“Must-See” Film about Holocaust Hero Jan Karski Opens in Jerusalem

June 21, 2015 The Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem presented the first screening outside of Poland of Karski and the Lords of Humanity, a film about the Polish Holocaust hero Jan Karski. As a courier for the Polish underground during World War II, he was assigned to personally deliver his first-hand Holocaust accounts to the leaders of Britain and US, including US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which he did.

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Law, Military Experts: Israel Not Guilty of War Crimes But Sets Bar Too High

June 15, 2015 An international group of high-ranking military personnel conducted an unprecedented mission to Israel on May 18-22, 2015 to uncover whether Israel was guilty of war crimes. They found that Israel went above and beyond in observing laws of armed conflict during the 2014 Gaza war.

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Israel Faces International Sanctions for “Failed” Peace Talks

June 14, 2015 The European Union and the United Nations are preparing to launch an economic assault against Israel for its failure to make peace—forcing the Jewish state into sanctions in the fields of trade, agriculture, science and culture, according to some senior American diplomats. (Arutz Sheva)

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ISIS Fires At Israel

June 14, 2015 The Salafist branch of ISIS has claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel from inside Gaza for the past few weeks, in an attempt to lure Israel into hurting Hamas who has been cracking down on the ultra-extremist Jihadis.

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Jerusalem-Born Americans Denied Israeli Identity on US Passports

June 13, 2015 The United States Supreme Court has ruled to cancel a 2002 congressional law that allowed Americans born in the Israeli capital to request that "Israel" be written on their passports, claiming Congress had overstepped its bounds during the George W. Bush administration.

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Israeli Leaders Call on US Jewry to Help Fight BDS

June 8, 2015 Israeli leaders are calling on Diaspora Jewry and other friends of Israel to take a stand against attempts to delegitimize Israel through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told participants at an emergency BDS summit in Las Vegas through a letter read by summit organizer Sheldon Adelson, “Delegitimization of Israel must be fought, and you are on the front lines,” said Netanyahu. “It’s not about this or that Israeli policy. It’s about our right to exist here as a free people. Our right to defend ourselves. Our right to determine our own future.”

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Palestinians Protest 7th Annual Light in Jerusalem Festival

June 8, 2015 The 7th annual Light in Jerusalem Festival, one of an elite group of international light shows, is mesmerizing visitors through June 11th in the Old City. Thirty-three projections and free-standing installations line four routes through the Jewish and Armenian Quarters as well as outside walls, mostly from Damascus Gate to New Gate and Jaffa Gate to Zion Gate.

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Unity Day Held in Memory of Murdered Teens

June 5, 2015 On Wednesday Israel marked the anniversary of the murder of three teens who were killed a year ago while hitchhiking home from school with the first annual Unity Day, a day for Israelis to unite despite differences. “There are many rifts and tears which need repair, many pains and insults, old and new, but we saw this people at its best, and we know what we are capable of," Rachelle Fraenkel said Wednesday evening remembering the solidarity throughout the anxious weeks during the search for the missing teens and during the mourning period that followed.

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Massachusetts and New York Celebrate Israel

June 1, 2015 Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker named May 31 as "Celebrate Israel Day," echoing New York's annual Celebrate Israel Parade, which brought tens of thousands to Fifth Avenue this Sunday to march in support of Israel. Heralding the day of solidarity, Baker called Israel "a tremendous partner, economically and culturally" to Massachusetts, which he said contains "one of the largest communities of Israelis outside Israel."

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WHO Names Israel “Health Rights Violator”

June 1, 2015 The United Nations has struck once more at the Jewish state, singling out Israel among all the world's nations as a violator of health rights at the U.N. World Health Organization's (WHO’s) 68th World Health Assembly on May 21, 2015.

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