Cincinnati HUC-JIR student body searched at Kotel: Israel Update  

Four female students from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, including two Americans, were asked to lift their shirts and skirts for security before being allowed to enter the Western Wall plaza. The four said they were questioned and pulled aside into a private room.…

Israelis respond to Charlottesville; Cincy-Israel emissary: Israel Update

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin expresses his solidarity with the American Jewish community following the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. Moreover, Israeli politicians called on the US government to respond firmly to white supremacist movements. “There…

Iranian seeks refuge in Israel; Terrorists lose citizenship: Israel Update

Two Israeli-Arab brothers from Umm al-Fahm have been arrested and indicted for supporting ISIS, according to the Shin Bet. Authorities had received information that the elder Jabarin brother, Mahmoud, had intended to travel to Syria to join the organization. To that end, Jabarin was in…

Jewish and Arab teens connect; Israel Venus satellite: Israel Update

A 19-year-old Palestinian teenager stabbed an Israeli man, critically wounding him, at a supermarket in the coastal Israeli city of Yavneh on Wednesday morning. The suspected stabber was captured by civilians, who held him down until police arrived. Doctors in the local hospital’s trauma…

Security concerns: Temple Mount; Venezuelan Jews in Israel: Israel Update

Israel removed the last of its recently installed security equipment from the entrances to Al Aqsa Mosque, following intense Palestinian protests and deadly violence. Following the killing of two Israeli Druze police officers at the Temple Mount, Israel had installed metal detectors in the…