Jerusalem
Hadassah Academic College receives major gift to launch new design department
The donation to the DAN Department of Creative Human Design will provide scholarship support, facilitate international student exchanges, support guest lectures and teaching workshops, among other uses.
In a wide-ranging interview, Nir Barkat speaks about the development of Jerusalem as a hub of tourism, culture and education.
In October, newly appointed Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that he was open to officially recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the Australian embassy there from its current location in Tel Aviv.
“There is a great victory here: The great persistence and continuity of our people, which overcomes all rules of history by the power of our faith and our will,” said the Israeli prime minister.
A report by market research firm Euromonitor says the Israeli capital is poised to see a 38 percent spike in inbound tourism by end of 2018.
“The relationship between our two countries is so strong that I remain hopeful that next year, the Polish ambassador to Israel will follow in the footsteps of the American ambassador to Israel and light a menorah in a Polish embassy in Jerusalem,” said Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer.
Literary gathering draws traditional and new media members together for four days in Israel for discussion, better understanding and a little bit of the expected grousing.
Hanukkah sends a clear message to all those who falsely call the Jewish people “illegal occupiers.”
In the last two decades, Israelis have taken their history and culture outside of the Jewish state and are succeeding in the world marketplace, using traditional tastes and textiles with modern interpretations.
“With the Czech Republic, as with the United States of America, there is something else. It’s a deep, deep commonality of values, which you so powerfully expressed,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In first-ever speech to legislative body by a Czech leader, Miloš Zeman blasts E.U. for hosting Palestinian terrorists • “If we betray Israel, we betray ourselves,” he says • Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze’ev Elkin presents the Czech president with “Protector of Jerusalem Award.”
Israel arrests 32 Jerusalem Arabs for illegal work for Palestinian Authority
According to the 1994 Gaza-Jericho agreement and the Oslo accords, it is illegal for Palestinian Authority security forces to operate in Jerusalem.
