JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin is not expected to grant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an extension to form a majority government and will likely pass on the mandate to Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, sources close to the president said on Saturday night, confirming an earlier Channel 12 report. Netanyahu has until […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — As the situation stands right now, Israel seems to be headed toward a third election in the early months of 2020. The Likud Central Committee met on Thursday night and voted that their party’s only candidate for prime minister is Benjamin Netanyahu. The central committee also determined that the Likud will only […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — The Council for Higher Education in Israel (CHE) this week officially launched the national initiative “Study in Israel” to double the number of international students enrolled in Israeli colleges and universities, initially targeting students in North America, China and India. As many as 12,000 international students are currently studying in Israel. The […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two children riding bicycles were killed in two incidents in Israel on Yom Kippur. Israeli children and adults flood the streets of Israel on the holiday, when the roads are empty of cars, buses and trucks. An 8-year-old boy was hit by a car on a main thoroughfare in Tel Aviv on […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — The mother of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist that decapitated a fallen Israeli soldier in Gaza in 2004 told a television interviewer last month that her son’s act makes her “feel proud and stand tall” to this day. Al-Quds Today TV (Palestine) aired a Sept. 22 interview with the mother of Muhammad […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel condemned Turkey’s invasion of Kurdish areas of northeastern Syria and offered humanitarian aid to the Syrian Kurds. Turkey launched its assault on Wednesday, leaving thousands of Kurdish civilians fleeing their homes. “Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel will never rely on other countries for its defense, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, warning Iran that it would not ignore its threats of destruction. Netanyahu, who spoke at the Hall of Remembrance on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem during the state memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers of […]

IAF pilot Yiftach Spektor couldn’t believe his bad luck. The 107 Phantom squadron leader had been assigned a key mission on the fourth day of the Yom Kippur War: To bomb the Syrian petrol reserves and other key buildings situated near the Syrian Army’s HQ in Damascus. The goal of the mission was to destroy […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem for the final selichot, or penitential prayers, before Yom Kippur. The services began after midnight on Tuesday morning, and brought worshippers from around the country. Yom Kippur begins at sundown on Tuesday and lasts for 25 hours. In Israel, […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed an advanced air-defense system in a cabinet meeting on Sunday that would counter the Iranian threat, reported Israel radio Kan. After the strikes against Saudi oil facilities last month allegedly carried out by Iran, the defense system would focus on protecting against such cruise-missile attacks at […]