By Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published December 4, 2022
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister-designate, sought Wednesday to preempt growing concern about the sixth government he is expected to lead, which will include far-right extremists in senior cabinet positions.
“I think there’s a greater...
(JTA) — Abe Foxman, the past Anti-Defamation League leader who long has said that nothing could separate him from support for Israel, now says the leaders of an extreme party could do the trick if they get their way in coalition talks with incoming...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published December 1, 2022
Good news for “Fauda” fans. The critically acclaimed TV show that has swept the world has announced that the new season will be released in the United States on Jan. 20 on Netflix. The show has already aired in Israel this past summer.
The Netflix...
(JTA) — Qatar, which does not normally allow Israelis into the country, will permit Israeli visitors during the 2022 World Cup, prompting the Israeli government to warn travelers who make the trip to “downplay” their “Israeli identity.”
As...
TEL AVIV and JERUSALEM (JTA) — It was the day before Israel’s Nov. 1 election. In a classroom in downtown Jerusalem, Avi Rose was teaching about Jewish identity through art to a group of Jewish students from abroad spending a gap year in Israel....
(JNS) Israel is a modern-day “miracle” and its relationship with the United States is deep-seated and multi-dimensional, former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday.
Speaking at the Zionist Organization of America’s 2022 Gala in New York...
DIANA BLETTER, Israel21c.org
• Published November 10, 2022
“When you see a young man dying on the floor of the hospital because there’s no bed and we can’t do anything to help him, and his mother is crying, it breaks my heart,” says Odeda Benin-Goren.
This Israeli nurse has traveled the world for the...
DIANA BLETTER, Israel21c.org
• Published November 10, 2022
The Art Laboratory for Future Ecologies, an innovative eco-art center, will soon get under construction in Israel’s Arava Desert.
The future center’s founder, Galit Eilat, said the goal is teach people about sustainability and protecting natural...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published November 10, 2022
Nov. 10, 2004 — ‘Hatikvah’ Is Officially Declared National Anthem
The Knesset officially adopts the Zionist song “Hatikvah” (“The Hope”) as Israel’s national anthem more than half a century after the founding of the state. Although the...
CHICAGO (JTA) — It was 6 p.m. Monday night and the hallway of the Chicago hotel was suddenly filled with Israelis navigating suitcases through a throng of American Jews debating what to eat for dinner.
They were headed to the airport for the last...
