Middle East

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–The Jewish National Fund issued the following news advisory on Thursday, May 26: In what has been described as the biggest fire since the devastating 2010 Carmel fire, a huge blaze broke out and continues to rage in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas. Fifty firefighting and rescue teams and eleven planes are attempting

Israeli aircraft overnight Wednesday attacked two terrorist infrastructures belonging to Hamas in Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement. According to the statement, the airstrike was in response to an earlier rocket attack on the Gaza Belt. “The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for Gaza and will continue to act with

The UN envoy for the Middle East on Wednesday expressed alarm after Hamas authorities in Gaza moved to hold public executions, and urged them to change course, AFP reports. Hamas announced earlier this week that it plans to carry out a series of public executions of convicted criminals, an unusual move as the group has

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday attacked Israel”s incoming Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman, referring to him as “crazy”. Nasrallah made the comments in a speech marking 16 years since the IDF evacuated south Lebanon. “In occupied Palestine, the crazy and coarse Liberman has been made war minister by Netanyahu the extremist. I don’t want to

  ‘Difficult to overstate’ American Jewry’s importance to Israel, Netanyahu says (JNS.org) It is “difficult to overstate the importance of the American Jewish people to the State of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday at an event in the Israeli Knesset that honored U.S. Jewry’s 100 years of contributions to Israel. “American Jewry’s contribution

Netanyahu and Lieberman sign deal to expand Israeli governing coalition (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A deal to bring Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition was signed Wednesday. Lieberman and fellow Yisrael Beiteinu Member of Knesset Sofa Landver are set to be sworn in as government ministers May 30—Lieberman

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed that he has discovered his Lithuanian Jewish ancestry is not fully Ashkenazic, but actually at least partially hails from the Sephardic Jewry of Spain in tracing back through the years of exile from Israel. The surprising revelation was unveiled by the Prime Minister during an event launching a new wing