News Digest — 2/25/22
The Jewish community in the historic Ukrainian city of Uman – site of the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the revered founder of the Breslov Hasidim – is actively providing…
The Jewish community in the historic Ukrainian city of Uman – site of the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the revered founder of the Breslov Hasidim – is actively providing…
An alleged Israeli airstrike targeted sites near Damascus on Wednesday night (23rd), according to Syrian state news agency SANA. Three Syrian soldiers were killed and…
Anti-Semitism is surging in recent days. This week students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discovered anti-Semitic fliers…
Syrian state media reported early Wednesday morning (23rd) that Israel had fired a number of surface-to-surface missiles from the Golan Heights toward…
Our Michigan Executive Director for ZOA, Kobi Erez, highlights a troubling presence in the Knesset, the Ra’an Arab Party. Kobi writes…
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has ordered Israeli Embassy staff in Kiev to move to consular offices in the Western Ukraine city of Lviv following a situation assessment and discussions with…
Israeli officials and relief groups are preparing to help Ukraine’s Jewish community…
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday (17th) shot down an unmanned aircraft belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization after it crossed the border with…
Israel struck several targets near the Syrian capital of Damascus Wednesday night (16th), hours after Russia’s Defense Minister met with President Bashar…
A Russian invasion of Ukraine is becoming more and more likely at this time…
With Iranian nuclear talks in Vienna appearing to be in the final stages, Israel dispatched a diplomatic delegation to air Jerusalem’s concerns about the emerging…
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett landed in the Gulf state of Bahrain on Monday (14th), cementing ties between the new allies in a clear message of cooperation aimed at…
For two years the world has been combating COVID. Israel has been a beacon for treating it and also experiencing it…
Hamas is accelerating the construction of terror tunnels seeking to breach the underground barrier Israel dug on its border with the coastal enclave, a military official…
Whoopi Goldberg, host of the ABC show The View, made a statement about the Holocaust that landed her in hot water with the…
Turkish and Israeli intelligence forces came together to foil an assassination attempt of Israeli businessman Yair Geller, according to Turkish media. The alleged assassination…
Iran unveiled a new domestically-made missile with a range of 879 miles on Wednesday (9th), state TV reported, a day after Tehran and Washington resumed indirect talks to…
Iran unveiled a new missile with a range of 900 miles today (9th), and its name suggests that Iran has the destruction of Israel in mind…
The IDF said it attacked batteries in Syria early Wednesday (9th) after an anti-aircraft missile was fired towards Israel during what Syrian state television reported was…
Kenneth Jacobson puts the Amnesty UK report released last Tuesday under the spotlight and shows its glaring weaknesses…
A group of 33 Republicans warned US President Joe Biden on Monday (7th) that they would work to thwart the implementation of any new Iran nuclear agreement if…
A hacktivist organization has revealed a highly sensitive Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps document that asserts Iranian “society is in a state of explosion” because of…
The Jerusalem Post reports Salman Kablan, a 15-year-old Druze Arab teen, along with his friends, started an initiative to help the Holocaust survivors…
The US informed Israel in advance of the killing of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayishi on Wednesday (2nd) in the village of Atma in Idlib province in…
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz made a surprise visit to Bahrain Wednesday (2nd) to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)…
The G7, Russia and China need to immediately work together to stop a sharp global slide toward chaos and anarchy due to the rise of dangerous technology, increased use of…
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced at the 15th annual international conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) the launch of a new…
The Wall Street Journal editorial board published a scathing critique of Amnesty International Monday (1/31), charging the group with libeling Israel and questioning the Jewish state’s…
Amnesty International has 10 million followers in 150 countries and the organization wants to “fight abuses of human rights…
Syrian air defenses were activated in response to an alleged Israeli missile barrage targeting the vicinity of the capital Damascus, state media said early on Monday (31st) citing…
Good news for those of you wishing to travel to Israel, As of January 9, 2022, vaccinated and recovered non-Israeli tourists from all countries will be…
Israel will follow its strategy to combat Iranian aggression regardless of whether world powers reach an agreement with the Islamic Republic in the negotiations in…
There are around 165,800 Holocaust survivors living in Israel, according to a Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority report published on Wednesday (26th) for the occasion of…
Israel continues to strengthen its relations with the more friendly nations in its region. Israeli President Isaac Herzog plans to…
Before World War II, I lived in Kovno, Lithuania with my parents and my sister. We lived a comfortable life. We went on annual summer vacations. We had…
Israel is concerned about the Syrian and Russian jet joint patrol carried out on Monday (24th) along Syria’s airspace and borders, including the armistice line along the…
The military spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi movement, Yehia Sarei, said on Monday (24th) that the Iran-aligned group fired ballistic missiles towards al-Dhafra air base…
On January 16th, a Pakistani man held four Jewish people hostage for more than 10 hours…
A historic debate was held at the United Nations on Thursday (20th), at the end of which the General Assembly adopted, by consensus, an Israeli-proposed resolution to combat…
Israel is hoping the UN General Assembly will unanimously adopt a resolution rejecting and condemning any denial of the Holocaust and is urging all nations and…
Thursday is shaping up to be an important day for Jewish people. The United Nations General Assembly “is set to adopt a resolution calling for…
Residents of the Golan Heights in northern Israel woke up Wednesday (19th) to a thick layer of snow covering the ground, with snow also expected in the…
Israel on Tuesday (18th) successfully tested its Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The test which took place in central Israel, was led by…
On Saturday morning, January 15, shortly after the Shabbat service began, a man called Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas…
US authorities on Sunday (16th) named 44-year-old British citizen Malik Faisal as the hostage-taker in Saturday’s 11-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue. The Dallas field office…
Israel is undergoing the largest rearming effort in years in response to Iran…
According to the Israel Meteorological Service forecast, a winter storm that began Thursday afternoon (13th) will continue to batter Israel over the weekend and will peak on…
A fortified compound north of Palmyra in eastern Syria is equipped with medium-range and long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, a report by…
After a fire killed 17 people in a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx, New York, on Sunday, Orthodox Jewish groups and individuals have been…
An Arab terrorist was shot and wounded by IDF forces in the Hebron area on Tuesday night (11th) while throwing firebombs at an IDF post. The IDF stated that during…
Hello Friends and welcome to 2022. Currently, Israel is fighting a surging Covid attack, and they are determined to get that under control…
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck the Cyprus region on Tuesday (11th), the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of…
Israel’s Tourism Ministry launched a new website on Sunday (9th) dedicated to keeping tourists updated with the latest COVID-19 guidelines and restrictions set by…
2021 was a great year for Israeli tech. Raising a staggering $25.4 billion between January and November…
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Beirut said Thursday (6th) that Hezbollah was a threat to Arab security after the leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese movement branded King Salman…
IDF tanks on Wednesday (5th) fired at a Syrian position east of the Israeli-Syrian border that was directed at suspects who were seen nearing the frontier, the military said. There were no…
Hisham Abu Hawash, a Palestinian detainee, ended his 141-day hunger strike…
The IDF on Tuesday (4th) confirmed that it had downed a Hezbollah drone flying over the Israel-Lebanon border. A statement from the military said that the UAV was being…
Two Israeli Air Force officers were killed on Monday evening (3rd) when an IDF Atalef-type helicopter crashed off the shores of the city of Haifa during a training…
Israel’s population grew by about 160,000 people (1.7%) in 2021, reaching about 9,450,000, a report by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said on Thursday (12/30)…
Speaking at the Knesset on Monday night (27th), Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reiterated his opposition to reopening the US consulate in Jerusalem. “The government under…
An overnight airstrike attributed to Israel caused massive material damage early Tuesday (28th) to buildings at the Syrian port of Latakia, the state-run SANA news reported. According to…
The Israeli government held its weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday morning (26th) at Kibbutz Mevo Hama in the Golan Heights, as it approved some 1 billion shekels towards…
An attempted car-ramming of IDF forces took place on Tuesday (21st) near the northern West Bank settlement of Einav, the IDF confirmed. A military vehicle caught fire, presumably from…
A police station was opened on Sunday (19th) in Lod in the Neve Shalom neighborhood. Police patrol forces, investigations, intelligence, and community policing will…
One Israeli was killed and two were injured after they were shot at by terrorists outside an outpost in Judea and Samaria on Thursday (16th). The dead man was identified as…
A Syrian soldier was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike targeting sites in southern Syria Wednesday night (15th), according to the Syrian state news agency SANA. Material damage was…
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF), Israel’s largest green organization, is selling freshly cut Christmas trees to Christians in the Holy Land…
Iran’s premier English-language newspaper published Wednesday (15th) a map of Israel showing hundreds of points throughout the country where it could strike if…
An Islamic preacher with rumored ties to Hamas received a hero’s welcome in his hometown in northern Israel on Monday (13th) after serving a 17-month sentence for…
In the news today are two significant events, one of which is the direct result of the Abraham Accords…
By the end of the year, the number of new immigrants to Israel in 2021 is set to reach 27,000, a rise of 30 percent compared to the year before, Immigration…
The Times of Israel is reporting that remains of a building from the time of the Sanhedrin has been uncovered in Yavne…
Israel on Thursday (9th) returned to Egypt dozens of artifacts and relics which had been smuggled into the country, during Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s diplomatic visit to…
Escalation may be on the horizon for Israel and Hamas. After May 2021’s Operation Guardian of the Walls ended with…
The Israeli Air Force is currently in the midst of preparations for a broad-ranging exercise in which dozens of airplanes will participate, in preparation for a possible attack on…
The military has completed a barrier of “iron, sensors, and concrete” to deter Hamas attacks by terror tunnels…
A woman, 26, was stabbed in a terror attack at the entrance to Sheikh Jarrah on Wednesday morning (8th), Israel authorities reported. She was pushing a stroller and was on her way to…
Israeli warplanes fired missiles that struck the port of Latakia early on Tuesday (7th), hitting containers and igniting a huge fire, Syrian state media said. It was a rare attack on…
A security guard at the Tanim Crossing in the West Bank was moderately injured by a vehicle coming from the Palestinian side of the crossing in a suspected…
Violence between Palestinians and IDF forces in Hebron sparked after Israeli President Isaac Herzog lit the first Hanukkah candle…
Gaza-based terror group Hamas issued a statement praising a “heroic” mob that attacked two Israelis who accidentally drove into Ramallah…
The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution 129-11 on Wednesday, (1st) that disavowed Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and called it solely by its Muslim name…
This year’s Hanukkah celebration in Israel is a special one already, just a couple days into the eight-day holiday…
On the roof of the Hesder Yeshiva in Sderot, a Hanukkah menorah built out of rocket fragments is lit up. Sderot, located on the Israel-Gaza border, has suffered thousands of…
On the 74th anniversary of the United Nations decision to recognize the Jewish people’s right to statehood and the Partition Plan November 29, the UN held only a…
Selina Steinfeld, a Romanian Jewish lady, experienced both massacres and roundups of Jewish people during World War 2. Following the war she…
The historic ties of the Jewish people and the State of Israel to the biblical city of Hebron are beyond dispute, President Isaac Herzog said on Sunday evening (28th), as he marked…
Last week, Turkish authorities detained two Israelis…
At least four were killed and seven injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike that reportedly targeted a weapons transfer to Hezbollah in Homs in western Syria on…
Here are some Reasons for Thanksgiving from Israel this Thanksgiving Week…
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday evening (22nd) responded to the recent discovery of a Hamas terrorist network in Judea and Samaria, including east Jerusalem by delivering…
Early Sunday morning (21st), a Hamas terrorist opened fire at Israelis in the Old City of Jerusalem, killing Eliyahu Kay, 26, an Oleh…
Turkish authorities detained two Israelis after they photographed Erdogan’s Palace and sent the photos to their family. The couple and their family insist…
Gaza-based terror group Hamas is preparing numerous “surprises” for the next round of conflict with Israel, according to a recent report from the Jerusalem Center for…
President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal will visit the United Kingdom next week, his office announced Thursday morning (18th). Herzog will take off Sunday morning (21st) for…
Turkey arrested and detained Mordy and Natali Oknin, an Israeli tourist couple, last week, claiming them to be spies…
The IDF fired two missiles from the Golan Heights towards a building south of Damascus on Tuesday night (16th), the Syrian state news SANA reported. It is unclear yet if…
Defense Minister Benny Gantz will visit Rabat later this month for the signing of security cooperation agreements with his Moroccan counterpart, his office said Tuesday (16th). It will be…
Diabetes has become a global concern as over half a billion people worldwide have diabetes. In the United States about 34 million Americans, or 1-10 people, has diabetes…