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Terrorism

Energy minister: Israel stopped ‘very serious’ cyber attack on power plant

Israel detected and prevented a "very serious cyber attack" on one of the country's power plants, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Wednesday.Addressing the Cybertech Global Tel Aviv 2020 conference, Steinitz said the attempted attack was detected "a few months ago," and represented one of only a few serious cyber attacks on Israeli energy...

Antisemitism

US attorney general says there will be ‘zero tolerance’ on anti-Semitism

US Attorney General William Barr ordered federal prosecutors across the US to step up their efforts to combat anti-Semitic hate crimes as he met with Jewish leaders in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday.

Barr said he has been “extremely distressed by the upsurge in violence” in Jewish communities, including in New York City, which saw a string of...

Iran

Iran’s Kahmeini vows ‘satanic’ US peace plan will not be realized

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday denounced as “satanic” a US plan for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and predicted that Muslim nations will undoubtedly prevent the proposal from being put into practice.

US President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited peace plan at the White House on Tuesday.

“To the dismay...

In The News

US peace plan draws immediate responses from Jewish, Israel-related groups, Mideast experts

Jewish and Israel-related groups expressed mixed reactions to the Trump administration at long last releasing its long-awaited peace plan on Tuesday to help resolve the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“We appreciate the efforts of President Trump and his administration to work in consultation with the leaders of the two major Israeli...

Holocaust

Survivors return to Auschwitz 75 years after liberation

When more than 200 survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gather there on Monday to mark 75 years since its liberation, many will do so for the last time.
Elderly survivors from the United States, Israel, Australia, South America, Russia, Slovenia and elsewhere were among presidents, prime ministers and royalty from across the globe at the...

Antisemitism

Overwhelmingly Passes Holocaust Education Bill

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill providing funding and resources for schools to provide Holocaust education throughout the country.

According to a press release from Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), one of the leading co-sponsors of the Never Again Education Act, the bill allocates $10 million over a five-year period...

Antisemitism

France sees rash of anti-Christian acts while anti-Semitism rises, officials say

Although the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Monday, acts of anti-Semitism increased in France last year by 27 percent, according to the country’s interior minister.
A total of 687 anti-Semitic acts were counted in 2019, compared to 541 the previous year, according to a statement by Interior...

Iran

Motion for Iran to quit nuclear proliferation treaty enters parliament

A motion for Iran to quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was introduced in parliament on Tuesday, the assembly’s news site ICANA reported, in a move that appears to raise the stakes in Tehran’s confrontation with the West.

The report did not say when parliament might vote on the motion. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,...

Terrorism

Two explosive balloons, apparently flown from Gaza, land in Israel

Two explosives-laden balloons, apparently launched from the Gaza Strip, landed in the Sha’ar Hanegev region on Sunday morning. One of the devices alighted in an agricultural field and the second in a greenhouse, according to the local regional council.
Police sappers arrived at the scene and neutralized the devices without casualties.
Local...

Palestinian Authority

Abbas: Trump is a dog and the son of a dog, I won’t become a traitor

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas commented on Monday regarding US President Donald Trump's "Deal of the Century" that "Trump is a dog and the son of a dog," Fatah officials confirmed.

"They called me from Washington and I did not pick up the phone," Abbas said. "I said no and I will continue to say no... We are going for difficult...

US-Israel Relationship

Trump to share Mideast peace plan today

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will announce his long-delayed Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday and that he believes Palestinians will eventually go along with it despite their refusal to engage on the subject.

Sitting down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office, Trump said his plan “makes a lot of...

Antisemitism

CUFI Welcomes House Passage of Never Again Education Act

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January 27, 2020

WASHINGTON – On Monday, the leadership of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the nation’s largest pro-Israel organization, welcomed the passage of the Never Again Education Act (H.R. 943).

“Combatting the rise of anti-Semitism sweeping across the country is a top CUFI priority, and one of the fundamental...

Terrorism

Cyberattacks targeted world leaders’ planes as they flew into Israel last week

As Israel hosted dozens of world leaders last week for the World Holocaust Forum, the country’s cyber defense system fended off hundreds of cyberattacks targeting the country’s international airport and the planes of the world leaders.

Citing officials from the Airports Authority Cyber Division, Channel 12 reported Sunday that at least 800...

Palestinian Authority

Abbas said to refuse to take phone call from Trump

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly refused to take a phone call from US President Donald Trump ahead of the White House’s expected release of a Mideast peace plan rejected by Ramallah as one-sided in favor of Israel.
The report by the state-run Turkish Anadolu Agency on Monday came ahead of separate meetings that Trump is...

In The News US-Israel Relationship

Trump to present Middle East peace plan to Israeli leaders

President Trump is reportedly expected to disclose details of his Mideast peace plan to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponent Benny Gantz during their visit to Washington, DC, this week.
The president on Monday will hold separate, back-to-back meetings with Netanyahu and Gantz, the head of the centrist Blue and White Party and...

Israeli Society

Israel to allow its citizens to visit Saudi Arabia

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Sunday signed an order allowing Israelis to travel to Saudi Arabia.

The decision was made in coordination with the security services, the foreign ministry, and the head of national security.
Traveling to the Arab country will only be allowed on the grounds of religious worship during the Hajj as well as business...

Terrorism

ISIS: We need to conquer Israeli settlements, start targeting Jews

ISIS spokesperson Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi recorded to all the organization operatives, mainly those in Sinai and Syria, to begin conquering Israeli settlements, Kan reported on Monday.The message called on the operatives begin targeting Jews and to turn the conquered territories into fields of weapons and rocket experiments.Furthermore,...

In The News Iran

Rocket fire hits US Embassy compound in Iraq

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was struck by at least one rocket Sunday evening in the latest attack on American targets in Iraq, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News.
The official said all Pentagon officials are safe and accounted for. There were no reported deaths or injuries.
“The security situation remains tense and Iranian-backed armed...

US-Israel Relationship

IDF strengthens cyber-defense coordination with US Cyber Command

(January 23, 2020 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. military are strengthening their coordination and partnership in the area of cyber defenses.

Lt. Col. O (full name withheld), an officer in the IDF’s J6 and Cyber Defense Directorate, told JNS in recent days that a joint and relatively large exercise held with the U.S. military’s...

Holocaust

80 Holocaust survivors celebrate bar, bat mitzvah at Western Wall

80 Holocaust survivors celebrated their bar or bat mitzvahs last week at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The survivors were unable to celebrate their bar or bat mitzvahs at the traditional age (13 for boys, 12 for girls) because of World War II.

The celebrations were conducted in collaboration with the "Perah L'Nitzul" project of the Social...