JERUSALEM (JTA) — American billionaire Donald Trump endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video released on YouTube. “My name is Donald Trump and I’m a big fan of Israel,” Trump says at the start of the 36-second video.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Hadassah transferred $10 million to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem to help cover its subsidiary’s $50 million deficit. The New York Jewish Week reported Monday that the Zionist women’s group took the unusual measure after learning...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, under indictment for fraud and breach of trust, said he would resign from politics if he is convicted. Liberman, who remains head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and is No. 2...
(JTA) — Three Israeli election polls predicted a comfortable victory for Israel’s Likud Beiteinu party in upcoming elections. A Ma’agar Mohot survey published in Maariv has the list led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clinching 38 seats, followed by...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the haredi Orthodox Shas party, was discharged from the hospital a day after being admitted for a minor stroke. Yosef, 92, left Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem on Sunday...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Two Israeli films are among the five nominated for best documentary for the Academy Awards.”Five Broken Cameras,” directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, and “The Gatekeepers,” directed by Dror Moreh, were among the films chosen...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jerusalem remained paralyzed as the largest snowfall in 20 years closed roads, trains and buses and schools. At least six inches of snow reportedly have fallen in the center of Jerusalem and more in the surrounding areas.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel will erect a security fence along its border with Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “We know that on other side of our border with Syria today, the Syrian army has moved away, and in...
(JTA) — Israel notified the Pentagon that Syria was preparing a chemical believed to be deadly sarin gas and loading it into dozens of 500-pound bombs destined for airplanes. Israel’s warning to the United States at the end of November,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Traffic stood at a standstill for several hours in Tel Aviv after flooding closed a major highway. The Ayalon Highway closed early Tuesday morning and remained closed throughout the day, as the Ayalon and Yarkon rivers overflowed...
