Defense minister says ‘Hamas is known for its internal assassinations — let them look there’ By Sue Surkes Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at the inauguration ceremony for a new Elbit defense electronics factory in the southern Israeli town of Arad. April 02, 2017. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday
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Middle EastLondon (dpa) – The United States is prepared to act unilaterally to tackle the North Korean nuclear threat if China fails to help, President Donald Trump warned in an interview with the Financial Times published on Sunday. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are to meet for the first time in Florida on April 6-7,
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International, USABen-Gurion University researchers predict the snake-like, ingestible device will revolutionize colonoscopy tests By Times of Israel staff A depiction of the SAW (single actuator wave-like robot) designed by Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University. (Screen capture/YouTube) A tiny ingestible robot designed by Israeli scientists may one day have the capacity to slither its way through
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationLOS ANGELES — Gary Austin, who founded the Los Angeles improv company the Groundlings — a troupe that launched the careers of Paul Reubens, Will Ferrell, Lisa Kudrow and Melissa McCarthy — died Saturday in Los Angeles at age 75 after battling cancer. The Groundlings shared the news of Austin’s death at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON — The Senate’s Republican and Democratic leaders have set the stage for Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to be confirmed to the Supreme Court this week, but only after a partisan battle that likely will lead to changing the Senate’s rules. On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote to send the Gorsuch
Just prior to Pesach (Passover), the National Library of Israel revealed that it had acquired the velum Prague Haggadah two months ago, when the library purchased the famed Valmadonna Collection of Judaica. The Haggadah was printed in Prague in 1556. A previous Haggadah was printed in 1526, but no copy survived. Several elements of the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastNablus shop believed used to make explosives by Hamas terror cell busted in December; army raids Jerusalem stabber’s Sebastia home By Judah Ari Gross The Israel Defense Forces welded shut a bookstore in the northern West Bank on Sunday that was suspected of being used to manufacture explosives for a Hamas cell broken up late
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Middle EastA protest group that has led two weeks of general strikes in French Guiana has dismissed France’s offer of €1 billion to tackle persistent social problems as “unsatisfactory” and is instead demanding a “new status” for the overseas territory. Interior Minister Matthias Fekl and France’s minister of overseas departments, Ericka Bareigts, announced a renewed commitment
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) – Late Saturday night on April 1st, two EMTs, Dvir Adani and Moshe Mizrachi, decided that they would play an April Fool’s joke on their friends. The pair of United Hatzalah volunteers were driving past Ben Gurion airport on their way to buff calls in the center of the country when they
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodVILNIUS, Lithuania (Press Release) – An AJC leadership delegation met with Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis during a three-day visit to the Baltic nation’s capital. This latest AJC visit to Lithuania, which concluded yesterday, came immediately after AJC Central Europe, the global advocacy organization’s fifth and newest office in Europe, was launched at a gala
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International, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Dictators – as well as some ostensibly democratic politicians like the current prime minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, and his new idol, US President Donald Trump – want to control the media by curbing free speech, in order to secure their grip over the population. That’s behind the to-ing
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Middle EastLehi leader Avraham Stern was gunned down 75 years ago in an unassuming apartment; it now houses a museum dedicated to the underground group By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am The entrance to the Lehi Museum, located on a street named for Avraham Stern in south Tel Aviv. (Shmuel Bar-Am) Stern’s room in Tel Aviv, where
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastFormer “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson opened up about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a blog she penned Thursday. In a candid post, Anderson said that her relationship with Assange was “no secret” and that he was “one of my favorite people.” “Julian is a human being who is extremely empathetic and cares deeply about the
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAStockholm (dpa) – Bob Dylan at long last received his 2016 literature Nobel medal and diploma during a private ceremony at an undisclosed location in Stockholm on Saturday. Members of the Swedish Academy told broadcaster SVT that the rock legend received his award at a private ceremony shortly before he took the stage at the
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