Legal Affairs
Foreign-policy expert Eytan Gilboa fears that Israel’s detractors may up the pressure on the Jewish state to again see “an avalanche of disproportionate, ridiculous anti-Israel resolutions.”
The United States announced a grand-jury indictment against Omar Sheikh for acts of terrorism.
The ruling applies to three cases for which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under indictment. His lawyers argue that the permission to investigate was only provided retroactively.
The foiled takeover of a plane in the USSR prompted worldwide involvement in the Soviet Jewry movement, even though those in “Operation Wedding” paid a price for their actions.
The ruling comes after another two years ago that held the Palestinian Authority directly responsible for the murder in 2002 of Tzipi and Gadi Shemesh, as well as their unborn twins.
Menachem Zivotofsky was the first to get such a passport at a brief ceremony at the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
U.S. citizens born in the capital must request that their place of birth be listed as “Israel,” or it will continue to be listed as “Jerusalem,” says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
One of the victims, a woman, was beheaded; assailant evacuated to hospital after being shot by police • Gunman yelling “Allahu Akbar” shot by police in Montfavet • Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi calls to “wipe out Islamo-fascism.”
“This recognition of Israel’s capital is a further affirmation of the crucial principle that Jerusalem is, and always will be, Israel’s capital,” said B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel Mariaschin.
The report shares the results of a Ministry of Strategic Affairs study examining 250 suspicious Twitter accounts, finding 170—or nearly 70 percent of them—to be inauthentic profiles trying to stir anti-Israel sentiment and manipulate discourse against Israel in violation of Twitter policy.
A two-month investigation highlights the role of fake accounts in manipulating public opinion.
The decapitation of 47-year-old Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb has authorities and the public in France up in arms • Thousands protest the violent act, reminiscent of the 2015 “Charlie Hebdo” massacre.
