“In withdrawing from UNESCO in 2017, Israel and the United States made a clear moral statement that UNESCO’s antisemitism will no longer be tolerated."
Member of Knesset Moshe Gafni strongly defended his party’s backing for Moshe Lion for mayor of Jerusalem, who is not haredi but is backed by Shas as well, and is part of the Shas-Degel agreement.
"There’s no question authoritarian leaders around the world have drawn inspiration from the fact that the president of the world’s oldest and most powerful democracy is shattering democratic norms."
The arrest of Hongwei may mean that if the issue of arresting Israelis come up, there may be fewer officials at the top ready to risk their own necks to give Israel a fair shake.
The president went on a river tour of Copenhagen visiting the developmental areas of the city, accompanied by the mayor Frank Jensen and the city's regional development division.
The Darkenu organization, which is organizing the rally responded by accusing Edlelstein of "preferring narrow political considerations" and twisting their intentions.
According to a recently-published State Department report, there were 8,584 terrorist attacks worldwide in 2017, resulting in the deaths of about 14,000 people.
“When the new law takes away the right of Palestinian widows to inherit the pensions of their deceased husbands, it asks them indirectly never to ever get married again,” al-Dababseh said.
President Reuven Rivlin and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen met for a working lunch and addressed topics including Gaza, ISIS and anti-Semitism
The video was posted a day after Haley's surprise resignation from her post at the United Nations on Tuesday and has so far collected some 64,300 views.
On Wednesday UNESCO’s 58-member executive board approved by consensus, two resolutions with regard to the status of Jerusalem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in general.
Candidate Aliza Bloch exclusively revealed her platform for helping Beit Shemesh’s Anglo population, which focuses on employment, education and community building.
At the commemoration ceremony, Rivlin told the story of the rescue operation in which thousands of Danes risked their lives to find Jews, hide them and ferry them to Sweden on fishing boats.
Even though the case arose before a 2017 law empowered the state to deny entry to BDS supporters, the state argued that its power to deny entry on a discretionary basis predated that law.
Until now, up to 26% of US military aid, adding up to billions of shekels each year, could be spent inside Israel but the new agreement requires all American military aid to be spent in the US.
Staunch Israel supporters are criticizing the country’s anti-boycott policies. Is the law necessary for Israel’s well-being and is it worth the damage?
The appeal came amid mounting tensions between the two parties, especially after the delivery of Qatari-funded fuel to the only power plant in the Gaza Strip this week.
“The price of a solar energy system for private homes or small businesses ranges from NIS 50,000 to NIS 80,000,” explains Semo, “and not everyone can spend that sum of money right away."
The meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office follows chipmaker Intel’s annual high-level strategic meeting this week, an event bringing together all its senior management for the first time in Israel.
Haley’s tough, no-nonsense attitude was combined with a certain compassion and humility. She didn’t criticize the UN because she was looking for a fight or wanted to be provocative.
The overtly anti-American and anti-Israel UN provides a rhetorical shield and effective justification and incitement for terrorism, tyranny and oppression.
Historically, the UN ambassador tended to function as a megaphone for the administration. Some had the rank of cabinet secretary, others did not. Enter Nikki.
Over decades, UNRWA has exhorted Palestinians to see Jews and Israel through an antisemitic lens, and to believe that all Palestinians will one day “return” to the entirety of what is now Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in the last three years gone nine times to a Russia that has promoted dozens of Russian Jews to become oligarchs in the new Russia.
This threat of Palestinian normalization with Israel and economic prosperity has forced the Palestinian leadership against the wall in acts of ideological Russian roulette.
Every morning I see 50-60 Palestinians waiting for work right near my home in Beit Shemesh. They have permits to enter Israel every morning and return to the Palestinian territories in the afternoon.
Just as the winter nourishes the land, priming it for a spring awakening, it is our challenge to embrace the Jewish “off season,” a period almost entirely devoid of holidays, to cultivate our spirits