Ahead of Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, exchanged warm greetings on social media, The Algemeiner reported Tuesday. Netanyahu wrote on Twitter in Hindi: “On behalf of the people of Israel, I would like to wish my dear...

Four thousand college students from 60 countries gathered in Tel Aviv in October for the latest mass singalong sponsored by the social music project, Koolulam. The event, at Ganei Yehoshua, was attended by GA 2018 participants, graduates of MASA programs, MASA CEO Liran Avisar Ben Horin, Jewish Agency Chairman Yitzchak...

A report released by the Tourism Ministry on Monday revealed that Israel’s tourism industry continues to break records with more tourists visiting the Jewish State in October 2018 than ever before, totaling about 486,000 registered entries to the country. Globes reported that this represents a 19% increase over April 2018...

Jason Greenblatt, the administration’s Special Representative for International Negotiations hailed the Regional Tracks for Peace initiative promoted by Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz at a regional transportation event hosted by Oman, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Katz presented his plan at World Congress of the International Road Transport Union held in Muscat,...

With renewed sanctions imposed on it by the United States, Iran may be poised to increase the frequency and destructiveness of its cyber-attacks, two experts warned in a paper published Tuesday by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). Annie Fixler, a policy analyst at FDD, and Frank Cilluffo, the director...

Nadav Argaman, the chief of Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet, told a Knesset committee that his organization prevented some 480 terror attacks during 2018, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The attacks, which were described as “substantial,” included 280 planned shootings, 101 so-called “close” attacks such as car rammings and...

Police in France are investigating two separate assaults on Jewish teenagers in the Paris area during the last week as possible hate crimes, The Algemeiner reported on Monday. The first incident occurred last Tuesday in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris with a sizable Jewish community. A young schoolgirl wearing the...

Jerusalem is the global flagship location for the seventh annual worldwide Dance for Kindness sponsored by Life Vest Inside to kick off World Kindness Day on November 13. The November 11 event will feature a global freeze mob/flash mob at 8pm local time at The First Station (registration is at 4, rehearsal at 5,...

On Monday, the United States completed “its full snapback of sanctions on Iran,” bringing to bear the “heaviest economic pressure ever” against the Islamic Republic, in the hope that will “change the behavior of Ayatollah Khamenei, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin wrote in an op-ed...

On the last Saturday in October, Robert Bowers shot and killed eleven members of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, physically injured six other people, including law enforcement officers, and created distress and turmoil for the entire American Jewish community. He’s been indicted in federal court on 44 counts, and may face...