According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the cost of buying produce in Israel is dropping. This is based on information pertaining to prices in produce stores and supermarkets around the country. The increase in cost from wholesale to retail for different items averaged 111.8% in July of 2010. Some examples of prices in July 2011 include [...]

As Israel’s Labor Party busies itself with internal elections, one candidate, former journalist and current MK Shelly Yacimovich explains one does not have to be anti religious to take the election. The party’s primaries is set for next week, and according to a Channel 2 Sarid Institute poll headed by Dr. Miri Sarid, Yacimovich will emerge [...]

Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks broadcast on Al Jazeera television on Thursday. Erdogan also said that Turkey had taken steps to stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean, according to Al Jazeera’s Arabic translation of excerpts [...]

Ground Zero will be the obvious center of focus for the New York Police Department in the lead up to Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the former World Trade Center site isn’t the department’s exclusive security concern over the coming days. “We don’t presume that Ground Zero alone is [...]

Citypass, the operator of the new Jerusalem light rail has announced the service will continue without charge, apparently at least until mid October, until a number of issues are resolved. It appears the continued free service is due in no small part to the efforts of askan R’ Chaim Miller, who heads The Movement on Behalf [...]

Citypass, the operator of the new Jerusalem light rail has announced the service will continue without charge, apparently at least until mid October, until a number of issues are resolved. It appears the continued free service is due in no small part to the efforts of askan R’ Chaim Miller, who heads The Movement on Behalf [...]

The New York City Police Department this morning remembered its members who died on September 11th, and those who have passed since working at the site. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Archbishop Timothy Dolan were among those paying tribute at the Lincoln Center event. The department lost 23 of its officers on the morning [...]

The New York City Police Department this morning remembered its members who died on September 11th, and those who have passed since working at the site. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Archbishop Timothy Dolan were among those paying tribute at the Lincoln Center event. The department lost 23 of its officers on the morning [...]

Career politician David Weprin (D-WFP) – who has held or run for four separate political offices in the past two years: city council, city comptroller, state assembly (twice), and now congress  — cannot vote for himself next Tuesday, September 13th in the special election to replace former congressman Anthony Weiner because Mr. Weprin does not [...]

The PA on Thursday (Sept. 8th) officially launched it unilateral bid to declare Palestinian Statehood. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) sent a letter to the Ramallah office of the United Nations, the official representative of UN Secretary-General Bank ki-Moon, calling upon him to do whatever he can towards assisting the Palestinian People in achieving [...]