Egypt has appointed an ambassador to Israel after recalling its envoy three years ago. Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Sunday that there will be a new Egyptian minister. “The Foreign Ministry welcomes the appointment,” ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in a statement. The new ambassador has been identified as Hazem Khairat, Egypt’s former permanent representative…
President Barack Obama compared Israel favorably to the United States in making a point about gun violence. “Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel,” Obama said Sunday on a Twitter account that the White House…
The Anti-Defamation League criticized Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, for an “insensitive and unjustified” attack on President Barack Obama. Oren’ should “walk back” views published in an essay posted Friday on the Foreign Policy website, the ADL said. Oren wrote that Obama’s attitudes toward Islam and American foreign policy in the…
Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren accepted an award for helping to educate the public about the issues surrounding Nazi-looted art. On Friday, the World Jewish Congress presented Mirren with its Recognition Award, which honors those working on behalf of the Jewish people, at a ceremony at New York’s Neue Gallery. Mirren starred in the 2015…
A couple are planning to sue the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York and the guest who accidentally shot another guest over their canceled wedding reception. Anna Goldshmidt and Elan Stratiyevsky, who are Jewish, have hired the prominent lawyer Benjamin Brafman and will sue for millions of dollars, the New York Post reported Friday. The…
The wife of Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom apologized after tweeting a tasteless joke about U.S. President Barack Obama. Judy Shalom Nir Mozes posted the joke Sunday and removed it shortly after, but not before unleashing a storm of criticism. “Do u know what Obama Coffee is? Black and weak,” read the offensive tweet. After…
A New York man charged with assaulting the head of the Brooklyn Jewish Y at a borough arena has been hit with a hate crimes charge. The new charge against Shawn Schraeder, 25, of Queens, on Thursday followed eight months of investigation by a grand jury, CBS New York reported. Schraeder had been charged with…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prefaced talks about a French-led peace initiative on Sunday by saying foreign powers were trying to dictate to Israel a deal with the Palestinians. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, on a two-day visit to the Middle East, was due to meet Palestinian leaders in the occupied West Bank before seeing Netanyahu…
An Israeli war plane struck a remote area in Lebanon’s western Bekaa region on Sunday to destroy a downed Israeli drone, al-Manar television, which is run by Hezbollah militant group, said. An Israeli military spokeswoman declined to comment when asked about the explosion. A Lebanese security source told Reuters that the cause of the blast,…
The South Carolina church shooter said in a racial manifesto that the Jewish “problem” would be solved “if we could somehow destroy the Jewish identity.” Dylann Roof, who entered a Charleston, South Carolina church and killed nine black worshippers last week, published what is believed to be his racial manifesto on a website that is…
A Palestinian man stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli Border Police officer in Jerusalem. The Palestinian stabbed the officer outside the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday morning. The officer shot and seriously injured his assailant before collapsing, according to Israeli news reports. The attacker stabbed the officer in the neck…
