Around 200 high school students from the “Amal” network of schools joined hands in forming a ring around Israel President Reuven Rivlin. What is special about this group is that it includes students from all four of Israel’s modern tribes (secular Jews, traditional religious Jews, ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Arabs). The event saw students come from all over the country to the President’s residence in Jerusalem, where Rivlin told them, “It is through you that we have come to understand that we can live together if we study together. You are the next generation of Israel’s leaders and you must always remember…
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Prior to the election, the now President-elect Donald Trump stated to members of his Israel Advisory Committee his policies on multiple issues very close to Israel’s heart. Jason Greenblatt, one of the members of Trump’s committee, published a thorough statement detailing exactly what Trump stated towards each issue. Here is Trump’s policy statement, word-for-word, from the President-elect himself. 1. The nature and character of the State of Israel Israel is the state of the Jewish people, who have lived in that land for 3,500 years. The State of Israel was founded with courage and determination by great men and women…
One would think a story like this would be making major headlines, given the amount of attention that is afforded every other aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, the forced conversion of Christians to Islam by Gaza’s Hamas rulers just doesn’t seem to interest the media. This should be a wake-up call! Arab media commentator Raymond Ibrahim brings to light the story after surveying Arabic-language media sources, where the plight of Gaza Christians seems to be covered far more regularly than what we are regularly seeing. “…we hear of the kidnapping of Christians and the coercion of them to embrace the religion…
Although it will be some time before President-elect Donald Trump names the members of his cabinet, the three individuals most often mentioned as contenders for the administration’s top foreign policy post all have strong pro-Israel records. John Bolton Bolton, 67, served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2005-2006 in the George W. Bush administration. Bolton strongly criticized the Obama administration last month for changing a White House press release that had referred to Jerusalem as being in Israel. He said Obama’s stance on Jerusalem is “a more radical position than the official position of the United States” and…
Israel celebrated its first Aliyah Day with a ceremony at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem last Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver, and Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky attended the ceremony. In June, the Aliyah Day law was passed to recognize the importance of immigration to Israel and its development as a multicultural society. The law designated Aliyah Day as the seventh day of the Hebrew month of Heshvan, coinciding with the reading of the Lech Lecha Torah portion, which describes the divine commandment directing Abraham to go to the land of Israel. “The democratic…
Israel recently rebuffed the Obama Administration’s objection to a new building project in Jewish settlement of Shiloh, the biblical site that was home to the Ark of the Covenant for centuries prior to the conquest of Jerusalem by King David. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government told the Israel High Court that it intends to move forward with the construction of 98 new homes in Shiloh. The new neighborhood will be used to house Israelis evacuated from the illegally-built Jewish outpost of Amona. Shiloh was the first major holy site following Israel’s entry into the Promised Land. It was there that…
The Palestinians must confront their “demons” over a Jewish state if they wish to achieve Palestinian statehood, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting Italian President Sergio Mattarella in Jerusalem. “And I turned not only to Hamas, but to President Abbas, and I said, ‘Would you recognize a Jewish state, assuming we solve the settlement problem?’” Netanyahu said in his opening remarks with Mattarella, who met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “And they won’t, because the real settlement issue are the settlements of Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, and Akko. The persistent refusal to recognize a Jewish state is at…
Preservation experts have recently removed a marble slab covering what Christians believe to be Jesus’s tomb inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, exposing for the first time in centuries the original surface. National Geographic says the marble slab was pulled back for 60 hours as part of a restoration and archaeological study. Scientists at the site said the tomb has been covered by marble cladding since at least 1555 CE, and most likely dating to an even earlier period. “The marble covering of the tomb has been pulled back, and we were surprised by the amount of fill…
So, the Dead Sea Scrolls are undeniably written in Hebrew. However, the Palestinians are now stating that these ancient documents are, like Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, Arab Muslim in origin. Confused? So are we! The ridiculous campaign to delegitimize Israel seems to never cease. There has been an immeasurable amount of evidence clearly showing Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, even within Muslim inscriptions! Carmel Shama-Hacohen, Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, said the Palestinians raised the matter informally during a recent meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin. According to the ambassador and to…
A recent discovery of an inscription from the early Islamic period has been added to the pile of evidence attesting to a long Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, contrary to recent decisions taken by the United Nations. The inscription, which was found during the excavation of a mosque in the Palestinian village of Nuba near Hebron, refers to what is now called the Dome of the Rock as “Bait al-Maqdess,” the Arabic version of “Beit Hamikdah,” which is Hebrew for the Temple. According to Israeli archaeologists Asaf Avraham and Peretz Reuven, the unique inscription dates to the 10th century,…