Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat contacted Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to ask him to examine the consequences the High Court decision to demolish the town of Amona would have on property in Jerusalem. Barkat sent a letter to the Attorney General after spending the past few weeks working with the city’s legal adviser on the issue […]
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USA“Is the whole world insane?” Kate McKinnon played an exasperated Hillary Clinton in the cold open to “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, incredulous at the prospect of holding just a slim lead over Donald Trump despite his unfitness for office. The show placed blame on the media in offering a sketch that mocked network television’s
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON — The FBI’s new scrutiny of emails related to Hillary Clinton has turned up nothing that would cause the bureau to recommend charges against her, Director James B. Comey said. Nine days after announcing that a new trove of emails had been found, Comey sent a brief letter to Congress that, in effect, ended
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USAWASHINGTON — Nearly 42 million Americans have already voted for president, casting their ballots before the FBI announced Sunday afternoon that it stands by its July decision not to recommend charges over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Early voters turned out in record numbers in battleground states like Florida, North Carolina and
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USAWith only two days to go before the US presidential elections, candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are polling just a few points apart in key states. But observers and activists say Trump’s weak ground game may cost him the election. National polls give a snapshot of how people are planning to vote at a
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USATwo days before the presidential election in the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the weekly cabinet meeting, emphasizing that regardless of the results, America and Israel would remain close allies. “This week elections will be held in the United States. Whoever is elected, the new president, I am convinced that US-Israel relations,
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Middle East, USAAs the elections to determine the next US President quickly approach, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Republican nominee Donald Trump, could be seen last night with her husband visiting the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in New York. According to Kikar Shabbat, there was no press accompanying the couple their visit was documented by others
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USAOn Friday, HBO released a 37-minute long interview between Bill Maher and President Barack Obama. The piece, which aired less than a week before the 2016 Presidential Election, was the culmination of a months-long campaign for Maher to have the president on his program. Over the years, Maher has generally praised the president with some
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USARALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory was in a fight for his political life. His ardent defense of House Bill 2, a law deemed so discriminatory by some sports leagues that they pulled more than a dozen championship events from the state, had left him with strongly unfavorable ratings from moderates. With a
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USAVeteran pollster John Zogby sent out an “Uh-oh” alert Saturday night noting that heading into Sunday, two key voting groups that had shifted toward Barack Obama by the Saturday before the 2012 election – and that gave him his landslide victory – were not moving Democrat Hillary Clinton’s way four days before Tuesday’s election. “Donald
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Prediction is risky, and dangerous to one’s reputation. The most likely, and the safest prediction, is to begin with the present, and project more of the same. That’s what is evident in the land across the sea. Analysts used to say that the Obama administration was the nastiest in terms
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Ira Sharkansky, USADemocratic nominee Hillary Clinton dipped below 270 electoral votes in CNN’s electoral map Friday as Republican nominee Donald Trump makes a late surge for the White House. The most recent national polls have Trump within one or two points of Clinton, and well within the margin of error. Fox News released a poll Friday, with
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USARepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump was rushed off stage by the Secret Service at a rally in Nevada on Saturday night in a tense campaign moment just days before the 2016 presidential election. Secret Service agents rush Donald Trump off stage at Nevada rally. https://t.co/G4isSw41BA https://t.co/daEjQ9NHNz — CNN (@CNN) November 6, 2016 Trump later returned
Tel Aviv- As part of his efforts to win the votes of Jews, Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump has pledged in a message to Israel and its American backers to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. The letter was sent in a joint statement from Jason Dov Greenblatt and David Friedman,
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