Islamic Waqf, Arabs Harass US Congressmen on Temple Mount

August 17, 2015 While touring the Temple Mount on Tuesday, a delegation of United States Congress members were relentlessly harassed by a group of shouting Muslims and 15–20 staff members of the Islamic Waqf.

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75 Torah Scrolls for the Fallen Brought to Western Wall

August 17, 2015 A Wednesday ceremony in Jerusalem returned to the Western (Wailing) Wall the same Torah scroll that was carried to the Western Wall at its liberation during the 1967 Six Day War. This scroll was used at that time in the first Jewish prayer service since the 1948 War of Independence.

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NUT Pulls Extremist UK Teaching Pack for Review

August 10, 2015 A learning resource pack in England that encourages children as young as three to adopt an anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian agenda has been temporarily pulled out of the classrooms. As part of a larger Beyond the Wall program, the five-part resource was developed by the Edukid charity and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), which serves as the union base for 325,000 teachers—the largest trade union in the UK.

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Polls: Gaza Infighting Reduces Hope for Palestinian State

August 10, 2015 Continued infighting in Gaza is working to extinguish the hope for an independent Palestinian state. Khaled Abu Toameh, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and an Arab Muslim whose articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report, wrote Monday that "the Palestinian dream of establishing an independent state is being destroyed by none other than the Palestinians themselves."

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Israel’s Priests Prepare for the Third Temple

August 5, 2015 Despite the Muslim community working diligently to deny the very existence of an historic link between the modern Jewish state and ancient Judea, work continues toward a Third Temple, including the creation of Temple vessels and the training of the Levites, who are appointed for Temple service, and Kohanim (Priests).

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End-Time Battle for the Temple Mount

August 3, 2015 Tensions surrounding the Temple Mount continue to escalate. As Jews fasted on Tisha B'Av (Av 9) mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples, hundreds of Jewish visitors made pilgrimage to the Temple site. In preparation for Jews visiting the Mount on the annual fast, armed Muslim youth barricaded themselves in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Several dozen Arab masked rioters attacked Israeli police, hurling rocks and setting off fireworks into the crowd of responders, wounding several officers.

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Italian PM Matteo Renzi: Boycotts Are “Stupid and Futile”

July 27, 2015 In a speech before the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) on Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi aligned Italy with the Jewish state. “Italy will always stand for cooperation and never for boycotts, which are stupid and futile. Peace for Jerusalem is peace for the whole world. Our fate is your fate. Together we will build a more just world."

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ICC Reopens 2010 Mavi Marmara Case Against Israel

July 20, 2015 Just seven months after the Hague's International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, closed the file on the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla incident, concluding that the crimes were not of sufficient gravity to fall under the court’s jurisdiction, the ICC ordered Bensouda to open a criminal investigation of Israel Defense Forces soldiers.

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Beit She’arim Becomes World Heritage Site

July 13, 2015 UNESCO (The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture) has named the Beit She’arim National Park—a spectacular site founded during the time of Herod in the last century BC—a World Heritage Site.

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Forty Percent of Sderot Children Suffer from PTSD

July 13, 2015 The Israeli city of Sderot, located along the border with the Gaza Strip, received a constant barrage of rockets from terrorist groups in Gaza last year, and still children and adults occasionally have to run for the bomb shelter as sporadic bombing and shelling continue. Forty percent of Sderot children now suffer from PTSD, three to four times that of children from the rest of the country.

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