JNS The Daily Syndicate - Thursday, July 20, 2023

Thursday, July 20, 2023


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris discuss a new climate initiative at the White House complex on July 19, 2023. Source: YouTube.

Herzog, Harris unveil $70 million climate-tech partnernship

During their meeting in Washington, the Israeli president and U.S. vice president also discussed the Iran threat, the Abraham Accords and the Judea and Samaria security situation.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi addresses the Herzliya Conference, May 23, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

analysis

IDF chief takes a firmer line on no-show reservists

However, without some form of stabilization of Israel's political situation, the question is whether it will be enough.

An honor guard welcomes then-IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi in Rabat, July 19, 2022. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Israel’s recognition of Western Sahara a blow to Iran

The move strengthens ties with Morocco and disrupts Tehran's and Hezbollah's efforts in North Africa.

KIng Mohammed VI (right) hosts then-U.S. presidential adviser Jared Kushner (second from left) and then-Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat (left) in Rabat, Dec. 22, 2020. Photo by David Azagury/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem via Wikimedia Commons.

How Israel’s decision on Western Sahara came about

Netanyahu promised he would recognize Moroccan sovereignty. But the big breakthrough happened when Israel's Minister Ofir Akunis delivered a speech.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (left) and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita meet in Rabat, June 8, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Israel-Morocco ties are expected to grow stronger

The Foreign Ministry in Rabat praised Jerusalem’s recognition of Western Sahara as “just and farsighted.”

Etgar Lefkovits

The construction of a new neighborhood in Alon Shvut, Gush Etzion, May 23, 2023. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

ZOA slams reported building freeze in Judea and Samaria

Netanyahu’s office denied he made the concession.

Students sing and wave a PLO flag at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2023. Source: Screenshot.

Knesset advances bill to ban PLO flags on campus

The proposed law would ban the display of enemy flags and eject terror-supporting students from academic institutions.

A Portuguese Inquisition auto-da-fé in Lisbon. Credit: The National Library of Israel.

Oporto’s Jews to preserve Portugal’s crumbling Inquisition records

The city's community called for help in saving the unique documentation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the anti-judicial reform protests that have rocked the Israel Defense Forces in recent weeks, July 20, 2023. Credit: GPO.

In TV speech, Netanyahu stresses ‘zero tolerance’ for IDF service refusal

Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's judicial reform outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 27, 2023. Credit: Flash90.

Pro-judicial reform protesters to take to streets of Tel Aviv

MK Simcha Rothman (center), head of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, with MK Ofir Katz (left) after the panel met in Jerusalem, July 19, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘Reasonableness’ bill advances to final Knesset votes

Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists at a gathering in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, for commander Khaled Mansour, who was killed during the IDF's "Operation Breaking Dawn," Aug. 8, 2022. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad struggle for influence over Gaza mosques

Hundreds of Jewish men pray at the Joseph's Tomb compound in Nablus on June 10, 2013. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.

Islamic Jihad terrorists attack worshippers at Joseph’s Tomb

An Israeli man was stabbed and seriously wounded in Jerusalem's southern Gilo neighborhood, July 20, 2023. Credit: TPS / David Elimelech.

Israeli seriously injured in Jerusalem stabbing

The knife that was intended to be used in a terror attack in Kiryat Arba. Credit: IDF

Attempted stabbing thwarted in Kiryat Arba

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Source: Turkish Presidency via Twitter.

Netanyahu to visit Ankara, first premier to do so since 2008

Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. Credit: Akiva Van Koningsveld.

Jerusalem launches free night buses to the Kotel

Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, Dec. 2, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli researcher’s AI identifies ‘social norm violations’

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna in Paris, July 19, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Cohen asks Paris to help stop Hezbollah ‘provocations’ at border

Flags in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Credit: Hadrian/Shutterstock.

EU parliament urges Hezbollah be designated a terror group

UK Conservative MP Paul Bristow. Photo by Richard Townshend via Wikimedia Commons.

British lawmaker accuses Israel of killing Palestinian children

Palestinian children participate in a rally marking the 70th anniversary of the “Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe,” the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948, at a school in Shechem on May 13, 2018. Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

EU commissioner commits to PA funding freeze over textbook incitement

Features on new CAMERA ed site offer reviews of anti-Israel, ‘biased’ books

Menachem Wecker

Michele Rosenberg (left) is comforted by her sister, Diane, as she speaks of the deaths of their brothers, Cecil and David Rosenberg, 59 and 54, who they said knew prayers by heart since they attended synagogue every week. Credit: Courtesy of “A Tree of Life” documentary.

Jurors for Pittsburgh synagogue trial hear victim-impact statements

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaking at a “Save Our Democracy” rally on the anniversary of the insurrection at the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2022. Credit: Phil Pasquini/Shutterstock.

featured column

Jonathan S. Tobin

What does ‘pro-Israel’ Democrat mean in 2023?

While progressives flirt with “racist state” smears, Biden blackmails Netanyahu with talk of ending the alliance. Both show the impending crack-up of the bipartisan consensus.

Melanie Phillips

Herzog’s lamentable performance

Israel needs to deliver an entirely different message to its two-faced U.S. ally.

Herzog can put Netanyahu-Biden relations back on track

As he meets US officials, Israel's president must ask himself: Is there anything the prime minister would be willing to accept in exchange for giving up, even partially, on the judicial reform?

Netanyahu, stay true to Begin’s legacy

Today, Israel again finds its sovereignty threatened, not by its enemies but by its allies.

Douglas Altabef

Judea and Samaria are a test of our resolve

Jewish construction acts as a deterrent to terrorism and a stimulus for, not against, eventual peace.

Rabbi Lisa S. Malik

A glimmer of hope and unity in the Middle East

Our rabbinical delegation found that tolerance, coexistence, trust and cooperation are possible.

Fighting to keep fighting for Israel

Within 24 hours, 60,000-plus reserve officers and soldiers signed a letter upholding their service.

Iran’s Africa offensive

The Islamic republic hopes to spread Shi’ism and counter Israel's diplomatic progress in Africa.

Clifford D. May

Peace requires deterrence, which requires military might.

Palestinians’ summer camps to kill Jews

The next time Palestinians complain about minors being killed or injured while carrying out terror attacks against Israelis, it would be worthwhile recalling the scenes of children in the summer camps of the Gaza Strip,

podcast

American Jews should diffuse the fire, not intervene

Jonathan S. Tobin

JNS PROMO+

‘Betrayal: The Failure of the American Jewish Leadership’

American Jewry is under siege, ideologically and physically. A new critically acclaimed book details how establishment Jewish organizations have failed to respond effectively to these mounting assaults.

Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser

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