Israel in the World

Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, which honors those deported to Nazi concentration camps, in Paris. Photo by Menachem Wecker. (JNS) — After a group of far-left members of France’s National Assembly put forward a measure labeling Israel an […]

Ayoob Kara, former Knesset member and current Israeli Minister of Communications, in 2016. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90. by Avi Kumar (JNS) — Ayoob Kara’s Dubai office contains framed photos of him talking with former President Donald Trump and with Pope […]

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan lights a memorial candle for Israel’s fallen soldiers and those killed in terror attacks at the United Nations in New York on April 25, 2023. Source: Screenshot. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — […]

A view of Port Moresby “Town” from Touaguba Hill. MSchlauch via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — The Oceana nation of Papua New Guinea will open its first embassy in Israel in Jerusalem this year, Israel’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs announced on […]

Volunteers test patients for short- and near-sightedness. Photo by Elisa Hartstein. by Andrew Jose (JNS) — When Israeli ophthalmologist Morris Hartstein visited Gondar in 2014 for a family volunteering trip, he did not know he would start an initiative that […]

Israeli parliamentarian Sharren Haskel cuts her hair in solidarity with Iranian women protesting state-sanctioned oppression, at the annual Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem on October 11, 2022. Credit: Maayan Hoffman. by Maayan Hoffman (JNS) — Israeli lawmaker Sharren Haskel on […]

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on June 2, 2022. Credit: Virender Singh. by Israel Kasnett (JNS) — Under pressure from Washington, Israel appears to be slowly withdrawing from its business relationship […]

Doctors at the Israeli field hospital in western Ukraine evaluate MRI images in the morning light. Photo by Naama Frank Azriel, via Israel21c By Richard Friedman  With the recent approach of Passover, a holiday that commemorates the biblical exodus of […]

Food items were delivered on behalf of MASHAV Israel to local NGOs working with Ukrainian refugees on the Moldova-Ukraine border. Source: Twitter. by Ambassador Daniel Meron The Jewish sages teach us that Abraham’s tent was open in all four directions […]

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Oct. 22, 2021. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO. by Israel Kasnett (JNS) — Israel could expect to see the arrival of a total of 15,000 Ukrainians by […]