JERUSALEM (JTA) — One person was killed and two seriously injured after a rocket fired from Gaza landed on an apartment building, as southern Israel remained under rocket siege for a second day. The rocket hit the upper floors of a four-story apartment in Ashkelon shortly before midnight on Monday night. The body and one…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in southern Israel. The rocket fired Tuesday evening landed in an open area near Ashkelon, causing no damage or injuries, according to the Israeli military. No group claimed responsibility, though Israel holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the coastal strip. The Code Red rocket…
The mother of the 18-year-old Israeli American suspected of making hundreds of fake bomb threats at American Jewish institutions said she wants him to undergo brain surgery to get rid of the tumor his family claims impelled him to create the hoax, but the boy exhibited unusual behavior long before the tumor was diagnosed. One…
The mother of the Israeli-American teen arrested for making false bomb threats against Jewish American institutions said that her son is autistic with a brain tumor and can’t be held responsible for his actions in an interview on Israeli Channel 2. The mother, who gave an interview with her face obscured and was identified only…
President Trump sent 12 FBI investigators from the agency’s cybercrime unit to Israel to assist in the investigation of the Israeli-American teen arrested for making bomb threats at American Jewish institutions, Haaretz reported. Police sources attributed the arrest to Trump’s pressure on the FBI to pursue the matter, according to Haaretz. The teen, living in…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rocket fired from Gaza exploded on the beach in Ashkelon in southern Israel. The rocket fired late Wednesday night is the at least fifth in the last month and the second this week, including several claimed by an ISIS-backed group operating in the Sinai Peninsula. The Code Red alarm did not…
— An Israeli lifeguard discovered a 900-year-old clay oil lamp while jogging on an Ashkelon beach. Meir Amsik, who works at the beach in the southern city on the Mediterranean coast, stumbled across the artifact last week, The Jerusalem Post reported. Amsik was picking up wooden boards that had washed onto the beach when he…
(Reuters) — In this seaside city once ruled by the Greeks and Phoenicians but now largely populated by Russians, the talk in the caviar-stocked delis and jewelry stores is of upcoming elections and Israel’s powerful Russian vote. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, more than one million Russian speakers moved to…
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