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David Isaac

David Isaac

David Isaac, an expert on Jewish history, politics and current events, is an Israel bureau correspondent for JNS.

The Israeli embassy, in an unusual move, issued a lengthy takedown of the platform.
“There is no meaning to an order that repeals a law or ‘suspends’ a law. There is no legal source of authority for such an action,” said Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi.
Jerusalem began cracking down on the Health Work Committees group following its involvement in the murder of 17-year-old Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb in 2019.
The file is the first in connection with the ‘Law on Intensifying Punishment for Espionage and Cooperation with the Zionist Regime and Hostile States,’ passed by Tehran’s parliament in the fall of 2025.
The Arab Israeli party previously expressed support for the killer, who murdered an IDF soldier in 1980.
“We are prepared for any scenario,” the prime minister assured.
In a wide-ranging interview with New York radio host Sid Rosenberg, the prime minister spoke of his sorrow at the loss of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and Israel’s strengthening position in the Middle East.
Hussam Abu Safiya used his position at Kamal Adwan Hospital to engage in terrorist activity, according to Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva.
“No Jew should ever feel compelled to hide their identity to receive medical care in an Australian hospital,” said Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
“I find that there is a custom or practice that classical musicians do not make statements on sensitive political or social issues from the stage without approval of the host,” said Justice Graeme Hill.
Besides Israel, she wrote on topics that ranged from the mentally ill to global warming, to the persecution of small American farmers by the Legal Services Corporation.
After the shooting of a police officer and the death of a Jewish civilian in Montreal, Israeli Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli said he had warned Canada’s government that it was heading down the same path as Australia.