United Hatzalah volunteers responded to a stabbing incident on Highway 443 near the town of Maccabim-Reut towards the Shilat junction. One woman was lightly injured in the incident. The attacker was described as a 14-Year-Old girl from a nearby Palestinian village. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yosef Horowitz who was one of the first responders at […]

ISRAEL (JNS) – Israel’s Central Election Committee announced late on Tuesday night that it was amending the final election results following an investigation into electoral fraud, bumping the Likud Party from 31 to 32 seats and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) Party from eight to seven. The change did not alter the division of Knesset seats […]

ENGLAND (JNS) The British Labour Party voted in on Tuesday several anti-Israel policies, including what is believed to be its first formal policy regarding BDS. During the Labour Party conference in Brighton, delegates voted to support a boycott of Israeli settlement goods and called for the rejection of trade agreements with Israel. Reports noted that the nearly […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Daniel Birnbaum, the former CEO of SodaStream, is under investigation for insider trading violations surrounding the company’s acquisition by PepsiCo. Birnbaum, who announced earlier this year that he would step down as international chairman of the company this month, was questioned and released from custody on Monday. He was scheduled to return […]

Reports from the negotiations taking place between the Likud and Blue-And-White imply that the two sides are still far apart but are beginning to show signs of conceding on various issues which they had been insistent on before the elections. For example, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin who is conducting negotiations for the Likud hinted that […]

WASHINGTON (JNS) Senior American officials are extremely frustrated over the ongoing political deadlock in Israel. Trump administration officials familiar with American-Israeli relations said in private discussion with Israel Hayom recently that the political stalemate was leading to a significant missed opportunity from Israel’s perspective. The officials didn’t expand on the specific steps the administration would currently be taking […]

NEW YORK (JNS) Israeli, Jewish and pro-Israel groups all applauded the publication of an ‘unprecedented’ United Nations report on anti-Semitism, that, among other issues, links anti-Semitism to criticism of Israel and the BDS movement. “This report marks one of the first times the U.N. has addressed the issue of anti-Semitism in any detail,” said Anne Herzberg, […]

NEW YORK (JNS) In his speech at the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump called on the international community to take action against the threat from Iran, which he said also employs anti-Semitism. He also said that U.S. sanctions on Iran would continue, despite reports in recent weeks […]

Jerusalem- Israel’s two largest parties met Tuesday to discuss the possibility of forming a unity government, in a long-shot effort to solve the political paralysis that has emerged from last week’s deadlocked national elections. The meeting between party representatives comes a day after Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of […]

United Nations – Israeli, Jewish and pro-Israel groups all applauded the publication of an ‘unprecedented’ United Nations report on anti-Semitism, that, among other issues, links anti-Semitism to criticism of Israel and the BDS movement. “This report marks one of the first times the U.N. has addressed the issue of anti-Semitism in any detail,” said Anne […]