Jerusalem – Two people and 76 others were injured during violent protests on Friday along the Israel-Gaza border for a 73rd consecutive week, this time consisting of 6,200 Palestinians against Israel Defense Forces stationed there. Ali Sami Al-Ashqar, 17, was killed east of Jabalia City, while Ashati refugee camp resident Khalid Al-Raba’i, 14, was killed […]

Jerusalem – Two Palestinian teenagers were killed in clashes Friday with the Israeli military along the Gaza border, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Israel Defense Forces said approximately 6,200 Palestinians participated in what the army called “especially violent” protests. The IDF said demonstrators threw explosive devices at its soldiers. The Gaza Health Ministry, which […]

Jerusalem – As the election campaign heads into its final week, the two largest parties—Likud, and Blue and White—are appearing to focus on a familiar campaign strategy to drain support from smaller parties on the left and right to boost their own totals. “Blue and White has decided to focus on taking votes away from […]

Jerusalem – After expressing initial opposition, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged the possibility of a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this month at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “I’m sure Trump will take a much tougher position,” Netanyahu told reporters on Thursday in London, where he […]

Jerusalem – To mark the new school year that began this week, President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin today, Thursday 5 September / 5 Elul, opened the new education campus at the Eshkol Regional Council and met with fourth graders. The ceremony was attended by Director-General of the Ministry of Education Shmuel Abuav and head of the […]

The week-long program included classes in Hebrew and Torah, lectures, Shabbat activities, singing and dancing. More than 250 Nigerian youth and 20 adults gathered in Onithsa from Aug. 18-25 for a national week-long Jewish leadership and learning seminar organized by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, activist and educator Danny Limor, and the Nigerian Jewish Youth […]

Asked whether the Polish government had bought controversial telephone-surveillance technology from the Israeli firm NSO Group, Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki tells opposition lawmakers that “everything that needs to be, will be clarified in due time.” Opposition lawmakers pressured Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Wednesday to clarify whether their government had purchased Pegasus, a telephone-surveillance […]

Washington – Former Texas representative and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the U.S.-Israel relationship into a partisan issue. “Certainly the president is trying to [turn Israel into a partisan issue]; I don’t think he’ll be successful in that,” he told Haartez at the LGBTQ […]

Jerusalem – Last week Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who was visiting Israel at the time, made a pilgrimage to the Kotel and prayed that his state should not get hit by hurricanes this year, according to a Fox News report. With the deadly Hurricane Dorian bearing down on Florida at the beginning of the week […]

Jerusalem – Israel Police arrested 170 Druze men on Thursday at the border with Jordan as they tried to reach Syria via Jordan, allegedly to to meet with Syrian government officials. The convoy of buses and cars set out from the northern Galilee and Mount Carmel regions, and was supposedly traveling for religious purposes. Israel […]