T. Belman. Mort points out that due to the grandfather clause , the Jewish majority in Israel is shrinking 1% every three years. He also says eliminating it will not hurt US emigration to Israel as only 67 American non-Jews  made aliya under this clause in the last 10 years.

The Law of Return’s Grandchild Clause could be responsible for an ever-shrinking Jewish majority.

By MORTON A. KLEIN, JPOST

UKRAINIANS fleeing the war arrive on aliyah at Ben-Gurion Airport last year.

The Law of Return was intended to allow Jews an automatic right to become a citizen of the Jewish state.

But the 1970 amendment to Israel’s “Law of Return” – which allows non-Jews with only one Jewish grandparent, who is not defined as a Jew by any major Jewish movement, the automatic right to immigrate and become Israeli citizens – needs to be eliminated or modified.

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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

Otzma Yehudit Mk Zvika Fogel, a retired Brigadier General, 66, on Saturday night, following Friday night’s massacre of 8 in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem by an Arab terrorist, and Shabbat morning’s attack on civilians by a teenage terrorist, told a News12 panel: “I’ll tell you in the simplest possible language – between calming things down and exploding the arena, what would, in the end, bring the results I want? I’m going with the explosion, never mind the calm. Look where the calming has brought us.”

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by Amir Taheri, GATESTONE  •  January 29, 2023

Since 1979, when the mullahs seized power, Iran has topped the list of countries hit by “brain drain”. However, what was a sectoral hemorrhage may now become a general bleeding affecting other sectors of the population. (Image source: Curimedia/Wikimedia Commons)

• Since 1979, when the mullahs seized power, Iran has topped the list of countries hit by “brain drain”. However, what was a sectoral hemorrhage may now become a general bleeding affecting other sectors of the population.
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The Islamic Republic claimed that the drone attack had failed and only cause minor roof damage.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST     29.1.23

An explosion is seen at an Iranian missile and drone test at the 17th Great Prophet drill in Iran.

Despite Iranian claims, the drone attack on Iran at Isfahan was a tremendous success, according to a mix of Western intelligence sources and foreign sources, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

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India is poised to become the most populous nation on Earth, surpassing long-time titleholder, China. But with the demographic changes come both major opportunities and challenges.

By  Oshrit Birvadker, ISRAEL HAYOM

India’s population keeps increasing by a million every month | File photo: AP

The complex relationship between India and China is not a new matter, with the two countries constantly engaging in competition. Data-wise, China seems to be leading in aspects: territory, defense, budget, navy, and the middle class.

But according to estimates, this coming April India will snatch away from China the title of being the most populated country on Earth. For the first time since the 1950s, a country other than China will hold the title.

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

This week’s positive Israel newsletter is full of healthy facts and innovations. Israel’s subsidized medical treatments have just received a record annual increase of funds. There is news of current and potential treatments for Inflammatory bowel disease, bacterial infections, Parkinson’s disease, personalized medicine, and the aging process. No wonder that Israeli women are among the world’s healthiest. An Israeli charity looks after the health of the elderly; Sderot’s trauma center is a global model of resilience; and the hearing-impaired have a new Israeli app. Meanwhile, Israelis are helping to sustain farmers in India and relieve war-weary civilians in Ukraine.

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The most basic of all basics is that no Arab terrorist acts alone;  he or she is incited to genocidal murder by the entire structure of Palestinian Arab society. 

By Howard Rotberg, INN

Neve Yaakov terror victims

“License to Kill” (Bob Dylan)“Now, they take him, and they teach him, and they groom him for life

And they set him, on a path where he’s bound to get ill

Then they bury him with stars

Sell his body like they do used cars

Now, there’s a woman on my block

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“The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama about his Jewish upbringing picks up seven Oscar nods.

By Andrew Lapin, JTA

Steven Spielberg on the set of “The Fabelmans.”Merie Weismiller Wallace/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment

“The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama about his Jewish upbringing, had an expected strong haul of Oscar nominations, picking up seven nods Tuesday morning.

A remake of a movie once targeted by the Nazis, a blockbuster embroiled in a lawsuit with an Israeli family and a documentary by the program director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival also got recognized in a list jam-packed with Jewish characters, stories and artists.
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By Scott Ritter, Columnist, SPUTNIK INTERNATIONAL

Yesterday

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The SS guards abandoned the guard posts surrounding Auschwitz during the night of 20-21 January 1945.<

At its height, in the summer of 1944, the Auschwitz complex, which comprised three basic camps — the main camp, Birkenau and Monowitz — and another 40 sub-camps, housed over 105,000 registered prisoners, mostly Jews, and around 30,000 unregistered Jewish inmates of so-called transit camps.

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Anarchy in the Palestinian territories poses a security problem for Israel, but as a temporary situation is not the worst-case scenario – and may have advantages.

By  Prof. Efraim Inbar

One of the challenges facing Israel’s new government is the potential for the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, bringing about a deterioration in the security situation.

PA leader Mahmoud Abbas seems unable to rule effectively, i.e., to maintain a modicum of law and order in the territories under his control. He lost Gaza to Hamas in 2007, and we now see the “Lebanonization” of the PA taking place in the West Bank: the emergence of a myriad of armed groups, with some displaying only limited loyalty to the PA, and others, especially the Islamists, trying to undermine the current regime.
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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  January 28, 2023

• Iran’s mullahs have made significant advances by tripling their nuclear program’s capacity to enrich uranium to 60%, a short step away from the 90% purity required to build a nuclear weapon.
• Iran is selling Russia drones and other material; is Russia “paying” for them by helping the mullahs complete their nuclear weapons undertaking?
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Police kill the lone gunman, who fled scene of Shabbat eve attack in Neve Yaakov neighborhood, opened fire on officers; celebrations in West Bank, Gaza; IDF bolsters forces

By EMANUEL FABIAN , TOI     28 January 2023,

• • Security forces at the scene of a deadly terror shooting attack in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, January 27, 2023 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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By MARK SLEBODA   27.1.23

The cries have risen up shrilly as one across Western MSM, commentariat, and governments.

Everything that the collective West has supplied to the Kiev regime in Ukraine – more than $120 billion taxpayer dollars’ worth of weapons, military aid and support in the last year alone – is NOT ENOUGH!!!

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by Micha Gefen, ISRAEL UNWIRED    January 23, 2023 

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been pushing the reorganization of global society for a number of years. Their main tool to do this has been their “climate change” policy.

This is also why they keep on pushing sanctions on the Russian energy sector. By driving the prices pf oil and gas up and thus destroying the Western economy, the WEF believe they can actually force the transition away from fossil fuels. Obviously the direct out come of that is their control over our movements.

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Israel’s political upheaval reflects partisan tunnel vision on all sides

By Melanie Phillips

Benjamin Netanyahu informs Aryeh Deri he is firing him “with a heavy heart”.

So how’s Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faring in his supposed programme to smash democracy at the behest of the religious extremists in his government?

Well, as Israel’s newly-minted dictator he’s not doing too well in that regard.

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By Shoshana Bryen, AM THINKER

The United States and Israel have had a close political and security relationship for decades, because — in the main — they see both democratic norms and the requirement for security as mutually reinforcing. Iran’s willingness to kill its own citizens in the streets and provide military support to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have brought Washington closer to Jerusalem’s view of the most important and most imminent threat to stability in the region. But it isn’t a smooth transition, as American diplomats are still insisting on defining Israel’s politics in place of and in opposition to Israel’s voters.
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The Biden administration remains committed to a policy that will empower Iran militarily, economically and diplomatically against Israel and the Sunni Arabs.

By Caroline Glick, jns

(January 27, 2023 / JNS) The Iranian revolutionaries plod into the fifth month of their uprising against the regime with little tangible help from the outside world. To date, more than 500 Iranian revolutionaries have been killed by regime forces directed by the Revolutionary Guard Corps. More than 18,000 have been arrested.

So too, unfettered by restrictions on its nuclear activities enacted under the long-abandoned 2015 nuclear deal, the ayatollahs continue spinning their advanced centrifuges and stockpiling enriched uranium.
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More than 180,000 pounds of live munitions were fired, and thousands of military took part in the exercise

By Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ    26.1.23

U.S., Israel Hold Largest-Ever Joint Military DrillPlay video: U.S., Israel Hold Largest-Ever Joint Military Drill