Monthly Archives: August 2023
Likud calls for criminal charges after Barak compares Netanyahu to Hitler
Israel's ruling Likud Party on Monday denounced former premier Ehud Barak for posting to social media a video that compares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
"Must watch! Is Netanyahu mentally unfit...
Gallant calls for ‘urgent UN intervention’ at Lebanon border
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday called for the United Nations to step in to stop the growing threat from Hezbollah at the Lebanon border.
The minister made the request during a meeting at the organization's...
Flight with 100-plus Israelis makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia
A commercial flight from the Seychelles to Tel Aviv carrying 128 Israelis made an unscheduled landing in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday night.
Air Seychelles flight HM022 was forced to land due to an electrical...
Netanyahu to vet all secret meetings after Libya fallout
In the wake of the Libya fiasco, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday instructed government ministers to get his personal approval in advance of and for the release for publication of any secret diplomatic meetings.
The...
Actress Arleen Sorkin of daytime TV fame dies at 67
After fighting multiple sclerosis for a decade, the disease took the life of 67-year-old Jewish film and television actress Arleen Sorkin on Aug. 24.
Playing Calliope Jones Bradford in the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” Sorkin served...
Jewish resistance hero identified 80 years after execution by Nazis
Dutch forensic investigators have identified the remains of a man executed by the Nazis in the Netherlands eight decades ago as that of a Jewish resistance hero after locating a cousin in Australia, investigators...
Meet Israel’s only female ultra-Orthodox Border Police officer
Sgt. Maj. Avishag Shiran Malka, 38, is the only female ultra-Orthodox member of the Israel Border Police. The stringent religious practice of the ultra-Orthodox combined with the intense nature of her work can be...
Antisemitic incident report: Aug. 19-25
JNS publishes a weekly listing of antisemitic incidents recorded and found by Jewish, pro-Jewish and pro-Israel organizations; national and international news; and social media. By the Anti-Defamation League’s count, an average of seven instances...
Farmers market boots vender who offered ‘Gas the Jews’ discount code
There’s peppercorn, and then there’s pepper scorn.
Justin Bale, who owns a business in Olathe, Kan., that grows more than 100 kinds of peppers and tomatoes, in addition to seasonings and hot sauces, has been...
Dutch Supreme Court: Gantz immune from 2014 ‘war crimes’ suit
The Netherlands' highest court ruled on Friday that former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was immune from civil prosecution over the deaths of six Palestinians in an airstrike undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces...