JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALS
• Published August 16, 2018
August is usually associated with the “dog days,” when time seems to stand still and the chaos and tumult of the other 11 months dies down. But the surface calm of the month often masks issues that can boil to the surface at a moment’s notice. In...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — After firing more than 180 rockets into civilian areas, armed terror groups in Gaza said Thursday afternoon that they would refrain from firing on southern Israel if Israel also maintains the calm.Shortly after the announcement, however,...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published May 23, 2018
When a Hamas spokesman acknowledged that 50 out of the 62 Palestinians reported killed during the May 14 assault on Israel’s border with Gaza, that fact alone should have fundamentally altered the debate over what happened. Though the international...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published August 31, 2016
Some of the harshest critics of Israel have, as we have mentioned in these pages, repeatedly accused the Jewish State of “genocide” toward the Palestinians. The Movement for Black Lives recently produced a platform containing this false and inappropriate...
Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in the Nusseirat in the central Gaza Strip on November 14, 2012. An Israeli strike that killed Hamas's top commander, Ahmed Al-Jaabari, in Gaza is only "the beginning" of an operation to target militant groups...
JERUSALEM (JTA) – The Israeli army began moving infantry units to the south and calling up reservists in preparation for a further escalation of hostilities with Hamas after an Israeli airstrike killed Hamas' military chief in the strip. Ahmed Jabari...
There is an old saying that generals prepare to fight the last war. Those of us engaged in defense against the assault on Israel’s legitimacy cannot afford to fall into this trap. We must accurately assess the evolving strategies and tactics employed...
What’s so special about a country’s 64th birthday? Well, in the case of most nations, perhaps not all that much, unless the country happens to be Israel, which celebrates its birthday this year on April 25 and 26. Israel has the dubious distinction...
JERUSALEM -- A member of Hamas was charged in a thwarted terrorist attack and kidnapping of an Israeli soldier near Eilat. The Shin Bet security agency arrested Muhammad abu-Adarah, 20, last month, it was learned Wednesday after a gag order was lifted...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli leaders condemned remarks by European Union foreign policy chief which appeared to compare the Toulouse victims to deaths in Gaza. At a conference Monday in Brussels on Palestinian refugees, Ashton reportedly said: "When we think...
JERUSALEM -- Israel's ambassador to the United Nations has called for the dismissal of a U.N. agency employee based in Jerusalem who tweeted an incendiary photo during recent violence between Gaza and Israel. Khulood Badawi, the information and media...
JERUSALEM -- Schools were closed in southern Israel again as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip continued to strike despite a cease-fire. The cities of Beersheba, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Kiryat Malachi and Gan Yavne canceled classes for Thursday after several...
