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US-Israel Relationship

US Ambassador sings to Israel, Shana Tova

In a video released by the the American administration for public affairs ambassador David Friedman greeted the people of Israel to have a happy Jewish new year in the name of the Trump administration.

In the video, The ambassador goes to a bee hive in order to retrieve the freshest honey he is capable of - there he is told that bees produce...

Palestinian Authority

Dozens of West Bank Palestinians cross into Israel in illegal border breach

Dozens of Palestinians illegally crossed into Israel from the West Bank Friday in a major breach of the border fence.

The incident happened in the area of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank near the Israeli city of Netanya, the Walla news site reported.

The border-crossers burned parts of the fence, and sabotaged a mechanical gate for the second...

Iran

Anti-US murals on former embassy in Iran erased… to make way for new ones

TEHRAN, Iran — Famous murals celebrating Iran’s Islamic Revolution daubed on walls of the former US embassy in Tehran have been erased to make way for new paintings to be unveiled on the fortieth anniversary of the hostage crisis.

Three workers were on Sunday afternoon seen removing the original artwork with a sandblaster against the wall of...

US-Israel Relationship

On pre-holiday call, Trump highlights exiting Iran deal, backing Holocaust education, battling anti-Semitism

(September 27, 2019 / JNS) In the annual call on Friday ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday between Jewish communal leaders and the president of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump recalled a friend telling him that neither moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in May 2018 nor recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights last...

Iran

Iran-backed Houthi rebels claim attack on Saudi military post

Yemen’s Houthi rebels, an Iranian-backed movement, claimed on Saturday that they carried out an attack on a Saudi Arabian military post near the border with Yemen, capturing military personnel and military vehicles.

A spokesperson for the Houthis said in a statement that three “enemy military brigades had fallen” in the attack near the border...

Antisemitism

In Rosh Hashanah message, Boris Johnson vows to defend Jews from anti-Semitism

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to protect Jews against anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, in a video message to Jews ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday on Sunday evening.

“I will always be there to defend you against the shameful anti-Semitism that we are increasingly seeing and which is such a terrible blight on our country,” he...

Israeli Society

Year 5780: World leaders wish Jews a happy new year

An Indian Jew blows a 'Shofar', a musical instrument used in Jewish religious ceremonies made from the horn of a Ram during the 'Tashlikh' ceremony during Rosh Hashanah, the two-day Jewish New Year that began Wednesday at sunset, at a dockyard in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007. The 'Tashlikh' ceremony is a long-standing Jewish practice...

Iran

Iran: Eliminating Israel ‘no longer a dream but attainable goal’

Warning toward Jewish state comes amid increased bellicose rhetoric in recent weeks by Tehran

The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday that destroying arch-rival Israel was an "achievable goal".

"This sinister regime must be wiped off the map and this is no longer ... a dream it is an achievable goal," Major General Hossein...

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July 13th St. Joseph, MI Pastors Breakfast

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July 14th Charleston, SC Why Israel Event

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June 1st Somerton, AZ Spanish Pastors Meeting

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