By TOI staff A blind and mostly deaf British backpacker who seeks to visit every country on Earth can now check Israel off his list. Tony the Traveller, as 39-year-old Tony Giles calls himself, arrived in the Jewish state in November, his 124th country. Giles says he has already visited all seven continents and has […]
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodMK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) sent a furious letter to Nitzan Lavi, director of the Super Pharm chain, under the heading “Discrimination in Services for Judea and Samaria Residents”. In his letter the MK says, “I learned today that Super Pharm provides a delivery service to the customer’s home.” However, continued Slomiansky, the company’s webpage
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Middle EastA November meeting between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman included a discussion of a peace plan largely favoring Israel, The New York Times reported. According to the Times’ report, bin Salman’s plan offers the PA noncontiguous parts of Judea and Samaria, with limited sovereignty and without eastern
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Middle EastIsrael”s Foreign Ministry blasted the European Union Monday, after it was revealed that the representatives from the 28-member international body had accepted an invitation to an anti-Zionist exhibition organized by the radical left-wing B”Tselem organization. The B”Tselem exhibition being held in Jaffa, part of the city of Tel Aviv, condemns Israel”s liberation of Judea and
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International, Middle EastBy TOI staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said Iran forcing a wrestler to lose a bout in order to avoid competing against an Israeli perfectly summed up the regime’s hostility to the Jewish state. “Close your eyes and think about Alireza for a moment. He trained countless hours; he dreamed of becoming a
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsArab terrorists on Sunday night stoned at least ten vehicles, including a bus, driving on the Palestinian Authority town Husan’s bypass road near the entrance to the haredi Jewish town of Beitar Illit. Husan and Beitar Illit are located approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) southwest of Jerusalem. The vehicles’ windshields and frames were damaged, and
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Middle East[youtube:2035697] Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) was the guest of honor at a salute to Beit El institutions held in New York Sunday night. Speaking in front of 1,300 guests, Shaked thanked the American Friends of the Bet El Yeshiva Center for their support of the Jewish people, the Torah, and the land of
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By Beth Sarafraz The Jewish Voice, November 20, 2017 BROOKLYN, New York — Racing thru the pages of R’ Yosef Mendelevich’s autobiography, “Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival,” Rabbi Heshy Ceitlin kept having the same thought. “Chani,” he said to his wife, “We have got to bring this man to
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — About the Nazi Holocaust, one Christian historian has written: “The fact that it could take place in the heart of Europe, in the middle of the 20th Century, carried out in the name of what had seemed to be and in many ways was the most developed of nations,
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s hard to know whether to jeer or simply chuckle at the efforts of Likud MKs, being portrayed by the media as parliamentary clowns, who went beyond the normal to provide what they said was protection for their Prime Minister, but actually was nothing of the kind. The country is
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Judah Ari Gross The Israel Defense Forces this year again failed to reach the goal for ultra-Orthodox military enlistment set by the government, falling 20 percent short of the target. They made up for it with a record number of women joining combat units, an army official said Sunday. “We didn’t fulfill our mission,”
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Several coalition lawmakers, including prominent defenders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cried foul Sunday over the timing of the revelation of a year-long graft and organized crime investigation surrounding coalition whip MK David Bitan. Bitan was questioned by police on Sunday morning, hours after 17 Rishon Lezion city officials were arrested as
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Middle East[youtube:2035690] President Trump”s senior advisor and son-in-law drew praise from the Yesha Council, the umbrella organization which represents Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, following his appearance at the Saban Forum in Washington on Sunday. The president”s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, took part in the annual Saban Forum on Sunday, answering questions from the forum”s sponsor,
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Middle East, USAPalestinian leaders were seeking Sunday to rally diplomatic support to persuade US President Donald Trump not to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital after suggestions that he planned to do so. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was holding a series of phone calls with world leaders to “explain the dangers of any decision to move the embassy
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