by staff | Sep 21, 2023 | Israel
(JNS) — The Israel Land Authority, which manages the country’s public lands, on Wednesday approved “unprecedented” discounts on residential land in the Negev and Galilee, the first step in a government plan to settle the sparsely populated regions. The decision raised...
by staff | Sep 21, 2023 | Israel
(JNS) — Nearly 50,000 Jews ascended the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the Hebrew year 5783, according to the Beyadenu movement, a Temple Mount activist group that monitors Jewish visits to Judaism’s holiest site. A total of 49,000 Jews went up to the Mount...
by staff | Sep 21, 2023 | Israel
(JNS) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia could not come at the expense of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Speaking on the “Pod Save the World” podcast,...
by staff | Sep 21, 2023 | Israel
(JNS) — A tense exchange took place between Israel’s High Court of Justice and member of Knesset Simcha Rothman during Tuesday’s hearing on the “reasonableness law” as the latter told the court it had no right to intervene in the law, and that the hearing...
by staff | Sep 14, 2023 | Israel
(JNS) — Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have successfully created complete synthetic models of human embryos using laboratory-grown stem cells, according to an official release from the Institute. The synthetic embryos were nurtured outside the...
by staff | Sep 14, 2023 | Israel
(JNS) — An Israeli Border Police officer was wounded during a counterterrorism operation in Judea early Thursday, the IDF said. The policeman was transported to a hospital after suffering light injuries while conducting an arrest raid in the Dheisheh refugee...
