Middle East

‘We cannot accept’ terrorism, Greek president says in Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos for a meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Before the meeting, during which Rivlin and Pavlopoulos discussed strengthening bilateral Israel-Greece ties, the two leaders toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial together. Rivlin called Pavlopoulos […]

Off-duty Israeli security guards now allowed to carry weapons (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A bill allowing off-duty security guards in Israel to carry weapons passed its final Knesset readings on Tuesday, with a vote of 21 lawmakers in favor of the measure and eight against it. The proposal, which aims to boost public safety amid

  ‘The time has come’ for official Israel-Indonesia relations, Netanyahu says (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Monday in Jerusalem with a delegation of senior Indonesian journalists who visited Israel as guests of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Israel and Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, do not have formal diplomatic relations, but there

  Gaps remain between U.S. and Israel in security aid talks (JNS.org) Gaps remain between Israel and the U.S. in negotiations on a new 10-year memorandum of understanding for security assistance. America is offering annual aid of $3.4 billion, up from the current level of $3.1 billion. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, has asked

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A few days ago a human rights organization made public a video after a terrorist attack on soldiers in Hebron that shows one of the soldiers shooting to kill a terrorist who had already been injured and “neutralized” (as the official term has it). The prime minister and the

Argentine Jews ask for Netanyahu’s help with rampant assimilation (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Leaders of Argentina’s Jewish community have warned that accelerated assimilation by Jews in the South American nation and worldwide is “placing the Jewish people’s future at risk.” The phenomenon, they said, is akin to “quiet terrorism.” Buenos Aires is home to one