In Tel Aviv, heavy traffic and a lack of parking can add hours to commutes. Now, the city municipality has taken a small step toward alleviating the road congestion with a new car-share program that will begin in the fall. Drivers will be able to rent from a fleet of 260 automatic Hyundai cars around…
President-elect Donald Trump just surpassed 20 million Twitter followers and is “not unproud” of his social media prowess, as he said during the presidential debates. But he is not immune to missteps — beyond the retweeting of anti-Semitic tropes — and tagged the wrong Ivanka in a post that was meant to go to his…
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that he was optimistic about the future of the nuclear deal Tehran signed with world powers, and said that U.S. President-elect Trump cannot unilaterally cancel the accord. “The president elect has shown he is not happy about the nuclear deal, calling it the worst deal ever signed. This…
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany’s highest court has found no legal grounds to ban the far-right extremist National Democratic Party of Germany. The long-awaited decision announced Tuesday was met with disappointment from Jewish leaders in Germany and abroad. It marks the second time that the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has considered barring the NPD, which is anti-foreigner, anti-EU,…
BERLIN (JTA) — A club supporting Germany’s right-wing populist “Alternative for Deutschland” party has raised hackles by using a World War II resistance heroine to pump up support, suggesting that Germany’s current leaders have something in common with the Nazis. “Sophie Scholl would vote for AfD” reads the advertisement posted last weekend on Facebook by a local division of AfD near…
ROME (JTA) – A marathon-like race past sites of Holocaust and Jewish remembrance in Rome will highlight events in Italy marking International Holocaust Memorial Day. The “Run for Mem” — short for “Run for Remembrance: Looking Ahead” — is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 22. International Holocaust Memorial Day is observed on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the 1945…
The Lebanese group Hezbollah has located an Israeli drone that crashed in Lebanese territory and has taken it to a secure location for inspection, a source in Hezbollah said on Tuesday. The Israeli military said that the drone had came down in Lebanese territory on Monday near the border with Israel, identifying the drone as…
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) has announced he will not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration, joining a growing list of Democrats who are staying away from the shindig amid the incoming president’s war of words with civil rights icon John Lewis. Cohen said he would skip the inauguration due to “un-presidential remarks” made by Trump. He added…
(JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump reiterated that his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner could head efforts to broker a Middle East peace deal. In an interview with the German newspaper Bild and The Times of London published Monday, Trump was asked what role Kushner, husband of Trump’s daughter Ivanka, would play in his role as an…
If you thought the controversy over President Obama’s relationship with Israel was going quietly into the night, think again. After several members of the exclusive Woodmont Country Club voiced their opposition to granting Obama membership because of what they viewed as criticism of Israel, supporters of the president are pushing back. Now, one of the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandleblit said that releasing recordings of conversations between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yediot Acharonot publisher Arnon Mozes could obstruct the current police investigation into possible corruption. Mandleblit said during a speech Monday at the Netanya Academic College that he would consider releasing the tapes at a later…
