Published by DPA Chad affirmed its cordial relations with Israel in opening an embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday in the presence of Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This is an historic moment,” Netanyahu said in remarks reported by his office. The opening of the embassy had been […]
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Published by Reuters By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza on Thursday in response to Palestinian rocket fire, days after the United States urged all sides to calm escalating violence. With no reports of serious casualties, the exchange followed a familiar pattern that signalled neither side was seeking a wider conflict. Separately,
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By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — When Eric Goldstein speaks, Benjamin Netanyahu must listen. Even more so than when others speak, such as U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Israeli business executive Eynat Guez, 100,000-plus protesters in Tel Aviv and Israeli expats in New York and Los Angeles. What Goldstein tells Israel’s prime minister can be
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA
Published by Kyiv Independent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in a CNN interview he would consider providing military aid, including Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system, to Ukraine. “Well, I’m certainly looking into it,” Netanyahu said when asked about the possibility of Israel sending the Iron Dome to Ukraine. Netanyahu also said that
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Published by Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Mahmoud Abbas spent much of his life before becoming Palestinian president in the shadow of Yasser Arafat, long the figurehead of the Palestinian cause, but he has never secured the same status in the role and has not brought his people closer to statehood. Based in the West Bank
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Published by Reuters By Simon Lewis TEL AVIV (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel and Palestinians to calm tensions as he visited on Monday during the worst violence in years, reaffirming a long-stalled peace vision as the “only path” forward. While focusing censure on a Palestinian gun spree outside a synagogue that
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By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — The latest round of violence in Israel began last week, when Israeli security forces killed 10 Palestinians in a raid on Jenin, said to be focused on Palestinians planning a raid on Israeli targets. According to Palestinian reports, one of the dead was an elderly woman. On the eve
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion
(JNS) A documentary that reconstructs the lives of Holocaust survivors Lottie and Howard Marcus, who made the largest-ever charitable donation to an institution based in Israel, will screen at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival next month. “Who Are the Marcuses?” reveals the mystery behind an unassuming couple from Great Neck, N.Y., with a passion
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The music of Gustav Mahler is not everyone’s cup of tea, and this applies especially to his later works, starting with his sixth symphony. However, at last week’s concert given by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein, the auditorium was packed, evidently with
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
Photographs of Thunberg are now being seen around Israel as part of a growing protest. What is the cause for which Greta Thunberg’s disapproving visage with the “How dare you” message has played a prominent role? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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International, Israel, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
The naming of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, director of the SFSU’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) program, for MESA’s 2022 award reveals both the pathological animus against Israel harbored by the group and also its willingness to reward Abdulhadi for her execrable record of radical anti-Israel, antisemitic campus activism at San Francisco State University. [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]
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California, Israel, Opinion, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
In October 2022, the Israeli government approved the establishment of a museum in honor of Albert Einstein, to be located on The Hebrew University’s Safra Campus in Givat Ram, Jerusalem. In addition to the new museum, Albert Einstein’s name is prevalent in Israel, as it adorns street signs in Lod, Petach Tikva, and Haifa. These cities have honored Einstein because, in addition to being arguably the most brilliant scientific mind in the twentieth century, and a Jew, he was also a devoted supporter of the State of Israel. [Gedaliah Borvick]
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Gedaliah Borvick, IsraelBibi has to cope with the Court. And with conflicts among his Ministers. Most prominent is the case of Ariyeh Deri. He’s been ruled by the Supreme Court as unsuitable for serving as a Minister, and Bibi has been told by the Legal Advisor to the Government that Deri must be fired. [Ira Sharkansky]
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel
Having been “retired” as editor and publisher of San Diego Jewish World for more than a year, I find myself wanting to write occasional opinion columns in addition to the book reviews and features which I’ve continued to submit to our publication’s new leader Jacob Kamaras. So, with the indulgence of you readers, I’m going to sound off periodically on issues of concern to me as a Jew. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Jewish Celebrities, Lifestyles, Opinion, San Diego County, USA