Israel 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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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release)– Friday morning a week ago at the Jerusalem Tennis Center, Joel Atkin, a student of United Hatzalah’s NREMT training program helped resuscitate an older man who had collapsed a few courts down from where Atkin was playing his daily tennis game. “I try to play tennis every day. I recently began training
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By Donald H Harrison SAN DIEGO – Amid growing indignation over aggressive Palestinian tactics at universities throughout the Diaspora, Dore Gold, former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, provided a note of optimism at a StandWithUs banquet Saturday night attended by over 500 Israel supporters. Interviewed on stage by Waxie Sanitary Supply Chairman
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak insisted on Friday night that either moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem or recognizing the holy city as Israel’s capital would not be that big of a deal. “I don’t think that this is a consequential event,” he said at the Brookings
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Middle East, USABy Jessica Steinberg When Jerry Seinfeld arrives in Israel at the end of December, he’ll be traveling with one of his oldest friends, comedian Mark Schiff. Schiff has been lucky enough to travel with Seinfeld for the last 15 years — on Seinfeld’s private jet, no less — opening for Seinfeld in arenas and theaters.
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Middle East, Trivia, Humor & SatireArab media is reporting that Egypt and Russia are on the verge of signing a military cooperation agreement that would allow each side to use the other’s air space and air bases for a period of five years. Russian media reported that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has endorsed the draft agreement crafted by the defense
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