JERUSALEM (JTA) — The David’s Sling missile defense system, which is designed to stop medium-range rockets, drones and cruise missiles, became operational in Israel. They system entered into service with a ceremony on Sunday at the Hatzor military base in central Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense officials were in attendance at…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Negotiations between Israel and the United States on limiting building in the settlements reportedly has been suspended after representatives of the two countries failed to reach an agreement. Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s international envoy and an Orthodox Jew, has traveled in recent weeks to the Middle East for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of Jewish demonstrators marched in Jerusalem to protest 50 years of Israeli control of the West Bank. The march on Saturday night marked 50 years since Israel captured the West Bank during the Six Day War. It was organized by Omdim Beyachad, or Standing Together, a joint Jewish-Arab umbrella organization including…
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A document signed by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg that saved a Jewish woman from the Nazis sold at auction for more than $13,000. On Sept. 22, 1944, an affidavit signed by Wallenberg in Nazi-occupied Budapest saved the life of Zsigmondne Simko, a Hungarian Jewish woman, by declaring that she was under the…
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump could face an ethics minefield over their estimated $741 million real estate and investment empire, which they have maintained even as they plunge into key roles at the White House. Ethics experts say the couple is legally barred from taking actions that could benefit the farflung empire, which could be…
Autism diagnoses in Israel have tripled in the past 10 years, but the spike is likely due to better tracking of autism symptoms, according to a Welfare Ministry report released Sunday. The report, which was released on World Autism Day, showed that in 2016 there were 14,269 Israelis diagnosed with autism, up from 3,949 in…
Israeli paramilitary police officers shot dead a Palestinian on Saturday after he stabbed three Israelis in Jerusalem’s Old City, a police spokesman said. The assailant wounded two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the street before fleeing into a nearby house where he was caught by border police officers who had given chase. He stabbed one of…
The mother of the Israeli-American teen arrested for making false bomb threats against Jewish American institutions said that her son is autistic with a brain tumor and can’t be held responsible for his actions in an interview on Israeli Channel 2. The mother, who gave an interview with her face obscured and was identified only…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — City workers dislodged and relocated a postcard-sized memorial plaque from the entrance to the former home in Amsterdam of a Holocaust victim following complaints by residents. The plaque — a brass cobblestone bearing the name of Joachim Elte that in 2014 was embedded into the sidewalk of 3 Nicolass Maes Street —…
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump may not be taking a dime from Uncle Sam. But the ultimate Jewish power couple, who are both unpaid senior White House aides, reportedly still hold a sprawling $741 million real estate and investment empire, raising big new questions about how they will possibly avoid conflicts of interest. Ethics filings…
The top Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, said intelligence reports he viewed at the White House on Friday were the same documents seen by panel Chairman Devin Nunes last week. Nunes, a Republican, sparked a controversy last week when he said he had seen documents at the White House that indicated…
