The 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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International, Middle EastBy TOI staff Israeli fighter jets launched air-to-surface missiles at a military base near the Syrian city of al-Qiswa, southwest of Damascus, according to a report in Sky News. The report claimed that the missiles were fired from within Lebanese airspace. Media outlets affiliated with the Assad regime and Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah reported that
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Middle EastBy TOI staff A court in Thailand Thursday sentenced to death an Israeli former police informant who admitted to murdering another Israeli man in a fit of jealousy. Shimon Biton, 50, who has served time in both Israeli and Thai jails, admitted to killing 62-year-old Eliyahu Cohen and burying parts of his body in freshly
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International, Middle EastBy TOI staff The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday passed six resolutions described by a watchdog group as “anti-Israel,” marking 70 years since the world body’s partition plan carved Mandate Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state than never came to be. The measures were nearly identical to a yearly slate voted
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International, Middle EastMore than 400 U.S. Marines who helped recapture the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State are leaving the country, according to the U.S.-led coalition that is fighting the militant group. “We’re drawing down combat forces where it makes sense, but still continuing our efforts to help Syrian and Iraqi partners maintain security,” U.S. Brigadier
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Middle East, USAThe mother of one of the roughly two dozen Jewish youngsters who were attacked by an Arab lynch mob in Samaria Thursday slammed the army over its slow response to the near tragedy. Twenty-five 13-year-olds on a class trip celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of the youngest student were ambushed by dozens of Arabs hurling stones
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Middle EastBy Jessica Steinberg Machol Shalem, a Jerusalem dance center and host of the ongoing Jerusalem International Dance Week, will allow performances with nudity, but will make sure those troupes don’t receive any public funds. That was what the umbrella dance organization told the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Jerusalem municipality, after the two
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