Justice minister says no danger to nearby residents; local media reports object apparently an air-to-ground rocket but is missing warhead; located far from Russian, Ukraine borders

Outages strike cities from Lod to Tiberias and beyond, cause traffic chaos in central Tel Aviv as right wing gears up for rally meant to show strength of support for government

Hope is not merely something we feel – it’s something we create by holding onto the feeling

As the singer performs for us on a Tel Aviv rooftop, I look around me, and people’s cheeks are damp with tears

While Israel celebrates 75 years of independence, the Jewish majority continues to shrink. The Central Bureau of Statistics’ new publication reveals that Jews are now only 73.5% of the population, whereas Arabs are 21%. Compared to last year’s data, there was a significant decrease in both communities. In 2022 Jews were 73.9% of the population,

Jerusalem Minister Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) on Thursday morning emphasized the haredi parties’ support and commitment to passing the judicial reform, clarifying that all of those who voted for the haredi parties support the demands made by those participating in the million-person protest planned for Thursday evening. On Thursday evening, the “million-person protest” will

Preparations for the million-person protest on Thursday evening are nearing completion, with organizers reporting nearly 1,000 buses scheduled to arrive in Jerusalem from hundreds of locations around Israel. Scheduled to attend the protest are Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism), Energy Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (Likud), MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism),

Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on today’s ‘million-person march’ and Israeli-Palestinian event; health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand on torch lighters and Israel Prize winner

Speaking at a gala marking Israel’s 75th anniversary, Florida governor declines to confirm White House aims; praises Trump’s policies on Iran, Abraham Accords, Jerusalem

Former Ambassador David Friedman spoke to Arutz Sheva – Israel National News today (Thursday) and said the US-Israel relationship is “too important” for the Biden administration to jeopardize it. Speaking after GOP hopeful Ron DeSantis made a heartfelt speech toting his pro-Israel advocacy as governor of Florida, Friedman said he was happy American Jews were

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) on Thursday blamed his predecessor for the rise in the price of dairy products, which will take effect next week. “Following an agreement which [then-Finance Minister Avigdor] Liberman signed in the previous government, the price of price-controlled dairy products is supposed to rise automatically by 16% at the beginning

(New York Jewish Week) &mdash Two men pled guilty this week for attacking Joey Borgen, a Jewish man who was severely beaten in 2021 while walking to a pro-Israel rally in Manhattan. Waseem Awawdeh, one of five men who punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and beat Borgen with crutches, pled guilty on Tuesday for attempted assault in

As week of mourning for father Yehonatan Geffen ends, singer Aviv Geffen recites Kaddish prayer during memorial at his home.

Smotrich vows to block 16% jump in cost of basic milk and cheese products, slams deal between manufacturers and predecessor Liberman, who tells him to resign

Haredi journalist Arye Erlich on Thursday slammed an editorial published in the Lithuanian-haredi newspaper Yated Ne’eman, which claimed that anyone who joins the million-person march is “not haredi” and “been stripped of citizenship in the house of G-d.” “It will not be Yated Ne’eman who strips haredi citizenship, and it will not be [Yated Ne’eman

The town of Shavei Darom in southern Israel, which houses the residents who were uprooted from Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip during the 2005 disengagement, will inaugurate a new synagogue built in memory of “the martyrs of Kfar Darom”. The inauguration is set to take place in two weeks (May 11), with Cheif Rabbi

A large segment of Israeli society experiences the country’s 75th anniversary with a sense of anxiety. Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi discuss.

Senior faculty declare ‘warning’ action, saying they see effective wage cut from inflation, economic uncertainty; say other side ‘dragging feet’

Yehuda Kurtzer talks Jewish identity and the American Jewish future with three participants in the Hartman Teen Fellowship.

Why is a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so elusive? Dr. Einat Wilf thinks the answer is simple, but that we’ve been unwilling to accept it.

Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the State of Israel was 75 years young but the Jewish people more than 3,000 years old. “The Arabs tried to slay the Jewish State in its infancy,” said DeSantis, comparing the War for Independence to David slaying Goliath. Governor Ron DeSantis praised

President Isaac Herzog on Thursday addressed the Jerusalem Post and the Museum of Tolerance’s “Faces of Israel” conference, celebrating Israel’s 75th Independence Day. The President began his address with his family’s connection to the foundations of the state. “My father, Chaim Herzog who was Israel’s sixth president at the moment that the state was declared,

Police have arrested a man who allegedly espoused conspiracy theories about Jews in connection with a March attack on a Chabad center in Cape Coral, Florida. Maron Mark Raymon was arrested April 20 and has been charged with attempted burglary and criminal mischief to a place of worship, a third-degree felony in Florida. The arrest

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who has been dogged by antisemitism scandals in recent months over past statements on social media in which she invoked the antisemitic canard about the ‘Jewish Lobby’ and statements denying Israel’s right to self-defense and asserting the Palestinian Arabs’ right to commit violence in the name of self-determination, participated in

Four people were killed Wednesday night in cities across Israel – all of them in incidents believed to be criminal in nature. A 40-year-old man was shot dead Wednesday night in Holon. Magen David Adom (MDA) staff arriving at the scene found him unconscious and were forced to declare his death. Israel Police have declared

Contrasting justices’ rejection of bill jailing African migrants with their approval of Gaza Disengagement Law, Simcha Rothman cuts to very heart of debate dividing Israeli society

Yated Ne’eman, affiliated with the Degel Hatorah faction in United Torah Judaism, says those who attend the Jerusalem demonstration are ‘not one of us’

Last week, during Pesach (spring) break, 20-year-old yeshiva student Shmuel Vaknin suffered a heat stroke while hiking in Nahal Arugot in the Ein Gedi Reserve. The young man was in serious condition in an area that is difficult to access and his friends alerted emergency services. Military EMT and United Hatzalah volunteer Chemi Trachtenberg, who

Actor and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, during an interview with CNN, spoke about antisemitism and his family’s antisemitic past. At a forum at the University of Southern California, the actor had stated that he had been “born with a father that was a Nazi.” When later asked about the statement by CNN’s Dana

(JNS) What is the true purpose of Israel”s diplomatic representatives in the United States? The normative answer to that question generally involves a mix of duties. They include representing the Jewish state to the U.S. government and the media, as well as to the American people and the Jewish community, not to mention the not-inconsiderable

Conspiracy theorist charged with attempted burglary and criminal mischief, tells investigators Jews are colluding with government ‘to keep medical marijuana down’

American emergency ammunition depots in Israel are beginning to run low, and it is unknown when they will be replenished. According to a report by Israel Hayom, part of the ammunition that the US stored in Israel was sent to Ukraine to aid its war efforts against Russia. The arms depots belong to the United

An editorial in the haredi Yated Ne’eman newspaper slammed the planned million-person protest, which is scheduled to take place in Jerusalem on Thursday, in support of the judicial reform. Yated Ne’eman is associated with the United Torah Judaism party’s Lithuanian-haredi Degel Hatorah faction. “We obviously go with the right, by instruction of our rabbis, but

Battle began when state passed ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law banning lessons in early grades on sexual orientation and gender identity, opposed by entertainment giant after public pressure

(JNS) As Israel hits the milestone of its 75th birthday, it is too easy to become demoralized. The disputes over the government”s plans for legal reforms have become unprecedentedly intense. Strong differences of opinion have led to incidents of violence and prophecies of doom. Israeli President Isaac Herzog has even warned that the Jewish state

SOSUA, Dominican Republic (JTA) &mdash Sitting inside a small wood-frame shul just around the corner from Playa Alicia, where tourists sip rum punch while watching catamarans glide by, Joe Benjamin recounted one of the most uplifting but often forgotten stories of Jewish survival during the Holocaust. “I was bar mitzvahed right here,” he said, pointing

Premier League club also announces three-year ban on 31 fans for ‘abusive and discriminatory behavior,’ including 5 for Jew hatred

A former Nazi concentration camp guard who was sentenced to five years in jail last year for complicity in war crimes has died at the age 102, a source close to the case told AFP on Wednesday. Josef Schuetz was found guilty of being an accessory to murder in at least 3,500 cases while working

For the second time in nine days, a synagogue in Barcelona has been vandalized. Vandals defaced the area in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch Barcelona synagogue with graffiti that read “Why do you kill in Palestine” early on Wednesday, according to a report in JTA. The incident, which occurred on Israel”s Independence Day, prompted outrage from

Joey Borgen, who was severely beaten while walking to pro-Israel rally during Gaza war, says sentences for his attackers should’ve been harsher

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is poised to jump into the presidential fray as soon as mid-May, four GOP operatives familiar with the conversations told NBC News on Wednesday. One of the sources told the network that the announcement would be on the formation of an exploratory committee, with the official launch coming soon after. Some

Switzerland”s executive body agreed on Wednesday to help pay for the country”s first national memorial to honor the six million Jews and other victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution, reports The Associated Press. The Federal Council, the seven-member executive branch, approved 2.5 million Swiss francs (about $2.8 million) for the memorial that will be

Josef S. denied working at Sachsenhausen but was found by a German court to have served there as a member of the SS

Yitzhak Wasserlauf says measure, aimed at putting contentious Nation-State Law into practice, will come up for a vote at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, though agenda yet to be set

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday formally kicked off his presidential campaign with a speech in Bentonville, Arkansas. “Today, I am announcing that I am a candidate for president of the United States,” Hutchinson said, as quoted by CNN. “In this campaign for president, I stand alone in terms of my experience, record and

An Iranian court on Wednesday issued a $312.9 million judgment against the United States over a 2017 Islamic State-claimed attack on Tehran, authorities said, according to The Associated Press. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency, in reporting the decision, offered no direct evidence to support the court’s allegation that American officials had any part in the

Former mayor of Yekaterinburg, who was born to a Jewish father, has said he has ‘no fear’ of being detained after speaking out against invasion of Ukraine

Four people were murdered within four hours in a spate of violence across Israel on Wednesday night. In one incident, a 40-year-old man was shot dead in Holon. Magen David Adom paramedics who arrived at the scene found him lifeless and pronounced him dead. The Israel Police said the incident was criminal in nature, and

US President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol warned North Korea on Wednesday that it would face a nuclear response and the “end” of the leadership there if Pyongyang uses its own arsenal, AFP reported. Speaking at the White House, the two leaders said the US security shield for South Korea

Yevgeny Roizman, the most high-profile opposition figure still in Russia not behind bars, pleads not guilty to ‘discrediting’ army