— The Iowa state Senate voted to approve a bill aimed at countering the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel. The bill approved Wednesday by a vote of 38-9 prevents state funds from being invested in companies that boycott Israel. The bill was passed in February year by the Iowa state House….
So far 30 Israeli athletes have guaranteed a spot on the Olympic team for Rio de Janeiro, with the judokas seen as having the best chance to win a medal. The first Israeli to meet the qualifying criteria for this summer’s games was Yakov Toumarkin, who finished seventh in London in 2012 in the 200-meter…
Sirin Labs, a startup backed by Israeli venture capital investor Moshe Hogeg, said Monday it will be launching an ultra-secure smartphone in another month for people who can afford its $10,000-plus price tag. Working in stealth mode since it was formed in 2013 and backed by $72 million in venture capital, Sirin Labs offered few…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he plans to lay off “hundreds” of campaign staffers throughout the country a day after winning just one of five primaries on Tuesday. Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win major nominating contests, The New York Times that he is focusing his campaign on winning the California primary in…
A slogan Donald Trump used in a Wednesday foreign policy speech hearkens back to a phrase used by American aviator Charles Lindbergh, who argued for American neutrality against the Nazis. The “America First” motto, which Trump employed Wednesday, was also used by Lindbergh to argue against American involvement in World War II, wrote Bloomberg columnist…
A British Parliament member who in a 2014 Facebook post called for relocating the entire State of Israel to the United States has been suspended from the Labour Party. Naz Shah, who is Muslim, was suspended Wednesday by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn a day after she resigned from her post as private secretary to the Parliament’s shadow…
A police officer from Haifa was the last runner to start this year’s London Marathon after he mixed up the finish line for the starting line. Interviewed by the BBC near the starting line, Hagai Penkar explained that he showed up first at the finish line on Sunday after plugging the wrong information into his…
Passover in Israel means no bread, lots of traffic to popular tourism sites, and lots of bored teens and kids on vacation trying to find entertainment. Unfortunately, unsupervised teens don’t always make the best decisions. The Israel antiquities authority was shocked to find an ancient fort in the archeological site of Ashdod-Sea, by the city…
A New Orleans judge on Wednesday sentenced real estate scion Robert Durst to seven years in prison for a federal gun crime and agreed to recommend that he serve his time in California, where he faces a murder charge in a friend’s 2000 death. The 73-year-old, who entered and left the courtroom in a wheelchair,…
Freedom House, a freedom of the press watchdog, downgraded Israel’s status from “free” to “partly free,” citing the Israel Hayom daily, which is seen as pro-government. “Israel declined due to the growing impact of Yisrael Hayom [sic], whose owner-subsidized business model endangered the stability of other media outlets, and the unchecked expansion of paid content…
Police in Milan have arrested a rabbi for domestic violence after he allegedly hit and verbally abused one of his eight children. Police arrested the man, identified as 42-year-old M.E., a rabbi at the Chabad center at piazza Castello, on Sunday night after being alerted by his wife, Italian media reported. The center lists a…
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