WHO singles out Israel as violator of health rights
May 26, 2022 by TPS
The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) held a session on Wednesday singling out Israel, which was condemned in speeches by several countries, including Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Lebanon, and Cuba, for allegedly violating the health rights of the non-Jewish population in the Golan Heights. Read more
Israel fortifying kindergartens in vicinity of Gaza Strip
May 26, 2022 by TPS
The Ministry of Defence’s Engineering and Construction Division, in cooperation with IDF’s Home Front Command, has commenced work to fortify kindergartens in the Gaza Strip area against rocket and mortar attacks. Read more
Frozen in time: 2,100-year-old agricultural farmstead uncovered in Galilee
May 26, 2022 by TPS
A well-preserved 2,100-year-old, Hasmonean period agricultural farmstead containing finds that may have been abandoned in haste, was uncovered at Horbat Assad next to Nahal Arbel in eastern Galilee. Read more
Israeli researchers find experimental drug effective in treating autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease
May 25, 2022 by TPS
Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered a mechanism shared by mutations in the genes ADNP and SHANK3, which cause autism, schizophrenia, and other conditions. Read more
Authorities seize 1,800 rare and ancient artifacts suspected as stolen from archeological sites
May 20, 2022 by TPS
About 1,800 antique coins, jewellery and stamps, pottery plates with inscriptions, and an ancient bronze figurine were seized this week at the home of a resident of the city of Modi’in in the centre of the country, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Thursday. Read more
Israel starts to export cannabis seeds to US
May 19, 2022 by TPS
After nearly a year of discussions, a shipment of cannabis seeds took off from Israel to the US on Tuesday night, the first-ever shipment of cannabis seeds from Israel to a foreign country. Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Pallbearers at funeral of Al Jazeera reporter were convicted terrorists
May 18, 2022 by TPS
The funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, a senior journalist and one of the icons of the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, was a show of forces by the Fatah movement in eastern Jerusalem, and the pallbearers were convicted terrorists, TPS has learned. Read more
Turkish flight aborts takeoff from Israel following threatening messages to passengers
May 11, 2022 by TPS
A flight from Ben Gurion Airport to Turkey was grounded and delayed on Tuesday after many passengers received threatening messages on their phones. Read more
’UN credibility at stake’: UN’s Palestine investigator accepts PLO award, watchdog protests
May 11, 2022 by TPS
Outgoing UN investigator on Palestine Michael Lynk violated United Nations neutrality rules by accepting an award from Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas, the human rights group UN Watch charged, calling on US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to demand that Lynk return it. Read more
Two terrorists from fatal Elad attack captured alive
May 8, 2022 by TPS
The two Arab terrorists who carried out the massacre in Elad on Thursday night were captured alive Sunday morning by Israel’s security forces. Read more
Putin ignores recent tensions over Ukraine in Independence Day greetings to Israel
May 6, 2022 by TPS
Some in Israel are speculating that the Russian government may be looking to put the past week’s tensions aside and try to restore better relations with the State of Israel. Read more
MDA opens Israel’s national missile-resistant underground blood bank
May 3, 2022 by TPS
Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s emergency medical service, inaugurated on Monday the world’s first subterranean, and shielded national blood services centre in Ramla, Israel, planned to withstand missile attacks during a war. Read more
IDF soldier with special needs to receive President’s Award of Excellence on Israel’s 74th Independence Day
May 3, 2022 by TPS
An IDF soldier with disabilities who enlisted through a special program will make history this week on Israel’s Independence Day when he becomes the first soldier with special needs to be honoured by the president for his outstanding contribution to the IDF. Read more
2,300-year-old clay candle uncovered at Samaritan high priesthood compound in Samaria
May 2, 2022 by TPS
Conservation work being carried out at the Mount Gerizim site in Samaria led to the uncovering of an ancient pottery candle, estimated to date to the Hellenistic period in the second century BCE. Read more
Bullet in the mail for Prime Minister Bennett and his family
April 27, 2022 by TPS
Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett has received a death threat in the mail levelled at both himself and his family. Read more
PA Imam calls to exterminate Jews
April 25, 2022 by TPS
An Imam in the Palestinian Authority (PA) led a prayer in the Al-Ain Mosque in El-Bireh, near Ramallah, last week broadcasted on PA TV in honour of the Muslim month of Ramadan, during which he called for the extermination of Jews. Read more
Violence threatened and PA alleges ‘Judaization and ethnic cleansing’ on Temple Mount
April 18, 2022 by TPS
Senior Islamic Jihad official Muhammad Shalach said in an interview Sunday that the terror factions in Gaza Strip are “determined to respond at all costs” if Israel causes a large number of casualties, a “massacre” as he put it, during the IDF’s counterterrorism operation in Jenin, or if a Passover offering is sacrificed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Read more
Noa Tishby appointed Israel’s first ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel
April 13, 2022 by TPS
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has announced the appointment of the country’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel. Israeli artist, author and model Noa Tishby will be the first person to fill the newly-established position. Read more
Ultra-orthodox city to name street after Israeli-Christian cop killed defending it
April 12, 2022 by TPS
The Council of the Ultra-Orthodox city of Beni Brak approved a proposal to commemorate Amir Khoury, an Israeli-Christian police officer who was killed last month while confronting a terrorist who was on a shooting rampage in the city. Read more
Muslims again desecrate Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem
April 11, 2022 by TPS
Muslim rioters again entered Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) on Monday morning and desecrated the shrine, a Jewish prayer site. Read more
Israel’s biggest matzah
April 11, 2022 by TPS
Ahead of the Passover, President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal welcomed representatives of the factory that produced the biggest matzah in Israel. Read more
Watchdog submits 11,687 items on PA incitement to UNHRC Commission of Inquiry on Israel
April 7, 2022 by TPS
The Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which monitors incitement to terrorism and antisemitism spread by and in the Palestinian Authority (PA) submitted 11,687 items to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Commission of Inquiry on Israel’s alleged human rights violations and war crimes. Read more
Israel’s UN envoy: On Passover this year, we think of Ukraine
April 7, 2022 by TPS
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan hosted an early Passover Seder at the UN on Wednesday during which he declared that “this year, when we think of ‘let My people go,’ we will also think of Ukraine.” Read more
Israeli artwork ‘Impossible Object’ on way to International Space Station
April 7, 2022 by TPS
A unique partnership between an Israeli physicist and an artist has led to a unique work of art, which will be dispatched to the International Space Station. Read more
Amid tensions, Defence Minister Gantz talks with PA head Abbas
April 6, 2022 by TPS
Defence Minister Benny Gantz spoke Tuesday evening with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, as security tensions are high following a series of terror attacks in Israel that claimed the lives of 11 people. Read more
Israeli-developed nanoparticle enhances chemotherapy while reviving immune system
Israeli scientists have developed a nanoparticle that does two jobs -it enhances the effectiveness of chemotherapy and reinvigorates the immune system. Read more
Naftali Bennett condemns inflammatory graphic of 11 terrorist victims to attack his government
April 4, 2022 by TPS
Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has responded to an inflammatory graphic about him that was distributed on social media recently. Read more
PA Prime Minister condemns Israeli counterterrorism op as ‘horrific crime’
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the Israeli counterterrorism operation in Jenin on Friday night in which the Israeli forces killed three Islamic Jihad terrorists. Read more
Bennett tests positive for COVID-19
March 28, 2022 by TPS
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Monday. Read more
PM Bennett and Russia’s Putin discuss Ukraine war, again
March 24, 2022 by TPS
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday evening, the latest conversation between the two in several that took place in recent weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read more
