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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Netanyahu on Chronic Housing Shortage: “We Build in Jerusalem”

May 24, 2015 On May 17th, at a special Jerusalem Day Knesset meeting marking 48 years since Jerusalem was reunited in the Six Day War, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed a deep domestic need for more affordable housing after a decade of skyrocketing prices. Out of 26 countries, Israel has felt the third-steepest increase in home prices between 2008 and 2014, with home prices rising 87.1% and rent costs rising 43%.

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Nakba Day: A Strategy to Delegitimize Israel

May 17, 2015 On Friday, Palestinians in Gaza and Judea and Samaria commemorated the 67th “Nakba Day,” an annual day of remembrance of the establishment of the Jewish state. Nakba is an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe” which is they consider the establishment of Israel on May 14, 1948—a catastrophe.

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Israel Birthright Experience Adapted for Christians

May 13, 2015 Christian student leaders from universities and colleges in the US are being offered the opportunity to visit Israel for 11 days where they will strengthen their faith through a Taglit-Birthright type program called Covenant Journey.

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Temple Mount Activist Yehuda Glick Allowed Monthly Visits

May 11, 2015 Jerusalem Magistrate's Court has granted Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick a monthly visit allowance to the Temple Mount. Glick has sought to acquire wider access to the Mount for Jews, who also have faced limits in their visitation activities to the site—such as moving their lips or expressing any signs of public prayer.

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UN Names Only Israel as “Abuser of Women’s Rights”

March 24, 2015 Out of the United Nations' 193 members, this year's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) report named Israel alone as an infringer on women's rights, but not of Israel's own women—of the women across the green line.

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Bibi Will Lead Israel Again As We Come into These Last Days

March 23, 2015 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went into yesterday’s election trailing his Zionist Union rival Isaac Herzog by four seats, last night’s exit polls showed them neck-and-neck.

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Ethiopian Beats 25,000 Runners in Jerusalem Marathon

March 17, 2015 Jerusalem filled with visitors from 60 tribes and tongues this past week for the Holy City's annual marathon, which drew 25,000 participants. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, who also ran the course, had encouraged Israelis through his Facebook page to “come down to cheer on the runners in the streets of Jerusalem and to enjoy performances and bands along the route … and one big celebration throughout the city."

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Jerusalem Mayor Tackles Terrorist

March 1, 2015 This past week, Nir Barkat, Jerusalem's mayor, earned himself the nickname Supermayor after saving an Israeli from a knife-wielding terrorist. Barkat was on his way to the municipality headquarters when he witnessed the pedestrian stabbing this past Sunday. Without hesitation, he jumped out of his car with his bodyguards and ran toward the attacker, tackling him to the ground.

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