Known as “Captain Ella,” Ella Waweya from Qalansawe had to conceal her service from her family when she joined the military. By Etgar Lefkovits, JNS.org She is a Muslim Arab woman. She’s an iconoclast and a pioneer. An army officer who has received both the President’s Award of Excellence and that of the minister of... Read more »

Activists carry out a social experiment in Cairo to see how locals would react to a Jewish man asking for directions to a nearby synagogue. The result is revealing and shocking.