Jordan said Tuesday that 17 international firms have launched tenders for the construction of a canal linking the Red Sea to the shrinking Dead Sea.
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end. – Exodus 34:22
Jewish priests bring the Omer offering in preparation for the Third Temple. (Adam Propp)
On Monday, a reenactment of a special Temple service was held in Jerusalem on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade. To a casual observer, it resembled a country fair. Families gathered for a pleasant afternoon, children gawked at displays of goats and produce, while the main event, a bake-off, featured two very unusual looking loaves of bread. It became clear this was not your normal gathering of farmers when bearded men in flowing white robes began to blow on long silver trumpets. Continue reading
(TRUNEWS) Dr. Bill Warner, the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI), has compiled one hundred verses from the Qur’an — referred to as “Sword Verses” — and provided context according to the Tafsir Ibn Kathir, an accepted scholars guide for the Qur’an. Continue reading
A reflection on the “what-might-have-beens”.
Soldiers at the Western Wall in 1967.
This May, Israel celebrated its 68th year of independent statehood. On June 5th, Israel commemorated the 49th anniversary of the Six Day War, in which it liberated the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old city, including the Western Wall. The Etzion Bloc, Jewish property seized by Jordan’s Arab Legion and held for 19 years was also liberated. Continue reading
PA head exposed claiming ‘Palestinians invented an alphabet here 6,000 years ago’ – as his adviser claims 5,000 years of ‘history.’
Archaeological evidence has long disproved any historical claims of Palestinian peoplehood, but the facts did not deter Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas from spuriously claiming Palestinians were in Israel from before the Biblical Abraham. Continue reading
From gaining strategic depth in the north and south to taking back the holiest sites in Judaism from Jordanian control, the generals who led the battles describe how this war was won against all odds. Continue reading
“All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.” (1 Chronicles 12:38)
Chief Military Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Western Wall in 1967 shortly after the liberation of Jerusalem. (Photo: Wiki Commons)
Many know the story of Rabbi Shlomo Goren arriving at the Western Wall flanked by IDF troops in the 1967 Six Day War on the 28th of Iyyar in the Hebrew calendar. Continue reading
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Islamic Jihad ‘cubs’ demonstrate killing of IDF soldiers at Gaza kindergarten Continue reading
Hamas’s entry to Palestinian politics could have been a watershed moment.
Palestinians Hamas supporters take part in a rally ahead of the 27th anniversary of the movement founding, in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. (photo credit:REUTERS)
Hamas swept into power in the Palestinian Authority via the ballot box in 2006 by promising to root out corruption and secure Palestinian rights. A year later, Hamas violently expelled the Palestinian Authority from Gaza, which the terrorist group has illegitimately – and disastrously – ruled since. A decade of Hamas’s aggression and mismanagement has plunged Gazans into misery and hurled the dream of Palestinian statehood backward. Continue reading
Senior Iranian military commander threatens to “raze the Zionist regime” after Khamenei calls to continue building missile arsenal.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers Reuters
A senior Iranian military commander has threatened Israel and claimed that his country can destroy the Jewish state “in less than eight minutes”. Continue reading