JNS The Daily Syndicate - Monday, June 19, 2023

Monday, June 19, 2023


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

An IAF AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship, July 6, 2021. Photo by Ofer Zidon/Flash90.

analysis

Airstrikes in Jenin are a sign of deteriorating security

The IDF may have no choice but to recommend to the Cabinet the launch of a wide-scale operation in the terror hotbed.

An IDF armored vehicle convoy hit by a roadside bomb in Jenin, June 19, 2023. Source: Twitter

IDF calls in air support to extract wounded soldiers from Jenin

Five Palestinian terrorists were killed and seven Israeli soldiers were wounded during an Israeli counterterror operation in the city.

From left: Rabbi Hara Person, chief executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis; Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism; and Dr. Andrew Rehfeld, president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion discuss their vision of the future at the “Re-Charging Reform Judaism” conference held at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City from May 31 to June 1, 2023. Credit: Lenny Media/RetroLenz Photography.

Reform movement takes time to re-evaluate goals amid ‘inflection points’

More than 300 Jewish leaders gathered for a conference to address the movement’s growing distance from Israel, social-justice work and a re-emphasis on Jewish education.

Shalom Yaniv (left), father of terror victims Hallel and Yagel Yaniv, hugs Ron Carmeli, who received a donated cornea, at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, June 18, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/TPS.

Bereaved family, grateful organ recipients meet in Petach Tikvah

Four people regain sight thanks to the slain Yaniv brothers' generosity.

The golden dome built on top of the Al-Rachman Mosque in Beit Safafa, Jerusalem, Dec. 16, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Jerusalem municipality reverses decision to demolish ‘New Al-Aqsa’

Zionist group Im Tirtzu says the mosque's dome symbolizes "absolute opposition to the existence of the State of Israel."

An Israeli tank near the Syrian border in the northern Golan Heights, Oct. 17, 2021. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Palestinian terror group threatens Israel from Syria

Palestinians cross into Israel through a hole in the security fence in Judea, July 25, 2021. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

Thousands of terror suspects held Israeli entry permits

Israeli security personnel escort a group of Jews on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Jan. 18, 2023. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Israelis arrested for planning sacrifice atop Temple Mount

Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska. Credit: UNICEF via Wikimedia Commons.

Herzog hosts Ukrainian first lady in Israel

U.S. President Bill Clinton with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. Photo by Palestinian Authority via Abed Al Rahim Al Khatib/Flash90.

Ehud Barak agreed to give up part of Temple Mount, Old City

PLO Executive Committee Secretary-General Hussein Al-Sheikh said at a January 7, 2023 ceremony marking Palestinian Martyr's Day that the Palestinian "martyrs" and prisoners and their families are the Palestinian people's "most precious jewel."

PA launches boycott over Judea and Samaria construction

Israeli military vehicles seen during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin, on June 19, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Two IDF reservists lightly injured in car-ramming

Muslims on Hajj circle the Kabaa at the Great Mosque of Mecca. Credit: Pixabay.

No direct flights from Israel for this month’s Hajj

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (second from left) at a meeting with French President Emanuel Macron in Paris, June 16, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Jerusalem backing Riyadh’s bid to host 2030 World Fair

The Hamas delegation in Tehran on June 19, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Hamas delegation arrives in Tehran for talks

Seventeen Israeli defense firms participate in the inauguration of the national pavilion at the 2023 Paris Air Show, June 19, 2023. Credit: Ariel Hermoni, Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Israel opens national pavilion at Paris Air Show

Artist's rendering of the now completed Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Credit: Capital Jewish Museum.

Capital Jewish Museum opens in Washington, DC

A restored Jewish cemetery in the Serbian town of Bela Crkva. Credit: Courtesy of ESJF.

Three Jewish leaders named to US heritage government agency

El Camino College in Torrance, Calif. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Inspired by CUNY law grad, California student delivers anti-Israel speech

Dr. Many Cohen. Credit: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Biden taps Mandy Cohen as new director of CDC

A makeshift shrine to the victims of the mass shooting at Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Credit: Brendt A. Petersen.

featured column

Benjamin Kerstein

Should Robert Bowers hang?

Why, as a Jew, I am unable to oppose the death penalty.

Stephen M. Flatow

Everyone can agree this is antisemitism

Outbursts by street-corner thugs are bad enough. But the official promulgation of antisemitism by a governing regime is far more dangerous.

The Saudis’ pace of peace

Israel-Saudi peace will come, but Riyadh will take its time.

Yechiel M. Leiter

Israel should recognize Morocco’s territorial integrity

To deter Iran, Israel should back Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.

Shmuel Katz and Chaim Silberstein

Jerusalem is truly a city of peace and unity

A Jerusalem Post article gets the holy city and its residents wrong.

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Israel needs to be more welcoming to Arab tourists

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