Guinness World Records reportedly no longer accepting submissions from Israel, Palestinian territories

Guinness World Records is no longer accepting submissions from Israel or the Palestinian territories, Jerusalem-based NGO “Matnat Chaim” said on Wednesday. Read more

100 Australian doctors prepare to immigrate to Israel

Over one hundred Australian doctors were gathering this week in both Melbourne and Sydney as part of a major immigration fair for medical professionals planning on moving to Israel following the war against Hamas in Gaza. Read more

Chief Rabbinate must allow women to take rabbinical tests, High Court rules

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel will be required to open its rabbinical tests to women, the High Court of Justice ruled on Monday. Read more

South African lawmakers visit Israel in rebuke to ANC

A group of 15 South African parliamentarians, including members of the national unity government, visited Israel this week in a show of faith-based support for the Jewish state and a rebuke of the Mideast policy of the ruling African National Congress. Read more

Israeli female astronaut will go to space with NASA

Israel has reached an agreement with NASA to send the first Israeli woman astronaut into space, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Gila Gamliel said on Monday. Read more

Netanyahu had no plans to attend Auschwitz liberation memorial

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu never planned to attend next month’s 80th year anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem said on Sunday. Read more

A match made in war

When the young American social media consultant volunteering in Israel saw a handsome IDF soldier recuperating in the hospital rehabilitation ward, she offered him a Fruit Roll-Up. Read more

Druze in Israel outraged at Hezbollah massacre of children

Leaders and members of the Druze community in Israel on Sunday demanded that the government carry out a swift and fierce military response against Hezbollah after it killed 12 children and wounded around 40 others as they played soccer. Read more

Turkey refuses to refuel El Al flight in medical emergency

An El Al flight which diverted to Turkey on Sunday for a medical emergency was refused requests to refuel at the airport in apparent violation of international aviation laws. Read more

Terezin Memorial director’s connection to Holocaust is deeply personal

The two teenage Jewish girls from the former Czechoslovakia lived just 60 miles apart in 1942, but in totally different worlds, the one speaking German and the other Czech. Read more