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The Jewish majority has shrunk by 10% over the last 30 years, Central Bureau of Statistics data shows.
Hassen Chalghoumi strives to bring people together to fight antisemitism and Islamism, more specifically political Islam.
“Oh thank heaven!” The world’s largest convenience store chain opens in Tel Aviv at the Dizengoff Center.
“They’re afraid of the truth,” says Michael Kretzmer, director of “J’Accuse!”
Is the wave of Muslim tourism that has recently been sweeping over Rachel’s Tomb an act of innocent faith or of deliberate provocation?
State senators note that the school represented itself as being secular when it secured government funding of some $230 million, even as it engages in a legal battle over an unwillingness to recognize an LGBTQ student body on grounds of freedom of religion.
The eggs were found at a campsite in the Negev that was used by desert nomads since prehistoric times.
Inflation in Israel surged to 5.3% in November, prompting the Bank of Israel on Jan. 2 to again raise the country’s benchmark interest rate, to 3.75%, the highest level since the 2008 financial crisis.
B’nai Brith Canada, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center and Liberation75 unite in a campaign to prevent the multinational e-commerce company from continuing the sale of “hateful and appalling items” on its website.
Idan Ofer, Israel’s richest man, bought the award for around $645,000—which was donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
The NIF issued a “special grant” to civil society groups that helped organize Saturday’s “huge demonstration” in Tel Aviv, the group said.
Rabbi Nosson Rodin of the Braude College of Engineering in the Galilee wants students from the periphery to have the skills for startup success.
