Twenty Facts about Israel and the Middle East Jewish World Review May 21, 2002 / 10 Sivan, 5762By Bill Bennett, Jack Kemp, and Jeane Kirkpatrick | The world’s attention has been focused on the Middle East. We are confronted daily with scenes of carnage and destruction. Can we understand such violence? Yes, but only if we come to the situation with a solid grounding in the facts of the...
Identities of Palestinians killed in most recent escalation May 7, 2019
Identities of Palestinians killed in most recent escalation (May 7, 2019)
23 killed:
8 were PIJ operatives
5 were Fatah operatives
2 were Hamas operatives
1 was a PFLP operative
6 were civilians
Identities of the Palestinians killed in the most recent round of escalation (Initial report, updated to May 7, 2019)
2,000-year-old rare coins discovered in Jerusalem cave
During a renewed excavation at near the Temple Mount, archaeologists unearthed dozens of bronze coins from the Jewish revolt against Rome. Via Israel21C.org: A trove of rare bronze coins, the last remnants of a four-year Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire, has been discovered in a cave near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. During the digs at the Ophel excavation site, led by Hebrew University...
Farhud: The Farhud Recognition Project
Let’s talk about the Farhud, where Arabs trained by the Nazis in Baghdad, killed, maimed and committed numerous atrocities against the Jewish population on the two days on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot in 1941. The Farhud was the beginning of the end of 2,600 years of Jewish life in Iraq. This event commenced with a rampage of mass murder, mutilation, rape, burning and looting. The carnage...