Monthly Archives: May 2023
Hamas terrorist caught planning attack in Jerusalem
Israeli security personnel arrested a Hamas terrorist on Thursday who was planning to carry out a shooting attack in Jerusalem.
According to police, the 29-year-old Palestinian from Ramallah was detained while trying to acquire a...
Knesset members visit Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day
Several Knesset members visited the Temple Mount in celebration of Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the reunification of Israel’s capital during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Likud Party MKs Amit Halevi, Ariel Kallner and Dan Illouz...
Gallant opens door to Jewish return to evacuated part of Samaria
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has instructed Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, head of the IDF Central Command, to sign an order that could allow Jews to once more live in Homesh, one of the four...
Israeli, US diplomats discuss Negev Forum in Washington
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met in Washington on Wednesday with Ronen Levi, the director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
During the meeting, which was closed to the press, the two diplomats discussed “a...
US antisemitism envoy slams Abbas comparison of Israel to Nazis
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Deborah Lipstadt on Wednesday slammed as “unacceptable” Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s comparison this week of Israel to Nazi Germany.
“P.A. President Abbas’s equating Israel with the...
Netanyahu on Jerusalem Day: ‘We have returned to our country’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday that despite the many threats Israel faces, it will continue to build up its “eternal capital” Jerusalem.
The comments came ahead of Jerusalem Day, an annual holiday...
Tel Aviv ANU–Museum of the Jewish People buys Codex Sassoon for $33.5 million
First, there was the possibility that Renaissance man par excellence Leonardo da Vinci was Jewish. Now, the oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, Codex Sassoon, which dates to around the year 900, beat da Vinci’s Codex Leicester as the...
2,000-year-old receipt uncovered on Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem
Someone forgot his receipt.
A financial record from two millennia ago was uncovered on what was Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare during the Second Temple period, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday.
The inscription on the small stone...
Jerusalem forever, inside and out
Fifty-six years ago tomorrow, during the Six-Day War, Israel reclaimed the Old City of Jerusalem after fierce fighting against the Jordanian army. Israel appealed to Jordan to stay out of the war, but God...
Biden names 10 to US Holocaust Memorial Council
U.S. President Joe Biden announced his intent on May 17 to appoint 10 people to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
Among the nominees are American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch; Rabbi Michael Beals (whom...