It’s a pleasure to start the new year with good news: the Israeli government has approved a $3.2 billion grant for Intel Corporation for the construction of a new microchip manufacturing plant.

Post-Zionism is often presented as something smart and progressive — as if Zionism has fulfilled its mission by creating Israel in 1948, and now it’s time to move on.

Department for the Promotion of Aliya co-organized the event where thousands of people in New York City’s Times Square viewed an empty Shabbat table set for 224 people, symbolizing the 224 hostages held captive by the terrorist group Hamas.