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Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The Palestinian Authority
Hamas drugged children; burned legs with exhaust for identification
Each child seized by Hamas was placed on a motorcycle. They positioned the child's leg against the bike's exhaust pipe, causing burns.
Miscellaneous | Diaspora
Elder Of Ziyon - Is Israel finally shedding the diaspora mentality?
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News | Israel At War
On a visit to Israel, I have seen the horror that the world must never forget
New York Post columnist Douglas Murray witnessed the horrors of Hamas' terror attacks on Israel during a visit to Kibbutz Nir Oz.
News | Israel At War
For reservists, growing a mustache is a symbol of this war
Looking for some levity and unity in week three of Operation Swords of Iron, soldiers called for duty turn to their upper lips
News | Antisemitism Watch
Why they rip down the ‘Kidnapped from Israel’ fliers
The purpose of the papers is to emphasize the humanity of the hostages seized by Hamas. Some find that intolerable.
News | News
‘Darkest Evil That Can Exist’: IDF Shows Martha MacCallum, Other Journos Hamas Video Not Released To Public
Fox News host Martha MacCallum and other select journalists were shown a 43-minute collection of video footage from Hamas terrorists, security cameras, and social media, taken during the attack in Israel on October 7. Some of the graphic video footage, shown by the IDF, has not been made public out of respect for the victims’ families.
Politics | Opinion
The ‘Two-State Solution’ is Terrorism
Giving terrorists a state only leads to more terrorism.
News | News
Three ISIS-supporting Teens Were Arrested On Suspicion Of Planning To Attack The Israeli Embassy In Paris
The terror-cell, made up of teenagers, is suspected of having planned multiple attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in Europe - Click the link for more.
News | News
Report: Israel Creates Special Unit to Hunt and Kill Every Participant in Hamas Terror Attack
Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, has a new unit, "Nili," to find and kill every participant in the Hamas terror attack.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Israeli Harvard Business School Student Accosted and Harassed Amid Gaza ‘Die-In’ on Campus
A first-year Israeli student at Harvard Business School was shoved and accosted amid a "die in" protest held on Wednesday to assail Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Hamas. The incident, captured on video reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, shows the st
News | Israel At War
The Silent Death Toll in Israel
Natanel died living his dream: defending Israel as an IDF soldier. He was only 20 years old.
The youngest of five children, Natanel, or Nat as his family called him, moved from London to Tel Aviv when...
Miscellaneous | Israeli Culture
Israelis Are Volunteering in Droves to Feed Their Nation
Among messages about running to bomb shelters and frantic refrains of “kulam beseder?” — “Is everyone ok?,” my aunt shares ...
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Amid Israel-Hamas war, thousands of people sign up to pray and do mitzvot for Israeli soldiers
A website that matches the names of Israel Defense Force soldiers with those willing to do acts of service or prayer in their honor received thousands of signups its first week.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Israel: "I Am Captain of My Home Front" - Chabad
Following Major Ezzy Morgenstern’s report from the front lines, we contacted his wife, Michal Morgenstern, who is home with the couple’s eight children, director of a not-for-profit, and a force of goodness in a world gone mad.
Politics | "Apartheid" State?
Is Israel Really an ‘Apartheid State’?
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations take place on campuses all across the nation, the idea is persistent and pervasive: yes, the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7 were terrible, but Israel had it coming because i...
News | Standing With Israel
Now is the time for unashamed Israel advocacy
There is no time for ambiguity. There is Israel. There is Jewishness. And there is the fight to protect both.
Politics | The Left
As Israelis are Slaughtered, MSNBC Says Palestinians in Chicago Also In “Pain”
At MSNBC, even when Jews are being cruelly slaughtered by the hundreds, they cannot be centered as the victims; after all, they probably had
Politics | Opinion
What have the Palestinian Arabs ever done to deserve concessions?
Why are they always treated like children from whom less is demanded than fron adults? Op-ed
News | Israel Around The World
Israeli aid team in Morocco saves lives
The United Hatzalah delegation on the ground in Morocco is treating some 150-200 people a day, according to the organization's director of French operations.
News | Antisemitism Watch
9/11 and the New Antisemitism
9/11 has continued, it is still happening; it is not over yet. And antisemitism has been rejuvenated. Who would have thought? Op-ed.
Politics | Opinion
Op-Ed: The Palestinians Set Israel's Own System Against Itself
Israel's Civil Administration is well aware of the hostile takeover of its land but is choosing not to enforce its legal mandate.
Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The Palestinian Authority
Israel is Beyond the “Moment of Truth”: The Escalation of Palestinian Terrorism
The month of August saw continued escalation of terror in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Israel. The Hamas leadership (Saleh al-Arouri from Beirut and Hamas leaders from Gaza) continues to encourage Palestinian terrorism in the West Bank and to develop the
News | News
36 Israelis murdered in 2023: The biggest death toll since the second intifada
3 terror attacks in the span of 12 hours. 36 Israelis murdered in terror attacks in 2023 so far. What is causing the rise in terror attacks? i24NEWS Correspo...
Politics | Biden Administration/Congress
When the US refuses to say ‘Palestinian’, the condemnation is irrelevant
Condemnations matter only if the Biden administration is prepared to name the party that is being condemned.
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous
Israel: Special course teaches drivers how to respond to terror attacks
Shurat Hadin holds course teaching Israeli drivers what to do if they face stone-throwers, shootings, and tire burnings.
Politics | Media Bias
BBC News reports an “attack on a car”
As is inevitably the case, the BBC failed to describe a fatal shooting attack against Israelis as terrorism in its own words.
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Elder Of Ziyon - Legally Varda (Judean Rose)
A legal change of name means a lot when you're a Jew in Israel, changing your legal English name to your true Hebrew name, for good.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Rabbi Leo Dee: When will the world stop funding murderers who killed a kindergarten teacher?
The Palestinian Authority is the main financial backer of the terrorists who killed my wife and daughters and have continued their campaign of murder in the West Bank
Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The Palestinian Authority
Elder Of Ziyon - No, it isn't Israelis who try to use archaeology to erase history. It is Palestinians.
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Politics | Debunking Lies
Times of Israel Bloggers Lying to Diaspora Jews about Judicial Reform
Don't believe the lies that Israelis did not know what they were voting for.
Politics | Opinion
The Oslo disaster 30 years on
Thirty years after its euphoric launch, the ‘Oslo peace process’ between Israel and the PLO stands as the worst calamity to have afflicted Israelis and Palestinians since the 1948 war, and the most...
Politics | Judea & Samaria
There is no such thing as an Israeli ‘settler’ in the West Bank
Jews meet the UN definition of indigenous people. Therefore, they are not “settlers,” and the places they live are not “settlements.” So why are there “Arab villages” but “Jewish settlements?”
Politics | Opinion
Israel's leadership never cared about the Sbarro bombing victims
This dismissive attitude toward the victims of terror has persisted over the years as the following events illustrate.
Politics | Judea & Samaria
Israeli Settlements Are Not Illegal - Tablet Magazine
A response to Nathaniel Berman
Politics | Opinion
Conservative values can unite a divided Israel
This is the path forward for Israel, a path that respects the diverse identities of its citizens while upholding the principles of a Jewish and democratic state.
Politics | Debunking Lies
Elder Of Ziyon - Another false accusation of an Israeli law discriminating against Arabs
Really? A law that says that Israeli Arabs would get double the sentence of Israeli Jews?
Politics | Opinion
The real coup against Israel's democracy
For once, Ha'aretz has stated an important truth
Politics | Opinion
Are We Seeing BLM 2.0 in Israel?
I’m in Jerusalem, where it’s 10:30 p.m., and I am seeing what looks like the early BLM demonstrations version 2.0 outside my window.
At 9 p.m., Ben Yehuda Street was beautiful and joyous. The area tha...
Politics | Opinion
Israel is Not a Racist State, in Theory or in Practice
U.S. Representative Pramilla Jayapal’s recent statement that Israel is a “racist state” is both false and dangerous.
Politics | Opinion
Britain's current transparency approach is morally wrong - editorial
The British government is refusing to disclose whether it has safeguards in place to ensure that its aid to the PA is not underwriting the obscene “pay to slay” policy.
News | News
Israel is the most targeted country in the world on social media says new study
The Jewish state is attacked on Twitter 111x more than North Korea
Politics | Media Bias
Elder Of Ziyon - A .@NYTimes essay by .@TareqBaconi justifies, and ultimately cheers, murdering Israeli civilians
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Politics | Opinion
There's no real debating with reform opponents
You are a nice person, but you don't really understand the judicial reform, Lt. Col. (res.) Oren Shvil told
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Elder Of Ziyon - Jerusalem's policy for securing summer camps tells you a great deal about the tragic and heroic everyday life in Israel
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Politics | Opinion
Elder Of Ziyon - Comparing 1921 Zionists with 1994 Palestinians
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News | Antisemitism Watch
Elder Of Ziyon - “Pro-Palestinians" justify their intransigence and hate in revealing response to my cartoon
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Politics | Opinion
The Jenin Operation Showed That Israel Preserves Life
Over the past week, the unfolding of the Jenin operation has sparked concerns about potential violence near Israel’s populated areas. Thankfully, the IDF achieved an exceptional level of success, accompanied by an unusually low casualty rate. Official rep
Politics | Opinion
American vs. Israeli Patriotism
The 4th of July is a time to reflect on what Israel can teach America about love of country.
News | News
Israel is the second-most pro-America country in the world, poll finds
Israelis have a more positive view of the US than Americans by some measures.
Politics | Opinion
Elder Of Ziyon - Sides Now: When Officials Lump Terrorists Together with their Jewish Victims
The moral equivalence drawn between terrorist and Jewish victim is especially abhorrent when it's drawn by US officials.
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
Elder Of Ziyon - Iran's supposedly unstoppable hypersonic missile - and an Israeli response
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
News | Antisemitism Watch
'We're approaching Palestine,' Ryanair announces on Tel Aviv-bound flight
A passenger was threatened with arrest for trying to photograph flight attendant who repeatedly announced that the plane was going to land in Palestine.
News | Israel Around The World
Former IDF chief: Israel killed hundreds of ISIS terrorists
Gadi Eisenkot said that Jerusalem was asked to act by an unspecified third party, and that the activity spanned “many more than one country.”
Politics | Opinion
Elder Of Ziyon - Israel's position on artificial intelligence in battle is more moral than that of Human Rights Watch (update)
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
News | ISRAEL NEWS
Elder Of Ziyon - The West pretends "Palestinian resistance" means peaceful protest. In Arabic, Palestinians know it really means murdering Jews.
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News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Can Israeli resilience inspire alienated Americans?
After months of divisiveness, the country immediately united in the face of incessant rocket fire. Will a community unwilling to fight antisemitic progressives learn that lesson?
News | NEWS
Fiddler on the Roof star Chaim Topol passes away at 87
Chaim Topol is well-known for his role as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof for which he won a Golden Globe.
News | News
UNPACKED: 5 Things You Thought You Knew About Israelis, Debunked
UNPACKED: 5 Things You Thought You Knew About Israelis, Debunked While there are many misconceptions about Israel and her inhabitants, five common stereotypes center around Israeli culture, religiosity and politics. In a country with a richly diverse popu
News | Israel
'I want progressives in the US to understand that the Palestinians are oppressed by Palestinians'
With the enormous media pressure facing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government over the proposed judicial reform, new Public Diplomacy
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The Mossad's Top 10 Operations | Honest Reporting
From capturing Eichmann to rescuing Ethiopian Jews, a guide to the top 10 operations undertaken by Israel's notorious spy agency, the Mossad.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
Jewish UFC Fighter to Kanye West: ‘If You’ve Got a Problem with Me or My People, Come See Me, Bro’
Following his Saturday night victory against Genaro Valdez at UFC Orlando, Jewish Israeli UFC lightweight Natan Levy slammed rapper and entrepreneur Kanye West’s recent antisemitic rants, stating, “If you’ve got a problem with me or my people, come see me
Music | Music
The Gat Brothers - The Sound Of Silence
מופע התנדבות - מתוך המשדר "לתת" - ערב ראש השנה התשע"ה
Politics | Media Watch
The latest BBC reporting on the Munich Olympics terror attack
All but one of five BBC radio and written reports relating to the Munich Olympics massacre carefully avoided the words terror and terrorist.
News | News
Online Platform Could Face Lawsuit for Selling Video Game That Lets You Slaughter Israelis
The online gaming platform Steam could be taken to court for its refusal to take off the market a video game that allows players to slaughter Israeli soldiers and perform acts of terrorism, an international legal group told the Washington Free Beacon.
News | ISRAEL NEWS
Facing terror spike, specter of nuclear Iran, majority of Israelis feel nation was safer in Trump years
"Joe Biden, go home," one Israeli said. "In Israel, we like Trump."
News | News
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why are Israelis So Happy?
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why are Israelis So Happy? It’s been a rough week for Israel with several terrorist attacks – similar to many such in the past. All the more reason to ask a seemingly perplexing question: why does Israel continually sco
Family & Parenting | Family & Parenting
Voices From Israel: Bruria Efune, a Mother of Four From Be’er Sheva
‘Your heart is racing, but you need to show your kids that you’re calm. . . ’
News | News
UNPACKED – Who Are Israelis, Really?
UNPACKED – Who Are Israelis, Really? What you may not know about the vibrant society that makes up Israel is that day to day life in Israel is so much more than the narrow keyhole view that much of the world understands! Israel is a democratic state
News | News
UNPACKED - Why Do Israelis Love EDM?
UNPACKED – Why Do Israelis Love EDM? In this final episode of Israel Phenomenology, Chloé takes another look at Israel’s music scene and asks why Israelis are so hardcore about electronic dance music (EDM). With its repetitive beat, it can seem l
News | News
Steve Kramer - Who Are the (Jewish) Israelis
Steve Kramer – Who Are the (Jewish) Israelis There is concern today by many in Israel that some Israelis are unappreciative of their Jewish heritage. Author and journalist Shmuel Rosner has challenged this by suggesting a new paradigm for most of us
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Should American Jews Speak Hebrew? – Tablet Magazine
Before 1948, David Ben-Gurion used to joke about Zionism’s future: How will we know when we have become a real country like the rest of the world? When Jewish thieves and Jewish prostitutes conduct their business in Hebrew—and Hebrew-speaking policeme
News | The News
Man Allegedly Flashes Female Jogger. She's A Former Israeli Soldier. Then This Happens. | Daily Wire
Last Thursday morning, a single mother of two was jogging along Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts when she was allegedly flashed twice by a man running the other way, who didn’t know one crucial fact about the 6’1” woman:
She was a former soldie
News | News
This Week's Sanity Report from Israel June 2 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 2 2019 The highlights include: Israelis are testing a new treatment for incurable blood cancer. Surgeons at an Israeli NGO have saved their 5,000th non-Israeli child. Jews in Hebron hosted an Iftar feast fo
News | News
Two female Israeli engineering students help bring clean water to Uganda
Two female Israeli engineering students help bring clean water to Uganda h/t Israelfirst Two female Israeli engineering students help bring clean water to Uganda; Two young Israeli female students Selda Edris and Mayes Morad build purification device for
News | Media Bias
BBC Erases Non-Israeli Jews from Entebbe Hostages | HonestReporting
The BBC's story of the Entebbe crisis counts 94 Israelis, erasing the non-Israeli Jews also held hostage. Rather than correct, the BBC doubles down.
Travel | Israeli Culture
18 Little-Known, Amazing Things About Israel As It Turns 71!
From the largest dog cemetery to kosher stamps, we rounded up some more obscure but fascinating facts about the country ahead of Independence Day
Travel | Israeli Culture
Taking Care Of Business: Essential Tips On How Best To Work With Israelis | Technology News
Organizational consultant Osnat Lautman wrote the book on Israel's unique business culture and how to navigate it.
Travel | Israeli Culture
Here’s why, despite it all, Israelis live longer
An average lifespan of 82.5 puts Israel in the top 10 countries for longevity -- ahead of the US, with its 78.7 years
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Israelis Stand in Silence to Remember Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism
An IDF soldier and a friend stand still as a one-minute siren marking Memorial Day is sounded across Israel, at …
News | NEWS
Arabs Throw Stones at Ambulance Carrying Bodies of Murdered Boys
According to multiple reports, Arabs stoned the IDF ambulance that was carrying the bodies of the murdered Israeli teenagers. The ambulance was forced to stop, its windshield shattered. According to The Algemeiner:
