(JNS) The U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday that Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert has flown to the Middle East and is scheduled to stay there through April 26.
According to a news release, Lempert plans to meet...
(JNS) Israel’s indoor mask mandate is to be lifted on April 23 at 8 p.m., pending approval by the Knesset Health Committee, Israel’s prime minister and health minister announced in a joint statement on Wednesday.
The decision was made by Israeli...
(JNS) Israel will send helmets and vests to Ukraine’s rescue and emergency services, the Office of Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced on Wednesday.
During a phone call between Gantz and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, the Israeli...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The political action committee affiliated with AIPAC, the pro-Israel powerhouse lobby, has in less than six months of existence become the biggest pro-Israel PAC, delivering $6 million to 326 candidates.
It is also now endorsing...
(Israel Hayom via JNS) -- Decades after they were lost, the tefillin (phylacteries) of Irgun fighter Dov Gruner, who was hanged by the British in 1947 after being caught during a raid on the Ramat Gan police station, are going on display in a new exhibition...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House’s top COVID-19 response coordinator said that Americans over 60 should be getting a second vaccine booster shot, citing Israeli data.
“The data out of Israel is pretty compelling for people over 60,”...
(JNS) As violence continued in Jerusalem on Sunday, politicians expressed outrage and frustration at the Bennett-Lapid government.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted: “We must not ignore that dozens of buses were targeted by rocks today...
(JTA) — Two Hasidic Jews were shot and wounded while trying to visit Joseph’s Tomb, a shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus believed by some to be the site where Joseph, the son of the forefather Jacob, was buried.
The two men did not coordinate...
This is a developing story.
(JTA) — At least one gunman shot people at different locations along a downtown Tel Aviv street on Thursday night, leaving what Israeli emergency responders said were at least two people dead and four injured in critical...
JUDITH SUDILOVSKY, Israel21c.org
• Published April 7, 2022
Not far from Yeruham, at Ruhot Junction in southern Israel, you will find Eshkolot Farm, founded in 2009 by Simcha and Roni Marom.
They moved to this area near Mitzpeh Ramon following Roni’s retirement from the army, and established their farm based...
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN, Israel21c.org
• Published April 7, 2022
After about 18 months of preparation and numerous delays, Israel’s second astronaut, Eytan Stibbe, is scheduled to take off for a week-long stay at the International Space Station.
The 64-year-old Stibbe was a close friend of Israel’s first astronaut,...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published April 7, 2022
April 7, 1973 — Israel Fourth in First Eurovision Bid
Ilanit, Israel’s first entry in the annual Eurovision Song Contest, finishes fourth out of 17 nations with the song “Ey-sham,” a dramatic ballad featuring “the garden of love.” Her result...
