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Ad Kan
Ad Kan Hebrew), or “It Stops Now”] is an Israeli activist organization which was started in 2015 by Israeli security personnel to defend Zionism, Israel’s Zionist character from internal and external anti-zionist groups. The name “Ad Kan”, or “It Stops Now” is used to refer to the activities by anti-Zionist groups against the State of Israel, that they must “stop now”. Ad Kan utilizes their espionage, research, and law divisions, as well as the media to deter these anti-Zionist and pro BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanction of Israel) groups. The organization has executed hundreds of spy missions against these organizations and other groups in order to uncover their activities. Ad Kan’s research team investigates these and other groups to expose and map their activities and funding. The information is used to pass laws in Israel’s parliament and prosecute dozens of court cases against these organizations. They hand over this information to the Israeli security f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-governmental Organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control, though it may get a significant percentage of its funding from government or corporate sources. NGOs often focus on humanitarian or social issues but can also include clubs and associations offering services to members. Some NGOs, like the World Economic Forum, may also act as lobby groups for corporations. Unlike international organizations (IOs), which directly interact with sovereign states and governments, NGOs are independent from them. The term as it is used today was first introduced in Article 71 of the UN Charter, Article 71 of the newly formed United Nations Charter in 1945. While there is no fixed or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as nonprofit entities that are independent of governmental influence—although they may receive government funding. According to the United Nations Department of Global Communic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combatants For Peace
Combatants for Peace (; ) is an Israeli-Palestinian NGO and an egalitarian, bi-national, grassroots movement committed to non-violent action against the “Israeli occupation and all forms of violence” in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The movement was formed in 2006 by Palestinians and Israelis who had taken an active role in the cycle of violence, and decided to work together to promote a peaceful solution through non-violent action. The former combatants had been gathering for a year in various towns around Jerusalem after leaders from both sides decided to take action to promote peace. Originally, the activists were solely ex-combatants: the Israeli soldiers and refuseniks of the Israeli army and Palestinian fighters. Today, members of the movement include also men and women who have never played a violent role in the conflict. Combatants for Peace is the only peace group worldwide that was founded and run by ex-combatants on both sides of an active conflict. Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarchists Against The Wall
Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW; ) sometimes called "Anarchists Against Fences" or "Jews Against Ghettos", was a direct action group composed of Israeli anarchists and anti-authoritarians who opposed the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier. A member of Anarchists Against the Wall described the construction of the barrier as part of a strategy of ethnic cleansing, "one of the greatest threats the Palestinian population has known over the last century... which is to make life so appalling for the Palestinian people that they will be left with one choice: move out." The group disbanded, at least in part due to the decline in Palestinian popular resistance in the late 2010s. A collection of writings by various anti-wall activists under the name ''Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle'' was published in the English language by AK Press in 2013. Activities The activists routinely broke the law, based on their po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who has served as the prime minister of Israel since 2022, having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, having served a total of over 17 years. Born to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu was raised in West Jerusalem and the United States. He returned to Israel in 1967 to join the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Sayeret Matkal special forces as a captain before being honorably discharged. In 1972, he returned to the United States, and after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Netanyahu worked for the Boston Consulting Group before moving back to Israel in 1978 to found the Yonatan Netanyahu Anti-Terror Institute. Between 1984 and 1988 Netanyahu was Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. Netanyahu rose to prominence after election as chair of Likud in 1993, becoming leader of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Ya'alon
Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon (; born Moshe Smilansky; 24 June 1950) is an Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who also served as Israel's Defense Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 until his resignation on 20 May 2016. Ya'alon ran for Knesset in 2019 as the number three member of the Blue and White party, a joint list created by the merging of the Israel Resilience Party, led by former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, and Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid. Ya'alon briefly served as the number 2 on the Yesh Atid-Telem list that was created following the 2020 Israeli legislative election. Ya'alon retired from politics in the lead up to the 2021 election after testing the waters by splitting his Telem party from Yesh Atid. Early life Ya'alon was born Moshe Smilansky, the son of David Smilansky and Batya Silber. His father, a factory worker, had moved to Mandatory Palestine with his parents from Soviet Ukraine in 1925, and was a veteran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 2 (Israel)
Channel 2 (), also called "The Second Channel" () was an Israeli commercial broadcasting, commercial television channel. It started doing experimental broadcasts funded by the television tax. The channel started commercial broadcasting on 4 November 1993 regulated and managed by The Second Authority for Television and Radio. In its first years, the channel was operated by three broadcasters ("Keshet Media Group, Keshet", "Reshet", and "Telad"), and in 2005 only two broadcasters were left while "Telad" stopped broadcasting due to its loss in the The Second Authority for Television and Radio, Second Authority's auction. On 31 October 2017, 24 years after the channel started broadcasting, it got closed and split into two new channels: Keshet 12 and Reshet 13. The Israel Television News Company, News Company that was founded alongside the Channel continued to broadcast news to both of the channels in parallel despite the split, but a few months after, after a merge between Reshet 13 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking The Silence (non-governmental Organization)
Breaking the Silence (BtS; ; ) is an Israeli non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 2004 by veterans of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It is intended to give serving and discharged Israeli personnel and reservists a means to confidentially recount their experiences in the Occupied Territories. Collections of such accounts have been published in order to educate the Israeli public about conditions in these areas. The organization's stated mission is "to break the silence" surrounding these military activities.Erella Grassiani"The Phenomenon of Breaking the Silence in Israel: 'Witnessing' as Consciousness-Raising Strategy of Ex-Combatants,"in Th. A van Baarda, D.E.M. Verweij (eds.), ''Moral Dimension of Asymmetrical Warfare: Counter-terrorism, Democratic Values and Military Ethics'', BRILL, 2009, pp. 247–260 Founded to collect testimony from 2000 to 2004 from troops who served in the Occupied Territories, the NGO has continued to operate. It has collected and publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995. They marked the start of the Oslo process, a Israeli–Palestinian peace process, peace process aimed at achieving a peace treaty based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, Resolution 242 and United Nations Security Council Resolution 338, Resolution 338 of the United Nations Security Council. The Oslo process began after secret negotiations in Oslo, Norway, resulting in both the International recognition of Israel, recognition of Israel by the PLO and the recognition by Israel of the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people and as a partner in bilateral negotiations. Among the notable outcomes of the Oslo Accords was the creation of the Palestinian Authority, which was tasked with the responsibility of conducting limited Palestinia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amira Hass
Amira Hass (; born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper ''Haaretz'' covering Palestinian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, where she has lived for almost thirty years. Biography The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Hass is the only child of a Bosnian-born Sephardic Jewish mother, who survived nine months in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and a Romanian-born Ashkenazi Jewish father. In her own words, her parents "were never Zionists, but they found themselves in Israel as refugees after the Holocaust"."Israel Gaza War: a conversation with Amira Haas". ACMCU discussion, October 2023. On Youtube, t 5:48. Accessed 28 Nov 2023 (URL starting with youtube). Hass was born in Jerusalem and educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she studied the history of Nazism and the European Left's relation to the Holocaust. Journalism career Frustrated by the events of the First Intifada and by what she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uvda (TV Program)
''Uvda'' (Hebrew: עובדה, ) is an Israeli Investigative journalism, investigative and current affairs Television show, television program that first aired in November 1993 and is currently airing at Channel 12 (Israel), Israeli Channel 12. The program is renowned for in-depth investigative reports, documentaries, and high-profile interviews. ''Uvda'' is hosted by Ilana Dayan, an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney. Since its debut in 1993, ''Uvda'' has aired 29 seasons and 756 episodes. All seasons of the program were broadcast regularly every year except for 2001–2002. ''Uvda'' won the award for the best current affairs or investigative program at the Israeli Academy of Film and Television for years 2009, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023. ''Uvda'' also won an award for the best documentary by Documentary Creators Forum for the years 2018, 2019 and 2022. External links * References {{Reflist Channel 2 (Israeli TV channel) original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
