Posts Tagged: Operation Protective Edge
Green Dome: Trees to Protect Southern Israeli Trains From Rockets
JNS.org - Workers have started planting hundreds of trees along the train tracks leading from Asheklon to Sderot in southern Israel in an attempt...
Jewish Comedy Queen Joan Rivers Dies at 81 (VIDEO)
JNS.org - Jewish-American comedian Joan Rivers died Thursday at the age of 81. Rivers underwent surgery on Aug. 28 in New York City when she...
Israeli Learning Start-Ups Go Beyond the Classroom
JNS.org - School began again this week for Israeli children, many of whom had the spent the summer in and out of bomb shelters during...
IDF Chief: Gaza Operation ‘Another Link’ in Fight for Israeli Independence
JNS.org - While Operation Protective Edge has ended, "our days of fighting may not be over, as our long and ongoing struggle has not...
Report: Netanyahu Rejected Any Further Convict Releases
Jerusalem Post - Just prior to the start of Operation Protective Edge, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that...
Déjà Vu: Jewish Renegades Spewing Vitriol Against Their People
From the outset of Operation Protective Edge, Jewish renegades have been increasingly propelled into the limelight. One example was a recent letter published as an...
New Turkish PM: No Normalization With Israel if Gaza Blockade Remains
JNS.org - New Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday that there is no hope of his country "normalizing" ties with Israel unless the...
Final Soldier Killed in Protective Edge, Shachar Shalev, Laid to Rest
1st Sgt. Shachar Shalev was laid to rest Monday afternoon in Israel's Hipsin cemetery. Shalev succumbed Sunday to wounds he sustained on July 23 during Operation Protective...
Applying International Law to the Israel-Hamas Conflict
JNS.org - Now that the latest Israel-Hamas conflict has come to a close—should the 12th attempted cease-fire hold—the battlefield moves from Gaza to the...
Israel’s Christian Friends Are the Candle in the Darkness
When I left Israel nearly six weeks ago for my annual trip to America the rockets had already begun to fall. Just two nights before...
The American Jewish Community Should Join the GOP
The recent Gaza war has demonstrated that the era of bipartisan support for Israel is over. Republicans overwhelmingly sided with Israel while Democratic leaders hemmed and...
Gaza Border Community Residents Express Anger Over IDF Pullback
Ynet - Residents from Netiv HaAsara, a moshav under constant threat from the Gaza Strip, were furious when they learned on Monday that IDF soldiers...
IDF Paratrooper Dies of Wounds Incurred During ‘Protective Edge’
Sgt. Shahar Shalev, aged 20, a fighter in an elite Israel Defense Forces unit, died on Sunday morning of wounds he incurred during Israel's Operation...
Their Sons Did Not Die in Vain
Tuesday's ambiguous, open-ended cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas felt like a huge let-down. Up until the very last minute (and even after it...
