President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew University at a convocation ceremony held at the University’s Mt. Scopus campus in Jerusalem. Rivlin addressed the audience,
Health Minister Ya’akov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) suggested a compromise to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the coalition crisis with Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), it was revealed Sunday
In response to the current standoff over Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s (Jewish Home) demand to appoint a military secretary to every Security Cabinet minister, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud)
Real estate mogul Donald Trump, who currently is the Republican presidential nominee, decided to launch his campaign due to the controversial Iran nuclear deal sealed last July, according to his
The Education Department of the Beit Shemesh Municipality on Sunday held a discussion regarding student transportation for special education schools. The municipality invited all parents to attend at the summit,
Jordan Justein, an 18-year-old high school student, was harassed and kicked by anti-Israel protesters after he defiantly counter-protested an anti-Israel rally, according to CIJnews. The anti-Israel protest was being held
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday emphasized that he believes in Israel’s right to exist, but also said that in order to achieve peace in the Middle East, the
Beilinson Hospital’s Department of Organ Transplantation conducted a unique kidney transplant, setting a first in Israel. Nine years ago, a 55-year-old woman underwent a kidney transplant in the Philippines. Last week,
Arab assailants from the village of Urif in Samaria set two fires adjacent to the Jewish town of Yitzhar last Friday afternoon, report residents of the Jewish town. The town’s
Speaking at Harvard University’s commencement, filmmaker Steven Spielberg said he was “wrong” as a kid to think anti-Semitism “was fading.” Spielberg, whose 99-year-old father Arnold sat in one of the
Russian news outlet RT reported that Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas wants NATO to replace IDF forces in Judea and Samaria as part of any long term peace deal with Israel.
Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan met Sunday with the Elders’ Forum of National Religious Rabbis including chairman Rabbi Haim Druckman, who heads the Ohr Etzion Yeshiva, the Bnei Akiva Youth Movement
French Jews are experiencing the most difficult situation they have encountered since the end of World War II, the newly-elected president of France’s umbrella of Jewish communities said. Francis Kalifat,
In an unprecedented move, Homefront Commander Maj. Gen. Yoel Strick has forbidden a Jewish youth from contacting a whopping 87 people, all of whom were listed by name in an
Israel sent $20,000 worth of supplies to the Disaster Relief Management Ministry of Sri Lanka, following recent floods and landslides that have caused countless deaths and much damage in the island nation.
The Health Ministry has warned of an outbreak of the West Nile virus in Israel, after four cases were reported in the last two months since March. One patient was
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health submitted a report that was used in formulating the UN World Health Organization’s (WHO) discriminatory resolution last week, which singled out Israel as the
Senior IDF officials believed that the terror tunnel operation during Operation Protective Edge was incomplete at the war’s end, a report revealed Sunday – long before the military uncovered two
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) spoke out on Army Radio on Sunday regarding her party’s demands for security cabinet reforms, saying that the Jewish Home was not prepared to
An American Palestinian Arab activist made bold statements against the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the watchdog revealed this week, claiming that MEMRI is part of a ‘Zionist plot.’ “As part
The ‘nationalistic rape’ of a mentally handicapped Israeli woman may not have been terror-related at all, Israel Police sources claimed Sunday. “It looks like we aren’t talking about a nationalistic crime,” Police
A unique Bar Mitzvah celebration took place at the Yeshivat Hesder Meir Harel in Modi’in Thursday, on Lag Ba’Omer. The Bar Mitzvah boy, an autistic teen, was the first to celebrate the
Its every parent’s worst nightmare: a small child goes to sleep with no apparent signs of life-threatening illness – but never wakes up. That’s the sad story of a grief-stricken
Israeli security forces have apprehended the Hamas terrorist cell responsible for the bombing of a number 12 bus in Jerusalem on April 18 which left 19 people injured, many of them seriously,
Some 2,000 left-wing activists demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, protesting Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman’s appointment as Defense Minister. The protest was led by Zahava Gal-On, head of
An anxious job-seeker in the Ukrainian town of Medzhybizh tried finding work at the local synagogue, but when he was told to come back later he became incensed – and
An advanced missile defense system was installed on Israeli Air Force (IAF) CH-53 Yasur transport helicopters, the military confirmed last week, as part of its target to upgrade the helicopters by
It’s the old, “I’d like to say a few words before I speak” line. Bear with me… I recently spent Shabbat with a daughter and grandchildren while my son-in-law the
Canada once again backed Israel at the UN this week when it voted against the World Health Organization’s (WHO) resolution singling out only Israel for “mental, physical and environmental health”
Education Minister and Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett on Saturday night elaborated on his demands to optimize the Security Cabinet as a precondition for the Jewish Home to support the