Two terrorists from fatal Elad attack captured alive

The two Arab terrorists who carried out the massacre in Elad on Thursday night were captured alive Sunday morning by Israel’s security forces. Read more

Putin ignores recent tensions over Ukraine in Independence Day greetings to Israel

Some in Israel are speculating that the Russian government may be looking to put the past week’s tensions aside and try to restore better relations with the State of Israel. Read more

MDA opens Israel’s national missile-resistant underground blood bank

Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s emergency medical service, inaugurated on Monday the world’s first subterranean, and shielded national blood services centre in Ramla, Israel, planned to withstand missile attacks during a war. Read more

IDF soldier with special needs to receive President’s Award of Excellence on Israel’s 74th Independence Day

An IDF soldier with disabilities who enlisted through a special program will make history this week on Israel’s Independence Day when he becomes the first soldier with special needs to be honoured by the president for his outstanding contribution to the IDF. Read more

2,300-year-old clay candle uncovered at Samaritan high priesthood compound in Samaria

Conservation work being carried out at the Mount Gerizim site in Samaria led to the uncovering of an ancient pottery candle, estimated to date to the Hellenistic period in the second century BCE. Read more

Bullet in the mail for Prime Minister Bennett and his family

Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett has received a death threat in the mail levelled at both himself and his family. Read more

PA Imam calls to exterminate Jews

An Imam in the Palestinian Authority (PA) led a prayer in the Al-Ain Mosque in El-Bireh, near Ramallah, last week broadcasted on PA TV in honour of the Muslim month of Ramadan, during which he called for the extermination of Jews. Read more

Violence threatened and PA alleges ‘Judaization and ethnic cleansing’ on Temple Mount

Senior Islamic Jihad official Muhammad Shalach said in an interview Sunday that the terror factions in Gaza Strip are “determined to respond at all costs” if Israel causes a large number of casualties, a “massacre” as he put it, during the IDF’s counterterrorism operation in Jenin, or if a Passover offering is sacrificed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Read more

Noa Tishby appointed Israel’s first ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has announced the appointment of the country’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel. Israeli artist, author and model Noa Tishby will be the first person to fill the newly-established position. Read more

Ultra-orthodox city to name street after Israeli-Christian cop killed defending it

The Council of the Ultra-Orthodox city of Beni Brak approved a proposal to commemorate Amir Khoury, an Israeli-Christian police officer who was killed last month while confronting a terrorist who was on a shooting rampage in the city. Read more

Muslims again desecrate Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem

Muslim rioters again entered Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) on Monday morning and desecrated the shrine, a Jewish prayer site. Read more

Israel’s biggest matzah

Ahead of the Passover, President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal welcomed representatives of the factory that produced the biggest matzah in Israel. Read more

Watchdog submits 11,687 items on PA incitement to UNHRC Commission of Inquiry on Israel

The Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which monitors incitement to terrorism and antisemitism spread by and in the Palestinian Authority (PA) submitted 11,687 items to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Commission of Inquiry on Israel’s alleged human rights violations and war crimes. Read more

Israel’s UN envoy: On Passover this year, we think of Ukraine

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan hosted an early Passover Seder at the UN on Wednesday during which he declared that “this year, when we think of ‘let My people go,’ we will also think of Ukraine.” Read more

Israeli artwork ‘Impossible Object’ on way to International Space Station

A unique partnership between an Israeli physicist and an artist has led to a unique work of art, which will be dispatched to the International Space Station. Read more

Amid tensions, Defence Minister Gantz talks with PA head Abbas

Defence Minister Benny Gantz spoke Tuesday evening with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, as security tensions are high following a series of terror attacks in Israel that claimed the lives of 11 people. Read more

Israeli-developed nanoparticle enhances chemotherapy while reviving immune system

Israeli scientists have developed a nanoparticle that does two jobs -it enhances the effectiveness of chemotherapy and reinvigorates the immune system. Read more

Naftali Bennett condemns inflammatory graphic of 11 terrorist victims to attack his government

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has responded to an inflammatory graphic about him that was distributed on social media recently. Read more

PA Prime Minister condemns Israeli counterterrorism op as ‘horrific crime’

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the Israeli counterterrorism operation in Jenin on Friday night in which the Israeli forces killed three Islamic Jihad terrorists. Read more

Bennett tests positive for COVID-19

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Monday. Read more

PM Bennett and Russia’s Putin discuss Ukraine war, again

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday evening, the latest conversation between the two in several that took place in recent weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read more

Israel’s Shining Star field hospital in Ukraine opens

Israel’s “Shining Star” field hospital in the city of Mostyska in western Ukraine opened on Tuesday with a special ceremony that was attended by representatives of the Ukrainian government, the Deputy Minister of Health, the Governor of the Lviv district, and Mayor of Mostyska, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Israeli Embassy in Ukraine, the head of the delegation and other officials. Read more

42% of Arabs in Israel define themselves first as Arabs, 24% as Muslims and 17% as Palestinians

About 42% of Arabs in Israel define themselves first and foremost as Arabs, 24% define themselves primarily as Muslims, and about 17% define themselves as Palestinians, according to a new survey conducted for the Haifa Conference on Arab Politics and Society in Israel at Haifa University. Read more

Israeli doctors implant world’s thinnest artificial cornea

Israeli doctors achieved a medical breakthrough in the ophthalmology department at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem with the first implant of the thinnest artificial cornea ever printed in the world. Read more

Israel transfers six mega-generators to Lviv in Ukraine

Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to Ukraine Yoav Bistritzky handed over to Lviv’s deputy mayor Andrey Moskalenko six mega-generators that will ensure a regular supply of electricity to hospitals and vital civilian infrastructure in the city. Read more

New Deltacron variant discovered in Israel

The Deltacron, a new, hybrid Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant was recently discovered in Israel, as the fifth wave of infections refuses to subside. Read more

Israel preparing to receive 50,000 Jewish refugees from Ukraine

Israel is preparing for a wave of Aliya (immigration) of Jewish refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, possibly some 50,000 in the coming months, the largest wave of Aliyah since the 1990s. Read more

‏World’s new acrobatic gymnastics champion comes from Samaria

Jonathan Friedman, 19, from the community of Salit in Samaria, won the mixed pairs competition at the 12^th Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) Acrobatic Gymnastics World Age Group Competitions in Baku, Azerbaijan, with his teammate Amy Refaeli. Read more

Israel’s UN envoy: If human rights orgs cared about human rights they would look to PA and Hamas

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a special debate on the Middle East on Wednesday, during which the Palestinian Ambassador accused Israel of being an “apartheid” numerous times, and Israel’s envoy responded by accusing the Palestinian Authority of hypocrisy and of human rights abuses. Read more

59% of Israelis hide their Jewish identity while abroad, new anti-semitism survey shows

Some 28% of Israeli Jews ages 18-29 are either “very much” or “extremely” afraid for their personal safety as a Jew travelling abroad, and 59% of Israelis hide their Jewish identity while out of the country, according to a new survey released on Monday by the Ruderman Family Foundation. Read more

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