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April 19, 2017 at 6:48 pm
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A nearly nonexistent inflation rate and low unemployment have helped propel Israel to the No. 3 spot on a list of the world's most stable and promising economies for 2016 published by the Bloomberg financial news agency.
The list named Hong Kong as the most stable economy in 2016, followed by South Korea. Denmark, Taiwan, Iceland, Japan, Switzerland, Singapore and Thailand followed Israel to round out the top 10 in the rankings.
The countries ranked lowest for stability in 2016 included Croatia, Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine, Turkey, Greece, Argentina, South Africa and Venezuela.
Israel's economy continues to perform well by international standards. In January, Israel cracked the top 10 on the 2017 Bloomberg Innovation In...
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April 19, 2017 at 6:44 pm
A Montana Jewish woman is suing the founder of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, for allegedly orchestrating a “campaign of terror” that led to thousands of anonymous online trolls targeting her and her family.
According to the federal lawsuit, a barrage of emails, phone calls, texts and social media comments were directed against Tanya Gersh and her family, including her 12-year-old son, with threats, slurs and Holocaust references, The Associated Press reported.
The campaign against Gersh began last December after the founder of the Daily Stormer, Andrew Anglin, published the family’s personal information online, including her son’s Twitter handle and photo. Anglin accused Gersh and other Jewish residents of the Montana city of Whitefish of engaging in an &...
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April 19, 2017 at 6:35 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday defended his government’s actions during Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, in the aftermath of a scathing report on the military operation by Israeli State Comptroller Yosef Shapira.
A special Knesset committee hearing was convened Wednesday to question Netanyahu on the 50-day summer war with the Gaza-ruling terror group Hamas. More than 70 Israelis, including more than 60 soldiers, were killed during the conflict.
“We threatened Hamas until Hamas’s military begged its foreign political leadership to agree to a cease-fire and told them, ‘We can’t continue anymore!’” Netanyahu said.
The prime minister also claimed the deterrence created by Israel’s mil...
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April 19, 2017 at 6:35 pm
Newly released United Nations documents reveal that the Allied powers knew about the Jewish Holocaust carried out by Hitler’s Nazi regime at least two-and-a-half years earlier than previously thought.
As early as December 1942, the United States, the United Kingdom and the former Soviet Union were aware that at least two millions Jews were massacred by the Nazi regime, according to the British media outlet The Independent. And an additional five million Jews were at risk of being murdered.
Despite knowing about the ongoing Jewish Holocaust, the Allied powers did little to intervene.
“The major powers commented [on the mass murder of Jews] two-and-a-half years before it is generally assumed. It was assumed they learned this when they discovered the concentrat...
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April 19, 2017 at 6:34 pm
The Palestinian Federation of Chile (PFC) warned the Chilean Jewish community Monday not to “play with fire” following Israel’s denial of entry to Anuar Majluf, PFC’s executive director and a prominent BDS activist.
Majluf works to undermine economic relations between Israel and Chile. He was purportedly attempting to visit Israel to lead an Easter pilgrimage.
“The Chilean government should act reciprocally and refuse entry to Israeli citizens who come as tourists to Chile,” Majluf said after he was denied entry.
Israel’s move falls in line with the Israeli Knesset’s recent approval of a bill forbidding BDS activists from entering the Jewish state.
“Anuar Majluf is a major boycott activist whose organization is trying to...
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April 19, 2017 at 6:24 pm
Jewish student leaders at the Claremont Colleges told The Algemeiner they felt “ambushed” by an unexpected vote on a pro-boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) motion in the student senate on Sunday, which was Passover’s sixth day and Easter.
Members of the Claremont Progressive Israel Alliance (CPIA) said Wednesday that the vote at Pitzer College — one of five California-based undergraduate institutions included in the Claremont consortium — “directly negated” the senate’s values of free speech, dialogue and representative governance by passing the amendment to the budget by-laws on a day when many Jewish and Christian students involved in the Israel issue were off-campus celebrating their respective holi...
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April 19, 2017 at 6:24 pm
As a new antisemitism scandal rocked the UK’s national umbrella student group last week, a Jewish representative — in a interview with The Algemeiner — called for a major shakeup of the organization.
Hannah Kaufman — a delegate with the National Union of Students (NUS) and president of the Jewish Society at the London School of Economics — said “more than some general apology” was necessary after it was revealed last Wednesday that a candidate running for a top leadership position in the upcoming NUS elections had posted comments on social media suggesting Jews are stingy and charging Israel with “ethnic cleansing.”
“Everyone agrees that it’s unacceptable, but that hasn’t stopped the ong...
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April 19, 2017 at 6:18 pm
Senior IDF officer refers to military situation in various sectors. 'No soldier serves in mixed gender units against his will.'
A senior IDF officer said in a discussion with military correspondents that despite the attack in Syria last month and the diplomatic fallout over it with Russia, security coordination between Israel and Russia is very good. Once every fortnight, he says, the head of the operations branch in the IDF visits Russia to coordinate moves and, similarly, his Russian counterpart visits Israel to coordinate.
"IDF operational capability in Syria has not changed but we do not intend acting overtly there with all the bodies and countries involved in warfare. We have set ourselves a number of goals: no overt involvement, no toleration of Hezbollah arms transfe...
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April 19, 2017 at 6:18 pm
French Jews are apprehensive and have no favorite candidate among the 11 running in the first round of their country’s presidential election on Sunday, a number of community figures told The Algemeiner this week.
One candidate who most French Jews will not be voting for, is Marine Le Pen — the head of the far-right National Front party who polls show will likely be one of the two contenders to advance to the election’s final round on May 7.
According to Robert Ejnes — the executive director of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions — the Jewish vote will be largely divided between Francois Fillon (of the center-right Republican party), Emmanuel Macron (a centrist independent) and, to a lesser extent, Benoit Hamon (of the center-le...
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April 19, 2017 at 6:00 pm
The White House notified the U.S. Congress Tuesday that Iran is complying with the 2015 nuclear accord negotiated by former President Barack Obama, and that sanctions relief would be extended to Iran in return for the curbing of its nuclear program.
Yet the U.S. Department of State maintained that an interagency review of the Iran deal was being conducted due to concerns regarding the Islamic Republic’s continued role as a state sponsor of terrorism.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson raised the concerns in a letter sent to Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) Tuesday, alerting Congress to an effort led by President Donald Trump to evaluate whether the continued lifting of sanctions on Iran would be in America’s national security interests. ...
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April 19, 2017 at 5:57 pm
President Donald Trump will welcome Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next month.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer announced Wednesday that the visit is scheduled for May 3.
The two leaders are expected to address options for pursuing peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Trump broke with longtime U.S. policy in February when he withheld clear support for an independent Palestine, saying he could endorse a one-nation solution to the conflict.
During a press conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said, “I’m looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like.”
But Trump also has asked Israel to “hold off” on Jewish settlement construction in territory the Palestinians claim for th...
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April 19, 2017 at 5:57 pm
In a usual New York Times distortion of facts, an Op-ed on convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences for his actions, neglected to site his terrorist past. The opinion piece spoke of the hunger strike being led by Barghouti in prison, and only after an international outcry did the newspaper’s editor feel the need to apologize for neglecting to mention he was convicted of acts of terror and serving life sentences.
In his comment on the Times Op-ed, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated, “I read, on Sunday, the article in the New York Times that presents arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti as a ‘parliamentarian and leader’. The paper recanted after we pointed it out to them. Calling Barghouti a ‘political leader’ is like...
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April 19, 2017 at 5:50 pm
A Georgia congressional election is headed to a high-stakes runoff that’s shaping up as a referendum on President Donald Trump ahead of crucial midterm elections next year.
Democrat Jon Ossoff, a little-known 30-year-old former congressional staffer, fell a few percentage points shy of an outright victory Tuesday amid an 18-candidate scramble in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. His strong showing in the conservative district, driven by eye-popping fundraising numbers from out-of-state donors, underscored Democrats’ eagerness to get a win against Trump as they strive to take back House control in 2018.
Republican Karen Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, finished a distant second in the crowded field, qualifying for the June 20 runoff.
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April 19, 2017 at 5:43 pm
An IDF court has acquitted PA (Palestinian Authority) resident Nawaf Fad of murder on Tuesday, 22 Nissan 5777. The suspect was charged with the murder of Ben-Yosef Livnat, H'yd, at Kever Yosef in Shechem in 2011, but the court ruled there was reasonable doubt of his guilt, finding him guilty only of obstructing justice and tampering with evidence. A number of others were wounded in the fatal attack.
PA (Palestinian Authority) police fired at a Jewish vehicle heading to the kever in the PA-occupied city. Four PA police were later arrested following the fatal attack. They explained the occupants of the vehicle were instructed not to proceed and that is why they opened fire, since they did not adhere the warning.
In 2013, the Shin Bet apprehended three of the policemen, after the PA re...
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April 19, 2017 at 5:42 pm
On the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Warsaw Jewish community buries the remains of damaged pre-war Torah scrolls.
Warsaw's Jewish community on Wednesday held a burial of damaged Torah scrolls in the Polish capital, an ancient ritual that some believe had not been carried out since the war.
Poland's chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich said the meaning of the ceremony was "about remembering that for us the Torah scroll is so important, is so holy, that when it's no longer usable we bury it as if it was a human being." The community buried fragments of the pre-war scrolls inside two enormousclay jars at the city's Jewish cemetery on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Around 7,000 Jews died in the month-long uprisi...
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April 19, 2017 at 5:32 pm
Fox News Channel’s parent company fired Bill O’Reilly on Wednesday following an investigation into harassment allegations, bringing a stunning end to cable news’ most popular program and one that came to define the bravado of his network over 20 years.
O’Reilly lost his job on the same day he was photographed in Rome shaking the hand of Pope Francis.
The downfall of Fox’s most popular — and most lucrative — personality began with an April 2 report in The New York Times that five women had been paid a total of $13 million after making harassment allegations against O’Reilly, who has denied any wrongdoing. Dozens of his show’s advertisers fled within days, even though O’Reilly’s viewership increased.
O’Reilly’s ...
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April 19, 2017 at 5:32 pm
Border police on Tuesday, 22 Nissan arrested two Arabs for firebomb attacks on the Tunnel Highway which connects southern Jerusalem to Gush Etzion. The two threw firebombs at a border police jeep from a village overlooking the highway. The firebombs missed the intended target.
Later that day, towards evening, border police entered the PA (Palestinian Authority) village and apprehended the two, who had the other firebombs in their possession, ready for use. The suspects are minors, residents of the PA.
