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The Belgian government decided to freeze funding to the Palestinian Authority education system after an elementary school built with support from Brussels took the name of a notorious Palestinian terrorist, a spokesperson for the European country told The Times of Israel on Monday. The Beit Awaa Elementary Girls School, located in southern West Bank’s Hebron […]

Carmel Shama-Hacohen, Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, lamented the results of Monday’s first round of voting to elect a new leader for the cultural organization. Former Qatari culture minister Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari received 19 of the 58 votes, with Egyptian diplomat Moushira Khattab coming in third place with 11 votes,

RIO DE JANEIRO — An influential daily newspaper in Brazil apologized for publishing a crossword puzzle that identified “Palestine” as a “territory that suffers Israeli occupation and bombings.” Estado de S. Paulo’s readers received the crossword puzzle in the October 1 edition. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our

The head of Egypt’s minuscule Jewish community has voiced support for the country’s UNESCO candidate, as the cultural body prepared to vote for a new leader Monday amid intense Israeli lobbying to thwart perceived anti-Israel bias. A statement from Egypt Jewish community head Magda Haroun said that Moushira Khattab has shown an impressive and “genuine