Daily Archives: June 17, 2024
What do the protesters really want?
There has been an immense investment in protesting the current Israeli government, its leadership and its policies. Front and center, of course, is rabid hatred of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is closely followed...
Gaza reconstruction is the way for Israel to regain initiative
The State of Israel has not known a war as long and comprehensive as the one currently raging in Gaza since the War of Independence. The 1970-1971 War of Attrition lasted about a year...
After Gantz exit, Netanyahu disbands War Cabinet
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has informed members of his government of his intent to dissolve the War Cabinet set up after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
The premier told ministers on Sunday that the powerful...
US designates people, entities, many with ties to China, for supplying weapons to Houthis
The U.S. Treasury Department designated three people, six companies and a vessel that it said are connected to procuring weapons for the Houthi terrorists.
“The Houthis’ continued, indiscriminate and reckless attacks against unarmed commercial vessels...
IDF has destroyed half of Hamas’s fighting forces in Rafah
Around half of Hamas’s battalions in its last bastion of Rafah in southernmost Gaza have been dismantled during the current military operation there, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday.
Furthermore, soldiers from the Armored...
Attempts by ancient rabbis to curb Greek theater a comedy of errors, per new...
All the rabbinic world was not a stage, and all the halachic scholars were merely players in it telling obedient Jews to avoid the theater at all costs.
In the sixth-century Midrashic text, Ruth Rabah, Naomi tells her...
Biden: ‘Howard Fineman one of the great journalists of our time’
Following the death of American journalist and commentator Howard Fineman on June 11, U.S. President Joe Biden released a statement honoring the career of the longtime writer.
“Great journalists hold a mirror up to the nation to...
Top Biden envoy meets with Netanyahu as conflict in north heats up
Amos Hochstein, deputy assistant to the U.S. president and senior adviser for energy and investment, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on Monday as the Biden administration attempts...
Gallant to Congress members: We’re fighting for Western civilization
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met on Monday with a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation visiting the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on a trip organized by AIPAC’s American Israel Education Foundation.
The nine-member group consisted...
Almost 30 terrorists, including in Gaza, get Israeli gov’t benefits
Close to 30 Palestinian terrorists receive benefits from Israel’s National Insurance Institute, according to intelligence information uncovered by lawmaker Yulia Malinovsky (Yisrael Beiteinu) and made public by the Israel Hayom daily on Monday afternoon.
Last month, Welfare...