Spanish music festival disinvites Matisyahu

World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder expressed “outrage” and “utter bewilderment” on Sunday at news that a music festival in Spain had disinvited an American Jewish musician for failing to sign a pro-Palestinian declaration. Read more

91-yr-old champion

Three months after being named European champion, 91-year-old Israeli long-distance runner Semion Simkin has won the world championship for senior runners in Lyon, France. Read more

Tourism in Israel back to normal

One year after Operation Protective Edge, tourism in Israel is showing signs of recovery with the number of tourist entries in the period Jan-July this year returning to the level of 2013. Read more

Indonesia refuses visa to Israeli badminton player

World Jewish Congress (WJC) CEO Robert Singer has criticized the authorities in Indonesia for “unfairly mixing politics and sports” and denying a visa to Israel player Misha Zilberman which would allow him to compete in the World Badminton Championships held in the capital Jakarta next week. Read more

President Rivlin visits 4-yr-old attack victim in hospital

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin visited four-year-old Ahmed Dawabsha being treated in Tel HaShomer hospital following an arson terror attack on his family’s home in Duma, in which his baby brother Ali, was killed. Read more

Citizens of Israel: A wake-up call

Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin has addressed a  rally in Jerusalem which  promoted tolerance protested against violence. Read more

Peres supports Pollard release

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has expressed his support for the pending release of Jonathan Pollard. Read more

Schindler’s List Oscar has a new home – Yad Vashem

Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig has presented to Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev the Oscar awarded to him by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Schindler’s List, Best Picture of 1993. Read more

1500-year-old scroll deciphered

Modern technology has made it possible for the first time to read the contents of a 1500-year-old burnt scroll that was found forty-five years ago in archaeological excavations at Ein Gedi, on the western shore of the Dead Sea. Read more

Netanyahu on Iran

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the Knesset following the U.N. Security Council’s approval of the Iran deal. Read more

Reform Jews condemn being labelled as not being Jewish

ARZENU, the world movement of Reform Zionists, condemns Israel’s Religious Services Minister for his comments in a radio interview that Reform Jews cannot be considered Jews, and calls for action to be taken to prevent any further statements like this being made by a government minister. Read more

Following the money: How much of Iran deal’s sanctions relief will fund terror?

Beyond the recently reached nuclear deal’s implications for Iran’s nuclear program itself, much of the fear about the agreement centres on how the substantial sanctions relief it provides to the Islamic Republic might open the floodgates to increased Iranian exporting of terrorism. Read more

WJC welcomes sentencing of Nazi war criminal

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has welcomed the verdict by a court in Lüneburg, Germany which sentenced Oskar Gröning to four years in prison for his complicity in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz in 1944.  Read more

A song for Shimon

A moving tribute awaited former Israeli president Shimon Peres on Wednesday when U2 frontman Bono dedicated the song “One” to the Israeli statesman during a concert in Toronto. Read more

Hamas holding two Israelis hostage in Gaza since last September

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has been holding two Israeli citizens in Gaza captive for the last 10 months, one whose identity was revealed yesterday upon the lifting of a gag order by the Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court.  Read more

Playing tag in the gas chambers

Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), today criticized the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), Poland for reinstating an art installation that features a video of naked men and women playing tag in a gas chamber. Read more

Jews fleeing Ukraine arrive in Israel recount assaults by pro-Russian rebels

Two Jewish refugees who say they endured torture by pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine arrived in Israel after making aliyah on Wednesday. Read more

Hamas official confirms that indirect talks with Israel are underway

Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of Hamas’s leaders in the West Bank, has confirmed that Israel and the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terrorist group are in the midst of negotiations through mediators. Read more

Help is on the way

Meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seven cabinet ministers in Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky announced that The Jewish Agency will increase the number of Israel Fellows dispatched to college campuses abroad by more than 30% in order to help combat rising efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel. Read more

WJC welcomes U.S. Senate’s stand against BDS

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) today hailed the United States Senate’s decision to approve a strong stand against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement included in the Fast Track trade bill.  Read more

Netanyahu addresses The Jewish Agency Assembly

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed hundreds of Jewish leaders gathered for the 2015 Jewish Agency for Israel Assembly in Tel Aviv. Read more

BDS condemned in U.S. House of Representatives

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a new measure in the U.S. House of Representatives condemning resolutions or policies promoting boycotts of Israeli academic institutions and scholars by American universities or scholarly associations.   Read more

Hamas mulling truce…in exchange for seaport

Hamas leaders are discussing a possible five-year cease-fire with Israel during a meeting with Qatar, according to the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper. Read more

The Israeli Report on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

The Israeli Report on the 2014 Gaza Conflict was presented to media in Jerusalem this week. Read more

Orange will never support a boycott against Israel

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former president Shimon Peres have met with Orange Chairman and CEO Stephane Richard in Jerusalem following the French company’s reversal of its decision to break off its relations with Israel.  Read more

Spanish parliament approves law granting citizenship to Sephardic Jews

Spain’s Chamber of Deputies has approved a law aimed at granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled during the Spanish Inquisition.  Read more

Middle East: An opportunity for new alliances

The turmoil in the Middle East presents an opportunity for new alliances that can help bring about a two-state solution to the conflict with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an hour long address at the closing of the 2015 Herzliya Conference. Read more

Australian animals brutally slaughtered in Israel

Footage has been shown on Israeli television of the brutal slaughter of cattle shipped to Israel from Australia. Read more

Lord Sacks says Jews now hated for their nation State

At a roundtable discussion entitled “Islam and BDS in Europe: A Strategic Threat?”, held today at the 2015 Herzliya Conference, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi Emeritus of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth discussed the issue of new antisemitism and its manifestation with the BDS movement, claiming that “Anti-Zionism is the new antisemitism” and calling on Europe to support Jews in opposition against this new form of racism. Read more

Orange to stay in Israel

In the latest shift in a back-and-forth saga, the CEO of the French telecommunications giant Orange told the AFP news agency on Saturday that the company is in Israel “to stay.”  Read more

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