Anav Silverman / Tazpit News Agency
ARTICLES BY: Anav Silverman / Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s Unemployment Rate Dropped to Record Low in February
Israel's unemployment rate dropped to a record low in February 2014, down to 4.9% compared to 5.4% in January for people aged 25-64. According to a...
Israeli Technology Helps Secure Statue of Liberty
MODI'IN, ISRAEL - An Israeli company was recently chosen to be part of a nine-member team of technology vendors to protect the Statue of Liberty. BriefCam...
Sderot Residents Have Mixed Reactions to Recent Rocket Terror
It's a quiet day in the sandy border town of Sderot. Spring has brought blue skies and a warm wind as residents go about their...
Ya’alon: Israel Holds Assad Responsible for All Attacks on IDF Forces
The IDF targeted several Syrian army positions on Wednesday morning, March 19, which aided and abetted the Syrian attack against IDF soldiers on Tuesday according...
The Clown Therapist Who Sees No Borders
Reuven Singer can often be seen wearing two very different uniforms that seem worlds apart. The 33-year-old father, who lives in Karnei Shomron in northwestern Samaria,...
Rocket Lands Near Sderot Library as 55 Projectiles Fired at Israel
Fifty-five projectiles were fired from Gaza into Israel on Wednesday evening, with one reportedly landing near a library in Sderot. Several sirens in Sderot were sounded...
A Muslim Sheikh Remembers an Orthodox Settler Rabbi
A year after the passing of peace activist and settler Rabbi Menachem Froman, his wife, Hadassah and close family friend, Sheikh Ibrahim Abu El-Hawa, a...
Syrian Rebels Release Group of Kidnapped Nuns in Exchange for Captive Women and Children
Thanks to Lebanese-Qatari mediation, a group of 13 nuns captured in December 2013 by Syrian rebels were released on March 10. The nuns, along with...
Ukrainian Jews Training for Emergency With ZAKA, United Hatzalah
KIEV, Ukraine - The current political crisis in Ukraine has propelled its Jewish community to request emergency training the from Israeli emergency response organizations -...
Charedi Women Respond to Israel’s Proposed Universal Draft Law
Among the hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews that gathered to protest the government's proposed military draft law yesterday, there were countless women and children....
Archaeologists Uncover 3,200-Year-Old Silver Earrings in Israel
ABEL BETH MAACAH - A hoard of silver, dating back to the time of the Biblical Exodus, was discovered by American and Israeli archaeologists last...
American Town Hall Meeting Comes to Israel
The town hall meeting, perhaps unique to America's traditional style of local citizen governance, made its way to Jerusalem when two U.S. Congressmen visited Israel's...
Syrian Father Tells Israeli Doctors ‘Save My Son, He’s All I Have Left’
An estimated 130,000 people have been killed in Syria, and millions have been displaced during the past three years of war. During that time, Israel...
Mother of Comatose Three-Year-Old Testifies Against Palestinian Rock Throwers
The five Palestinian suspects arrested in connection with the rock attack that left three-year-old Adele Biton from the Yakir community in critical condition nearly one...
