Israeli Short Film Aya Nominated for Oscar
While it’s much praised film Gett was left out of the final cut for the Oscar nominations for best foreign language film, Israel will still be represented at this year’s Academy Awards. Its short film More...
El Al Pilots Dispute Leads to NYC Flight Cancellation
Originally published by The Jewish Press An El Al flight scheduled to leave Monday from Ben Gurion Airport and fly to New York City was cancelled after initial delays. The cancellation has been attributed to More...
Ukrainian Jews Moving to Israel
Due to local violence and a rise in anti-Semitism resulting from Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia, there has been a spike in the number of Jews who wish to immigrate to Israel from that embattled nation. More...
Christian-Jewish Group Sponsors Aliyah for Hundreds of Ukrainian Jews
More than 200 Ukrainian Jews arrived in Israel on Monday as part of an initiative sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) for Jewish refugees fleeing the violence in eastern Ukraine. Israeli More...
Israel Aerospace Industries to Deliver First Pair of Wings for Stealth F-35 in 2015
Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) (TASE: ARSP.B1) Lahav Division, today inaugurated its wing production line for the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter at its headquarters near Ben Gurion Airport. The More...
Work Begins on Final Tunnel of Tel Aviv-Jerusalem High-Speed Rail
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz attended a ceremony marking the beginning of work on a massive tunnel that will be the final project of the planned Tel Aviv-Jerusalem More...
Israeli air strike kills three Hamas commanders in Gaza
– Among the dead is Raed al-Attar, who was behind the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006. – Three of Hamas’s most senior commanders in the southern Gaza Strip were killed More...
Turkish Airlines cuts 2 daily Israel flights
– Reduced tourist traffic has also caused Wizz Air to cancel routes to Prague, Katowice and Warsaw. – – Turkish Airlines has cancelled two out of the 7-8 daily flights it operates between More...
Don’t Mess With Transport
– From the Halls of Montezuma To the Shores of Tripoli; Thus opens the battle hymn of the United States Marines. The Halls of Montezuma sound Mexican — and so they were, so it’s not surprising More...