Agriculture
Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, said a two-state solution “is not the policy of the current government coalition, nor is it stated as policy in the agreements between the coalition partners. Furthermore, this is not the policy of the Trump administration, which has even removed it from the National Security Strategic Report.”
However, experts are concerned about getting humanitarian aid to the Palestinians without getting it into the hands of the Palestinian Authority and its direct links to terrorists.
“The great philosopher Plato said thousands of years ago that necessity is the mother of invention; this is the story of the State of Israel,” said Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin.
“To survive as long as he has in Israel’s raucous political system is no small feat. He has clearly left a deep imprint on the country and its future,” Michael Freund, the prime minister’s deputy communications director from 1996-99, told JNS.
The research, by a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, could allow livestock producers to choose the sex of animals’ offspring.
The visit came as the IAEA announced that Iran has exceeded the uranium enrichment limit under the 2015 nuclear deal.
Established and operated by the Jewish Agency for Israel, the youth village aims to help empower and give Bedouin students the skills and education needed to succeed in Israeli society.
The rocket was launched just hours after Israel closed the Gaza fishing zone in response to a wave of incendiary balloons launched from Gaza.
The usually quiet region saw the Israel Defense Forces detonate 900 landmines in controlled explosions; Israeli officers tell JNS about their activities in the region.
Lebanese writers criticize Hezbollah oppression
Lebanese writers say Hezbollah is oppressing South Lebanon residents and subjecting them to increasing Islamization.
The U.S. forestry chief’s tour included a visit to the memorial site for those who perished during Israel’s 2010 Carmel Fire.
International Fellowship raises $275,000 for moshav that lost homes to fire
The daughters of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach are determined to rebuild the agricultural village of Mevo Modi’im.