The Temple Mount will be closed to Jewish visitors from Wednesday until the end of the month of Ramadan, which is set to end near the end of next week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided on Tuesday afternoon.
The decision was made despite the situation on the Temple Mount remaining relatively calm in recent days and despite the opposition of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The decision to close Temple Mount for Jewish visitors is a "grave mistake that will not bring quiet" to the region, Ben-Gvir said in a direct attack on Netanyahu. "It can only escalate the situation.

(April 10, 2023 / JNS) Sixty groups that often oppose Israel urged the United Nations to reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
The definition—adopted by 39 countries, including the United States and Israel—“has often been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as antisemitic,” the groups stated.
Signatories include the U.S. Presbyterian Church, which has some 1.19 million members, and the global ministry arm of the United Methodist Church, which has a membership of more than 12 million, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union, B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

A consortium of four Israeli food tech startups is partnering with Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University on a project to boost the production of sustainable food solutions in the North African country’s Sahara.
The four food tech startups, led by Halman-Aldubi Technologies, will take part in the project together with the Marrakesh-based Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) to develop sustainable food solutions without the need for water, land or energy. As part of the project, the university, in cooperation with the Israeli startups, will produce high-protein fish food from municipal organic waste, insects and algae.

A CNN journalist shared a string of offensive, anti-Israel and pro-terror comments on social media, HonestReporting revealed on Monday, following up on six other revelations of blatantly antisemitic journalists since last August.
A slanted April 8 CNN International article headlined “Attacks in West Bank, Tel Aviv as tensions remain high following Israeli strikes” initially failed to note that the airstrikes were in response to acts of aggression from terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon.

The Guardian has been scrutinized frequently over its uneven and, at times, outright partisan reportage on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In the last month alone, HonestReporting has called out and complained about numerous pieces published by the left-wing British newspaper, including an “investigation” that simultaneously sought to downplay Palestinian terrorism and conflated the deaths of terrorists with that of their victims and a story comprising mostly agency copy that had been carefully edited to twist the facts.

(April 11, 2023 / JNS) A bipartisan group of 130 U.S. lawmakers on Monday sent a letter urging the European Union to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
The letter, addressed to E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, points out that the IRGC “has freely and openly carried out plots targeting citizens across the E.U.”
The legislators were led by Reps. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.), Thomas Kean (R-N.J.) and Bill Keating (D-Mass.).

Am Karsamstag demonstrierten in Neukölln radikale Araber für die Vernichtung Israels. Es war nicht das erste Mal. Immer mal wieder ziehen sie in kleinen Gruppen schreiend über den Hermannplatz.
Es sind immer nur ein paar Hundert wütende Männer, aber sie bilden die Spitze eines Eisberges aus Unversöhnlichkeit und Hass gegen Israel und die Juden, der in Berlin gewachsen ist. Die meisten Moscheegemeinden und muslimischen Verbände distanzieren sich nur halbherzig oder gar nicht von dieser gefährlichen Entwicklung.
Typisch für diese Milde gegenüber der Gewaltbereitschaft und Gewalt ist eine Stellungnahme des Zentralrats der Muslime in Deutschland (ZMD), herausgegeben am Gründonnerstag in Berlin.