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“People who decided now to make aliyah write the history of Israel with their feet,” Ofir Sofer, the Israeli aliyah and integration minister, told JNS.
“The world must understand: Hamas uses rape as a weapon,” Michal Herzog, Israel’s first lady, said ahead of the council’s session in New York.
The suspect was charged on Aug. 7 with preparing and inciting a serious act of violence endangering the state.
The biggest need, Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer told JNS, is integrating professionals into the workforce in Israel and getting jobs that reflect their level in the United States.
The discovery sheds new light on the development of the ancient city even after the destruction of the first Jewish Temple in 586 BCE.
The two sides reportedly discussed easing tensions following attacks on the Druze community and restoring the 1974 disengagement agreement.
The skeleton of a five-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago, and which has characteristics of both species, was found in a prehistoric cave in northern Israel.
Spear-leaved dogbane blooming in the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens originate from specimens collected decades ago in the Negev Desert.
“Purposefully yanking on an Israeli flag tied around a Jewish person’s neck to choke them is direct evidence of racial discrimination,” a district court judge for the District of Columbia stated.
“He was very much a part of my Jewish life,” Elon’s father, Alan Dershowitz, told JNS.
The National Library of Israel’s Docu.Text 2025 festival presents five days of contemporary documentary filmmaking from Israel and around the world.
“This is living proof that care and concern for the elderly are not just a modern idea, but were part of social institutions and concepts as far back as about 1,600 years ago.”
