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News Digest — 5/31/23

Meir Tamari, who was killed Tuesday afternoon (5/30) in a shooting attack was a relative of terror-victim Esther Horgan, who was murdered in December 2020. Horgan had…

News Digest — 5/30/23

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal on Tuesday morning (30th) arrived for a state visit to Baku, Azerbaijan at the invitation of the country’s…

News Digest — 5/26/23

An attempted terror attack was thwarted in the Jewish settlement of Teneh Omarim, close to Hebron, on Friday morning (26th). Shortly before 10 am, a terrorist…

News Digest — 5/25/23

Israeli security forces arrested early Thursday morning (25th) a Palestinian terrorist fugitive involved in a September 2022 shooting and firebombing attack on…

How Israel and Hamas Treat Spies

Hamas charged three Palestinians in Gaza with collaborating with Israel and sentenced them to death and gave a fourth man a life sentence with hard labor on Tuesday (23rd)…

News Digest — 5/24/23

An Israeli Arab from Umm al-Fahm was arrested by the Shin Bet and Israel Police after he was recruited by Hamas to conduct a bombing attack on a bus in…

News Digest — 5/23/23

Over 20 Israeli firefighting teams continued attempts to gain control of a wildfire blazing next to the Dead Sea on Tuesday morning (23rd).  Preliminary investigations determined…

Going Deeper

Iran is building an underground nuclear facility near the Natanz nuclear facility. It seeks to go deeper than the US bunker buster bombs could reach…

News Digest — 5/22/23

Israeli security forces killed three Palestinians during a raid near Nablus, early on Monday (22nd), the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in what Army Radio described as…

News Digest — 5/19/23

Many thousands of Jews took part in the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March on Thursday evening (18th) in celebration of the 56th anniversary of the liberation and reunification of…

News Digest — 5/18/23

Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai warned Wednesday night (17th) ahead of the Flag March scheduled to take place Thursday (18th) in Jerusalem…

News Digest — 5/17/23

Negotiating teams from the Opposition and Coalition who have been meeting at the President’s Residence for talks aimed at reaching an agreement on judicial reform have…

News Digest — 5/16/23

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Monday (15th) hailed a “new era” in the relationship between Sweden and Israel, as he began a visit to Stockholm, the first by…

Rockets and Reprisals

Over the past five days 1,000 rockets were launched by Islamic Jihad into Israel, including rockets toward Jerusalem, as Hamas assisted by sheltering the terrorists…

News Digest — 5/15/23

Palestinian terrorists fired a rocket into southern Israel on Sunday (14th), prompting Israel Air Force planes to hit back, targeting Hamas observation posts.  The launch…

News Digest — 5/12/23

The Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement at the conclusion of a security situation assessment conducted on Thursday evening (11th) by…

News Digest — 5/11/23

The IDF struck a mortar launcher belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist movement near Beit Lahiya, killing PIJ rocket commander Ali Ghali in…

News Digest — 5/10/23

Israeli aircraft conducted strikes on Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday (9th), the Israeli military said. The PIJ group said three senior commanders and…

News Digest — 5/3/23

A total of 104 rockets were fired into Israel between Tuesday (2nd) and Wednesday (3rd), most by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad with some participation from…

News Digest — 5/2/23

Three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel on Tuesday morning (2nd), just hours after Palestinian Islamic Jihad official Khader Adnan died after…

US Speaker in Israel

In Israel heading a joint delegation. United States Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy met with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog…

News Digest — 5/1/23

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Congressman Kevin McCarthy arrived in Israel on Sunday afternoon (4/30) together with a delegation of…

News Digest — 4/28/23

Udai Al-Azizi, a leader in the Nablus-based Lion’s Den terrorist group, turned himself in to the Palestinian Authority’s security forces in the early hours of Friday morning…

News Digest — 4/27/23

On Wednesday (26th), the ceremony for the President’s Award for Excellence took place at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.  During the ceremony, the…

Holiday Hostilities

After solemnly observing Memorial Day on Tuesday, Israel celebrates its Independence Day today, marking its 75th anniversary since its inception in 1948…

News Digest — 4/26/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation in a televised speech on Tuesday evening (25th) as Israel closed out Remembrance Day and began celebrating…

The Price of Freedom

Today is Yom HaZikaron, the Israeli Memorial Day. In considering the fatalities Israel has faced in its quest for freedom and independence…

News Digest — 4/25/23

Sirens blared for two minutes across the country as Israelis stopped to remember fallen soldiers and victims of terror on Tuesday morning (25th).  The siren was followed by…

News Digest — 4/24/23

An Israeli artillery strike targeted a site belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist movement near Quneitra in southwest Syria early Monday morning (24th), according to…

News Digest — 4/21/23

Fifty-nine IDF soldiers have fallen in defense of the State of Israel since last Remembrance Day, bringing the total number of soldiers killed since 1860 to…

News Digest — 4/20/23

There will be no replacement for the ‘People’s Army’ IDF conscription model, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi said on Thursday morning (20th) following outrage over…

News Digest — 4/19/23

Security forces on Wednesday (19th) apprehended the terrorist who shot and wounded two Israelis in Jerusalem Tuesday (18th), according to a joint statement from…

From Horror to Hope

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. At Auschwitz, the site of the death camp and crematoria that murdered 3 million Jewish people, the March for the Living is held…

News Digest — 4/18/23

At exactly 10 a.m. on Holocaust Remembrance Tuesday (18th), the country of Israel stood still to observe the memory of the six million Jews murdered…

News Digest — 4/17/23

The number of Holocaust survivors living in Israel stands at nearly 150,000 according to statistics published on Sunday (16th) by the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority ahead of…

News Digest — 4/14/23

Palestinians crowded the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday night (13th) and extra security forces headed to Jerusalem as the capital braced for the…

News Digest — 4/13/23

A delegation of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist movement visited Baghdad on Wednesday (12th) at the invitation of Iraqi officials. The delegation was led by…

News Digest — 4/12/23

The Temple Mount will be closed to Jewish visitors from Wednesday (12th) to the end of the month of Ramadan, which is set to end near the end of next week, Prime Minister…

News Digest — 4/11/23

Five Palestinians who were planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the coming hours were arrested by the IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Border Police in…

Five Attacks

In 2009 I went to Israel for two weeks to attend a friend’s wedding. On my touring day in Jerusalem, my cab driver and guide, Moussa, greeted me and off we went…

News Digest — 4/10/23

Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant on Sunday (9th) completed a tour of the Menashe division in northern Samaria, together with the relevant commanders in…

News Digest — 4/6/23

Seven surface-to-air rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip and exploded in the air overnight Thursday (6th), the IDF said, setting off alarms in Israeli border communities. Five of…

Israel Strengthens Ties With Ethiopia

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) and the Ethiopian government’s Institute of Foreign Affairs think tank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding…

News Digest — 4/5/23

The IAF targeted two Hamas weapons manufacturing and storage sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning (5th) after 16-18 rockets were fired in three waves from…

News Digest — 4/4/23

Two IDF soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in a stabbing attack on Tuesday morning (4th) at the Tzrifin military base near the city of Rishon Lezion, just south of…

An Affirming Find

Dr. Daniel Vainstub has deciphered a decade long mystery, a shard from a jar with unknown writing. Long thought to possibly be of Canaanite origin…

News Digest — 4/3/23

The Israeli Air Force Sunday night (2nd) shot down an unidentified aircraft that crossed into Israeli airspace from Syria, the IDF said, adding that there was no danger to…

News Digest — 3/31/23

Israel staged airstrikes on suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus early Friday (31st) for the second day in a row, the state news agency reported.  It gave no word on…

Arrested!

Greek police arrested two Pakistani nationals, allegedly for planning “mass casualty terrorist attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in the country…

News Digest — 3/30/23

Loud explosions were heard in the Damascus area overnight Thursday (30th), Syrian state news agency SANA reported. Syrian television claimed that the explosions were caused by…

News Digest — 3/29/23

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday (28th) urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abandon a judicial overhaul proposal that led to massive…

News Digest — 3/28/23

On Monday evening (27th), President Isaac Herzog spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and opposition figures Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz, urging them to…

News Digest — 3/23/23

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met Wednesday (22nd) with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau to sign an agreement to resume the Israeli youth Holocaust trips to…

News Digest — 3/22/23

An Israeli airstrike hit the Aleppo Airport early Wednesday (22nd) and put it out of service, Syrian state media reported. The Syrian Civil Aviation Authority, which announced…

News Digest — 3/21/23

The Knesset on Monday night (20th) approved the law canceling the disengagement in northern Samaria in its second and third readings. The law was…

News of Note

David Stern, a former U.S. Marine, and his wife were attacked by a gun toting terrorist while driving through Huwara. David was wounded with gunshots…

News Digest — 3/20/23

The second session of the joint forum of the United States, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority came to a close on Sunday evening (19th) in…

News Digest — 3/17/23

An IDF raid killed four Palestinian terrorists near Jenin on Thursday (16th).  It was the latest anti-terrorist action in a year-long wave of violence in…

News Digest — 3/16/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Germany was cut short due to negotiations over a possible compromise on the government’s judicial overhaul plan and…

News Digest — 3/15/23

The Knesset approved on Monday night (14th), in its first reading, a bill repealing sections of the 2005 Disengagement Law that prevent Israelis from entering or living in…

News Digest — 3/14/23

Israel’s parliament passed the first reading of a controversial bill early Tuesday (14th), pushing forward with a measure that would allow lawmakers to protect laws from…

Reflecting on Ukraine

In his photographic experience of the War in Ukraine, Lazar notes that he experienced “the full spectrum of human emotion—heartbreaking, bewildering…

News Digest — 3/13/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Israeli security personnel who eliminated three terrorists near the town of Kedumim in Samaria Sunday (12th), and vowed to…

News Digest — 3/10/23

At least three people were injured by gunshots in a shooting attack near a cafe on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening (9th). The injured were…

News Digest — 3/9/23

A Border Police SWAT team eliminated three terrorists Thursday morning (9th) in the town of Jaba south of Jenin in Samaria. The three terrorists exited a vehicle and…

IDF Brings Killer to Justice, U.S. Approves

The Israel Defense Forces conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Jenin on Tuesday to apprehend the terrorist who murdered Israeli brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv…

News Digest — 3/8/23

Israel Defense Forces troops killed the terrorist on Tuesday (7th) who 11 days ago shot dead at point-blank-range, brothers Hillel Menachem and Yagel Yaakov Yaniv near the…

News Digest — 3/7/23

On the Eve of the Jewish festival of Purim, a special video documentation that reached Ynet shows the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai – the heroes of the biblical Book of Esther – in the…

You Can’t Do That!

Rafael Grossi, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, confronted Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities…

News Digest — 3/6/23

A closure will be implemented on the West Bank over Purim, from Monday (6th) to Wednesday (8th), as tensions continue to rise after a series of terrorist attacks and…

News Digest — 3/3/23

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is expected to soon leave for Turkmenistan – the central Asian country that shares a long border with Iran – to officially inaugurate…

News Digest — 3/2/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement on Wednesday evening (1st) in response to the protests that took place during the day against…

News Digest — 3/1/23

A rare inscription bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great has been discovered in Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed this week. The discovery comes…

News Digest — 2/28/23

 A US-Israeli dual-national was killed in a shooting attack near the Beit Arava Junction on Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley on Monday afternoon (27th). Video from the scene showed…

News Digest — 2/27/23

Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday evening (26th) spoke to the Jewish rioters in the village of Huwara following the terrorist attack in which brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv were…

News Digest — 2/24/23

Explosions were heard in Karaj near Tehran in central Iran on Thursday night (23rd), with initial reports indicating that air defenses in the area were activated. The official…

“The Watchmaker’s Daughter”

Upon seeing the title of this new book by Larry Loftis, I became immediately both excited and grateful. I heard Corrie Ten Boom’s story on…

News Digest — 2/23/23

Sirens were sounded early Thursday morning (23rd) at approximately 4 a.m. local time, in Ashkelon, Sderot and other communities located near Israel’s border with…

News Digest — 2/22/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday (21st) that a credible military threat was the best way to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Speaking at…

News Digest — 2/21/23

The Knesset passed the first two pieces of legislation related to the government’s judicial reform plan following a noisy six-hour-plus debate that…

News Digest — 2/17/23

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Thursday (16th) visited Kyiv’s suburb of Bucha, which became known for mass killings of civilians under the Russian occupation. The minister, who…

News Digest — 2/16/23

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he believes Israel has a biblical claim on Judea and Samaria and is therefore not an occupying force. “Israel is…

News Digest — 2/15/23

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan sent an urgent letter Tuesday (14th) to the members of the UN Security Council ahead of the meeting that…

News Digest — 2/14/23

Israeli Border Police officer Asil Suaed was killed in a stabbing attack at the checkpoint to Shuafat just hours after a 17-year-old man was injured moderately after being…

A True Olive Branch

One week after two powerful earthquakes devastated portions of Turkey and Syria, the numbers tell a grim story….

News Digest — 2/13/23

Days after a deadly ramming attack in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his ministers in the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday (12th) that he would soon…

News Digest — 2/10/23

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi paid a secret visit to Bahrain on Thursday (9th), according to local media in the Gulf state. Bahraini news site Akhbar Al Khaleej shared…

News Digest — 2/9/23

The Jewish population in the United States topped 8 million in 2020, according to a new study published by the American Jewish Population Project (AJPP) at Brandeis University in…

News Digest — 2/8/23

The earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria registered 7.8 on the Richter scale, leaving thousands dead in its wake. This destructive quake was no isolated event, no…

News Digest — 2/7/23

Monday evening (6th), the joint “Olive Branches” humanitarian and delegation of the Israel Defense Forces, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defense left for Turkey to…

SOS!

Early Monday morning a massive 7.8 earthquake rumbled through Turkey and northern Syria. Sometime later, another massive quake registering 7.5 struck the same area…

News Digest — 2/6/23

At least five Palestinians were killed on Monday morning (6th) in an IDF raid near the West Bank city of Jericho.  The IDF said the dead were Hamas terrorists and members of…

News Digest — 2/3/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday (2nd), hoping to gain support against Iran’s nuclear program. Israel’s Paris…