Israel

Alleged crime boss Michael Mor and 32 other suspected Israeli mafia members were arrested last Saturday night following a yearlong undercover police investigation into Israel’s criminal underworld.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party for consistently praising the Palestinian terrorist group Black September’s killing of 11 Israeli team members at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Israel’s High Court of Justice has criticized the Israeli government over its stance on the issue of egalitarian prayer services at the Western Wall.

Sara Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, is expected to be indicted for allegations of improper behavior and misuse of $112,000 in state funds.

An American diplomatic delegation reportedly informed Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas last week that a freeze of Israeli construction in the disputed territories would topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

While attending a special ceremony Monday evening marking 50 years since the Six-Day War and Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to never again “uproot” settlements.

The Israeli High Court has issued a temporary freeze on the controversial settlement law that allowed for certain Jewish outposts built on Palestinian-owned land to be retroactively legalized.

The Israeli Embassy in Cairo is expected to resume routine activities in the near future after six years of only partial operations, Israeli officials said last week.

Rasmea Odeh, a 69-year-old convicted Palestinian terrorist, had her U.S. citizenship revoked by a federal court last week. She will be deported from the U.S. to her native country of Jordan.

The highly anticipated Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway embarked on its maiden voyage Sunday, in the first successful test run of the new rail link connecting the major Israeli cities, Israel’s Channel 2 reported.

Some 3,000 demonstrators gathered in Petah Tikva’s Goren Square near the home of Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit last week to protest what they view as slow progress in the multiple corruption cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday Israel will welcome President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and international negotiations representative Jason Greenblatt later this month for continued discussions in renewed U.S.-led peace efforts.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week approved the Taylor Force Act in a major step for legislation that seeks to cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if the PA continues its payments to terrorists and their families.

Senegal and Guinea, two Muslim-majority West African nations, will be sending their first-ever full-time ambassadors to Israel next week.

The delegations are facilitated by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) and are primarily comprised of U.S. lawmakers in their first term.

Five Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem were indicted earlier this week on charges of incitement to terrorism over actions including Facebook posts lauding the July 14 terror attack that killed two Israeli policemen near the Temple Mount.

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) has launched a fundraising initiative to aid Christians and other persecuted minorities in the Middle East who have been targeted by Islamic terrorists.

Thousands of supporters of a conservative Turkish political party held rallies in Istanbul Sunday to protest Israel’s now-removed bolstered security measures at the Temple Mount.

The American cybersecurity company CyberReadyUSA this week announced a new partnership with the Israel Electric Company (IEC) to implement Israeli cyber defense technology for thwarting cyberattacks in America.

Israel decided Monday to remove the metal detectors at the Temple Mount, which had been installed following the recent terror attack that killed two Israeli policemen near the holy site, in favor of “security measures based on advanced technologies.”

Israeli high school students working in conjunction with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed an “impressively large” 2,700-year-old ancient water reservoir near Rosh Ha-Ayin in central Israel that dates to the period around the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel in 720 B.C.E., when the Assyrian empire dominated the region.

The East Valley JCC (EVJCC) has reached its goal of raising $7,500 for a matching grant, as the repairs continue in the organization’s building after a pipe burst over Memorial Day weekend.

Two nonprofit organizations that serve the Valley’s Jewish community recently received grants to support some of their important programs.

Strengthening the relationship between Israeli Jews and Diaspora Jews not only makes for a stronger Israel, but it also creates stronger local communities and makes a powerful impact on Jewish identity.