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While Israel is in ecstasy about the release of the hostages from Hamas  and rightly so,  the Israeli government is still trying to recover from

To All my Readers It has been a difficult year. In April, my dear wife passed away after great suffering. The months after that are

Last weekend three more hostages were released by Hamas in Gaza, but the happiness and excitement rapidly turned into anger. The three men looked emaciated,

A little over a week ago, a report published by the British-based think tank, the Henry Jackson Society, claimed that, after rigorous analysis of the

Last Thursday, the International Criminal Court in The Hague, issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and its former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant.

The war in Gaza is dragging on and in the last couple of months has raged also in Lebanon, where the terror organization Hezbollah, has

It is the evening of Yom Kippur, the “Day of Atonement”, which is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar; a day on which Jews

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office yesterday announced that “returning the residents of Israel’s north to their homes” is now determined to be a “War Goal”.

In the shadows of the war in the Gaza strip and the threat from Lebanon, the violence of Jewish terrorists against the Palestinian population in

This astonishing remark was made by Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich during a right-wing conference at the beginning of this week. Smotrich, who until now

Over the last weekend, the Israeli army, in a major operation, attempted to assassinate Mohammed Deif, a leader of Hamas in Gaza and believed by

After more than eight months of war in Gaza, even with Prime Minister Netanyahu still talking about a “Total Victory”, it is clear that Israel

In the last seven and more months, the attention of both Israelis and their leaders has been focused on the on-going war in the Gaza

This week it finally happened. After multiple rumors and threats, the American government decided to delay weapon shipments to Israel, with as main reason given,

For almost seven months now, Israeli men, women and children are being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.  Some of these hostages were released in

Six months of war. It has been half a year since the horrific invasion of Hamas terrorists into the kibbutzim and villages on the edge

Israel is having a parasite problem. And it is not a parasite that you call an exterminator for or take medicine to get rid of

Large numbers of Israelis were drafted into the Army when the October war started, leaving their families, their jobs, their businesses, in order to defend

The war in the Gaza strip has been going on for more than four months now and the end is not yet in sight. In

This week a very disturbing conference took place in Jerusalem, attended by thousands of people who have, unlike the Israeli government, reached conclusions regarding the

As the war in Gaza drags on without an end in sight, Israeli politicians are at a loss as to how they can get some

For close to three months now, Israel has been at war with the barbaric terrorist organization Hamas, after its animals slaughtered twelve hundred innocent people

The war in the Gaza strip has been raging for more than two months now and the Israeli army is moving forward decisively to rid

I came to Israel more than forty years ago. I did not come for the same reason most Israelis came (they are Jewish), but for

After six weeks of the war against Hamas in the Gaza strip, which was started after brutal animals slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children

Three weeks after the barbaric massacre by Hamas sub-humans in the border communities near the Gaza strip, Israel is still pounding Gaza and set on

It has been ten days since the barbaric attack by Hamas terrorists on the Israeli villages around the Gaza strip, whereby hundreds of people, including

It is a couple of days after Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) and the local press is still discussing who won the war.

This has been an intense week for Israel and probably everybody is happy that the three-day Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New-year) is here, to give people

This week, a small New Jersey town, Jackson Township, agreed to settle a dispute with the legal authorities in New Jersey, regarding alleged discriminatory by-laws

For over six months now, Israel has been in turmoil over the plans (which already were partially executed) to destroy the democracy in the country.

It has been a dark week for Israel and it hard to face the reality whereby the Israeli government has taken the first steps to

Israel Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir has a surprising way of describing a group of Jewish terrorists. His “sweet boys” (probably with their brothers,

For twenty-two weeks now (and counting!) a remarkable phenomenon has overwhelmed Israel and both its citizens and politicians. Every Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis

Being a parent in Israel, or most other places for that matter, is not easy and includes hard work and many worries, but a couple

After five days of war in the Gaza strip, during which dozens of civilians in Gaza were killed (including children) as well as one Israeli

Only a couple of days ago, Itamar Ben-Gvir and his fascist faction in the Israeli government, announced that his people would no longer take part

In 2018, the Israeli Knesset passed the “Nation-State law” which declares the superiority of Israeli Jews over all other Israelis and makes Israel the home

The Israeli Army has in the past couple of days, deployed additional air defense systems in various places in Israel. The systems have been deployed

The destruction of the Judicial system in Israel is going ahead full speed and until now, the unprecedented intensity of the protests notwithstanding, the government

The new buzzword in the Israeli Judicial crisis has been in the last few days “Compromise”. The president, Yitzhak Herzog, has published a “Compromise“ proposal

During the past week, the events surrounding the “Judicial Reform” that the government is adamant to move forward as quickly as possible, have pushed aside

Last night again, demonstrations were held all over Israel with hundreds of thousands taking part. People are extremely concerned about the future of Democracy in

Ever since the inauguration of the new Israeli government, and its speedy decisions to move forward the judicial reform that now-Justice minister Yariv Levin has

This week the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken visited Israel amidst increasing tensions with the Palestinians, resulting in deadly terrorist attacks in Jerusalem

Israel has been in turmoil for the past several weeks, after it became clear that the newly installed government, with Binyamin Netanyahu at its head,

“The people have chosen us to bring reforms”. This empty slogan is being used by Netanyahu and his cronies, again and again to justify the

The formation of the new Netanyahu government is taking much longer than was generally expected and only this week he announced to President Herzog, that

Last week, two stories appeared in Israeli news media, that concern the lives of two women, one originally from the Philippines, and one from Sierra

This week Israel held general elections, for the fifth time in a couple of years, and the turnout was surprisingly high at more than 70%.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid caused quite a stir this week, when in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, he declared that the

A time-bomb is ticking in Israel and the government is not willing (or able) to do something about it. And, no, it is not a

Israeli elections will take place in less than eight weeks and it appears that the only real issue this time again will be Netanyahu and

In Israel, this week two very basic services to the public are in danger of being seriously interrupted. The primary school and kindergarten teachers, who

Last week the NGO “Pitgon Lev” (Open Heart)  sent 120 empty food baskets to the members of the Israeli Knesset, to remind them that in

News headline this week: “TEVA leaps after announcing opioid painkiller settlement in U.S.” Investors felt they could relax after it was made public that the

Last Friday it was “Rosh Hodesh”, the first day of the new month of “Av”, in the Jewish calendar, and, as has been the case

Last week, a commercial Israeli television channel proudly broadcasted a report filed by one of its journalists, from Mecca in Saudi Arabia. A story with

Most people will never have heard of Baruch Lanner unless you were one of his victims. Baruch Lanner has for years been considered one of

So last Sunday morning, the man wakes up at 5 am, as he does every day, takes his morning walk and prepares for the day.

The Minister of Internal Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, has ordered the complete closure of the Temple Mount to Muslim prayers and the closure of the

Israeli politics reached a new level of absurdity this week when the Knesset was asked to vote on the renewal of the Emergency Regulations for

Almost a year has passed since the new Israeli government was sworn in, and despite the predictions to the contrary, it is still functioning and

This week in the Knesset it again became clear that there are politicians who have completely lost the importance and purpose of their mission as

It has been more than a week since the Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while reporting on a violent clash between Israeli troops

The Supreme Court in Israel is the highest legal authority in the democratic system and as such presides over a wide variety of issues that

Ever since the establishment of the State in 1948, Israel has declared itself “a Safe Haven” for all Jews of the world and has enacted

another test….be patient, with all of the changes happening recently on the internet, and wordpress and security protocols, we’re trying to make sure that the

“On the Seventh Day God ended His Work and He Rested”. The Book of Genesis describes how the world was created and the overwhelming interpretation

If anyone believes that the Corona crisis was waning, in particular in Israel, he had better think again. True, at the moment, the number of

This week the United Nations Climate Change Conference is being held in Glasgow and Israel is represented by a large number of politicians with Prime

This week it is sixty-five years ago that the Israeli Army massacred forty-eight Arab civilians in the town of Kfar Qasim. The massacre occurred after

The answer to that question would depend on who you ask it seems, but the whole issue of the violence in the Israeli Arab community

After two weeks, the prisoner escape that kept Israel in its ban came to an end with the capture in Jenin, on the Occupied West

The Zionist dream was born in Europe more than a hundred years ago under the cloud of increasing anti-Semitism. The dream of a country where

The Nation-State Law is a fact. It was passed with a comfortable majority in the Knesset long ago and now the Israeli Supreme Court has