Alex Soros is not only the son-of Democratic mega-donor George Soros. He is also an up-and-coming philanthropist on his own, known for supporting Jewish progressive causes. This week, the 32-years old Soros is in Davos, Switzerland, hobnobbing with other billionaires, business people, and heads of state attending the World Economic Forum. In his instagram account,…
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan on Wednesday rejected the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, calling it “legally null.” Government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani told state news agency Petra that the announcement by President Trump violated longstanding U.N. Security Council resolutions that “stipulated the non-recognition of the Israeli occupation” of Jerusalem’s eastern sector…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Badboy Israeli lawmaker Oren Hazan was ordered by the Prime Minister’s Office to call off a fistfight with a Jordanian lawmaker. Hazan had agreed to the fight with Jordanian lawmaker Yehiya al-Saud, also known for his temper, at the border between the two countries on Wednesday morning. “The shoe of any Palestinian…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The family of the Israeli Embassy security guard who shot and killed two Jordanians while under attack in diplomatic living quarters has left their home after a publication in Jordan made the guard’s identity public. The identity of the guard, Ziv Moyal, 28, from a moshav in southern Israel, had been censored…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Shin Bet will investigate the shooting of two Jordanian civilians by an embassy guard in what an initial investigation determined was a self defense shooting during a terror attack. During the incident, which occurred on July 23, the Israel embassy security guard, identified as Ziv, shot and killed an assailant, 17,…
Jordan’s King Abdullah called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to put on trial an Israeli security guard who shot dead two Jordanians and warned the way the incident is handled would directly affect ties between the two countries. In a statement by the royal court, the Jordanian monarch also said Netanyahu’s behavior towards the security…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The members of Israel’s diplomatic mission in Amman, Jordan, including a security guard who shot and killed his teenage assailant and a bystander, are back in Israel. The embassy employees, who had been confined to the embassy compound all day Monday following the stabbing attack Sunday evening by a 17-year-old and subsequent shooting,…
An Israeli embassy security guard shot dead a Jordanian who attacked him with a screwdriver at Israel’s embassy compound in Amman and a second Jordanian also died, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The incident had potential to cause a rift in already tense Israel-Jordan relations, because Jordan wanted to question the Israeli guard,…
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