Daily Archives: March 13, 2024
Knesset passes updated wartime budget
Israeli lawmakers approved the country’s amended war budget for 2024 on Wednesday afternoon after weeks of delay due to disagreements within the unity government. The budget bill was approved with 62 Knesset members in...
Columbia university president to testify about campus antisemitism
Nemat (“Minouche”) Shafik, the president of Columbia University in New York City, escaped the grilling that the leaders of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania endured when speaking...
Terrorist stabs two Israelis near Jerusalem
Two Israelis were wounded on Wednesday morning in a terrorist stabbing at the “tunnel road” checkpoint between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem.
Magen David Adom personnel treated a 19-year-old female member of the IDF Military Police...
Indiana governor should veto ‘toothless’ Jew-hatred bill, attorney general says
Indiana state senators have turned a bill, which was originally written to protect Jewish students from “ruthless, antisemitic attacks that have increased since the horrific slaughter of Israelis on Oct. 7,” into “a toothless...
The US intelligence community’s assessment of the Iranian threat
The U.S. intelligence community’s latest Annual Threat Assessment provides a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted threats to U.S. interests, allies and influence in the Middle East posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The...
Floyd Mayweather dedicates motorcycle fleet to Magen David Adom
On the fourth day of his trip to Israel, former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather visited Magen David Adom’s Marcus National Blood Services Center in the central city of Ramla, where he dedicated a fleet...
US government investigating NY, MA school districts, Eastern Washington University
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced Title VI investigations on Tuesday of Seekonk Public Schools (Mass.), Yonkers Public Schools (N.Y.) and Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash.
The department doesn’t announce...
The state of the world
The U.S. Constitution mandates that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union.” The information that President Biden conveyed last week failed to convey...
Netanyahu to Dutch PM: Rafah op essential to defeating Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte in Jerusalem on Wednesday, for their fourth tête-à-tête since the outbreak of the war against Hamas.
Netanyahu emphasized that the prospective IDF operation in...
IDF inching closer to Rafah op, Gallant hints during Gaza visit
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, during a visit to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, seemed to indicate that the Israel Defense Forces operation against Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Rafah will happen...