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3 days ago | 
jns.org | Etgar Lefkovits
(June 5, 2025 / JNS)Several months after being evacuated from her home in an agricultural community near the border with Gaza, Israeli schoolteacher Tamar Eyal went back to her abandoned school which had been turned into a military base to recover the school textbooks that the teachers had prepared for their pupils long before the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
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6 days ago | 
jns.org | Etgar Lefkovits
(June 1, 2025 / JNS)El Al plans to launch direct flights from Tel Aviv to Buenos Aires in a renewed foray to South America, Argentina’s ambassador to Israel said on Friday. An official announcement of the long-awaited move will be made during Argentine President Javiel Milei’s June 9-11 visit to Israel, Ambassador Axel Wahnish wrote on X. The visit will be the second in as many years for the Argentine leader, who has emerged as one of Israel’s strongest supporters around the globe.
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1 week ago | 
jns.org | Etgar Lefkovits
(June 1, 2025 / JNS)United Airlines will resume flights to Israel this Thursday, accelerating its return to Tel Aviv following rival Delta’s decision to relaunch service to the country. The Chicago-based carrier announced Friday that it will restart daily nonstop service between its Newark hub and Tel Aviv this Thursday, with two daily flights scheduled to begin June 5.
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1 week ago | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Etgar Lefkovits
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1 week ago | 
columbusjewishnews.com | Etgar Lefkovits
United Airlines will resume flights to Israel this Thursday, accelerating its return to Tel Aviv following rival Delta’s decision to relaunch service to the country. The Chicago-based carrier announced Friday that it will restart daily nonstop service between its Newark hub and Tel Aviv this Thursday, with two daily flights scheduled to begin June 6.
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1 week ago | 
jns.org | Etgar Lefkovits
(May 29, 2025 / JNS)A group of Czech legislators marked Jerusalem Day on Wednesday with a special event in the Czech parliament. The fifth annual parliamentary event marking the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War comes amid ever-growing criticism of Israel in European capitals over the 20-month old war against Hamas in Gaza. France, Britain, Germany and Italy have demanded an immediate end to the fighting in light of the humanitarian situation in the coastal strip.
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1 week ago | 
jns.org | Etgar Lefkovits
(May 28, 2025 / JNS)Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar warned on Tuesday that a foreign arms embargo against Israel amid a multi-front war would lead to “another Holocaust.”His stark comments came during an international conference on antisemitism in Jerusalem, following threats from several European leaders to impose sanctions—including an arms embargo—over Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
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1 week ago | 
thejewishstar.com | Etgar Lefkovits
KFAR ADUMIM, Israel — It was four decades ago that three childhood friends from New Jersey who had immigrated to Israel heard of a young Jerusalem rabbinical student who was looking for scuba divers who could help him find snails off the Mediterranean coast. The three young men knew nothing about snails or the centuries-old search for the biblical blue known as tekhelet, but it was an adventure that would change their lives.
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1 week ago | 
jns.org | Etgar Lefkovits
(May 27, 2025 / JNS)European leaders who have recently criticized Israel over its war against Hamas in Gaza have succumbed to political pressure fueled by a nefarious international media campaign against the Jewish state, Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
jns.org | Etgar Lefkovits
(May 27, 2025 / JNS)French textbooks detail Jewish history but provide superficial coverage of both the collaborationist Vichy regime during the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism in France, a study published on Tuesday found. While Jewish history, Israel, the Holocaust and antisemitism are taught in French textbooks used in school, “gaps remain” in the educational system on Jewish-related topics, the London-based IMPACT-se watchdog found.
