Arsonists Torch Church of the Multiplication

June 22, 2015 Arsonist torched the Church of the Multiplication in Tabgha, which commemorates the miracle of the loaves and fishes in which Yeshua (Jesus) fed a multitude of 5,000. At the time of the attack there were 12 volunteers sleeping in the church dormitory. Two people, a 19-year-old tourist and a 79-year-old church volunteer, suffered from slight smoke inhalation.

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Syrian War Provokes Israel to Defend Druze in Golan Heights

June 20, 2015 Tension mounted on the Golan Heights among Druze and Jewish communities last week as sirens sounded in response to Syrian rockets. Israel has warned that it will not hesitate to protect its Druze minority on the Golan Heights, many of whom have chosen to remain Syrian citizens while working in the Israeli tourism industry.

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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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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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