January 25, 2022 — The incident occurred just a week after a terrorist took four Jewish congregants hostage at the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, during a Sabbath service. The incident developed into a more than 10-hour standoff that ended with the terrorist shot dead and the hostages released. The past week also saw a New York woman arrested for allegedly spitting on Jewish children. The woman also reportedly told the children they “should have been killed in the Holocaust,” in an incident that took place outside the Kehal Tiferes Avrohom Ziditshov Orthodox synagogue.

January 24, 2022 — The potential concerns could impact up to approximately 75,000 Jews in Ukraine. One option under discussion would be an airlift of eligible Jews to Israel. A similar move took place in the 1990s when thousands of Jews were airlifted from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia when the city fell during a time of war.

January 21, 2022 — The remarkable endeavors of 2021 have shown the tremendous benefits of peace between Israel and some of its Middle East neighbors. The future may hold even stronger developments as the nations in the Accords continue to develop partnerships, and potential new nations consider joining in with the agreement.

January 20, 2022 — The Ukrainians first broached the idea of a summit in Israel with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last spring, when Russia was massing troops on the border, but it never gained much traction. Netanyahu’s administration mentioned the idea in April 2021 to Russia, a plan the Bennett administration’s leaders have now attempted to restart. However, Russia’s leadership reportedly turned down the offer.

January 19, 2022 — “Investing in Iran is not a sound investment, whether there is a deal or not a deal. Their economy is tanking. The rial is depreciating. They are so incompetent that they are not able to get water to faucets in huge swaths of land, for example in the Isfahan area,” Bennett said during his online address to the world leaders.

January 18, 2022 — The video portrayed Trump playing golf with former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and other people near his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The video noted, “Soleimani’s murderer and the one who gave the order will pay the price.” The post shared by Khamenei is not the only threat against Trump from Iran in recent days. On January 3, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi also threatened both Trump and Pompeo in a speech marking the two-year anniversary of Quds Force Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s execution by US drones.

January 17, 2022 — A British-born jihadist terrorist entered the Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday during services and held the rabbi and three worshipers hostage for nearly 11 hours, before an FBI hostage-rescue SWAT team from Washington rescued them unharmed and the terrorist was dead.

January 14, 2022 — The growing escalation of Iranian physical and propaganda attacks against Americans demonstrates that Iran’s leaders are not reaching out in good faith toward a renewal of the nuclear agreement. Earlier in January, Israel again asserted its ability to respond to Iran’s threats independently, regarding of any agreement. As reports grow of impasse in the talks, Blinken’s latest words point toward other alternatives rather than the current nuclear agreement as the next step in the Biden administration’s efforts to deal with Iran.

January 13, 2022 — Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has blocked multiple requests to pass the legislation in the Senate, arguing that the funding should come from proposed assistance to Afghanistan – as if the Taliban jihadists deserve it more than Israeli parents seeking to protect their children.

January 12, 2022 — The list of sanctioned US leaders appeared as America and other nations involved in the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran meet in Vienna to discuss the possibility of reviving the deal, in the hope of trusting Iran not to proceed on enriching uranium to the 60 percent threshold of a nuclear weapon. Israel has reaffirmed its ability to act independently in self-defense against Iran regardless of any new deal.

January 11, 2022 — According to earlier reports, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Mohammad Eslami said in December that his nation has no plans to enrich uranium beyond 60 percent, even if the Vienna talks do not move forward. However, based on Iran’s ongoing rate of uranium enrichment toward 60 percent, stonewalling international inspection efforts, and apparent efforts to stall the talks while clandestinely pursuing further enrichment, the on-again-off-again Vienna talks are more reasonably seen as the Iranian Mullahs’ smokescreen covering Iran’s true nuclear ambitions.

January 10, 2022 — The building projects continue despite the drop in tourism during the pandemic. After a record 4.55 million tourists in 2019, according to the Ministry of Tourism, only 832,000 visited in 2020 after the country’s tourism was shut down in late March. The good news is that the future looks bright for the hospitality industry across Israel. The current construction seeks to develop properties for maximum potential and prepare the region for increased business in the days ahead.