Friday, 18 November 2022 | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan extended condolences to Israelis on Thursday following this week’s Palestinian terrorist attack in Ariel and promised to work towards bringing about a “new age” in ties between Ankara and Jerusalem. In a phone call, Erdoğan and Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu discussed “ways to significantly
Continue Reading »Friday, 18 November 2022 | More than four times as many persons made aliyah [immigrated to Israel] from Russia in the first 10 months of 2022 than in all of last year, according to Ofek Israeli—The National Aliyah Promotion Company. A total of 32,494 Russian citizens immigrated to Israel under the Law of Return this
Continue Reading »Thursday, 17 November 2022 | Doctors from Wolfson Medical Center, who volunteer at the Israeli humanitarian organization “Save a Child’s Heart”, managed to save the life of a one-year-old Mauritian toddler with a complex heart condition. Little Raghav, nicknamed Samael, was born in April 2021 in Mauritius, an island nation in the Southern Indian Ocean.
Continue Reading »Thursday, 17 November 2022 | Yesterday NASA launched the Artemis I rocket for a three-week journey around the moon and back, inaugurating a new generation of space exploration 50 years after the closing of the Apollo program. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, launching
Continue Reading »Thursday, 17 November 2022 | The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and the Fighting Online Anti-Semitism (FOA) organization on Wednesday announced the launch of a new portal, called “Report It,” to help people fight against anti-Semitic content online. The new platform also provides step-by-step guides to facilitate the reporting of hateful content on social media sites
Continue Reading »Thursday, 17 November 2022 | Inflation for the 12-month period through October 31 increased to 5.1% from 4.6% in the 12-month period ending on August 31. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, the Consumer Price Index in Israel increased by 0.6% in October, surpassing analysts’ expectations. The cost of fresh fruit and vegetables rose
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 16 November 2022 | Three Israelis were killed and three more wounded on Tuesday when a Palestinian terrorist went on a stabbing spree in Ariel in Samaria. The assailant stabbed one person at the entrance to the Ariel Industrial Park and two others at an adjacent gas station, according to the Israeli military. He
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 16 November 2022 | Israel’s 25th Knesset (Parliament) was sworn in at a ceremony yesterday afternoon in Jerusalem, as each member pledged to remain faithful to the State of Israel and to fulfill their duty faithfully. This is said to be one of the most right-wing governments sworn in since the rebirth of the
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 16 November 2022 | Security services in the Republic of Georgia announced on Tuesday that they had foiled an attempt to assassinate an Israeli businessman who was living in the country. The suspects connected with the plot included a Pakistani man and a dual Georgian–Iranian citizen, both of whom are now in custody, the
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 16 November 2022 | One more trip to Israel! So, how many has it been? Seventy-five? More? And if you count the ten years that my husband and I lived there, how much of my life have I spent in that beautiful, chaotic, captivating, schizophrenic little place? Not nearly enough. This was a brief
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