Alluding to the 2014 synagogue massacre and Operation Protective Edge, the US State Department warns Americans about potential violence in Israel, without any specific reference to Islamic terrorism.
Fear grows that ISIS has infiltrated Palestinian society and will continue its reign of terror targeting Christians.
United with Israel (UWI), the world's largest grassroots pro-Israel movement, has reached a significant milestone with 3 million supporters and counting.
Four Israelis died and eight others wounded on Tuesday morning in west Jerusalem in one of the worst terror attacks Israel has experienced in past years.
Daniel Lewin, an elite Israeli soldier, was the first victim of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, stabbed in business class on American Airlines flight 11, as he tried to fight the hijackers.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday contradicted Israel’s position that the Palestinian Authority must recognize Israel as the Jewish state.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, on a visit to Jerusalem and the PA-administered territories, expressed "rock solid commitment" to Israel.
At least two Israeli government ministers are saying that there is no alternative but to retake Gaza. Government ministers are demanding that Israel retake Gaza in response to Wednesday’s barrage of rocket fire from Gaza – the largest escalation since 2012. Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force continued to strike targets in Gaza on Thursday afternoon,... Read more »
On Wednesday afternoon, terrorists fired more than 60 rockets from Gaza in succession at populated Israeli centers in the south.
Most Israelis, Jews and Arabs alike, do not trust that the security of the Jewish state is a top priority for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, a new poll reveals.
Jerusalem Police, assisted by the Shin Bet (Israel’s security agency), have arrested Hamas terrorist Ziz Mussa Salam Auysat, 50, a father of six, on suspicion of cutting gas pipes in two residential neighborhoods – Armon Hanatziv and Gilo – intending to cause lethal explosions.
For the first time, the IDF is releasing photos of Iran's entire weapons shipment to Gaza terrorists. Iran attempted to hide its involvement, but the evidence is clear.
Despite Jerusalem’s clear position that the Palestinian Authority must recognize the Jewish state in order to move forward with the U.S.-brokered peace negotiations, State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki stated on Saturday – for the first time – that such recognition was unnecessary.
EU Policy Chief Catherine Ashton arrived Saturday in Tehran for bridge-building discussions on nuclear sanctions. On the same day, an Iranian ship carrying weapons designated for Hamas - intercepted on Wednesday by the IDF - landed at an Israeli port.
The day after Israel's navy blocked a shipment of lethal arms from Iran en route to Gaza for terror purposes, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney stated at a press conference that negotiations with Iran are still on the table.
An Iranian weapons shipment to Gaza was blocked this week by the Israel Defense Forces from reaching terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently in the U.S., and today he addressed the 2014 American Israel Policy Affairs Committee-AIPAC Policy Conference. The Israeli leader reiterated his warning about the danger of a nuclear Iran, demanded Palestinian recognition of the Jewish state and declared that he "will never gamble" with security."
U.S. pressure on Israel to submit to American demands concerning the Palestinians and Iran has been escalating in the past several days, prior to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House today.
IDF soldiers rescued four injured Palestinian Arabs, including a two-year-old infant who suffered moderate injuries, and evacuated them to the hospital.
Elbit Systems Ltd., an Israeli international company engaged in multiple defense programs, has won a $145 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security.
Convicted terrorist Rasmieh Yousef Odeh allegedly lied on her United States immigration and naturalization application papers in 2004 and unlawfully gained American citizenship. More recently, she had gained employment as an Obamacare navigator in the state of Illinois.
Ukrainian Jews are fearful in light of current instability and increasing violence. Member of Knesset Rina Frenkel, who immigrated to Israel from Kiev, Ukraine, in 1990, has lobbied for a budgeted plan to bring the Ukrainian Jews to Israel now.
"Water shortages in the Palestinian Authority are the result of Palestinian policies that deliberately waste water and destroy the regional water ecology," states Prof. Haim Gvirtzman, a professor of hydrology at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Israel Water Authority Council.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to confirm whether or not Israel attacked Hezbollah targets Monday night, but he stressed Israel's commitment to defend residents of the Jewish state.
“Israeli Apartheid Week” - which was launched in 2005 at University of Toronto - is currently taking place on many college and university campuses in North America and the UK.
The Student Union of the National University of Ireland-Galway is holding a referendum on an academic boycott of Israel and its academic institutions.
Nuclear talks between the West and Iran and the U.S.-brokered negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are “the two diplomatic issues of the highest order,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted Sunday morning in advance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s arrival in Jerusalem.
United with Israel supporters have responded again to the urgent need for bomb shelters in the south of Israel. which continues to suffer ongoing rocket attacks.
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett met Wednesday with European Parliament President Martin Schulz and other dignitaries during a visit to EU headquarters in Brussels. While talks were pleasant and constructive, Bennett reminded several European leaders that Israel refuses to be "singled out" for criticism.
A few days ago, Adva Biton testified at the trial of a Palestinian man accused of throwing the rocks that put her three year-old daughter Adele in hospital until today. Her life, she told the court, changed dramatically on that tragic night.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has inaugurated the “Center for Excellence You-niversity” in Beit Hanina, an Arab neighborhood in the eastern part of the city. The Center was established in cooperation with the Jerusalem Municipality and the World ORT Kadima Mada (Science Journey). The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on Tuesday, February 18, at the Beit Hanina... Read more »
Mortar shells exploded in the Golan Heights following the Israeli PM's visit to an IDF field hospital treating Syrian civilians. The violence in the region shows the "true face of Iran," Netanyahu said.
Deutsche Bank may want to boycott the Israeli economy, but recent decisions made by Google, IBM, and EMC show the world wants something different.
Jews and Arabs united in mourning and anger at a packed funeral Monday for victims of a gas explosion at a residential complex in Acre.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has consistently refused to recognize the Jewish state or to halt the ongoing promotion of terror in PA-run territory. Nevertheless, the Palestinian leader addressed Israeli students at his headquarters at the initiative of activists pushing for a peace agreement between Israel and the PA and made several questionable claims.
The Taba explosion that occurred on Sunday, killing four and injuring several others, is a stark reminder of the danger in the south that Israel faces.
Millions of dollars from donor nations to the Palestinian Authority’s general budget is funding terror by paying salaries not only to all Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons, but also to 4,000 former security and terrorist prisoners.
Israel will not lift the blockade on Gaza, despite Turkish demands, diplomatic sources in Jerusalem say.
Dr. Itai Amir of Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in the greater Tel Aviv area has discovered a new strain of bacteria.
Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett slammed Martin Schulz, chairman of the European Parliament, demanding that he “retract two false statements he made before the Knesset (Israeli parliament) this afternoon.”
“In honor of 50 years of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany, the two countries announced Sunday that they would be launching a joint project for humanitarian relief in developing countries, specifically in Africa,” Israel National News (INN) reports.
Israel eliminated a Gaza terrorist early Sunday morning - using "precision munitions combined with advanced intelligence" - in response to the increasing number of rocket attacks into southern Israel, the IDF announced on Sunday.
A gala event celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Life's Door-Tishkofet (LDT), a leading Israeli organization encouraging hope and growth in times of serious illness, also marks the launching of its partnership with “The Conversation Project,” a US-based organization “dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.” LTD’s ultimate goal is to go beyond Israel’s borders and make a global change.
Young activist Jews are taking matters into their own hands in defense of Israel and Jewish life in the Netherlands with a counter boycott against funds that divest from Israel.
Israeli security prevented a massacre in Jerusalem that was planned for a packed wedding hall by Palestinian-Arab terrorists.
Not only are boycotts, bribery and intimidation against Torah law, but they ultimately do not succeed.
Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's defense minister, astonished observers by attending a presentation given by the Iranian delegate at the Munich Security Conference last weekend.
The Israel Defense Forces, in a recent blog, takes its readers for "an inside look" into an Israeli field hospital that was sent up last year to treat wounded Syrian civilians near the northern border.
Canadian Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney dropped Oxfam, an alleged anti-poverty conglomerate, for its Boycott Israel activities. Instead, he will support its target - SodaStream, an Israeli company with a factory in Judea that hires Israelis and Palestinians.
The Palestinian Authority is urging a greater Iranian role in the Middle East, according to a breaking news report in The Jerusalem Post. Furthermore, in its conflict with Israel, the PA has not eliminated the option of violence as well as isolating the Jewish state through economic and academic boycotts.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and several Cabinet ministers slammed US Secretary of State John Kerry for threatening Israel with boycotts in his efforts to finalize a peace deal between the Jewish State and the Palestinian Authority.
The new Stephen J. Harper Hula Valley Bird Sanctuary Visitor and Education Centre in northern Israel – named in honor of the Canadian prime minister, a steadfast defender of the Jewish state – will serve to educate the public on the Valley’s birds and wildlife and draw tourism to the Upper Galilee.
How can it be that Muslims decide who gets to pray on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism? But a more fundamental question: Does Jewish law allow for Jews to even ascend the Temple Mount?
"Israel Apartheid" lies disseminated by Arab-Israeli parliamentarian Ahmed Tibi - well-known for his aggressive anti-Israel incitement - were recently exposed by Israeli think tank Regavim.
Israel’s Shin Bet General Security Service has released a report showing a serious increase in terror in Judea and Samaria in 2013.
No "settlers" would be allowed to reside in a Palestinian state, it was confirmed this week.
Famous actress Scarlett Johansson is not caving in to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for her role as the first Global Brand Ambassador representing Israeli company SodaStream International Ltd.
The excitement of living in the Start-up Nation can be electric. You can often feel the buzz from highly charged Israeli entrepreneurs developing their latest wired and wireless innovative products.
"I have no intention of removing a single community; I have no intention of uprooting a single Israeli," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted at a press conference this past weekend in Davos, Switzerland, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared that the Islamic Republic will not dismantle key components of its nuclear program notwithstanding the deal it had made with Western powers.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on Tuesday the beginning of talks to expand on the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA), which was originally signed in January 1997.
The United States and the European Union began easing economic sanctions on Iran on Monday, when Tehran announced that it has ceased certain nuclear activities according to its November deal with the Six Global Powers.
Following is a transcript of the full speech delivered by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the Knesset
The interim deal reached in November between the Six World Powers and Iran, described as a "very bad deal" by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to take effect on January 20. However, over the past two months, Iran has been continuing its nuclear program unchanged...
The following essay by Ryan Mervin Bellerose a pro-Israel native-rights activist in Alberta, Canada - first published on the israellycool blog (israellycool.com) and then on Calgary United with Israel - explains "why Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel and why Palestinians are not."
The Jordan Valley absolutely must remain in Israeli hands, former deputy chief of staff Uzi Dayan told journalists on a field trip to the region organized by MediaCentral, a Jerusalem center providing support services for journalists.
Israel's New Year for Trees has begun! Now is the right time to start planting Fruit Trees in the Land of Israel. Watch your trees of Israel blossom into magnificent expressions of bounty and beauty. Show your love for the Land of Israel and PLANT FRUIT TREES TODAY!
Ariel Sharon, Israel’s 11th prime minister and one of its greatest military strategists, was laid to rest on Monday afternoon at his Sycamore Ranch in southern Israel. However, as theIrish Independent quipped, he was "laid to rest but not in peace."
The death of legendary warrior and controversial politician Ariel Sharon marks the end of an era in Israel.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced the appointment of a new ambassador to Israel: Vivian Bercovici, an attorney at Dickinson Wright LLP and a former senior policy adviser to former Ontario Finance Minister Ernie Eves.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in Israel again next Monday. This will be his 12th visit to the region, “but not all Israeli political leaders are happy to see him return,” says Israeli daily Israel Hayom.
Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett threatened that his party - Jewish Home - would quit the coalition if the government agrees to a US-brokered deal with the Palestinian Authority based on the 1967 borders.
The location of a royal castle that may have belonged to the biblical King David will be revealed to the public on Friday next week, Israel National News reported. “The find is a decorated carved stone known as ‘a proto-aeolic capital’ that is connected to a column,” INN explained. “Unlike all of the other proto-aeolic... Read more »
As Secretary of State John Kerry departed the region, a video has been released which sheds light on the Palestinian Authority’s true motive in demanding a peace agreement based on the 1967 borders: the eradication of the State of Israel in a step-by-step process.
Women have proudly served in the IDF since the very beginning. Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, wrote an impassioned letter to religious communities outlining the necessity of women serving and protecting Israel. Since then, women have taken increasingly high-level positions in the IDF. These female Israeli soldiers challenge stereotypes through the work they do every day.
Hundreds of participants joined leading scientists, academics and rabbinic scholars at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem last week to discuss the latest findings on techelet, or biblical blue, a rare blue dye extracted from a particular marine creature in ancient times for ritual purposes.
The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, is set to become the world’s largest environment-friendly legislature building in the world.
United with Israel, with the help of friends and supporters around the world, has provided over 3000 'warm winter' care packages to IDF soldiers at numerous bases, from Israel's northern borders with Syria and Lebanon, down through the Jordan Valley to the southern Negev region.
Now that 2013 has passed, let's reflect back upon the year and review the 10 most read stories on the United with Israel website. Some were quite understandably popular, while others were a bit of a surprise to be on the list.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, although reportedly planning to intensify peace talks, does not expect to achieve a "big breakthrough" during his trip to the region this week, a senior State Department official said.
Members of the Israeli Knesset presented President Shimon Peres with a petition for Pollard's release, signed by 106 lawmakers. The petition was signed a cooperative effort between coalition partners and opposition, Jews and Arabs, calls for the release of Jonathan Pollard from prison in the United States of America.
Police officer Rami Ravid, while tending to a car accident last week, was approached from behind and stabbed by a Palestinian Arab with a 15-centimeter-long knife.
By taking us out of Egypt with miracles and wonders, God planted seeds within us. Even though generations come and go, the seeds from that very first exodus must be planted, cultivated, and imparted to our children. Even when the plant or fruit dies, its offspring lives on with the same DNA and potential as the parent ‘seed.’
The 'United with Israel' staff has worked tirelessly to defeat anti-Israel bias and promote the real Israel to the world. A better understanding of Israel's position means less pressure from world powers, including the United States.
The majority of Israelis have reacted in pain over the release late Monday night of 26 Palestinian prisoners - all terrorists with blood on their hands.
On Sunday, the Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved a bill proposed by Likud Member of Knesset Miri Regev to annex the Jordan Valley. The bill would ensure that the region remains within Israeli sovereignty even if a peace agreement is reached with the Palestinians.
When you build bomb shelters, strengthen Israeli soldiers, plant fruit trees, support a united Jerusalem and donate to United with Israel, you help to protect and build the State of Israel!
Mothers of terror victims have taken a leading role in demanding an end to the continued prisoner release, which includes barbaric criminals with blood on their hands.
Arab-Israeli Members of Knesset have joined the demand for the release of American-Israeli Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted of spying for Israel and jailed 28 years ago.
When Moses began to announce to the Jewish people that their freedom was imminent, the Jewish people were not so eager to believe him. As the Torah says: “They did not listen to Moses because of their fallen spirits and the difficult work.”
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been ridiculed for calling Jesus of Nazareth a "Palestinian.
The Palestinian Authority glorifies terror at cultural programs and honors heinous murderers. It also has ties to the Nazi leadership.
On Friday, December 19, 27 U.S. senators, headed by Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), introduced the Nuclear Weapon-Free Iran Act.
The IDF is on alert as missile attacks from the north and south occurred over the past few days as well as a stone-throwing riot, a Molotov cocktail and a bus bombing near Tel Aviv.
Canada has called for the dismissal of a top United Nations official who accused Israel of having "genocidal intentions" against the Palestinian population.
Several Israeli politicians are demanding Jonathan Pollard's release from prison following recent revelations by former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden that in 2009, the NSA was spying on former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
United with Israel urges supporters of the State of Israel to counter the current boycott campaign against Israel by purchasing Israeli products for the holiday season.
The IDF rescued a Palestinian boy on Wednesday, answering an urgent call for help following a car accident.
Israeli airport security has often been the topic of newspaper and online columns.
Members of the American Studies Association, the "oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history" in the United States, according to its website, voted this month to endorse an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.
Esteemed advocate Alan Dershowitz says that Israel should ignore international law when deciding how to deal with Iran.
Master Sergeant Shlomi Cohen of the Israel Defense Forces was killed on Sunday evening, at approximately 8:30, when shot while driving a military vehicle approximately 50 meters from the Lebanese border.
Karmiel (also spelled Carmiel) – situated on the Acre-Safed road in the heart of the Beit Kerem Valley, a region on the north side of the Lower Galilee – has been awarded five stars in an Israeli contest for Israel’s most beautiful city.
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, the first Israeli Cabinet member to visit Indonesia in more than a dozen years, signed an historic trade agreement there, which he expects will inject a trillion dollars into the world economy.
“The Israel Defense Forces has been hard at work helping the people of Israel and Gaza [to] endure the dangerous winter storm,” an IDF spokesperson declared in the wake of Alexa, which has been termed a “once-in-a-century storm.”
Snow in Jerusalem is always a special and newsworthy event here. For some, it is a delightful occasion; for others, an annoyance.
A cousin of renowned jurist Dr. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the the term 'genocide' and who drafted and pushed for the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, has spoken out on what he sees as UN hypocrisy.
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Israeli pharmaceutical start-up Alcobra has developed a superior non-stimulant compound in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
On the last Saturday of November 2013, thousands participated in an International Day of Rage against the Prawer-Begin Plan, which aims to solve the conflict regarding the Bedouin community of the Negev in southern Israel.
The teenage son of Father Gabriel Nadaf of Nazareth, who was soon to be drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, suffered a brutal beating on Friday evening.
A unique opportunity exists to acquire an outstanding Jerusalem treasure while playing a role in safeguarding the future of the Holy City of Jerusalem.
A cache of Jewish historical treasures stolen from Iraq's 2,500 year old Jewish community were discovered by American soldiers searching Saddam Hussein's secret police headquarters. The treasures were brought to the U.S. but in 2014 will be returned to Iraq and most likely lost to the Jewish people. Act Now to make sure these treasures go to Israel!
What is “Biblical Blue” and why would a piece of jewelry or even a bookmark in that rare color be considered precious?
In 2013, the Israel Antiquities Authority displayed a newly discovered building in Jerusalem dating back to the Hasmonean period just in time for Chanukah.
Since United with Israel recently visited the Chatmar Military Base near Shechem, this week’s focus is on that intrinsically Jewish city and the nearby settlement of Elon Moreh.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said that Iran will continue with its construction at a nuclear reactor site at Arak, notwithstanding the agreement made in Geneva on Saturday with the P5+1 nations to halt activity.
A cyber-attack, apparently launched by supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran around the world, hit United with Israel's “Stop Iran” initiative but was successfully repelled.
Immediate action is required in support of the French leadership in its determination to prevent a dangerous deal.
Ma’ale Adumim, established by 23 families and six individuals in 1975 on the second night of Hanukkah, is a beautiful, modern city in Judea that lies along the ancient route from Jerusalem to the Jordan Valley.
An Israeli charitable drive in Israel beat the Guinness World Record for donating hair to children with cancer.
Each morning, approximately 300 elderly men and women show up for work at Yad LaKashish, a non-profit institution, where they use their skills to create beautiful giftware for sale.
During the Second Temple period, the Syrian Greeks infiltrated Israel and seized power. They tried to impose their cruel Hellenistic culture on the Jewish people, defiling every holy thing and forbidding Torah learning.
Night-Sense, a new Israeli discovery in diabetes treatment, could make a life-and-death difference for sufferers around the world.
A 19-year-old Israel Defense Forces soldier from Upper Nazareth died shortly after being stabbed repeatedly in the neck and chest on Wednesday morning on a bus traveling from the northern Israeli city of Afula to Tel Aviv.
A six-person Israeli advance team headed on Sunday evening to the Philippines to aid survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, which on Friday killed at least 10,000 and left more than 600,000 homeless.
Many Jewish individuals in Israel and abroad have been reclaiming homes and neighborhoods in Jerusalem that were once Jewish but are now-predominantly Arab due to past anti-Semitic persecution.
The Israeli prime minister along with prominent government members are saying with one voice to the international community: "No to lifting sanctions on Iran."
URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Support Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders across the political spectrum who are united against the proposed deal with Iran.
Former Israeli Ambassador Alan Baker recently wrote an open letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry, explaining why Kerry’s remarks about Israel’s settlements as being ‘illegitimate’ cannot be substantiated. Below is Ambassador Baker's letter in full.
Watch Israel's Economics Minister Bennett tell the world said that Iran must be stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons at all costs. "The deal we need will remove Iran's ability to manufacture nuclear weapons. Iran has over 18,000 centrifuges, and we must dismantle them.”
Pro-Israel activist group Irish4Israel has successfully countered an attempted boycott of an Israeli product, turning it into a successful “BUYcott.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had urged Secretary of State John Kerry to reconsider the US decision to move forward with negotiations as long as Iran refuses to halt its nuclear ambitions.
In the current round of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the United States, which had forced a renewal of talks in the summer and has been moderating them, made its position crystal-clear on Wednesday. “We consider now, and have always considered, the settlements to be illegitimate,” US Secretary of State John Kerry asserted, according to widespread media reports.
Israel continues to enjoy many appearances by the world’s most famous and talented performing artists, notwithstanding incessant calls by anti-Israel activists for a boycott of the Jewish state, including violent threats against those who disregard those demands.
The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are ongoing, yet the Palestinian Authority continues to instigate violence and preach to its people that the entire Land of Israel, including the pre-1967 territory, belongs to the Arabs.
In response to Iran's race towards a nuclear bomb, United with Israel has launched an urgent campaign to keep world leaders, including President Obama, focused on the Iranian nuclear threat by imposing harsher sanctions on Iran.
Gateway to Zion, a Jewish Heritage guided tour of Israel taking place in March 2014, is under Orthodox supervision but designed to attract members of other faiths who are interested in Judaism.
The United States is set on imposing a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if the current peace negotiations fail to produce positive results, according to a report on Galei Tzahal (IDF army radio).
Cryoblation is the use of extreme cold to destroy diseased tissue. IceCure Medical, an Israeli biomedical company that develops and markets minimally invasive cryoablation therapies, is now making headway in the treatment of lung cancer.
A Syrian woman gave birth to a healthy, 3.2-kilo baby boy on Sunday at Ziv Medical Center in Safed.
More than 100 people of various cultural backgrounds gathered last week at Etz Chaim (Hebrew for “Tree of Life”) synagogue in the Givat Sharett neighborhood of Beit Shemesh to celebrate Sigd, an ancient holiday observed by Ethiopian Jews signifying their longing for Zion.
On October 7, IDF soldiers discovered the opening of a tunnel built by Gazan terrorists near Israeli civilian communities. The tunnel is approximately 18 meters underground and extends 1.7 kilometers. This is the third such tunnel found along the Gaza-Israel security fence in the past year.
In light of international forces’ previous failed attempts to maintain peace in the Jordan Valley, 70 percent of Israelis oppose an IDF withdrawal from the region. According to these statistics, the future of this region, which is one of several discussion items in the current Israel-Palestinian Authority peace talks, raises security concerns for the majority... Read more »
Officers from the Nahal Infantry Brigade convened for a week of special training at the IDF Northern Command Base in the lead up to a five-month training period for the brigade’s soldiers. From the freshest platoon commander right up to Brigade Commander Colonel Yehuda Fuchs himself, the Nahal officers learned how to teach their soldiers to fight in shrubland, underground, with explosives and deep in urban terrain.
Founded in 1995, SACH provides lifesaving surgery and other critical procedures for children from developing countries care – irrespective of race, gender, nationality, religion and financial situation – and holds pre-operative and follow-up cardiology clinics in Israel and abroad. To date, it has provided care to more than 3,000 children from Africa, South America, Europe, Asia and throughout the Middle East.
Cpl. Mustafa Tabash, 19, is bursting with pride. At the end of this month, he will become the first Bedouin tank commander in the Israel Defense Forces upon completion of the demanding Tank Commanders’ course.
The Israel Air Force attacked two underground rocket launch pads in northern Gaza Monday morning, in retaliation to the firing of rockets at Israel by Hamas-controlled Gaza. The rocket fire from Gaza is intended to terrorize Israel's civilian population.
United with Israel is taking our mission to a new level, spreading positive voices from the Holy Land throughout the world. Through “Speaking of Israel,” a podcast we produce in collaboration with IDC International Radio, we share Israeli and Jewish music, news, and live interviews, as well as Jewish wisdom. Our podcast is a... Read more »
Cognifit, an Israeli-developed brain-training application and website has created what might be termed a mental gym. The Cognifit user engages in a variety of cognitive exercises or games in order to increase cognitive awareness, memory, alertness and ability to focus.
At a recent ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel signed a Cooperation Agreement for the European Union’s Civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). The agreement opens up the soon-to-be completed Galileo global satellite system to academia and the aerospace industry in the Jewish state. On hand at the event were Yaakov Peri, Israel’s Minister of Science, Technology,... Read more »
Abraham's servant Eliezer stopped to pray for Divine assistance in his mission to find a wife for Isaac.
Hebron hosts the oldest Jewish community in the world and is the second holiest city in the Jewish religion after Jerusalem.
After four earthquakes shake Israel in one week, experts debate whether the big one is imminent.
“Kidnapping soldiers is the only way to succeed against the (Israeli) occupation,” Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s so called military wing in Gaza, declared, following the group’s admission that it had masterminded a huge terror tunnel recently discovered and subsequently destroyed by the IDF. The release in October 2011 of IDF... Read more »
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning the free world against easing economic sanctions against Iran unless its nuclear program is completely dismantled and its enriched uranium removed from the country.
Hamas leaders have called for more Israeli soldier kidnappings. The statements were made during celebrations marking the anniversary of the October 18, 2011 release of 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners in exchange for the life of Gilad Shalit. Shalit was kidnapped while he served in the IDF and held captive by Hamas for 1,934 days.
They move silently underwater, but don’t let the quiet fool you – these are sophisticated tools of war. This unseen world is the everyday landscape of the Israel Navy. A special IDF submarine course is training increasingly larger numbers of sailors to operate the Navy’s next generation of submarines.
In a deal worth up to 200 million dollars, Facebook recently acquired Israeli technology start-up Onavo. Onavo's award winning data compression apps allow users to save up to 80% in data usage, making using internet on mobiles phones much more affordable.
As the Knesset opened up its winter session, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state before he will sign any peace agreement with them.
Joint Israeli-Chinese academic venture will create major research institute for the benefit of mankind.
The recent discovery of a 1.7-kilometer terror tunnel extending from Gaza to the western Negev kibbutz of Ein Hashlosha in the Eshkol region, near the Gaza border, demonstrates the serious security threat faced by Israel and its need to remain on high alert.
Since 1948, the IDF has fought on three battlegrounds: land, sea and air. Now, in 2013, cyberspace has become the newest battlefield as hackers try to hurt Israel virtually.
As the largest non-combatant airlift in history, the Biafran operation is estimated to have saved over one million lives. What most of the world does not know is that Israeli pilots and ground crews played a critical role in this historic airlift.
Sariya Ofer, a Jordan Valley resident and retired IDF colonel, was murdered last night in a suspected terrorist attack outside his home in Brosh Habik. Ofer's wife, Monique, told security forces that at around one am she and her husband heard voices speaking in Arabic on their property. She said that when Ofer went outside to investigate, he was attacked by Arabic men wielding axes and crowbars.
The Torah is teaching us that simply believing in God, trusting Him, appreciating Him, are considered to be acts of “charity.” Let us recall, that in Abraham’s day there was nobody who believed in God!
An Israeli startup is trying to implement solar power in crowded urban places, by generating it from the windows of buildings and skyscrapers. According to Pythagoras Solar, buildings are the largest consumers of energy worldwide and are also the least energy-efficient.
Notwithstanding the profound existential challenges facing the Jewish state and the free world and a seeming lack of will on the part of most Western nations to combat these threats, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu concluded his address at the “Israel Towards 2020 Conference” at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University with hope and determination.
Czech President Milos Zeman recently reinforced country's support of Israel’s fight against terror and even proposed relocation of their embassy to Jerusalem.
Israel is negotiating with several Arab Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, in order to jointly address the problems associated with Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Israeli doctors covertly enter Syria with one goal in mind: saving Syrian civilian lives in danger.
The Jewish people's miraculous survival and triumph over baseless hatred and destruction are defined by just three words: Am Yisrael Chai! Which means the People (Am), of Israel (Yisrael), live (chai)!
A survey published in Israel Hayom finds that 62% of Israeli citizens over the age of 65 are happy with their financial situation.
Despite claims that East Jerusalem should belong to a future Palestinian state, East Jerusalemites are increasingly becoming a pivotal part of Israeli society, preferring to remain part of the Jewish state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Wednesday’s UN General Assembly urged the world to insist on tough negotiations that ensure Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon — while cautioning against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s ‘charm offensive,’ which he described as a strategy carried out to woo the West at the behest of the country’s... Read more »
Yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the 68th United Nations General Assembly telling the world that Iran's nuclear threat was a clear and present danger and that “If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone, and in standing alone Israel will know that we will be defending many many others.” PM Netanyahu is the not first Jew to declare the willingness of the People of Israel to be different from the rest of the world.
"If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone. Yet in standing alone, Israel will know that we will be defending many, many others,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared at the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday afternoon, warning the international community against falling for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s “ruse.”
For over a decade, Israeli non-profit 'Ayalim' has been establishing youth villages in impoverished towns and cities across Israel in order to revitalize and raise the standard of living of these struggling areas.
Israel for Africa (IFA) is non-profit organization sharing the knowledge and technological advances achieved in Israel to promote sustainable agriculture and self-empowerment in Africa.
While Jewish activists were promoting equal rights to the Temple Mount for people of all faiths, Palestinian leaders stirred up violence against Israel due to a substantial increase of late in the number of Jewish visitors to the site.
According to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his visit to the United Nations General Assembly is not just political, it is also spiritual. In 1984, when PM Netanyahu was appointed Israel's ambassador to the United Nations he had a meeting with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in which he was given a mission which PM Netanyahu says “I have tried to do ever since."
Ali Mansouri, aka Alex Mans, 55, was arrested in Israel on September 11 on suspicion of attempting to establish front companies as cover for espionage and terrorist activities on behalf of the Iranian regime.
Already last Tuesday, following Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech at the UN, Netanyahu warned that Iran’s policy was to “talk and buy time in order to promote the ability of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.”
In a recent interview with the BBC, Israel's Minister of the Economy, Naftali Bennett responded to Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani's speech, at last week's General Assembly of the UN, by saying that “soft words in New York” won't stop Iran's nuclear enrichment program.
Linda Olmert, executive director of Eretz Nehederet – a staunchly Zionist not-for-profit organization celebrating the fact that Israel is truly a “wonderful country,” as its name in Hebrew denotes – is proud of her organization’s most recent initiative: a “well-deserved” trip throughout the country for young men and women upon completion of military service.
It’s a classic scene. Patrick Dempsey’s character Dr. Derek Shepherd is performing an emergency intubation on a patient who can’t breathe. The procedure, which involves inserting a tube into a person’s respiratory system, is both unpleasant and risky. If this scene were being filmed today, Dr. Shepherd would probably be using a system developed by... Read more »
An IDF and ISA joint operation led to the discovery of the body of a murdered IDF soldier. The murderer confessed to having planned to use the body to bargain for the release of his brother imprisoned for involvement in multiple terror attacks.
Israeli doctors have established the basis for developing a new, more effective treatment for cancer using a protein called ARTS.
With the Jewish New Year upon us, now is the opportune time to reflect upon the accomplishments of United with Israel and what we can look forward to for next year.
At organizations such as Intel and the Technion, Israeli women are advancing high-tech innovation worldwide.
Archaeologists excavating ruins next to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, discovered golden treasures that clearly demonstrate ancient Jewish presence in the area. The treasures included two bundles containing thirty-six gold coins, gold and silver jewelry, and a gold medallion with the menorah symbol etched into it.
Haifa's Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center promotes peace and the human rights of women in the Palestinian, Israeli Arab, and Druze communities.
Speaking at the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism, Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, addressed Israel's security challenges.
The miracles experienced in Israel during the Gulf war are too numerous to mention. The newspapers were filled with images of people buried in rubble, yet walking away without a scratch. In all, 39 missiles fell – many in heavily populated areas – causing only one death. By contrast, one scud missile fell on a U.S. Army barrack in Saudi Arabia, killing tens of U.S. soldiers.
The Jewish connection to the Temple Mount as a sacred Jewish holy site has existed since ancient times.
Abu Adnan, a Syrian Rebel group leader, praised Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel's comments regarding the recent chemical attack in Syria.
Shana Tova! Check out our great selection of articles about Rosh Hashana - the Jewish New Year. Learn all about the Shofar and lots of other interesting things about the first Jewish holiday of the year. Shana Tova!
Simply put, God commanded Jews to hear the shofar, the blasts of which shake Jews out their spiritual slumber, reconnecting their souls to the Source of all life.
Despite widespread support for the end of Mohamed Morsi's short-lived reign, under which the plight of Egypt's tiny Jewish community worsened, improvements remain scarce since his demise.
OneFamily, Israel’s only national organization dedicated solely to rehabilitation of terror victims and their families, recently hosted a gala opening event for a new art exhibit and book at Tel Aviv’s Old Railway Station both entitled “Longing for a Hug”