The demonstrators had gathered at the...