1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (457+ words) “I don’t go to synagogue.” So said the British Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, during an interview with the BBC the day after he announced a package of sanctions and other punitive measures against Israel, sending relations between London and Jerusalem…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (212+ words) The Oct. 27 Israeli election will be a referendum on the record of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But according to JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum, voters will also be registering their verdict on whether they believe the promises of his…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (309+ words) Israel’s temporary chargé d’affaires for relations with Turkey presented his credentials at the Foreign Ministry in Ankara on Wednesday. The visit by Ambassador to Moldova and Armenia Joel Lion, which the Israeli Foreign announced laconically on Thursday, was the first…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (583+ words) The great temptation for left-wing forces to fish in the waters of the new antisemitism in search of votes is nothing new. It costs little; the Jews pay the price. In Rome, there is an eagerness to cast aside the…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (959+ words) Senior officials in the Fatah movement say that, at this stage, the most likely scenario is that Palestinian Authority (P.A.) leader Mahmoud Abbas will opt to postpone the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council. The elections matter to him, but he…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (734+ words) A Place Among the Nations, the landmark book published by Benjamin Netanyahu in 1993, opens with something deeply characteristic of its author: a historical story. The first chapter begins with Theodor Herzl’s pivotal 1895 meeting in Paris with his friend Max Nordau....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (520+ words) Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and other P.A. officials have exerted pressure on three Arab-Israeli political parties to unite in a technical bloc ahead of the upcoming Knesset elections to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming the next government, Israel’s…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (654+ words) In the elections for the 13th Knesset in 1992, there was a feeling on the Israeli right that the Likud Party needed shoring up and there were surely more than enough voters who agreed with this view. To a certain extent, this…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (990+ words) I had the privilege of making aliyah about two years ago, my decision largely prompted by the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Like so many Jews in the Diaspora, I watched what was happening and felt that whatever…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (703+ words) Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a post on X on Sunday that “no score in any arena will remain unsettled.” His statement followed a suicide drone attack by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group that seriously wounded an Israel…...