By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Prospects of the Israeli government are frightening. Itamar Ben-Gvir will head the Ministry of Public Security, which might be expanded to include the Border Police, and Bezalel Smotrich will have two years as Minister of Finance. In that post, he’ll be given control over Jewish settlements in the West […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion
Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Sunday to oppose Israeli settlements or annexation in the West Bank, but promised to judge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming government by actions and not personalities. Netanyahu is expected to return to power after sealing a coalition deal with the extreme-right movements
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Israel
Published by Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. weapons maker Lockheed Martin and Israeli contractor Rafael have teamed up to create a high-energy laser weapon system, based on a technology already under development in Israel that could be market ready next year. The idea, the companies said on Monday, is to produce a version of the
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Israel
(JNS) For the fourth straight year, hundreds of students from Jewish day schools and Hebrew schools across the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and even Poland are learning about the care, rehabilitation and advancement of children with severe disabilities by creating unique “Sensory Chanukah Cards” that will lift the spirits of their peers at ADI,
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International, Israel, Jewish Religion, USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — A new coalition to govern Israel will emerge in December. There’s been a hue and cry over the right wing/religious makeup of the coalition, especially from foreign governments. Among these fears are possible changes to Israel’s judicial system, especially its highest court. I believe that some changes are
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Israel, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — In 1945, when philosopher Karl Popper published “The Open Society and its Enemies,” his landmark critique of historicist philosophy, he probably did not suspect that only three years later a Jewish state would be established in a distant part of the Middle East. On the other hand,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Opinion
(JNS) Two former American diplomats have argued that the U.S. should cease providing offensive weapons or military assistance to Israel’s incoming government for actions in Jerusalem as well as Judea and Samaria. Daniel C. Kurtzer, the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush and ambassador to Egypt under President Bill Clinton, and Aaron
By David Isaac (JNS) More than 250 Israeli businesspeople and entrepreneurs gathered for the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) “Made for Trade” roadshow at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Following the May signing of a free trade agreement between Israel and the UAE, the Emiratis want to attract Israeli companies to set up
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International, Israel, Middle East, USA
(JNS) The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is in immediate danger, the PLO’s envoy to the UN warned on Wednesday. “We are at the end of the road for the two-state solution. Either the international community summons the will to act decisively or it will let peace die passively. Passively, not peacefully,” Riyad Mansour
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International, Israel
By Judy Lash Balint (JNS) The word “Negev” conjures up visions of miles of desert, sand dunes, barren landscapes, camels, and yes, the meme that “Israel made the desert bloom.” But traveling through the northwestern portion of that 4,650-square-mile desert today presents quite a different picture. A recent trip to the “Gaza envelope” and Eshkol
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Israel, Middle East, USA
(JNS) Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu condemned on Wednesday former President Donald Trump’s dinner meeting last week with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who brought along Holocaust denier and antisemite Nick Fuentes. “I condemned Kanye West’s antisemitic statements. Straight away, I thought that was just wrong and misplaced. And I think that that’s what
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Israel, USA
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — There has been a war in Europe for nine months now. What could be more dangerous than a war in Europe? A war in Asia, which could start because of a war in Europe and would go with it. Who is pushing for war in Asia? The very country
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Alex Gordon, Israel, Middle East, Opinion
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Aryeh Schupak’s family could not live as Jews until they moved from the former Soviet Union to Edmonton in Canada, where they immersed themselves in Jewish religious practice, The Canadian Jewish News recounts. The family would sustain and nurture it after they moved to Israel – when Aryeh was
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — Throughout the world, many neighborhoods have groups of streets with names related to a specific theme. For example, growing up in Long Beach, New York, I lived on Walnut Street and my friends lived on Olive, Pine, Maple and Beech. Likewise, before making aliyah, we lived in Bergenfield NJ on
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Gedaliah Borvick, Israel, Travel and Food