Beliba Homa (A Wall in Its Midst) is a student-centric project launched aimed at overcoming stigmas and instead building bridges between haredi and non-haredi students through a program of academic support. Founded in 2012, the project matches haredi students with a range of religious and secular students who meet on a weekly basis. The … Read more
The State of Israel’s collapse is imminent, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps chief Hossein Salami said in a Thursday evening address. Salami was quoted by Islamic Republic state media as claiming that Zionists “are so weak that they cannot bear the existence of Palestinian women and children,” a “clear sign” of the “collapse of the … Read more
A cargo ship reported a missile hitting the water as it sailed up the Bab al-Mandab Strait off Yemen, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Thursday. The ship also said it had been instructed to change course and sail to Yemen, the UKMTO said in an advisory note. The crew of … Read more
The United Nations refugee chief warned that the Gaza conflict could spur more displacement in the wider region as UN officials, politicians and aid groups gathered in Geneva on Wednesday to seek solutions to a global displacement crisis. A record 114 million people around the world have been driven from their homes, including about … Read more
One hundred years ago, in November 1923, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, one of the greatest leaders of the Zionist movement and definitely the one with the greatest foresight, wrote in Berlin a seminal article in the Razsviet (Dawn, in Russian) newspaper, titled “The Iron Wall (We and the Arabs).” His main argument was that in order … Read more
Sanctions loom Will the Knesset sanction government offices that refuse to move to Jerusalem? Following a debate at the Economic Committee led by City Councilman Ofer Berkovitch (Hitorerut), committee chairman MK Ya’acov Margi (Shas) announced his decision to submit a bill regarding the matter. For more than nine years, Berkovitch has tried to promote … Read more
Iran inched closer to Moscow, as it completed work on a new treaty and spoke of the necessity of the Gaza ceasefire with Russia, China, and Turkey. It made those diplomatic moves as the Houthis, Yemen’s Iranian proxy group, said on Tuesday it hit a Norwegian commercial tanker delivering crude oil to an Israeli … Read more
The Biden administration had intended to present Israel with a series of steps that needed to be taken to allow for the creation of a Palestinian state as part of the potential normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and the Jewish state. “One of the things we had planned and put on the table was … Read more
A group of left-wing Israeli organizations submitted a letter to United States President Joe Biden on Tuesday, asking that he encourage Israel to discontinue military actions in the Gaza Strip and continue administering aid. The letter, which begins by condemning the October 7 massacre committed by Hamas but neglects to use the word “terrorist,” … Read more
Far-right National Missions Minister Orit Struk attacked IDF reserves officers for their “fat pockets [stuffed with money]” in an interview with N12 on Tuesday. Struk made the comment while being asked about the hundreds of millions of shekels being added to her ministry in the amended 2023 budget for uses like “family purity” counseling … Read more
