(TPS) – Early Tuesday morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted and eliminated senior Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata in the northern Gaza Strip.
In a precision targeting, the IDF hit the apartment he was staying in Gaza. His wife was killed in the strike and... Continue Reading ⇒
(TPS) – The Nazi anti-Semitic hatred that brought to the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms in Germany “is still claiming victims today,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry warned on the anniversary of one of the milestones of the Holocaust.
November 9 marked 81 years since the Kristallnacht pogroms against Jews in Nazi Germany and Austria in... Continue Reading ⇒
(JTA) — Naftali Bennett, head of the New Right party, has been appointed Israel’s defense minister while agreeing to have his party join with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud to form a single Knesset faction.
Netanyahu, who heads a caretaker government pending coalition talks following the September general election, appointed... Continue Reading ⇒
(JTA) — The co-owner of the 2019 NBA champion Toronto Raptors said he has not taken the team to Israel yet as he said he would due to scheduling conflicts and not the boycott movement.
Larry Tanenbaum said two months before the Raptors’ victory in the Finals in June that... Continue Reading ⇒
(JTA) — A tribute concert later this month for Shlomo Artzi, a man sometimes described as Israel’s Bruce Springsteen, was supposed to be a show of unity honoring an Orthodox rabbi whose life’s work is healing seriously ill patients for free.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jewish Agency will fight against anti-Semitism and bring together Jews in the Diaspora, plus build bridges between Israel and the Diaspora as part of its new operating model.
The organization’s board of governors is set to approve the new strategic plan for the next decade at... Continue Reading ⇒
(JNS.org) – History has been made in Israel as, for the first time in a decade, someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu will be tasked with forming a government. Sort of.
On Wednesday, President Reuven Rivlin gave the coveted mandate to challenger Benny Gantz, leader of the... Continue Reading ⇒
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Conductor Zubin Mehta conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for the final time as its musical director.
Mehta, 83, performed with the Orchestra on Sunday evening in Tel Aviv and was honored with an extended standing ovation. Members of the orchestra threw flowers on the conductor and his... Continue Reading ⇒
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin will officially ask Benny Gantz to form a government.
Rivlin will give the mandate to Gantz, head of the Blue and White faction, on Wednesday evening at the President’s office in Jerusalem, a statement from Rivlin’s office said.
