Month January 2020

WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan has been met with plenty of skepticism since its release on Tuesday. Could Trump actually be the one to settle a decades old conflict where so many other American presidents have… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Democrats running for president have hewed to the party line in criticizing the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan rolled out by President Donald Trump: Unilateral annexation of settlements is the wrong way to go. The tone was first… Continue Reading →

An indictment was filed Thursday in the Be’er Sheva District Court against an Israeli citizen living in Gaza who is accused of attempting to sell missiles to a number of… Read more » The post Israeli Arab Tried to Sell… Continue Reading →

El Al Airlines announced on Thursday that it is halting all flights to China until March 25 due to the outbreak of the quickly spreading coronavirus. The decision was apparently made after El Al employees refused to staff flights to… Continue Reading →

Naama Issachar and her mother Yaffa are currently flying to Israel together with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. Naama and her mother met with Netanyahu and his wife Sara around noon on Thursday at the airport in… Continue Reading →

With five days until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden is fending off a new onslaught of GOP attacks over his son’s business overseas and facing piling pressure to show Democratic voters he can handle the incoming. As Republicans amplified their… Continue Reading →

When Mrs. Shevi Nachum’s 5-year-old special needs daughter Mari grew out of her onesie, she searched for one that would fit her – but was unsuccessful in finding one. So she decided to create the product and in the process… Continue Reading →

President Reuven Rivlin delivered a speech in Hebrew on Wednesday in the Bundestag, the German parliament in Berlin, to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, beginning his speech by reciting the tefillah of Yizkor. The parents of fallen… Continue Reading →

Criminal justice reformers in New York were riding high last spring after the legislature passed an overhaul that eliminated cash bail for most nonviolent crimes. But now, a backlash over… Read more » The post Bail Uproar May Dim Appetite… Continue Reading →

MOSCOW (VINnews) – Russia on Thursday freed a US-Israeli woman jailed for drug trafficking after she was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin. Naama Issachar, 26, was released as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Putin at the Kremlin to discuss… Continue Reading →

A Russian plane made an emergency landing in Moscow on Thursday after a woman passenger stood up in the aisle and threatened to blow herself up, but police later said… Read more » The post Russian Plane Makes Emergency Landing… Continue Reading →

Across the vast expanse of this desert air base, hundreds of tents have popped up and a newly arrived squadron of U.S. Air Force F-15E fighters is lined up on the tarmac, flying daily missions over Iraq and Syria. Off… Continue Reading →

The Trump administration launched a task force with a brief to protect the United States from the fast-spreading coronavirus, as the country prepared to evacuate more of its citizens from… Read more » The post Trump Launches Coronavirus Task Force… Continue Reading →

Criminal justice reformers in New York were riding high last spring after the legislature passed an overhaul that eliminated cash bail for most nonviolent crimes. But now, a backlash over the bail law may have diminished their chances of winning… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a striking shift from President Donald Trump’s claim of “perfect” dealings with Ukraine, his defense asserted Wednesday at his Senate trial that a trade of U.S. military aid for political favors — even if proven —… Continue Reading →

Gas prices are set to fall in the monthly reiteration of maximum prices gas stations can charge. The Energy Ministry said that prices would fall 15 agurot per liter at… Read more » The post Gas Prices to Fall Again… Continue Reading →

Leader of the Blue and White faction in the Knesset, MK Benny Gantz, said that he will bring Trump’s “Deal of the Century” to the Knesset and attempt to pass it in its entirety into law next week. Speaking at… Continue Reading →

MOSCOW (AP) — The Israeli prime minister came to Moscow on Thursday to discuss the U.S. Mideast peace plan and take an Israeli woman who had been jailed in Russia back home. Benjamin Netanyahu made a stopover in Moscow after… Continue Reading →

The United States will put post-Brexit Britain at the front of the line for a trade deal, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday. “The previous administration took… Read more » The post Pompeo in London: Brexit Britain… Continue Reading →

The Roman Spring in Chamat Tiverya, which hasn’t flowed in ten years, began flowing again on Wednesday morning thanks to the heavy rainfall this winter which has raised the Kinneret’s water level. The temperature of the flowing spring is 140… Continue Reading →

The House Ethics Committee is warning lawmakers not to share doctored images or videos that could “erode public trust, effect public discourse, or sway an election,” guidance that comes during a proliferation of online misinformation in the run-up to the… Continue Reading →