Two teams in Israel lining up. Photo Credit: Erel Taly.
Thanks in large part to the efforts of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, today in Israel, more than 2,000 men, women and youth participate in seven different leagues of flag and tackle football.
Members of TIPH, or Temporary International Presence speak with Israeli soldier outside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on August 8, 2018. Credit: by Gershon Elinson/Flash90
Advocates praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s move to end the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron, or TIPH, which they contend stoked hostilities and friction between Jewish and Arab residents.
View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90
Experts and former Israeli politicians who contend that the U.N. agency is perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by encouraging incitement are urging the Israeli government to revoke permits for schools in Jerusalem under UNRWA’s auspicious.
View of Route 4370, northeast of Jerusalem, which connects the Geva Binyamin area to Route 1, and separates vehicles of Israeli citizens and non-citizens, Jan. 10, 2019. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
What critics of the project failed to mention is that the motorists themselves, both Jews and Arabs alike, are praising the new Eastern Ring road, Route 4370, as being a game-changer in alleviating the recurrent traffic jams in the area.
Photo: Staff with Nevet, an organization based in Ra’anana, Israel, prepare breakfast sandwiches for children in need throughout the country. January 2019. Credit: Omri Shapira.
When is the last time you did something so mundane, like making a sandwich, and took the time to realize that those two slices of bread with some fillings and condiments in-between could be a tool towards breaking the cycle of poverty?
Photo: Moshe Saltzman (left) and Rashi Kuhr, founders of the project. Credit: Courtesy
His goal of the nonprofit Israel Audiobook Project is to model it after the Harold Grinspoon Foundation’s PJ Library, a U.S.-based organization that sends out free books and music to Jewish (and interfaith) families on a monthly basis.
Photo: The separation wall runs along the Palestinian refugee camp, Shuafat, separating it from the Jewish town of Pisgat Ze’ev, near Jerusalem, on Jan. 29, 2014. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash 90.
A growing chorus of experts disputes the notion that the security barrier in Judea and Samaria has been effective in preventing terrorism, while pointing to the barrier instead being used as a political tool to divide the land.
Daniel Pipes delivering his remarks at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Nov. 27, 2018. Credit: Josh Hasten
Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, explains his “Victory” initiative, and how such an acknowledgement is crucial for Arab states (and the Jewish state) to progress economically, developmentally and globally.
U.S. and Israeli first responders gather around U.S. Ambassador David Friedman at an ASTI dinner and awards ceremony held in their honor. Credit: Binyamin Ben Kahlon
Several times a year, groups of Americans from various emergency agencies arrive to spend a week in classroom training and fieldwork alongside their Israeli counterparts. Then they take their new skills back home.
Photo: An ALEH volunteer spends time with a child with disabilities. Credit: ALEH: Advancement and Rehabilitation of Children with Complex Disabilities.
The construction of a new community named “Daniel” is being built in collaboration with Merhavim; the Israeli Ministry of Construction and Housing; and ALEH, Israel’s network of care for children with severe complex disabilities.