JNS The Daily Syndicate - Thursday, July 13, 2023

Thursday, July 13, 2023


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, visit the Great Wall of China near Beijing, March 22, 2017. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Benjamin Netanyahu caught between Washington and Beijing

Democrats and Republicans alike agree China is enemy No. 1.

Anti-judicial reform demonstrators block a road and clash with police in Pardes Hanna-Karkur in northern Israel, on July 11, 2023. Photo by Shir Torem/Flash90.

Protest movement fails Netanyahu’s ‘reasonableness’ test

If the country was so aghast about judicial reform just two months ago, why are the current protests drastically smaller?

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, Sept. 3, 2020. Credit: Flash90.

PA chief Abbas pays rare visit to Jenin

The visit marks Abbas's second official trip to the Samaria city since being elected chairman of the P.A. 18 years ago.

The synagogue at Beit Yellin. Photo: Judy Lash Balint

Who’s looking out for Israel’s cultural heritage?

The majority of Israel's significant cultural sites are lesser known, fascinating spots that, like Beit Yellin, fill in the gaps of our understanding of what it took to establish a thriving Jewish state.

Judy Lash Balint

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the Knesset, March 22, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Gallant nixes bill barring return of terrorist remains

The bill, sponsored by Likud MK Eliyahu Revivo, was withdrawn after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned it could be detrimental to Israel's security .

Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife and two daughters were killed in a Palestinian terror attack, calls for the termination of all funding to the Palestinian Authority during a meeting of the Knesset’s Israel Victory Caucus, July 12, 2023. Photo by Michael Katz.

Leo Dee urges end to PA funding, Palestinian chance to work in Israel

The rabbi, who lost his wife and two teenage daughters in a Palestinian terror attack, has urged unity in the wake of the tragedy.

Etgar Lefkovits

The Israel-Premier Tech cycling team special edition jersey was inspired by the Israel National Trail. Credit: Israel-Premier Tech.

Cycling ‘peace race’ to be held in Israel, Bahrain and UAE

The three-stage race is backed by the Union Cycliste Internationale.

Etgar Lefkovits

Oshra Yosef-Friedman, deputy director-general of the Israeli Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women, with Yinam Cohen (left) and Daniel Aschheim, consul general and deputy consul general respectively of Israel to the Midwest. Credit: Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest.

Oshra Yosef-Friedman fights for Israeli women, Ethiopian immigrants

Yosef-Friedman holds one of the most senior Israeli government positions of any Ethiopian Israeli.

Flags of Hezbollah fly during a funeral salute. Credit: Crop Media/Shutterstock.

Hezbollah demands all border disputes be opened for discussion

IDF Artillery Corps personnel near the border with Lebanon, July 6, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

IDF thwarts Hezbollah attempt to damage border fence

Six Palestinians were charged for a string of shooting attacks over the past few months in Judea and Samaria, July 12, 2023. Credit: Shin Bet.

Six Palestinian terrorists charged for series of attacks

Israeli soldiers at the entrance to the village of Turmus Aya. June 21, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90

Israeli soldier, policeman lightly injured in Turmus Aya clashes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 18, 2023. Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL.

Netanyahu chairs committee on Arab sector affairs

Israeli Supreme Court president Esther Hayut and fellow justices arrive for a court hearing on petitions demanding the annulment of the appointment of Shas leader Aryeh Deri as a government minister, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Jan. 5, 2023. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Levin: ‘Extreme progressive values’ in top court’s veto of visa adherence law

“Salty Sunrise” by Meital Bitton of Israel.

Israel working to avoid blackouts, wildfires amid extreme heat

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 9, 2016. Credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Israel ‘unaware’ of any US decision to re-evaluate special bond

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a discussion and a vote in the Knesset assembly hall, on May 15, 2023. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

Otzma Yehudit’s Kroyzer elected to sit on key judicial panel

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with senior officers during a visit to the IDF Northern Command, June 6, 2023. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Israeli defense minister makes official visit to Azerbaijan

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Jan. 25, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli foreign minister begins diplomatic tour of southern Europe

U.K. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis received the title of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, July 11, 2023. Credit: Twitter.

UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis knighted in Windsor Castle ceremony

Miller Miller, U.S. State Department spokesman, answers reporter questions at the department's press briefing on July 12, 2023. Source: YouTube.

Refuting Thomas Friedman column, State Department says no US-Israel ‘formal reassessment’

U.S. House Rep Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Oct. 4, 2016. Credit: Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons.

Ilhan Omar mocked for plan to boycott Herzog address to Congress

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Government of Florida.

DeSantis blasts Biden over Netanyahu snub

A visiting group of the Israel Police for the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange meets with Avshalom Peled, deputy Israeli police commissioner (center, front row). Credit: Israel Police.

Georgia, Tennessee law-enforcement delegation visits Israel

Gal Luft. Source: YouTube.

Feds file charges against Biden corruption witness Gal Luft

U.S. President Joe Biden boards Air Force One for Saudi Arabia at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 15, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Senators demand US administration reverse ‘antisemitic Israel boycott’

Rabbi Arthur Schneier and Deborah Lipstadt attend an “Efforts on Combating Antisemitism” briefing at United Nations Headquarters in New York City on June 15, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock.

Federations ‘grateful’ to House for antisemitism envoy budget increase to $2.5m

Menachem Wecker

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

Pittsburgh synagogue shooter has personality disorder, expert testifies

Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu accepts the mandate to form a government from Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Nov. 13, 2022. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

featured column

Jonathan S. Tobin

Herzog’s duty is to stand with Israel’s elected government

A Biden “reassessment” of the alliance with Israel timed to next week’s visit won’t happen. But if the Israeli president publicly distances himself from Netanyahu, then it will be a betrayal of his office.

Hezbollah fighters march in a ceremony. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

column

Israel must respond forcefully to Hezbollah aggression

Whatever the consequences of showing strength to an aggressor, it will be better to do so than for Israel to display weakness to Hezbollah.

The old elite vs. judicial reform

A strategy of dominating unelected institutions can only work for so long.

Naomi Linder Kahn

Israel must enforce its own laws

Without law, there is chaos, which threatens the Jewish people’s sovereignty over the Land of Israel itself.

Pro-Israel advocacy must include Arab Israelis

Partnerships between Arabs and Jews are both possible and essential.

Clifford D. May

Iran’s shadow war

Israelis are defending themselves against Tehran’s foreign legions

Vladimir Khanin

The Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora and the war in Ukraine

The political and public discourse of “Russian Israel” has every chance of taking hold in the RSJ diaspora as a whole.

Another ‘New York Times’ ode to Palestinian violence

Only in a world of euphemisms and deceit—the space beneath Tareq Barconi’s byline and the Times logo—is terror as a right and fighting it wrong

Questions about the Malley affair

Who was the Biden administration trying to protect?

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

‘Miklat,’ refuge, sanctuary

There must be more to a “miklat” than a bomb shelter.

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