Sukkot 2017 The holiday of Sukkot begins tonight, last for 7 days and is followed by the holiday of Shmini Atzeret – Simchat Torah (which share one day in Israel and are 2 days everywhere else). During Sukkot Jews live (eat and sleep) in a hut-like structure called a Sukkah. The Talmud states two reasons […]
Recognize Israel Jason Greenblatt, the US President’s special envoy to the Middle East, took to Twitter yesterday to urge the Palestinians to recognize Israel. He Tweeted a statement that read, “The United States stresses that any Palestinian government must unambiguously and explicitly commit to nonviolence, recognition of the State of Israel, acceptance of previous agreements […]
Mossad Equality The Mossad (Israel’s version of the CIA) has, for the first time, appointed two women as division heads, with ranks comparable to the IDF’s major-general. Both women have served in the Mossad for two decades or longer. The Mossad also appointed women to head several subdivisions and units as part of an organization-wide […]
Yom Kippur Tonight Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins tonight at sunset and lasts until nightfall tomorrow night. It is the only time that the Torah mandates that we “afflict” ourselves. We accomplish that by refraining from eating, drinking, wearing leather shoes (they didn’t have Crocs back then), bathing for pleasure or engaging in […]
Settlement Demands The Yesha Council, representing the communities (settlements) in Judea and Samaria, presented PM Netanyahu with a list of grievances against his “discriminatory” policy against settlements and demanded that he commit to approving 10,000 new housing units in the settlements. A few months ago, the government announced that NIS 116 billion from the state […]
Terror Attack A Palestinian terrorist shot and killed a Border Policeman and 2 security guards and injured a fourth security guard at the gate of the Har Adar settlement northwest of Jerusalem this morning. The attack took place when security forces were opening the back gate where dozens of Palestinian day laborers were waiting to […]
PM Bows to Trump PM Netanyahu told his security cabinet last night that he would postpone a meeting scheduled for this week of the West Bank Civil Administration’s planning committee, at the request of US President Trump. The PM told the ministers present that he had no intention of humiliating the Trump administration by making […]
Trump Meets Netanyahu President Trump and PM Netanyahu met, for the third time this year, at the Plaza Hotel in NYC yesterday. Netanyahu pressed his case for dissolving the nuclear deal with Iran. He told Trump, “I look forward to discussing with you how we can address together what you rightly called is the terrible […]
Police Brutality Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich condemned police brutality after watching videos of the violent Haredi anti-draft demonstration in which police officers are seen punching, kicking and tackling demonstrators. Alsheich said, “I had a bad feeling when I saw the videos yesterday. The haredi Jewish [demonstrators] were also violent, but in the videos, I witnessed […]
It’s another slow news day but we didn’t want to just skip today’s email, so we did some searching and found a few current video that we think you’ll find informative and enjoyable to watch. No More Refugees Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely was recently in Washington where she met with State Department officials, Senator […]
