(JNS) – An Israel Defense Forces emergency humanitarian-aid delegation has left for Albania following the 6.4-magnitude earthquake that devastated the country on Nov. 26, the IDF  has announced. “We just dispatched an IDF humanitarian aid delegation to Albania following the devastating earthquake that took 50+ lives and left thousands injured,” the military posted on the official IDF Twitter feed, adding […]

DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield The Deep State was revealed to be the bane of two corrupt politicians and the bedrock of two democracies. Indictments were returned in multiple criminal cases against Israel’s prime minister and a strong case was presented for impeaching (indicting) the president of the United States. The similarities are striking, even down to their rhetoric. Each man […]

By ELIANA RUDEE (JNS) – Ahead of the Israeli-American Council (IAC) National Summit in South Florida on Dec. 5-8, co-founder and CEO Shoham Nicolet spoke with JNS about his vision for IAC, the fastest-growing Jewish organization in the United States. Israeli-born and Los Angeles resident Nicolet is co-founder of several Ed-Tech ventures and philanthropic initiatives. He served as a lieutenant […]

By LYN JULIUS (JNS) – On or around Nov. 30, Jewish communities around the world will hold events to remember the mass exodus of Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran. Almost a million people were displaced in the past 50 years, leaving billions of dollars’ worth of property behind. Whose Cultural Heritage? Not only have Arab governments never compensated […]

(JNS) – The Genesis Prize Foundation (GPF) and the 2019 Genesis Prize winner Robert Kraft announced the launch of “Speak Out for Israel”—an international campaign designed to help combat the global rise of anti-Semitism and attempts to delegitimize the Jewish state. Through this campaign, GPF and Kraft plan to award $1 million in grants to Israeli nonprofit organizations capable of […]

By JACKSON RICHMAN (JNS) – Several Jewish and Israel-related groups quickly reacted to the major announcement by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that it would no longer view Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria as illegal under international law. “We applaud the administration’s decision to rescind the assertion that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law,” B’nai B’rith International CEO […]

DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman declared the Trump administration’s announcement that it no longer views West Bank settlements as illegal “advances the cause of peace” between Israel and the Palestinians. If you believe that I have some nice beachfront property to sell you in the Negev. Advance Peace? There is no way this will […]

By ISRAEL KASNETT (JNS) – The Israeli missile that blasted through senior Islamic Jihad terrorist Baha Abu Al-Ata’s Gaza bedroom window at 4 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Nov. 12, may have killed the man and his wife, but it also sent a broader message to Hamas and Iran. While officials insisted this was a “one-off” operation and Israel does not […]

(JNS) – Jewish and pro-Israel groups blasted the ruling by the European Court of Justice requiring products coming from the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to be labeled as such and not “made in Israel.” The court decided, “Israel is present in the territories concerned as an occupying power and not as a sovereign entity.” The decision stemmed […]

By BEN SALES (JTA) — Jared Kushner, the point man on the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, appeared recently to endorse a unity government between Israel’s two largest parties. In a rare interview Tuesday, Oct. 29, Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law also shot back at Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for saying Kushner was ill equipped to be […]