Jordan’s foreign minister called Wednesday for Arab states to be represented in future dialogue on the Iranian nuclear programme, days after Tehran moved to step up its uranium enrichment. Calling for “an end to tensions with Iran”, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Jordan “supports the launching of a dialogue with Iran on the nuclear issue […]
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Middle East
After a long and heated debate on Wednesday night, the government approved the regulations for the country’s latest lockdown, which begins Thursday at midnight and ends two weeks later on January 21.The following are the lockdown rules:> Gatherings: Limited to five people inside and 10 people outside, except for at approved events such as weddings
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Middle East
The former Israeli ambassador to Jordan Jacob Rosen published an extensive list of Jewish surnames in Cairo that disclosed a stunning number of Ashkenazi surnames.In an interview with The Jerusalem Post ,Rosen said “Jewish refugees from Russian pogroms settled in Egypt.” Rosen, who also served as a diplomat in Egypt, said there were about 40,000
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Middle East
The new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Tuesday he would look to resume humanitarian aid to the Palestinians as part of a push by President-elect Joe Biden for a two-state solution. In an interview with AFP, Representative Gregory Meeks also supported the return of a diplomatic presence following outgoing President Donald Trump’s
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Middle East, USA
Israel’s election is scheduled for March 23rd. And more than previous ones, it is spawning the announcement of several new parties, both to the right and the left of Bibi. They’re all united under the slogan of anyone but Bibi, but not yet united in any more tangible sense. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Sworn in today (Monday, Jan. 4) as the 3rd District San Diego County Supervisor, Terra Lawson-Remer laid out an ambitious agenda for herself that included “an evidence-based” campaign against COVID-19, extending a financial “lifeline” to small businesses and workers in San Diego County; implementing a climate action plan; promoting racial justice; fighting homelessness; developing affordable housing; protecting the coastline; guarding against pollution-promoting urban sprawl; lessening the threat of wildfires; providing care for seniors, children, adults with mental or behavioral issues; assisting immigrants; and supporting the arts. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
The government in Beirut is an accomplice to Hezbollah’s terrorizing of an entire nation. The Shi’ite Party of God has used the barrel of a gun, the bomb and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to take over the entire country. Hezbollah’s malignant hand touches every facet of life in Lebanon—from the banking system to the courts—and it has left the nation’s infrastructure economy teetering on collapse, endangering everyone who lives and visits the country. [Nitsana Darshan-Leitner]
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Middle East
On the anniversary of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Chief Qasem Soleimani assassination, Iran was suspected to plan revenge for the killing of one of its most senior officials, N12 reported.UAE intelligence agencies have arrested lately an Iranian squad in Dubai and Abu Dhabi on suspicion of plotting to carry out attacks in the
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Middle EastA month after Israel reached agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in the framework of the Abraham Accords — a truly historic moment for the future of the Middle East — US President Donald Trump announced that Sudan was joining the Accords and would establish full ties with the Jewish state. But, there was a catch. The Trump administration, eager to score a political win before the November 3 presidential elections, rushed the agreement. Sudan’s strongman Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan made it clear that he wouldn’t sign the accords unless the United States removed the East African nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and Congress granted Khartoum full immunity from future claims in American courts of law for its role as a state sponsor of international terrorism. [Nitsana Darshan-Leitner]
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International, Middle East, USA
NETANYA, Israel — In the January 3, 2021 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
Israeli surgeons used Augmented Reality to repair a patient’s eye socket.
An Israeli NGO brought water and light to 200 African villages in 2020.
Israeli prize-winning technology for hydrogen production.
An Israeli startup is developing floating video phones to keep seniors safe.
The UAE-Israel Business Council now has over 3,000 members .
Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman 1984 is the most successful new release in the pandemic.
Despite the pandemic, more than 20,000 people made Aliyah in 2020. [Michael Ordman]
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International, Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
On Saturday evening, about a thousand right-wing Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem near a facility for internal police investigations, as protests continue after the death of a 16-year-old settler boy a month ago. Protesters have been demanding an official investigation into the incident. According to police, the demonstrators blocked a central street, threw stones at police
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Middle East
For the first time since the founding of The State of Israel, the country’s Jewish population dropped below 74%, according to the Israeli Immigration Policy Center (IPC) who cited data from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.Also this year, the number of Jewish immigrants hit a record low of 33.8% of the total number of new
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Middle East
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set his sights on swinging Palestinian votes as Israel heads towards its fourth election in two years, according to local media reports. On Friday, the Israeli premier was shown in a television report visiting the Palestinian city of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel as part of a coronavirus vaccination
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Middle East
Congratulations are due to Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia, who announced the wording of his country’s National Anthem has been changed to be more inclusive of Australia’s indigenous people, who were on the continent thousands of years before the British colonial era began. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USA