A brief Canadian respite for injured Israeli soldiers
When I met Reuven Magen last month at a Niagara winery, he was sipping ice wine, joking with his pals and admiring the view of the Escarpment. In his baggy shorts and loose tank top, he looked like a West Coast surfer dude, which makes sense, since he spent his early years living in San Diego, Calif., before he and his family moved to the West Bank settlement of Elkana.
Canada to acquire sophisticated Israeli Iron Dome technology
The Canadian Armed Forces will soon be getting an important upgrade to its defence capabilities when it acquires 10 sophisticated Israeli radar systems containing technology used in Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile installations.
The Department of National Defence announced that it has agreed to acquire Israeli Medium Range Radar (MRR), which will be used to locate enemy weapons and provide advance aerial surveillance capability.
Connected in good times and bad
The challenge is extending our sense of mutual responsibility to fellow Jews who aren’t in need of our sympathy or charity
Rabbi Adam Cutler
Beth Tzedec Congregation, Toronto
‘In distress you called, and I rescued you’
Dedicated to my son Guy and his fellow graduates of the Israel Defence Forces' Special Forces Airborne Rescue and Evacuation Unit 669 training course, May 2015
Thousands aspired. Hundreds qualified. Scores started. And you few, completed the rigorous training and received your “cat” wings.
Perhaps 2017 will be an auspicious year
In 2017, we’ll observe two important milestones: the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration – the constitutive document in which the British foreign secretary informed Lord Rothschild that “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish People” – and 50 years since Israel liberated/occupied Judea and Samaria/the West Bank in 1967’s Six Day War.
Will Iran’s support for anti-Israel forces increase?
It never fails. No sooner did Israel announce in late April that it was sending a team of 260 rescue workers and medical staff to Nepal in response to that country’s catastrophic earthquake than the sniping began: how dare Israel divert attention from the terrible hardships of Gaza, where it has imposed a blockade since 2007?
“Easier to address a far-away humanitarian disaster than the nearby one of Israel’s making in Gaza,” tweeted Ken Roth, director of Human Rights Watch.
Ethiopian Jews deserve better
As Israel’s emergency delegation to Nepal prepared to leave Kathmandu over the weekend, the death toll from a massive earthquake was still mounting. The members of the 260-strong team surely had mixed feelings about going home, having witnessed such devastating human tragedy, but also knowing they had saved lives and represented Israel, and all Jews, with courage and honour.
Jewish groups raise money for Nepal quake relief
Although they’re halfway across the world, Canadian Jewish organizations are collecting money to help the hundreds of thousands of people suffering in Nepal due to the worst natural disaster the region has seen in 80 years.
Panel praises Israel’s dynamism and diversity
TORONTO — A Yom Ha’atzmaut event featuring an eclectic panel of Israeli speakers drove home the message that Israel is dynamic, unique and successful across a range of fields.
Yom Hazikaron: there will be no baptism
Yoram’s leg stuck out of the bunker – enough so that his commander barked at him to tuck it in. His instruction was a mild inconvenience but could save Yoram’s leg.
Yoram’s plugah (unit) had bunkered down in Khan Yunis preparing for a major Israel Defence Forces attack on a street known for hiding Hamas leadership.
