Wednesday, 03 May 2017 | The cultural organization of the United Nations on Tuesday adopted a third resolution indicating that Israel has no historical or legal right to any part of Jerusalem, ignoring the Jewish people’s millennia-old bond with the city. The UNESCO resolution, which was voted on as Israel celebrated its 69th Independence Day,
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 03 May 2017 | Yesterday, the modern State of Israel turned 69. “Happy birthday Israel!” screamed blue and white posters adorned with Stars of David on social and traditional media. “3,000 years old. 69 years young.” Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day), started on Monday night and an infectious joy pulsed through the country as the
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 03 May 2017 | On the eve of Israel’s 69th Independence Day, the population of Israel stands at 8,680,000 people. According to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the population increased by about 159,000 during the past year, an increase of 1.9%. Since the last Independence Day, 174,000 babies were born
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 03 May 2017 | A new document outlining the principles of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas “is unlikely to represent any profound change in Hamas’s true position toward Israel,” The New York Times reported Monday, citing unnamed experts. The Times noted that in addition to recently selecting “hardliner” Yahya Sinwar to head the group
Continue Reading »Monday, 01 May 2017 ǀ The wail of an air raid siren is never the harbinger of good news. It screams a warning of impending danger, of threats looming just beyond the horizon. Yet in Israel, an air raid siren can sometimes serve a different purpose: its mournful howl calls the people of the Promised
Continue Reading »Monday, 01 May 2017 | The official memorial hall on Mount Herzl was unveiled Thursday morning, [and was] inaugurated on Sunday—the eve of Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers. The new memorial hall is a stone-made mountain, towering to a height of 18 meters (59 feet), and comprises more than 23,000 bricks, each bearing the
Continue Reading »Monday, 01 May 2017 | All 100 members of the US Senate signed a letter Thursday urging the United Nations (UN) to stop unfairly targeting Israel. The senators noted that while the US co-founded the UN “with the intention of saving future generations from war,” today many member states and agencies “are using the UN’s
Continue Reading »Monday, 01 May 2017 | Westerners often refer to Ramallah as a modern and liberal city dominated by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction. The city boasts fancy restaurants and bars.” But the scenes on the streets of Ramallah, headquarters of Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA) last week broadcasted a rather different message—one that calls for
Continue Reading »Friday, 28 April 2017 | The tiny state of Israel is forced to face the onslaught of violent attacks all too frequently. They come from the north in the form of missiles fired by Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria; from the south as Hamas and the Islamic State rain down rockets on Israeli civilians; and
Continue Reading »Friday, 28 April 2017 | Explosions rocked the area near Damascus International Airport early Thursday morning following the arrival of cargo planes from Iran. “Hours before the blasts, which took place at 3:25 a.m., two Iranian 747 cargo planes, an Iranian Ilyushin il-76 and a Syrian Ilyushin il-76 landed in Damascus, according to the flight
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