JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces has launched a campaign to prevent its soldiers from being tricked by hackers from terrorist groups attempting to install spyware on their cell phones. The IDF announced on Tuesday that it had launched Operation Broken Heart, so named because operatives pose on social media as attractive females to…
(JTA) — Neo-Nazis in Sweden assaulted two pro-Israel activists on Thursday outside a pavilion set up by the Israel-Sweden Friendship Association. Dozens of members of the Nordic Resistance Movement gathered around the pavilion on the island of Gotland, south of Stockholm, for what they said was a “protest demonstration,” the Aftonbladet newspaper reported. One of the…
The major defense contractor Northrup Grumman said Thursday that it is “taking immediate action” in response to a report claiming that one of its employees who possesses a security clearance from the Department of Defense is also a member of a violent white supremacist group. ProPublica and Frontline reported earlier Thursday that systems engineer Michael…
Israeli author and journalist Ari Shavit has spoken out about sexual assault allegations against him and his reckoning with his gender and power dynamics in a new interview with Haaretz. The Israeli newspaper, where Shavit wrote a column for nearly two decades, published a conversation between him and Dr. Orit Kamir, who drafted Israel’s law…
A doctoral student with government security clearance moonlights as a member of a violent white supremacist group, ProPublica and Frontline reported Thursday. While working to identify the white supremacists at the center of the violent demonstrations across the country, ProPublica and Frontline looked into a video shot at the Unite the Right rally last August…
Ezras Nashim, an all-women emergency medical care group, received the EMS Agency of the Year Award from the Regional EMS Council of New York City. It was honored for its participation in and commitment to the improvement of the emergency medical service system. Ezras Nashim responds to emergency labor and other and OB/GYN situations, as…
Hedge fund star David Einhorn has seen the assets of his fund, Greenlight Capital, shrink by more than half in four years, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Einhorn was known for his investing prowess, resulting in the nickname “King David.” But Greenlight Capital’s assets have reportedly shrunk from $12 billion in 2014 to $5.5…
Israel’s main Holocaust memorial criticized as historically inaccurate on Thursday a joint statement by the Israeli and Polish prime ministers aimed at ending a dispute over Holocaust legislation in Poland. The Jerusalem-based center, Yad Vashem, challenged in particular the validity of the leaders’ assertion that the Polish underground and government-in-exile in World War Two came…
Longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has scrubbed his Twitter bio of all Trump references, fueling further speculation that he is considering testifying against his former boss. Cohen’s bio previously read “Personal attorney to President Donald J. Trump.” Now, Cohen’s bio is blank. He also changed his background image from a photo of him at a…
(JTA) — Improved ties with Israel proves that the United States is more “beloved” around the world than under the previous administration, a White House spokesman said. He also said that Israel was “virtually” thought of as an enemy of the United States under the Obama administration. Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told reporters aboard…
(JTA) – Claude Lanzmann, one of the world’s foremost makers of documentary films about the Holocaust, has died. Lanzmann, a French Jew who directed the canonical 1985 film “Shoah,” died at the age of 92 in Paris on Thursday, Le Monde reported. Although he is best known for the 9-hour-long documentary bearing the Hebrew-language name…
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