$55-million project to allow hundreds of thousands of visitors to access holy site in 4-minute journey.

The Democrat says she reconsidered her decision as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit that the prominent Jewish leader had brought against her this year. "Mr. Hikind has a First Amendment right to express his views and should not be blocked for them," she says. Hikind had criticized her comments comparing US-Mexico border detention camps to concentration camps.

The 42-year-old, born to an Israeli father, is to stay on the International Space Station until the spring of 2020. Meir, who is the fourth Jewish woman and 15th Jewish astronaut overall to be part of a space mission, brought an Israeli flag to the space station.

Human Rights Watch Israel Director Omar Shakir must leave the country within 20 days after justices uphold earlier ruling finding him guilty of promoting boycott of Israel.

Herzl understood that the answer is not the escape from Judaism but rather to return to Judaism! Hence in Zionism, he established a vehicle for such return. Similarly today, the answer to Israel-bashing is not the escape from Zionism, but the celebration of Zionism.