After 15 years of development, an Israeli tech firm is optimistic it will finally get its passenger-carrying drone off the ground and into the market by 2020. The Cormorant, billed as a flying car, is capable of transporting 1,000 pounds of weight and traveling at 115 miles per hour. It completed its first automated solo…
(JTA) — A young gay couple from Britain was assaulted while celebrating Christmas by thugs who picked on them also because one of them was Jewish, a Yorkshire news website reported. The assault occurred on Dec. 25 outside a pub in the municipality of Thornaby, in North Yorkshire, England, according to an article published last week by…
Last March, Sergeant Elor Azaria, a 19-year-old Israeli army medic deployed to the occupied West Bank, shot and killed a Palestinian assailant as he lay wounded and motionless on the ground after attempting to stab an Israeli soldier. The shooting, and the tense moments leading up to it, were captured on video by a Palestinian…
SYDNEY (JTA) — Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called on his country to cut its $40 million aid to the Palestinian Authority and to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump moves his country’s embassy. Abbott wrote in the weekly edition of The Spectator magazine: “In discussions…
Labor Secretary Tom Perez is working to enlist Jewish support for his bid to become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. Perez held a conference call on December 21 with some 50 Jewish leaders in which, according to the Times of Israel, he presented his views and highlighted his close ties with he…
Police investigators began questioning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his official residence in Jerusalem on Monday on suspicion of receiving gifts from businessmen in breach of his role as a public servant, Israeli media said. The move was authorized by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, who decided after a preliminary inquiry that there was enough evidence…
(JTA) — While the rest of the world is busy exchanging Happy New Year wishes, Germans are greeting each other with a peculiar expression: “guten Rutsch,” which means “good slip.” Some believe the greeting is a lighthearted reference to the country’s ice-glazed streets, possibly born of superstition similarly to how performers wish each other “Break…
Last month, the Neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer called for a “troll storm” against Jews in Whitefish Montana, the hometown of “alt-right” white nationalist leader Richard Spencer. A grassroots campaign against Spencer’s brand of white nationalism had been simmering here for months and recently came to a head. Andrew Anglin, who runs the Daily Stormer…
(JTA) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX company announced that it has found the cause of a September launch pad explosion that destroyed a $300 million Israeli communications satellite. The company’s Falcon rockets have been grounded since the Sept. 1 explosion. SpaceX said in a statement that it expects to return to flight on January 8. The…
(JTA) — Two men were killed when the car they allegedly hijacked crashed into a New Haven, Connecticut, synagogue building during a police chase. The SUV driven by the men crashed into Congregation Beth El Keser Synagogue early on Monday morning. The two men allegedly had carjacked the 2005 Toyota Highlander shortly after midnight on…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – More than 2 million people from all over the world visited the Auschwitz Museum in 2016. The 2,053,000 visitors is a record number in the history of the Museum, which this year will mark the 70th anniversary of its creation, the museum said in a statement on its website. The top…
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