Nature Authority says 8 of the 26 creatures living in the Judean desert have died since the spill two weeks ago into Nahal Ashalim By Times of Israel staff A dead ibex found in Nahal Ashalim on July 15, 2017. (Nature and Parks Authority) Two more dead ibexes were found Saturday in Nahal Ashalim, two […]
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Middle East, The World We ShareVito “Babe” Parilli, a member of the Patriots’ Hall of Fame and one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the American Football League, has died. He was 87. “The New England Patriots are deeply saddened to learn of the loss of former Boston Patriots quarterback Vito ‘Babe’ Parilli, who passed away,” the team
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Editor’s Note: Editor Donald H. Harrison and his grandson Shor recently completed a 2,000 mile journey through California and Nevada, collecting and photographing Jewish stories along the way. This article is the third in a series generated during that trip. Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SACRAMENTO — Congregation B’nai Israel,
United States President Donald Trump’s two-day trip to Paris to meet with newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron culminated Friday with a Bastille Day parade attended by both world leaders and their wives. The event boasted no shortage of spectacles — including a French military performance of hits from electronic duo Daft Punk — but discourse
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International, USAOn Thursday night, former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton sat down together at a forum in Dallas to discuss a number of topics, but the name of current President Donald Trump didn’t appear once in their hour-long discussion. The forum was in honor of the graduating class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars program
Report by Channel 10 news could undermine PM’s claim he did not intend to make a deal with the Yedioth Ahronoth publisher By Times of Israel staff US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson with Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 12, 2007. (Flash90) In his recent testimony to Israeli police, US billionaire Sheldon Adelson recounted a conversation
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Middle East, USACairo (dpa) – An Egyptian accused of killing two German tourists in a knife attack the day before at the resort town of Hurghada has no criminal record, private newspaper al-Masry al-Youm reported on Saturday. The alleged assailant, identified as Abdel-Rahman Shaaban, is a 27-year-old student from the Nile Delta province of Kafr al-Sheikh, the
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International, USAIt all started with a sticky note. When the Washington Post published an article back in May about President Donald Trump’s body guard, they failed to notice that one of the photos included a sticky note with the personal phone number of the US secretary of defense. Teddy Fischer, a student at Mercer Island High
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the U.S. The 40-year-old reportedly had breast cancer that spread to her bones. “A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart… gone far too soon,” her friend, NASA scientist Firouz Naderi, posted on Instagram. The Fields
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAToxic waste produced by one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters will be dumped into the sea, according to the head of the Japanese company tasked with cleaning up the radioactive mess, despite protests from local fishermen. Takashi Kawamura, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), told foreign media that nearly 777,000 tons of water
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International, The World We ShareOn Friday, the United States Marines released the names of the 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman who were tragically killed in this week’s military plane crash. In a procession on Friday, 16 white hearses carried the fallen Maj. Caine M. Goyette, Capt. Sean E. Elliott, Gunnery Sgt. Mark A. Hopkins, Gunnery Sgt. Brendan C.
Ollanta Humala was President of Peru until 2016 but now faces jail for up to 18 months ahead of his trial for money-laundering charges. Judge Richard Concepcion agreed with the prosecutor that Humala and his wife, who has also been imprisoned, might attempt to flee the country or interfere with the investigation against them. Humala
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InternationalMississippi authorities have arrested and charged three teenagers for kidnapping and sexual assault after they broadcast their attack on a 23-year-old woman on Facebook Live on Tuesday night. Haleigh Alexis Hudson, 19, Ezzie Johnson, 17, and Kadari Fabien Booker, 17, are accused of participating in a 15-minute live stream that portrayed a pants-less man standing
A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to vastly expand the number of people exempt from a controversial travel ban to include those who have grandparents and other non-immediate family in the U.S., as well as refugees without family ties to the country. In his order, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson
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