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Hamas

The Watchman on TBN’s “Praise” Program With Matt and Laurie Crouch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUyK-ERQs4

Israeli Society Issues

Now and Then: Israel’s Ancient Vineyards, From Bible Times to Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceudIQhDfrk

Israeli Society Issues

Inside 2,500 Year Old Israeli Cave Producing Award-Winning Wines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z41Euovf4wA

Israeli Society Issues

How Israel’s Psagot Winery Became One of the World’s Best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O8yIiJw4No

Israeli Society Issues

Iraqi Jew Describes His Family’s Escape From Iraq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_fTCRVdwXI

Israeli Society Issues

Mayor Oded Ravivi on Growth of Israeli City of Efrat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVMWzDGotkE

ISIS Issues

Top Terrorism Expert Gilles Kepel on ISIS Threat to France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4X7MAN1BQM

ISIS Issues

On the Ground in Paris: ISIS Strikes in Heart of Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThLUNaPFNTU

Hezbollah Issues

Part 2: With Middle East Expert Avi Melamed on Lebanon Border Talking Hezbollah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REp0dyOkOhE

Holocaust

World’s oldest man, an Israeli Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

The world’s oldest living man, Yisrael Kristal, died on Friday one month before his 114th birthday.

In 2016 Kristal, born September 15, 1903, had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest man.

Kristal, who lived in Haifa, had lived through both World Wars and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Last year he finally...

Israeli Society

Safe in Jerusalem, Iranian blogger thanks Israel for ‘saving’ her

Hours after she arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday, Neda Amin, an Iranian-born journalist and dissident who feared being deported to her native country, thanked the Israeli government for granting her refuge, adding that she has Jewish roots and would love to live in Israel.

During a press conference at The Times of Israel’s Jerusalem...

US-Israel Relationship

Israel and US Reportedly Stepping Up Cooperation on Missile Defense

Israel and the United States are stepping up their close cooperation on developing missile defense systems, Defense News reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, the US is helping to build three Israeli defense systems that intercept airborne threats before they reach their targets: The Arrow-3 for long-range missiles, David’s Sling for...

Archeology

2,000-year-old stone workshop discovered near where Jesus turned water into wine

There are few worse prospects for the hostess of a Jewish wedding than running out of drinks. Empathizing with such a predicament as a guest at a wedding in Cana some 2,000 years ago, Jesus’s mother Mary asked her special son to step up and “do something.”

Although he initially demurs, Jesus eventually orders servants to bring six special stone...

Hamas

Israeli Envoy: We Won’t Let UN Agencies Become Branches of Hamas

Israel will not permit United Nations agencies to “become branches of the Hamas terrorist organization,” the Jewish state’s envoy to the global body vowed on Wednesday, following the news that a UN employee in the Gaza Strip had been detained and questioned by the Shin Bet over suspected involvement in “security offenses.”

“While UN workers...

Israeli Technology

Immunotherapy Initiative Launched in Israel to Combat Cancer

The Cancer Research Institute, the world’s largest nonprofits dedicated to cancer research, is partnering with the Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), the largest charitable organization dedicated to cancer research in the Jewish state, to launch a new initiative to fund and promote research in immunotherapy cancer treatment.

The initiative,...

Archeology Issues

Sites vie to be seen as Christianity’s ‘lost’ city of Bethsaida

In the New Testament, Bethsaida is a place of miracles. Here, Jesus cured a blind man, turned a few loaves and fishes into food for 5,000, and walked on water. But mysteriously, its location was lost. Now, dueling archaeological excavations place it in the same vicinity on the northern bank of the Sea of Galilee, but at slightly different...

Hamas

Israeli jets hit Hamas targets in Gaza following rocket strike

Israeli jets struck two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday, injuring at least three people, hours after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave hit an open area in southern Israel.

The Israeli military said in a statement that in response to the projectile attack in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council earlier Tuesday, “IAF...