After years of using chartered planes for overseas travels, Israel’s leaders may soon get their own Air Force One. Israel Hayom has learned that the government plans to buy a used commercial plane that would be fitted with various communication and defense systems. The cost of the aircraft and the overall refurbishing is estimated at $70 million. According to the plan, the plane will have the necessary technology to allow Israeli leaders to carry out their duties in full while airborne and have room for some 100 people. According to sources familiar with the issue, assuming an Israeli company will…
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Israelis, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, were horrified by a video clip posted to the Internet showing a Palestinian father trying to get his 4-year-old son to attack an Israeli soldier in hopes that the soldier would respond with violence and thereby bolster claims that Israelis are violent racists. Instead, the soldier responded with kindness, and the oblivious toddler instead threw stones into the nearby field. The exchange epitomized perfectly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most Israelis just want peace, while far too many Palestinians have been brainwashed into believing the Jews are enemies that must be violently confronted. The words of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his first phone conversation with his British counterpart Prime Minister Theresa May since she took office last month. According to Netanyahu’s office, the two leaders discussed ways to maintain and increase cooperation in a variety of fields, including regional issues and the threat of global terrorism. Netanyahu also wished May luck as she begins her premiership. May became the U.K.’s second female prime minister following the resignation of David Cameron last month after the country’s vote to leave the European Union in late June. May, who formerly served as home secretary, has long been…
The mayor of the largest Druze town on the Golan Heights at the weekend offered scathing criticism of a recent UN Economic and Social Council statement that accused Israel of negatively impacting the living conditions of “occupied” populations. In typical fashion, the UN last month decried what it called the “economic and social repercussions of the [Israeli] occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan.” Dulan Abu-Saleh, the mayor of Majdal Shams, the largest Druze town in the Golan, called the charge…
Israel’s Foreign Ministry launched a social media campaign this month to convince the Palestinian leadership to stop honoring deceased terrorists, a practice that makes genuine peace nearly impossible to achieve. The focal point of the campaign was the Palestinian Authority’s decision to erect a monument to Abu Sukar (Ahmed Jabara) who in 1975 detonated a refrigerator bomb in Jerusalem’s Zion Square killing 15 Israelis and wounding another 77. American-born Foreign Ministry Director Dore Gold actually witnessed that attack as a young student in Jerusalem. “Suddenly I heard a huge explosion. I turned around and saw bodies everywhere,” Gold recalls in…
After Democratic Party activists filmed themselves burning an Israeli flag outside of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, party officials were quick to reassert their pro-Israel standing. Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “strongly condemns this kind of hatred,” Clinton’s Jewish outreach director, Sarah Bard, told The Jerusalem Post. “Burning the Israeli flag is a reckless act that undermines peace and our values.” Speaking to members of the American Jewish Committee at the convention, Clinton adviser Wendy Sherman said the candidate had issued “very direct instructions” that the official Democratic Party platform remain pro-Israel. Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, was spotted at…
Israeli Jews living in the so-called “West Bank” are painted as intractably hostile toward the local Palestinian Arab population, and vice versa. But the reality is very often far different. Take for instance the terrorist shooting attack on the roads of Judea earlier this month, when Rabbi Michael Mark was killed and his family wounded by Palestinian gunmen. The first person on the scene was a Palestinian passerby who quickly extracted the Mark children from their crashed vehicle. The next to stop was Dr. Ali Abu Sharach, a Palestinian doctor, who, along with his nurse wife, did not hesitate to…
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate has Israelis intrigued. As if the prospect of a Trump presidency wasn’t enough to gain everyone’s attention. Trump has already made unwavering support for Israel a centerpiece of his campaign. Bringing Pence on board only amplifies that message. An unabashedly conservative Christian, Pence previously spent 12 years in Congress, where he led several pro-Israel efforts, including placing stricter conditions on funding for the Palestinian Authority. In 2007, Pence co-led the bipartisan Congressional Anti-Semitism Task Force. In 2009, Pence addressed the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee…
Despite it’s relatively small size, Israel is one of the first responders to crisis that occur around the globe. This video showcases Israel’s commitment to providing aid and saving lives.
According to the UN Population Division, there are today 244 million immigrants or people living in a country other than their own, 60 million of whom are refugees. The UN defines a refugee as “someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence.” Though living in a state of bloody conflict for decades, Israel, including the West Bank, is not considered a country at war, which is why those leaving Israel today are not considered refugees. Arab countries around Israel that are ravaged by war produce a staggering amount of refugees and…