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New book disarms Israel’s revisionist detractors
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote philosopher George Santayana in 1905. Today, Western civilization’s impaired memory is only part of a bigger problem.
From the United Nations to university campuses, when history conflicts with progressives’ agenda, they simply change the past. Disparate leftist forces, banded...

Sudanese Man Escapes Darfur Genocide, Finds Safe Haven in Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao3yadpLsuE

Middle East Analyst Avi Melamed: Hamas Under Increasing Pressure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiPah9TdxuI

Israeli Cabinet Minister Tzachi Hanegbi on Iran, Hezbollah and New Alliances in Mideast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-2PsNa5ZHs

2017 is America’s Winston Churchill Moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHd8wPqYER0

Treating wounded Syrians who arrive in Israel is ‘holiest of holy’
s the brutal war across Israel’s northern border rages on, Syrians desperate for medical care continue to make the treacherous journey to the border of a country they were raised to see as their enemy.
While Israel has largely stayed out of the fighting on it’s northern border, more than 3,000 Syrians have been treated here in the four years...

Israel reaches for the skies and the moon
A telltale white plume streaked across the sky over Israel Monday morning, revealing the country's latest missile test. No announcement was made on what propulsion system was tested but experts say it was for an intercontinental ballistic missile or a missile defense rocket. Either way, it was a manifestation of Israel's activity in aerospace, a...

Wonder Woman Gal Gadot on Israel-Gaza: Israeli actress’s pro-IDF stance causes controversy
Wonder Woman is officially pro-IDF.
Israeli actress Gal Gadot – who was recently unveiled as the caped superhero in Zack Snyder’s new DC movie Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice – caused a stir by posting a message of support for the Israel Defence Forces via her official Facebook page, just days before a poster of her in character first...

Israeli Trauma Experts Take the Lead in Treating Manchester Terror Victims
Israeli trauma experts have landed in Manchester in the wake of the attack on the Ariana Grande concert to treat victims and train medical staff on the ground, Breaking Israel News reported Monday.
The terrorist organization Islamic State has officially claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that left 22 people killed, many of them...

Israel’s Danny Danon elected vice president of next UN General Assembly
NEW YORK - Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon was elected as Vice President of the Seventy-Second Session of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
“It is an honor to represent the State of Israel in this leadership position at the United Nations,” Danon said in a statement following the vote. “We have proven once again that...

CUFI Statement on Jerusalem Embassy Act Waiver
SAN ANTONIO – Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the nation’s largest pro-Israel organization, released the following statement concerning President Donald Trump’s decision to sign a waiver that delays moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem:
We are disappointed the President chose at this time to sign the Jerusalem Embassy Act waiver but...

Palestinians paid terrorists $1b in past 4 years, Knesset panel hears
The Palestinian Authority has paid out some NIS 4 billion — or $1.12 billion — over the past four years to terrorists and their families, a former director general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and ex-head of the army’s intelligence and research division told a top Knesset panel on Monday.
Setting out the figures, Brig.-Gen (res.) Yossi...

Israel Rushes Aid to Sri Lanka as Floods Displace Tens of Thousands
Israel has delivered emergency supplies to Sri Lankan authorities as they struggle to cope with the impact of floods and mudslides that have killed nearly 200 people and displaced more than 80,000 from their homes in recent days.
Daniel Carmon — Israel’s ambassador to India and Sri Lanka — delivered boxes of relief supplies to Colombo’s Foreign...

Israeli Researchers Develop New ALS Treatment
JNS.org – Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) announced the development of a new treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
The lethal neurodegenerative disorder causes deterioration in the
brain and spinal cord’s motor nerve cells, leading to atrophy, paralysis and...

Pence to speak at Christian pro-Israel group’s annual summit
(JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence will address the annual summit of Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel group in the country.
Pence will speak at CUFI’s conference in Washington, D.C., which is taking place on July 17-18, the group announced Tuesday.
Pastor John Hagee, who founded CUFI in 2006, praised the Trump administration...

US veterans seek healing in Israel
About 20 veterans commit suicide across the US each day, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. An organization providing spiritual healing, suicide prevention and peer support programming for veterans believes Israel is part of the solution.
Leading up to Memorial Day, which this year is May 29, JNS is spotlighting the stories of six...

New technology can predict resistance to chemotherapy
NewStem, a startup based in Jerusalem, is developing a novel diagnostic kit for predicting resistance to chemotherapy treatments.
The technology is based on the pioneering research of Prof. Nissim Benvenisty of the Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The problem to be addressed by the kit is...

What ISIS Fighters Are Doing in Syria’s Golan Heights, Near the Israeli Border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAqG4S1c7rY