Pondering the state of American Jewry
Beitar Illit, located in Gush Etzion, was on lockdown overnight, after a bomb was discovered on a bus. Baruch Hashem, nissim niflaos, the bomb malfunctioned. It fizzled and smoke, but didn’t explode. Residents were finally released from their lockdown at 7am the next morning, making it quite a lot easier to shop and get ready …
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides hurled epithets at Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Friday in an official statement, calling him “stupid” and saying he would “throw him out of the plane” should he fly to Washington. In response, Smotrich issued this statement: “I am not angry at the US Ambassador to Israel, and …
King Darius the Great, the father of King Achashverosh may be gone, but his name lives on in the form of an inscription found on a potsherd in Israel’s Lachish National Park. It was the first time the king’s name was found on an archaeological artifact, anywhere in Israel. Fittingly, the discovery was made by …
A USAID celebrated a January 27th terror attack in which 7 worshipers were murdered as they left a Jerusalem signagogue. The Omariya Secondary School for Girls in Qalqilya gathered to celebrate Alqam Kharyi, the terrorist responsible for slaying Jews because they were Jews. The school announced the event on Facebook with a flier referring to …
Two little boys—the Paley brothers—were killed in a terror attack Erev Shabbos. In Netanyahu’s official response to the tragic event, he vowed to build more settlements. Less than one week later, however, at Netanyahu’s behest, an olive grove planted by settlers in the vicinity of Shilo, was uprooted. MKs on the right along with protesters …
Another prisoner swap is in the works, and Yair Lapid is using it to good advantage to bash the Netanyahu government. Lapid discussed the swap on Kan Reshet Bet, and talked about the video released by Hamas, purporting to depict Avera Mengistu. The former PM said that a repeat of the Schalit deal is “too …
This week, 75 years ago, 11 Jews were murdered in an Arab attack on 23 unarmed farm workers on a Friday morning, as they were on their way to work in orange groves near the Arab village of Sukreir. Highlighting their inhumane behavior, the Arabs continued to abuse the murdered, even after they were dead. The …
The nonprofit Maata tracks Arab attacks on Israelis daily, weekly, and monthly. Its reports get quoted all the time in Arab media. No one else pays attention to its “statistics” and for sure not Israel, which has its own “statistics” based on actual facts and figures. This is according to someone I greatly respect and …
The Dutch online travel reservations service Booking.com will be warning customers away from staying in Judea and Samaria. In a statement to Ynet, the company said, “Certain areas affected by conflict may pose a greater risk to travelers, so we provide our customers with information that helps them make decisions and encourage them to check …
Israel’s defensive war against Iranian proxy Islamic Jihad is now over. It is always instructive to see how the world reacts to a barrage of Gazan rockets on civilian Israel, in particular residents of the Gaza “Envelope.” Over a thousand rockets were launched by terrorists with the target, Israeli civilians, but the world called for …