MDA Mobile app to shorten stroke treatment time and minimise stroke damage
March 20, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Magen David Adom has unveiled a new lifesaving app to 25 neurologists and emergency medicine doctors from various hospitals in Israel. Read more
Peres as graffiti
March 20, 2017 by Agencies
International graffiti artist and actor, American Corin Nemec has showed his support for Israel by painting a giant graffiti wall for peace centred on a portrait of the late Ninth President of Israel, Shimon Peres, at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Read more
WJC CEO slams U.N. report branding Israel an apartheid state
The CEO of the World Jewish Congress has called the publication of a UN report which brands Israel a racist apartheid state “a sad attempt to reinstate the infamous 1975 UN resolution that considered Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Read more
Netanyahu China bound
March 17, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will leave on Sunday on an official visit to China. Read more
Trump invites Abbas to White House to discuss peace process
March 14, 2017 by Agencies
President Donald Trump invited Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to visit the White House following their first phone conversation since Trump took office in late January. Read more
Netanyahu meets Trump special representative Greenblatt
March 14, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held a five hours’ meeting in Jerusalem with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations. Read more
Switzerland outlaws BDS
PM Benjamin Netanyahu: his visit with Putin
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his meeting with Russian president Vladamir Putin in Moscow. Read more
Amazon removes Holocaust-denial books
World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer has thanked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for removing several Holocaust-denial books flagged by the WJC on multiple occasions since 2013 as being in violation of Amazon’s guidelines prohibiting the sale of material that “promote or glorify hatred.” Read more
2,000-year-old road found in Israel
A wide and impressive 2,000 year old road dating to the Roman period, in an extraordinary state of preservation has been revealed in archaeological excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority near Highway 375. Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu meets Boris Johnson
March 9, 2017 by Agencies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing to fly overseas to meet world leaders and has met with the U.K.’s foreign secretary Boris Johnson in Jerusalem ahead of this week’s talks with Putin in Moscow. Read more
WJC and Israel’s Mission to UN to co-host annual ‘Ambassadors Against BDS’
March 8, 2017 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress and Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations will co-host a special conference on the delegitimisation of Israel, at the UN headquarters in New York on March 29. Read more
Magen David Adom launches electric bike squad
March 8, 2017 by Agencies
Magen David Adom is introducing electric bikes into its array of vehicles in Israel with each bike equipped with resuscitation equipment. Read more
Israel sets its sights on China and India
Israel is to set up two new divisions within its Foreign Ministry to expand its ties with China and India. Read more
WJC praises U.S. UNHRC envoy remarks on Israel
The World Jewish Congress has praised the United States’ envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council for her remarks rejecting the body’s one-sided discrimination against Israel. Read more
Israeli Citizen Linked to Islamic State Arrested and Charged
March 2, 2017 by Agencies
The Israel Security Agency (ISA), in cooperation with the Israel Police has arrested an Israeli citizen following receipt of intelligence information that he had tried recently to go to Syria in order to join the fighting as a member of Islamic State. Read more
Israel carries out evictions in Ofra settlement
March 1, 2017 by Agencies
Some 100 Israeli security officers arrived Tuesday in the Samaria community of Ofra to carry out the court-ordered eviction of nine homes that were illegally built on private Palestinian land. Read more
1,800 years Hebrew inscriptions discovered
An 1,800 year old limestone capital dating to the Roman period that is engraved with two Hebrew inscriptions was discovered during the course of restoration and conservation work being carried out in the ancient synagogue and neighbouring Beit Zinati visitor centre at Peqiʽin, in the Western Galilee. Read more
Anti-Semitism on the rise in the U.S.
February 22, 2017 by Agencies
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has warned that antisemitism in the United States was on the rise and called on the authorities on all levels to take appropriate measures to combat it. Read more
Welcome Bibi
February 22, 2017 by Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Australia. It is not his first visit to the land Down Under but it is his first time as Israel’s prime minister and the first visit a sitting Israeli prime minister since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Read more
Hezbollah’s Nasrallah boasts about hitting Israel’s nuclear facilities
February 19, 2017 by Agencies
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah took to the Lebanese terror group’s airwaves Thursday to boast about being able to target Israel’s nuclear facilities in Dimona, while chiding Israel for being afraid of Hezbollah’s “might.” Read more
Netanyahu at the White House
February 16, 2017 by Agencies
At a media conference at The White House, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told President Donald Trump that “the United States has no better ally than Israel”. Read more
Disney severs ties with YouTube star over antisemitic videos
February 15, 2017 by Agencies
The Walt Disney Company severed ties with the world’s biggest YouTube star Tuesday following a series of antisemitic videos. Read more
Hamas elects radical new political leader in Gaza Strip
Hamas has elected a new political leader in the Gaza Strip to replace Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian media reported Monday. Haniyeh, meanwhile, is slated to replace Khaled Mashaal as the terrorist organisation’s political bureau chief. Read more
US silent on outpost bill as international community condemns Israel’s move
February 8, 2017 by Agencies
The U.S. has remained mum on the historic, yet controversial passage of an Israeli bill that retroactively legalises settlement outposts in Judea and Samaria. Read more
‘Proud’ SodaStream to feature Israeli flag on all its products
February 7, 2017 by Agencies
The Israel-based beverage carbonation company SodaStream has decided to feature an Israeli flag on all its products, which are sold in 45 countries. Read more
WJC welcomes new U.S. sanctions against Iran
February 7, 2017 by Agencies
The World Jewish Congress has welcomed the U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to announce new sanctions against Iran following its recent ballistic missile test, calling it a “firm and appropriate” stance against the Islamic Republic’s continued aggression against Israel, the United States, and their allies. Read more
Current Lord Balfour makes 1st public statement on historic Balfour Declaration
February 6, 2017 by Agencies
A century after the U.K. declared its support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Israel, the current Lord Balfour expressed pride in his great-grandfather’s “humanitarian act,” as Jewish leaders from around the world and some 700 Russian-speaking Jews from 18 European countries gathered in Windsor this weekend for the first-ever Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) Europe regional conference in the U.K. Read more
WJC: Antisemitism rise in the UK “alarming and shocking”
Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, has reacted to the last report on antisemitism in Britain compiled by the Community Security Trust (CST), which registered a record level of antisemitism in the country. Read more
USA: WJC calls for a sensitive and responsible immigration policy
The World Jewish Congress has called on the government to support a “sensitive and responsible immigration policy that adheres to the noblest American tradition of helping those seeking peace and freedom” while “ensuring the safety and security” of all of its citizens against the threat of terror. Read more
