February 27, 2023

‘Instead of seeing them get married, we are burying our sons’

Thousands gathered along Route 60 in Samaria Monday afternoon, ahead of the funerals of the two Israeli men shot and killed by an Arab terrorist in the village of Huwara Sunday afternoon. Brothers Hillel Menachem Yaniv, 22, and Yagel Yaakov Yaniv, 20, residents of the Samaria town of Har Bracha, are set to be laid

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits Huwara after deadly attack

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (Likud) on Monday visited the scene of Sunday’s terror attack on Route 60 in the Arab village of Huwara in Samaria. Gallant said security has been ratcheted up in the area, and called on Israelis not to take the law into their own hands, following a night of riots in

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Coalition MK lauds torching of Arab village after terror attack

A Coalition MK praised Jewish rioters who torched cars and buildings in the Arab village of Huwara in Samaria overnight, hours after a terrorist murdered two young Israeli men in Huwara. MK Zvika Fogel (Otzma Yehudit), a retired IDF brigadier general, told Galei Yisrael radio Monday morning that he wanted to see Huwara “shuttered and

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Religious coercion and a Halakhic State

One of the strongest claims against deepening the influence of Torah and halakha on the State of Israel and against the necessary reforms in the judicial system, is that the greater the power the halakhic position is given, the more the religious public will force their beliefs on the secular and traditional public. Unfortunately, a

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Dear God

What happens to the millions of notes tucked away in the Kotel’s cool crevices?

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How sad, this new Europe!

Midday on a mild, almost hot Monday in mid-December, and the muezzins of West London were chanting the glory of Allah and how there was no other God&hellip”. Thus opens “1985”, the prophetic novel by Anthony Burgess, the author of “A Clockwork Orange”. He wrote it in 1978 and it looks like the portrait of

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IDF returns after failure to evacuate Samaria outpost of Evyatar overnight

Hundreds of settlement activists spent the night in the outpost town of Evyatar overnight, after attempts by Israeli security forces to evict them Sunday night failed. Activists streamed to Evyatar – an unauthorized outpost built near Tapuah Junction in Samaria at the scene of a deadly terrorist attack – after two brothers from Har Bracha

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Rehovot child suffers cardiac arrest, is saved by EMTs

Just minutes before Shabbat came in last Friday, a family called for help when their 7-year-old daughter suddenly collapsed after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest in Rehovot. United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs Golan Levi and Yair Biezuner received the proximity alert and without wasting a second, jumped on their respective ambucycles, flicked on lights and sirens,

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Planned ‘Day of Hate’ against Jews passes by with packed synagogues and no violence

A “National Day of Hate” against Jews planned by white supremacists that triggered sweeping warnings from law enforcement and Jewish security officials came and went without significant incident on Saturday. Synagogues and Jewish institutions across the United States had spent the preceding days shoring up their security procedures, reassuring their congregants and requesting extra patrols

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When did the Holocaust begin?

Part Eight in a series about Jews and the Second World War Part One: British and French Appeasement of Nazi Germany Part Two: Soviet Russia as ally of Nazi Germany Part Three: United States Isolationism from Nazi Germany Part Four: France: Ally of the West to Collaborator with Nazi Germany Part Five: Nations That Actively

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Rabbi Yisroel Reisman captures the Essence of Life

Rabbi Yisroel Reisman of Chaim Berlin conveyed the essence of life in an address to Yeshiva Ohr Somayech in Israel a little over a year ago. It’s based on the following: It says Bnei Yisroel traveled three days from Sinai to the border of Eretz Yisrael. But, because G-d wanted to bring them into the

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Amid rise in antisemitism: Virginia legislature adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism

On Thursday February 16, 2023, the Virginia legislature passed HB 1606, adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, including its contemporary examples. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is expected to sign the bill following his executive order acknowledging this definition of antisemitism in January 2022. Governor Youngkin convened a commission to combat

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Papua New Guinea to open embassy in Jerusalem

Papua New Guinea intends to open an embassy in Jerusalem, its Foreign Minister Justin Tkachenko informed Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. According to the statement, Tkachenko and Cohen agreed in a conversation which was held last Wednesday to promote a move to open an embassy in Jerusalem

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After years of tensions: Egypt’s Foreign Minister to visit Turkey and Syria

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will head to Turkey and Syria Monday morning, his office said on Sunday, for the first such visit in a decade of tense relations with both countries, AFP reported. The trip aims to show “solidarity with the two countries and their brotherly peoples” after the devastating earthquake that hit Syria

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US assessment: COVID-19 likely came from lab leak in China

The US Department of Energy has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely came from a laboratory leak in China, CNN reported on Sunday, citing a newly updated classified intelligence report. Two sources said that the Department of Energy assessed in the intelligence report that it had “low confidence” the COVID-19 virus accidentally escaped from

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US condemns terror attack but also ‘settler violence’

The United States on Sunday condemned the terrorist attack in Huwara, in which brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv from Har Bracha were murdered, but also condemned what it termed the “settler violence” which broke out following the attack. “We condemn today”s violence in the West Bank, including the terrorist attack that killed two Israelis and

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Labor leader describes Jews in Huwara as ‘terrorists’

The chairwoman of the Labor Party, MK Merav Michaeli, on Sunday evening made a connection between the Jewish rioters in the village of Huwara and the right-wing ministers in the government. The riots broke out following the terrorist attack in which brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv were murdered. “The terrorists who are roaming around Hawara,

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Minister Bezalel Smotrich: We must not take the law into our hands

Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday evening condemned riots by Jews in the village of Huwara following the terrorist attack in which brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv were murdered. “My fellow residents, the pain is great, but believe me, we are working hard to provide a real response to terrorism, both militarily and with settlement. Since

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Residents of Evyatar return to the outpost, security forces remove them

The families who lived in the outpost of Evyatar in Samaria, along with hundreds of yeshiva students, decided to return to the outpost on Sunday night, in response to the attack in Huwara in which brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv were murdered. The move came after about a year and a half in which Israel”s

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Following attack and clashes: IDF to increase its presence in Judea and Samaria

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday evening held a situational assessment with the heads of the defense establishment, following the shooting attack and the riots that took place in Huwara. At the conclusion of the situational assessment, the Minister of Defense directed the reinforcement of the defense efforts in the towns and roads in Judea

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