Some 1,500 Jews and supporters of the Jewish community rallied along the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro for peace in Israel and against terrorism. At the sixth pro-Israel rally in Brazil this month, participants carrying blue-and-white Israeli flags and signs, and wearing Israel T-shirts covered three lanes of the elegant seaside avenue on Sunday….
A Russian military jet violated Israeli airspace but was not shot down, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said. The jet breached Israeli airspace by a mile and turned back when Russia was informed of its mistake, Yaalon said Sunday during an interview on Israel Public Radio. The breach came recently while Russia was carrying out…
Israel said on Sunday it was suspending contacts with European Union bodies involved in peace efforts with the Palestinians after the bloc started requiring the labeling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also the foreign minister, ordered the ministry to carry out “a reassessment of the…
Iran will not enact the final implementation of the nuclear deal with world powers until the international nuclear watchdog closes its investigation into allegations of past nuclear weapons research. “We have always announced that the issues raised about the Iranian nuclear program’s past lack validity,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday at a…
A team of self-styled “goods inspectors” in a German town tried to label all the Israeli products they could find as being “from illegal Israeli settlements.” On Saturday, the proponents of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement visited businesses in downtown Bremen, in northwest Germany, checking to see that products from Israeli settlements were…
The president of the Council of the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland, Krzysztof Izdebski, led a civil protest against the new government and parliament in Poland. “We are disappointed by the Sejm,” declared the organizers of the demonstration, Izdebski and Jacob Gornicki of ePanstw, or eState, Foundation, in a statement posted on Facebook. Sejm…
An Israeli Border Policeman and a civilian woman were injured in two separate stabbing attacks in Jerusalem. The police officer was injured on Sunday morning at the Damascus Gate, an entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. The Palestinian assailant, a resident of Nablus in the northern West Bank, emerged from the Damascus Gate and…
Thousands of Israeli Arabs protested on Saturday against the outlawing of a popular Islamist group that Israel says has played a central role in stoking a wave of Palestinian street attacks. Israel’s government banned the Islamic Movement’s northern branch on Nov 17, risking an angry backlash by its largely quiescent 20-percent Arab minority. Police did…
The ringleader behind the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, according to sources close to the investigation. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national of Moroccan origin, also boasted of the ease with which he had re-entered Europe from Syria via Greece…
Less than a week after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he would take two months of paternity leave, the social media company announced it is extending its parental leave policy to full-time employees outside the United States. The policy, which provides four months of paid time off, will be provided to all new parents…
A Jewish foundation that advocates for disability inclusion chided presidential candidate Donald Trump for mocking a disabled reporter. Jay Ruderman, president of the Boston-based Ruderman Family Foundation, offered to provide the Republican frontrunner with sensitivity training, the New York Times reported on Thursday. “It is unacceptable for a child to mock another child’s disability on…
