Election fever & other ailments
Israel is currently experiencing an outbreak of measles as a result of irresponsible parents not vaccinating their children against this childhood disease…writes Michael Kuttner.
As we transition into a new civil year there will also...
When your child goes to Israel for a gap year
Parents always worry about their children's welfare and certainly when they send their young adult children to an Israel gap year program. Rightly so, although in just about every case, the year passes and the kids...
Travesty of Palestinian education
The new school year kicked off in the Palestinian Authority last month, and it was business as usual. The authors of this year's textbooks have made sure to keep up their long tradition of...
Israel’s COGAT Problem
After Israel won the 1967 Six Day War, liberating eastern Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip from Jordanian, Syrian and Egyptian occupation, these areas were placed under the authority...
PM Netanyahu’s Speech to the UN General Assembly
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Thursday, 27 September 2018), addressed the UN General Assembly:
"Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
When I spoke here, three years ago, Israel stood alone among...
Justification for slaying Jewish civilians well tolerated by Western world
Introduction
PM Netanyahu and many other senior Israeli politicians mourned the slaying of Ari Fuld, a father of 4, outside a shopping center.
https://www.facebook.com/Netanyahu/photos/a.10151681566507076/10155849858982076/?type=3&theater
Fuld, who lived in Efrat, was killed by a Palestinian-Arab terrorist.
Palestinian-Arab terrorism is...
Yes, we know the Palestinian Authority sponsors terror
Recent moves of the US administration on the Palestinian arena (deducting $200 million from US aid and probably adopting a new approach on Palestinian refugees) are signs that as we approach the 25th anniversary...
Outrage: From Warsaw to Jerusalem
Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial center for six million Jews murdered during WWII, has issued a stinging critique of a joint statement by the Israeli and Polish prime ministers that was meant to resolve...
From Israel: The Head Spins
July 6, 2018
I confess, my head is spinning a bit less because of the time with my grandchildren. Had a great tour of Har Hazeitim with two of them this week.
But the world goes...
Bishop questions PA’s ‘pay to slay’ policy
AN Israeli authority on Palestinian textbooks has urged Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to follow her new stance on Palestinian “martyr” payments with a tough line on Palestinian Authority (PA) schoolbooks.
Bishop wrote to PA Foreign...