By 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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Middle East, USAIsrael won’t allow Iran to entrench itself militarily in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday. His remarks, in a taped message to a forum in Washington, came just a day after Israeli aircraft attacked a suspected Iranian base outside Damascus and could suggest the Middle East is entering a new volatile phase in
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Middle EastA bombshell report suggests that Saudi Arabia will buck its commonly held belief that relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are key towards establishing relations with Israel and are ready to sign a deal with the Jewish state, even if the PA opposes it. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s former national security advisor Yaakov Nagel
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Middle EastBy Sue Surkes Followers of an influential Sephardic rabbi will from now have to avoid looking at the country’s NIS 50 banknote because the poet whose image adorns the bill was married to a Christian woman. Rabbi Benzion Mutzafi issued his ruling after pulling the offending note out of his pocket during a weekend lesson
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Middle EastAttorney General Avichai Mandelblit decided on Sunday to close the case against MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home), who had been accused of sexual harassment and indecent assault. The Justice Ministry said in a statement that “after the Attorney General examined all the evidence and opinions presented to him, from which it was seen that there
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Middle EastFor decades, Jewish visitors to the world”s oldest Jewish cemetery have suffered harassment, assaults, and even terror attacks will visiting the graves of loved ones or of prominent rabbis from generations past. While individuals or even small groups of visitors to the Mount of Olives cemetery have been targeted by Arab gangs in the area
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Middle EastQatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will attend a key summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Kuwait this week, according to Qatar’s foreign minister. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Sunday that Qatar’s leader had accepted the invitation to attend the two-day event held in Kuwait City starting on
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Middle EastThe Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which controls Gaza called Saturday for a new “intifada” if Washington recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or moves its embassy to the disputed city. Reports in Washington have suggested US President Donald Trump may on Monday fulfil a campaign pledge on the American embassy, which like all other
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Middle East, USABy TOI staff The editor-in-chief of a major Palestinian news agency on Saturday alleged that Jews control Washington and are pushing the United States to consider recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “The Jews rule in Washington and the Jews rule in Tel Aviv. What’s the difference?” said Ma’an News Agency editor-in-chief Nasser Laham
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Middle East, USAJared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement considered to be illegal under international law, on financial records he filed with the Office of Government Ethics earlier this year. The latest development follows
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