Will Syria become a battleground between Turkey and Israel?

Israel’s relationship with Ankara has been characterized by fluctuations over time, marked by periods of cooperation and tension. However, Turkey’s recent posture, particularly in the aftermath of the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, has been increasingly antagonistic and inconsistent. Read more

Netanyahu rebounds after political and military successes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a spectacular and dramatic week. Read more

Iran’s fingerprints on Oct. 7 massacre ‘well-documented’

When thousands of Hamas-led terrorists murdered some 1,200 Israeli men, women and children on Oct. 7 and kidnapped hundreds of others, it further exposed how Iran supported and funded Hamas and continues to foment regional unrest. Read more

Who wants a two-state solution? Not Israelis or Palestinians

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer believes the Palestinian people “want what any other people want: peace, security and prosperity.” Read more

Israel must dismantle and replace UNRWA

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks following revelations that approximately 10% of its 12,000 Gaza workforce are linked to Hamas, with at least 12 participating directly in the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre. Read more

How international law supports Israel’s right to defend itself

As Israel prepares for an extended battle to eradicate the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist leadership in Gaza, the Jewish state has witnessed an outpouring of support across the globe, on social media, and from U.S. President Joe Biden, among many other world leaders. Read more

The showdown in Israel continues as judicial reform advances

Israel’s Supreme Court is either under attack or undergoing necessary reform, depending on who you ask. Read more

Lithuania marks 81 years since Nazis liquidated Vilnius Ghetto

A crowd of students, teachers and principals stood in Vilnius’s historic Ghetto Victims (Rūdninkai) Square last week as they listened to the speeches and watched the performances of their classmates. Read more

Biden’s trip produced mixed bag of results for Israel, say experts

U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the Middle East accomplished most of the administration’s goals, but from Israel’s point of view, the results were a mixed bag, experts told JNS. Read more

Israel continues to walk a diplomatic tightrope between Russia and Ukraine

Israel continues to struggle to maintain integrity while balancing its delicate diplomatic relationships with both Ukraine and Russia. Read more

Begin Centre panel on anti-Semitism delivers central message: Speak up, fight back

The main message that emerged from a panel on anti-Semitism on Monday evening is that Jews everywhere can make a difference, and all people—Jews and non-Jews—can and must fight back against the resurgent scourge of anti-Semitism. Read more

Biden visit to Israel aims to please, but may alienate all parties instead

Ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s as-yet-unconfirmed visit to Israel next month, a number of reports have surfaced regarding what the president aims to achieve during his trip to the region. Read more

Danny Danon looks back on his fight for Israel in the United Nations

In the decade that separates the two books that former ambassador to the United Nations and current chairman of World Likud Danny Danon has written, a lot has transpired. Read more

Proposed US legislation to hold Jordan accountable for failure to extradite Hamas terrorist

Right before Jordan’s King Abdullah II is to meet with U.S. President Biden at the White House, the parents of an Australian-American-Israeli teenager murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2001 are hailing proposed U.S. legislation that would hold the government of Jordan accountable for its years-long refusal to extradite the Hamas terrorist who facilitated the suicide bombing. Read more

Jordan demands total control, reduced Jewish presence on Temple Mount

Jordan fears it is losing its recognized status as the official custodian of Jerusalem’s holy Muslim sites, including the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, as Palestinians incited by Hamas, other terror groups and the Palestinian Authority continuously held riots during the Muslim month of Ramadan. Read more

What is ‘Plan B’ for Israel or America if Iran nuclear deal goes unsigned?

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz made it clear on Monday that if world powers do not reach an agreement with Iran, Israel will be forced to activate “Plan B” immediately. Read more

US prepares to sign major appeasement deal with Iran

As the Biden administration prepares to sign a final deal with Iran that has been lambasted by numerous experts as nothing short of a major appeasement of the Islamic regime, Washington is now also weighing the removal of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from a terror blacklist in return for a public commitment from Iran to de-escalation in the region. Read more

US ambassador to Israel calls settlement growth ‘infuriating,’ backs a divided Jerusalem

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides joined Americans for Peace Now (APN) in a webinar on Tuesday to discuss his new job and what his vision is for the region. “I’m centre-left,” he said. “I’m left generally, but I put in the ‘centre’ just to make myself feel better.” Read more

Ukraine’s battle for survival offers multiple lessons for Israel

As Russia pushes further into Ukraine and threatens its capital Kyiv—and as Russian President Vladimir Putin appears unfazed and undeterred by Western nations willing to sanction Russia through economic means, but afraid to fight militarily to save innocent Ukrainian civilians—the question arises: What could the world have done to deter Putin? And what does this mean for the State of Israel? Read more

Russian war on Ukraine places Israel in delicate position

Israel could expect to see the arrival of a total of 15,000 Ukrainians by the end of the month if it continues to allow entry to refugees fleeing their war-torn country at the current pace, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked told the Cabinet during its weekly Sunday meeting. Read more

Israel fears Western appeasement of Russia emboldens Iran

The United States, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany—known as the P5+1—appear to be closing in on a deal with Iran over its ongoing nuclear-weapons program. Read more

Kyiv’s Jewish community watches with apprehension as Russia attacks Ukraine

Chief Rabbi of Kyiv Jonathan Markovitch and his wife Inna are hoping for the best as Russian forces bombard Ukrainian cities. Hunkered down in Kyiv, where they run the Kyiv Jewish Center, the Markovitchs said they decided to stay in the city “because we have a flourishing community of 2,500 here that depend on us.” Read more

Ukraine’s Jewish community on edge as Russia invades country

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition on Feb. 21 of two “breakaway” states in eastern Ukraine and his subsequent dispatch of “peacekeepers” there—considered by Western nations to be an official invasion of the country—has left its citizens and particularly the Jewish communities on edge. Throughout Ukraine, Jewish leaders are watching closely, and many have made contingency plans in the event the situation worsens. Read more

Gathering signatures calling out anti-Israel UN commission of inquiry

Immediately after “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” which began after Hamas in the Gaza Strip started firing barrages of rockets at Jerusalem and its civilian population last May, the U.N. Human Rights Commission, reacting to Israel’s retaliation against Hamas, set up a special permanent inquiry to investigate “all alleged violations and abuses of international human-rights law leading up and since 13 April 2021.” Read more

UAE textbooks teach tolerance as those of PA teach violence, anti-Jewish incitement

The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) has uncovered thousands of pages of new teaching material produced by the Palestinian Authority that directly calls for violence and promotes anti-Semitism, even after promising European Union donors it would implement changes. Read more

Israel’s gift of hundreds of millions of dollars to Palestinians violates law

The Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum sent a request on Jan. 16 under Israel’s Freedom of Information Act to Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, asking for information and details on his agreement to transfer hundreds of millions of shekels to the Palestinian Authority. Read more

Legal experts expose biased research, reliance on terror organizations in Amnesty International report

Amnesty International’s latest controversial report released on Feb. 1 during a press conference in Jerusalem, this time accusing Israel of apartheid, has come under fierce condemnation from the Israeli government and Jewish groups around the world as being “anti-Semitic.” Read more

Israel defenders slam Amnesty International over ‘diplomatic lynch against the Jewish state’

A new report by Amnesty International UK set to be published on Feb. 1 accuses Israel of “apartheid” and “institutionalized and systematic discrimination against Palestinians.” Amnesty said it has “concluded that Israel has perpetrated the international wrong of apartheid as a human-rights violation and a violation of public international law.” Read more

Ukraine’s Jewish community in danger as Russian troops, supplies mass at border

A possibly imminent invasion by Russian troops into Ukrainian territory has the world on edge as leaders and experts try to guess Russian President Vladimir Putin’s next steps and prevent what could become the largest military action in Europe since World War II. Read more

EU tries to twist international law to fight eviction of Sheikh Jarrah squatters in Jerusalem

Israeli authorities on Monday morning attempted to evict the Salhiya family, Arab squatters living illegally since the 1950s in a home in the Shimon HaTzadik neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. Read more

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