Israel’s Labor Party cuts ties with U.K. Labour head over antisemitic incidents

Israel’s opposition Labor Party has cut ties with the head of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, over concerns regarding antisemitism and his relationship with the Jewish community. Read more

Report: Israel notified US ahead of Syrian airstrike

Israel reportedly informed the United States in advance of its airstrike in Syria early Monday morning, two U.S. officials told NBC News. Read more

Israeli airstrikes target Gaza following breach of border, planting of explosives

Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked terror targets in northern Gaza early Monday following the infiltration on Sunday of three Palestinian terrorists who planted improvised explosive devices on the border fence with Israel. Read more

Israel’s chief rabbi: Jews have a ‘moral obligation’ to help end the genocide in Syria

Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef declared that Israel has a “moral obligation” to intervene in what he called a genocide being committed against the people of Syria by its president, Bashar Assad. Read more

Amid antisemitism scandal, U.K.’s Corbyn criticised over Seder with far-left group

Amid an ongoing antisemitism scandal, the United Kingdom’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was heavily criticised by Jewish leaders for attending a Passover Seder hosted by a radical far-left Jewish group. Read more

Poll: 20 percent of Central, Eastern Europeans do not accept Jews as fellow citizens

About one-fifth of people polled in Central and Eastern European countries say they do not accept Jews as fellow citizens and do not want Jewish neighbours.

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Saudi crown prince: Israelis have a right to their own land

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said in an interview on Monday that Israelis are entitled to live peacefully in their own land—a remarkable statement from one of the kingdom’s most powerful men. Read more

Amid criticism, Netanyahu freezes UN deal to resettle African asylum-seekers in Western countries

In a dramatic turnaround, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has frozen a plan reached with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the deportation of African migrants just hours after it was announced. Read more

Mass march on Gaza border may only be the beginning

Friday’s “March of Return” on the Israel-Gaza Strip border ended in a way that made it clear that the Hamas-organised march was only the first act in a play that is expected to drag on for months…writes Yoav Limor.

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US blocks UN statement calling for inquiry into IDF actions during Gaza border riots

The United States blocked a draft UN Security Council statement on Saturday expressing “grave concern at the situation on the border” following the ‘Land Day’ protest march in which some 30,000 protestors violently rioted at the Israel-Gaza border. Read more

French authorities arrest two suspects connected with Holocaust-survivor’s murder

French police discovered the charred body of a Holocaust survivor covered with stab wounds after a fire broke out in her Paris apartment on Friday. The local Jewish community fears the murder was motivated by antisemitism, reported Israel Hayom. Read more

Taylor Force Act signed into law as part of massive spending bill

The Taylor Force Act, legislation that seeks to cut financial aid to the Palestinian Authority unless it ends its payments to terrorists and their families, has been passed by Congress as part of a massive $1.3 trillion spending bill. Read more

Jewish journalist in Colombia forced to resign for refusing to cross herself on air

A Colombian Jewish journalist was forced to resign as anchor of a daily TV newscast after refusing to cross herself on air. Read more

Soldier-slapping Palestinian teen gets eight months in jail

Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teen who generated international headlines for slapping and kicking Israeli soldiers late last year, has been sentenced to eight months in jail by an Israeli military court. Read more

Israel officially confirms 2007 strike destroying Syrian nuclear reactor

The State of Israel has formally acknowledged that its air force blew up a Syrian nuclear reactor between September 5 and 6, 2007. Read more

Technion analysts: Cats could help in development of anti-HIV drugs for humans

Researchers at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have uncovered the mechanism that enables Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, or FIV, proteins to become drug-resistant—a phenomenon not yet observed in the AIDS-causing HIV-1 virus, which affects millions of people worldwide. Read more

Israeli, Iranian soccer stars pose together on social media to bridge nations’ divide

An Israeli soccer player and the captain of the Iranian national team took to the Internet to show that the people of Iran and the people of Israel do not harbour hate. Read more

Billionaire Elon Musk lights drinks on fire in Jerusalem

Founder of SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink billionaire Elon Musk uploaded a video to Instagram and Twitter this week of himself lighting cocktails on fire in a Jerusalem bar. Read more

Jerusalem terror attack

An Israeli security was killed Sunday after being stabbed by a terrorist in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.  The terrorist, a West Bank Palestinian, was shot dead by an Israeli policeman. Read more

Late physicist Stephen Hawking had a complicated relationship with Israel

Stephen Hawking, celebrated physicist and award-winning author with strong opinions on Israel, passed away on March 14 (interestingly, on “Pi Day,” as it is known) at the age of 76. Read more

Israel Prize for lifetime achievement to go to veteran politician, bereaved mother

Former Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy and inspirational speaker Miriam Peretz, who lost two sons in battle, were named this week as this year’s recipients of the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement. Read more

Two IDF soldiers killed in car-ramming attack in Samaria

Two Israeli Defence Forces soldiers have been killed and two others seriously injured in a car-ramming terror attack on Friday outside of the Jewish settlement of Mevo Dotan in northern Samaria. Read more

Gallup poll finds highest US support for Israel since 1990s

A Gallup poll released on Tuesday found a surge in American support for Israel that hasn’t been seen since the early 1990s. Read more

Israeli researchers say smart home devices can be hacked, then spy on its users

Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University have revealed that off-the-shelf smart devices like baby monitors, air conditioners, robot floor cleaners, cameras and doorbells can be corrupted by malware and used to spy on users. Read more

Palestinian Authority PM escapes assassination attempt in Gaza

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on a rare visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Read more

Palestinian activist supports Israel’s account of 2010 ‘Mavi Marmara’ incident

A leading pro-Palestinian activist involved in the Mavi Marmara flotilla, which set out to infiltrate Israeli waters on the way to Gaza in May 2010, has now verified Israel’s version of the events that led to several deaths and a major diplomatic impasse between Israel and Turkey. Read more

Israeli food for thought: 33 percent of its eats goes to waste

A new report presents, for the first time in Israel, a detailed model for the estimation of food loss in the retail and distribution sectors: in retail chains, open markets, local grocery stores and small retailers. Read more

Iraqi TV host: ‘Apologise to Jews who were driven out, restore property of those loyal to Iraq’

TV host Anwar Al-Hamadani went on record as saying “that it is our duty to apologise to our Iraqi Jewish compatriots for the tragedy that befell them” during the 1941 Farhoud massacre of Jews in Baghdad, and “to rectify that historic error,” which he compared to the tragedies that befell the Iraqi Christian, Sabaean and Yazidi communities. Read more

Palestinian Authority to boycott White House conference on Gaza humanitarian crisis

The Palestinian Authority has announced its intention to boycott an upcoming conference at the White House to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Read more

U.N. Human Rights Commissioner reports that Jews living in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem constitutes ‘war crime’

According to a report issued by U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, the growth of Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem constitutes a war crime. Read more

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