Since the failure of the current peace process rockets are fired from Gaza in constant barrages. It intensified after Israel started operation “Brother’s Keeper” to find the three kidnapped teenagers. Sadly, only their bodies were found after two weeks. The already tense situation turned ugly when a Palestinian teenager was killed in East Jerusalem on […]
So much has happened in one week that it has become a challenge to keep up with the latest developments. On Friday Russia transported fighter jets by cargo planes to Iraq to fight the Islamist group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). During the same week the United States sent drones to Iraq […]
It is ten days since the capture of the three Israeli teenagers. World leaders and even the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned this act of terror. In South Africa the Jewish communities gather at synagogues for prayer vigils, praying for the save return of the captured teenagers. On Sunday, 22 June 2014 a Christian […]
In Nahum 1 in the Bible we read about the burden of Nineveh. This week this ancient city or region was again in the news. The Islamist group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS, captured the cities of Mosul and Tikrit which is in the ancient region of Nineveh. […]
Landing on the Moon Through its Lunar X contest, Google is offering a total of $30 million in prizes in a competition to launch a robotic spacecraft and land it on the Moon, where it must send back special images and other data. The Israeli company SpacelL is confident that its 103 kilogram lunar lander […]
In the same week in which I wrote about the worldwide rise in anti-Semitism, four Jewish people were killed at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 24 May 2014. It is even more tragic that it took place on the Jewish holy day of Shabbat. Emanuel and Miriam Riva, a couple in their […]
Another description for anti-Semitism is Jew hatred. Sadly, it is not an isolated phenomenon, and it can be traced worldwide. The Anti-Defamation League’s largest-ever worldwide survey of anti-Semitic attitudes was released on Tuesday 13 May 2014. The survey was overseen by First International Resources and conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research. Among the survey’s key […]
The war in Syria is moving closer to Israel. During this weekend, the Israel Defense Forces declared the area around the Golan Heights, the Quneitra crossing a closed military zone, in the wake of fighting in Syria. On Sunday 11 May, activists said that an Al-Qaida splinter group had wrested control of key parts of […]
Tuesday, May 6 is Israel Independence Day or known by Jewish people as Yom HaAtzmaut. It is a happy celebration day for families and friends in which the independence of Israel is celebrated. On 6 May 1948, the Jewish people got their own independent country and became a nation recognized by the world after the […]
Every year the world remembers the victims of the Holocaust. Remembrance services will be held on 28 April this year. It is quite appropriate that the results of a new survey about the rise of anti-Semitism were released just before Holocaust Remembrance Day. The survey confirmed a very disturbing development, namely the drastic rise of […]