“Rhoda Smolow exemplifies the ideal of selfless service to Hadassah,” says outgoing Hadassah President Ellen Hershkin. Founded in 1912, Hadassah is the world’s largest women’s Zionist organization and has over 300,000 members, associates and supporters.
Syrian President Bashar Assad meets with a senior Iranian official in Damascus on ways to cope with Israeli airstrikes in the war-torn country, Syrian newspaper Al-Watan reports. The two also discuss the Trump administration's "deal of the century" and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's plan to contend with the American regional plan.
A former journalist, Shelly Yachimovich was elected to parliament in 2006 and served as Labor leader from 2011 to 2013. Yachimovich says she is "tired of the constant gamesmanship,” by which winning political battles is elected officials' primary objective rather than serving the public.
US senior envoy: $50 billion plan "won't work" unless Israel, Palestinians agree to political plan. Report: PM wary US proposal for highway, railway connecting West Bank, Gaza could pose security threat.
"These bullies claim they stand for human rights. But we all know that BDS stands for anti-Semitism," US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says at a Justice Department summit on anti-Semitism. “Peace in the Middle East begins with recognizing Israel’s right to exist,” she adds.
