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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a cabinet meeting at the Foreign MInistry in Jerusalem on July 25, 2021. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Israeli premier: Iran behind fatal strike on Israeli-managed ship in Arabian Sea

Jewish News SyndicatePublished August 1, 2021

(August 1, 2021 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett blamed Iran on Sunday for the attack that left two dead on the Israeli-managed oil tanker in the Arabian Sea on Thursday night. Speaking during the weekly Security Cabinet meeting, Bennett...

Saudi Arabian Judoka Tahani Al-Qahtani (left) playing in a match against Israeli Raz Hershko at the Tokyo Olympics Games on July 30, 2021. Source: Twitter: @saudiolympic.

Israeli judoka praises Saudi opponent for ‘bravery’ in face of calls to boycott match

DOR HOFFMAN, Jewish News SyndicatePublished August 1, 2021
“I’m glad the sport won out,” says Raz Hershko, who beat Tahani al-Qahtani, but went on to be eliminated from the Tokyo Games.
Marathoner Beatie Deutsch. Photo by Kinneret Rifkind

Nothing is impossible for Israel’s most unlikely marathon champ

Lisa KlugPublished August 1, 2021

(Israel21c) - It’s not every day that Europe’s largest sportswear manufacturer features an ultra-orthodox Jew on a billboard. But that’s precisely what happened when Adidas portrayed Israeli national marathon and half marathon champion Beatie...

Though many if not most leading psychoanalysts at the time were German-speaking Jews, they offered very few public attempts to psychologically analyze Hitler. (Image: Dutch anti-Hitler propaganda, ca. 1940s / Public domain)

What did ‘America’s Freud’ think about Hitler?

Zack Rothbart, The National Library of IsraelPublished August 1, 2021
Freud himself refrained from publicly psychoanalyzing the despot. Dr. W. Beran Wolfe didn't...
Israel's hottest real estate is 6 miles from Gaza

Israel’s hottest real estate is 6 miles from Gaza

Published August 1, 2021

Debbie Gross Steinberg heard the news while driving home to Ashkelon from her job in Jerusalem on July 13: Ashkelon leads Israel in new apartment sales. Between February and April alone, 951 new homes were sold in this coastal city of about 150,000...

Israel becomes first country to begin giving third COVID vaccine shots

Ben SalesPublished August 1, 2021

(JTA) — Israel is the first country to start giving a third dose of the COVID vaccine shot to its population in an effort to stem the spread of the Delta variant. Those older than 60 are the first to get the booster from health care providers. President...

Iranian judoka in Tokyo dedicates silver medal to Israel

Nicky BlackburnPublished July 29, 2021

(Israel21c) - Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei has dedicated his Silver Olympic medal to Israel, for its support since he defected from Iran two years ago. Mollaei left Iran and took on Mongolian citizenship after Iranian trainers ordered him to lose a...

Record-breaking aliyah from North America projected for 2021, with 5,000 expected to make the Israel move

Renee Ghert-ZandPublished July 29, 2021

Leah and Yehuda Smolarcik are moving to Israel from Chicago with their four children this summer. The challenges over the past year and a half of COVID convinced them not to put off reaching for their dream any longer. “My husband and I met in Israel...

The international Miss Universe beauty pageant will celebrate its 70th anniversary in the Israeli city of Eilat.

Miss Universe pageant to be held in Israel for first time

Naama BarakPublished July 28, 2021

(Israel21c) - For the first time in its history, the Miss Universe beauty pageant will be held in Israel. The international contest will take place in the southern resort of Eilat in December, bringing to the sunny city thousands of people in delegations...

Early triumph, string of defeats for Team Israel so far

Abigail Klein LeichmanPublished July 28, 2021

(Israel21c) - A bronze medal in taekwondo for Avishag Semberg opened the Tokyo Olympics on the right foot for Team Israel. That accomplishment on the first full day of the Games, July 24, has been followed by a few triumphs and mostly disappointments...

4 dead, including 3 Jerusalem yeshiva students, in Ukraine plane crash

Asaf ShalevPublished July 28, 2021

(JTA) — Three Jerusalem yeshiva students and their pilot died when their small plane crashed into a house in western Ukraine on Wednesday, according to reports in Ukrainian and Haredi media.  Media reports have identified the three Jewish passengers...

Alon Leichman in action. (Photo: Margo Sugarman / Israel Baseball)

They helped build Israel’s first baseball field. Now their son is pitching at the Olympics.

Debra Nussbaum CohenPublished July 28, 2021

This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission. The cheering from Kibbutz Gezer is going to be so loud that Alon Leichman may hear it as he takes to the mound in Tokyo as a pitcher for Team Israel’s baseball team. That’s...

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