By Yaron Niski and Danny Liber
• Published July 25, 2022
Notorious terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka “Carlos the Jackal,” recalls how he joined the PFLP after getting expelled from university and abducted dozens of ministers at the behest of Libyan revolutionary Muammar Gaddafi, only to be betrayed by the leader he held in high regard.
(JTA) — The man who assisted Israeli journalist Gil Tamary in entering Mecca has been arrested, Saudi Arabia announced on Friday.
Mecca is Islam’s holiest city and off limits to non-Muslims. Tamary filmed a report from there last week, which broadcast...
(JTA) – It was billed as a historic news scoop: the first Jewish Israeli reporter to document the annual Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj on an unprecedented visit to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
But when the footage of Channel 13 correspondent...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Mansour Abbas, the first leader of any majority-Arab party to join an Israeli government launched his reelection campaign earlier this month with a visit to the al-Aqsa mosque, genially posing for selfies with other Muslims and stopping...
By Carly Brechner, Israel21c
• Published July 15, 2022
Adam Scott Bellos is the CEO of The Israel Innovation Fund (TIFF), which invests in commercial and cultural projects in Israel and beyond.
He is also the founder and host of Wine with Adam, a video series in which he speaks to a variety of guests...
(JNS) -- A children’s book by Ruth Krauss called The Carrot Seed, first published in 1945, is a little read that packs a big punch. In it, the main character, a little boy who doesn’t even have a name, plants a seed in the ground amid a cast of naysayers....
Abigail Klein Leichman, ISRAEL21c
• Published July 11, 2022
Is it safe and effective to use spices and herbs for weight loss? Researchers from Ariel University’s department of nutritional sciences give some answers to this question in a review published in the journal Functional Foods in Health and Disease.
“We...
By Abe Silberstein, The Forward
• Published June 21, 2022
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced on Monday the end of their governing coalition, which had just recently marked its one-year anniversary. Lapid will assume the premiership until the formation of a new...
(JNS) For well over a week, the Israeli government has been urging Israelis in Turkey to return home as soon as possible. It has also admonished those unable or unwilling to cut short their holidays not to frequent shops, restaurants or tourist attractions...
By Nora Berman, The Forward
• Published June 16, 2022
The Jewish internet exploded this week over a Jewish Insider article saying that Ben & Jerry’s, which last year announced it would stop selling ice cream in the occupied West Bank, requires all new hires to watch four informational videos on the...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 15, 2022
All Jews of a certain age are well aware of Israel’s long history of great statesmen — from David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin, to Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon — as well as Golda Meir’s unlikely rise to power in the early 1970s.
For the...
