Palestinian terrorist kills IDF soldier at Afula bus station (JNS.org) Israel Defense Forces soldier Eden Attias, 19, from Nazareth Illit, was stabbed to death by a Palestinian teenager Wednesday in the northern Israeli city of Afula, Israel Hayom reported. The terrorist attack took place around 8:30 a.m. aboard the 823 Egged bus from Nazareth Illit […]
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InternationalU.S. promised Pollard would be freed after 10 years (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Former Israeli cabinet minister Rafi Eitan, the ex-Mossad agent who operated Jonathan Pollard in the mid-1980s, told Army Radio on Monday that he handed over incriminating information about Pollard because the U.S. had promised Israel that Pollard would serve no more than
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InternationalABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, meeting news media on Monday, tried to calm concerns in the region over the talks with Iran over its nuclear program. Following is a transcript provided by the U.S. State Department: FOREIGN MINISTER ABDALLAH: (Via interpreter) Good morning. May peace be upon you.
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Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — God help our Veterans. Yes, this is the day originally termed “Armistice Day,” November 11, 1918—when the Great War (World War I) ended. Many saw that horrifically bloody conflict (The United States entered in the final year, 1917, but our “doughboys” were bludgeoned in ditches like the Europeans
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USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A few years ago, when I was writing with a different hat, the Band of Brothers USMC Motorcycle Riding Club provided me with a list of companies providing free and discounted services to American military veterans in honor of Veteran’s Day. I wrote at the time: • Veterans Day
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French President Francois Hollande, in change of heart, will speak to Knesset (JNS.org) French President Francois Hollande, who initially said he did not intend to address the Israeli Knesset during his visit to Israel next week, announced Sunday that he changed his mind and will deliver a speech before the plenum after all. Hollande
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International
By Aryeh Savir As Typhoon Haiyan continues to plow through Asia, leaving in its wake massive destruction and scores of wounded and dead two Israeli rescues have taken off for the Philippines. The preliminary teams have been tasked with assessing the situation on the ground and deciding what are the necessities in preparation for
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israelis and Americans are going through a couple of bad patches with Barack Obama. The two issues are as different as they could be, but are united in reinforcing distrust of duplicity at the top. Americans’ problems are currently focusing on the limping roll out of what is linked directly
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By Lloyd Levy LONDON–The foreign policy of the Obama Administration must surely be the most disreputable since the alliance of Stalin and Hitler. Never before can a world power have alienated so many friends around the world, so quickly, and so deliberately. Hosni Mubarak, the ex-President of Egypt, a man who was a loyal ally
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Ron Hutter and Fred Winegust On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a series of riots against the Jews of Germany and Austria. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues, Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. Four hundred Jews were killed and for the first time, tens of thousands
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InternationalBy Steve Kramer Delegitimization efforts against Israel continue to be a major problem. Alone among the democracies, Israel’s sovereignty is singled out and questioned. Ian Lustick’s front page, above-the-fold NY Times Sunday Review article (September 15) is a particularly nasty example. Lustick, a political science professor at Penn, has made a career out of bashing
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Middle East, Steve KramerMoshe Ya’alon dismisses Kerry ‘threats’ on possibility of third intifada (JNS.org) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that failed Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations could lead to a third Palestinian intifada. “The alternative to getting back to the talks is the potential of chaos. I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?” Kerry said in
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InternationalWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –Two leading Washington-area rabbis have added their names to a growing list of clergy who are calling for D.C.’s NFL team to stop using the R-word in its team name. In recent months, religious leaders from a number of different faith communities have united in their opposition to the name, which
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USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson Naomi Tsur, who was born in England and moved to Israel in 1966 to study Classics and Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has had a varied career, ranging from coin curator in Israel’s Antiquities Authority to co-authoring a Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew dictionary and heading the Society for the Protection of Nature in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East