By Yotam Rozenwald JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — The London based newspaper, Al Arabi Al Jadeed, reports that the Lebanese Terror organization, Hezbollah, planned to assassinate former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, back in 2009. The assassination was planned as pay back over the killing of Imad Mughniyeh who was Hezbollah’s international operations chief. Mughniyeh was assassinated […]
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Middle EastIslamic State-linked Sinai terror group claims to decapitate 10 Israeli spies (JNS.org) An Islamic State-linked terror group in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has decapitated 10 men whom the terror group accused of spying for Israel and Egypt. In a video posted online by Wilayat Sinai (Province of Sinai), which was formerly known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis,
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel’s election campaign is settling down to right vs left, with several of the middle level and marginal parties campaigning on the basis of which camp they will join, a moderate level of nastiness between party leaders, and a higher level of nastiness between the two leading circulation newspapers. Zionist Union is
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — On February 8, the University of California Student Association’s (UCSA) voted 9 in favor, 1 against, and 6 abstaining, in favor of two divestment resolutions. One calls for divestment from American, Mexican, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Brazilian, Sri Lankan, and Egyptian government bonds. The other calls for divestment from certain companies that do business
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USALOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs will hold its first community anti-BDS (Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions) conference from March 21-23, 2015 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. BDS, an international propaganda campaign that seeks to delegitimize and erode support for the Jewish state, is the latest threat to Israel. This conference brings together the most comprehensive assembly of renowned
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison Vermont’s two United States senators—Democrat Patrick Leahy and Independent Bernie Sanders have announced they will boycott the speech of Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to a Joint Session of Congress on March 3. Leahy released a statement on Tuesday saying: “The unfortunate way that House leaders have unilaterally arranged this,
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release)– President Reuven Rivlin and First Lady Nechama Rivlin hosted a special meeting of NA`AMAT, The Movement for the Advancement of the Status of Women, with the attendance of over one hundred and twenty representatives of the organization, from seven countries across North America, South America, and Europe. The meeting marked the
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International, Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) –Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, Feb. 10, he will speak to the U.S. Congress, notwithstanding President Obama’s opposition, because he believes the P5+1 negotiations with Iran pose a threat to Israel’s very survival. His office released the following statement: First, on behalf of the people of Israel, I wish to send
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International, Middle East
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)—Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Illinois) and Congressman Juan Vargas (D-California) on Tuesday, Feb. 10, introduced the U.S.-Israel Trade and Commercial Enhancement Act. “This bipartisan bill would counter the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and strengthen the U.S.-Israel economic relationship,” the two members of Congress said. Over the past several years,
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Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Thousands of books have made their way to Israel’s capital this week, as the Jerusalem International Book Fair opened its doors from February 8-12, in a tradition that has now gone on for 27 years. Since 1963, the Jerusalem book fair has served as a connection point between the
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Middle East
NEW YORK (WJC) — The last several decades saw a sharp decline in the number of Jews living in Europe, according to a report published Monday by the Pew Research Center, which is partly based on 2010 figure. The report estimates that there were 3.2 million European Jews in 1960, which fell to 2 million by
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InternationalTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Rare diseases, those that affect fewer than one in 200,000 people, are often identified early in life. Some 30 percent of children afflicted by these “orphan diseases” do not live to see their fifth birthday. While the US Orphan Drug Act of 1983 was written into law to promote research on
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
SANTA CRUZ, California — After the Jewish community suffered two hate crimes at UC Davis in recent days, 23 organizations with hundreds of thousands of members and supporters demanded UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi conduct a formal investigation into registered student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and one of its members, Azka Fayyaz, also
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Barack Obama burst upon the American political scene in 2004, when he gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, just four months after unexpectedly being elected the junior senator from Illinois. Less than five years later, in his first inaugural speech, President Obama intoned, “We will
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA