Newly exposed letters reveal that British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the past described Israel”s politicians as “criminals,” called for them to be banned from Britain and for trade sanctions to be imposed on the Jewish state. The letters, written by Corbyn before he was elected Labour leader, were released by the UK-based Jewish News […]
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Prime Minister has generally avoided public comment about Sara, but he denied this story, and brought suit against a journalist who posted it on Facebook. . Israel’s media, with one prominent exception, has headlined Sara’s problems. TV and radio news programs have also provided opportunity for Netanyahu family
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday once again criticized the French peace initiative, as Paris prepares to convene a conference of foreign ministers on Friday to discuss the diplomatic stalemate in relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). “The path to peace is not via international conferences that attempt to force a settlement, that
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International, Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – Israel released its most-wanted Jewish extremist, Meir Ettinger, after being held for some 10 months in “administrative detention” without trial. Ettinger, 24, was released from jail Wednesday morning and placed under house arrest, Prison Service spokesman Assaf Librati told dpa. He was taken into custody in August for being involved in
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Middle EastTwo babies were hospitalized at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikva for being infected with herpes during circumcision, Kikar HaShabbat reports Wednesday night – and a prominent mohel has demanded that fellow mohels get checked for the disease before performing the ceremony. Mohel Rabbi Shlomo Mahfoud told the daily that mohels must “check themselves first
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process on Wednesday accused the Jewish Home party, a member of the governing coalition, of “killing hope” for a peace treaty with the Palestinian Authority. Nickolay Mladenov spoke after a minister from the Jewish Home party, which holds several portfolios in Netanyahu’s government, declared the party
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International, Middle EastIn 1990, Jihad Al-Mohammed moved into an abandoned building in the old city of Sidon in south Lebanon. The Lebanese civil war had just come to end. The Palestinian refugees who had been sheltering in the centuries-old structure had gone. “But it was filled with rats and garbage,” says Mohammed. “So I cleaned it up.”
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NEW YORK (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of veteran Israeli diplomat Mordechai Arbell. Arbell was for a long time chairman of the World Jewish Congress Research Institute in Jerusalem and in addition a founding board member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations ICFR). He passed away on Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 87.
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International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsIt wasn’t long ago when the question of what to do about Iran’s nuclear program topped the foreign policy agenda in Washington and other world capitals. The matter receded after the nuclear agreement went into effect in January, but inescapable signs are emerging that Iran will return to the agenda under the next president. When
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Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara Netanyahu is facing a longstanding court case alleging she verbally abused workers at the Prime Minister’s Residence, and after her lawyer defended her on Tuesday the Israel Bar Association issued rare criticism. The Jerusalem Labor Court on Tuesday awarded former employee Guy Eliyahu $30,000 in damages, after finding Sara
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Middle EastThe Conference of European Rabbis gathered this week in Vienna, Austria, where they discussed political and halakhic issues currently on the agenda, including extreme rightist parties being elected to office in Europe, halakhic issues such as kosher slaughter, and others. Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was elected for a new five-year term as president of the
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International, Middle EastAs presidential candidate Bernie Sanders presses to have the Democratic party adopt a pro-Palestinian stance, his rival Hillary Clinton has remained noticeably tight-lipped on the subject, showing the balancing act she is playing in a shifting party. Sanders has been given five of the 15 seats on the party platform drafting committee at the Democratic
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Middle East, USAPolice have arrested Bassem al-Safadi, a reporter and photographer for the Iranian Arabic-language channel al-Alam, on suspicion of incitement and supporting terror. Al-Safadi has already been taken before a court for his initial sentencing. The judge declared that he will remain in custody until Sunday. Al-Alam claims that there was no justification for the arrest,
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Middle EastIsraeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon spoke to Arutz Sheva on the sidelines of the Building Bridges Not Boycotts international summit at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, terming the anti-BDS boycott movement conference an “historic event.” Danon noted that over 2,000 “Jewish students and Christians came together in order to
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