Iranian Dissidents To Visit Israel Next Week A delegation of Iranian dissidents and expatriates plan to pay a solidarity visit to Israel next week with officials from the Trump administration. …
Orthodox Judaism Meets Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball made history this week—and then made it again. The 2021 MLB Draft, which began on Sunday, saw the first known practicing Orthodox Jewish player drafted, as 17-year-old …
News Digest — 7/14/21
UAE Inaugurates Embassy In Tel Aviv The United Arab Emirates (UAE) opened its embassy in Israel on Wednesday (14th), with Israel’s president attending the flag-raising ceremony. The embassy is situated …
News Digest — 7/13/21
Hezbollah Releases New Footage Of Incident That Triggered 2nd Lebanon War Hezbollah on Monday (12th) released new footage of the 2006 cross-border raid that triggered the Second Lebanon War. The …
Light from the Past
The interesting and significant finds from Israel continue with the discovery of pottery sherds with the name ‘Jerubbaal’, the nickname in the Book of Judges for “Gideon son of Joash.” …
News Digest — 7/12/21
Bennett: “Israel On Alert” Over Lebanon Crisis Israel is monitoring the crisis in Lebanon to ensure it does not spill over the border, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday (11th). …
New Iranian President Has “No Regrets”
Last month the Iranian election, which was mired in controversy after a number of would-be candidates were disqualified, yielded a victory for Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner who is already taking …
News Digest — 7/9/21
Supreme Court Upholds Law Recognizing Israel As Nation-State Of Jewish People Israel’s Supreme Court rejected 15 petitions aimed at repealing the nation-state law on Thursday afternoon (8th), effectively upholding it. …
News Digest — 7/8/21
In First, UN Condemns Anti-Semitic Terrorism Israel’s mission to the United Nations (UN) marked an achievement for the Jewish state this week when the UN adopted a Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy …
