Middle East

Sherri Mandell In February 1969, Rasmeah Odeh murdered two Hebrew University students and injured nine other people. Leon Kaner was 21 and Edward Jaffe was 22 when they were murdered in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh set bombs in coffee cans that exploded in the grocery, killing the two young men and injuring nine other people.

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo visited Jerusalem on Monday in an expression of solidarity with the Jewish community, accompanied by the Orthodox Union’s Executive Vice President Allen Fagin. Following a meeting with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, Cuomo announced the creation of a New York-Israel Commission, charged with assisting in the creation and

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is on a visit to Israel, on Sunday proclaimed the first Sunday in June as “Shimon Peres Day” after Israel”s former Prime Minister and President, who passed away in September. “Shimon Peres was an asset to the world. He was one of the more gifted leaders that this world

Fatah spokesperson Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad on Sunday warned against relocating the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, saying such a would “explode the situation” in the entire Middle East and North Africa region. His warning came as a delegation of American congressmen, led by Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis, arrived in Israel for

Danny Dayan, the Israeli Consul General in New York, met with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo who is on a visit to Israel to discuss the recent spate of anti-Semitic incidents in the state. Dayan told Arutz Sheva that his visit with the Governor “had a dual purpose. First, to strengthen the economic ties between

Israeli President Reuven “Ruby” Rivlin met with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday, accompanying him during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. The meeting between the two leaders comes amid a surge in anti-Semitic incidents across the United States, including the recent desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New