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IsraAID helps set up science and tech center in South Sudan

November 20, 2017

By Shoshanna Solomon The University of Juba, in South Sudan, has joined IsraAID, an Israel-based humanitarian non-governmental organization, and other partners to set up a first center for the studies of science and technology in the East-Central African state. The Center for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) will train South Sudanese youth to become […]

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International, Middle East

‘The smiles have been wiped off the Palestinians’ faces’

November 20, 2017

Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) responded on Monday to the Trump administration”s proposed peace plan, as reported on the weekend by Hahadashot (formerly Channel 2 News). Katz spoke at a conference hosted by Arutz Sheva and the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce held at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. “Less than a

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Middle East, USA

Strengthening the bond between the US and Israel

November 20, 2017

[youtube:2035177] Anthony Scaramucci, who has served as White House Communications Director for the Trump Administration, arrived in Israel on Sunday night, and is spending several days in Jerusalem. After landing, he toured the Western Wall and the Old City. This morning (Monday) he arrived at Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem. Tonight he is slated to

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Middle East, USA

This is where Jewish dialogue will happen

November 20, 2017

By Irina Nevzlin and Andrew H. Tisch In March of this year, a small group of Jewish philanthropists, activists and thinkers from Israel and around the world met at the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. The conclusions that followed, summarized below, will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the opinion

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International, Middle East, USA

Turkey ‘poop’ a good energy source

November 20, 2017

SDE BOKER, Israel (Press Release) – While turkeys at Thanksgiving are an age-old custom, a new study shows that turkey excrement may have a future as a fuel for heat and electricity. Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Jewish progressive movements ‘blackmail’ Israel

November 20, 2017

By Moshe Dann JERUSALEM — Arm-twisting Israel by liberal and Progressive American Jews is threatening the delicate and vital bonds that link the two major Jewish communities. Oblivious to the consequences of creating dissension and unwilling to accept Israel’s separate and sovereign status, some Reform and Conservative Jewish leaders seem to be engaging in a

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

The U.S. Mideast peace effort faces pitfalls

November 19, 2017

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSAELM — The road to hell: We know it’s paved with good intentions. The record of the US in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and what the enthusiasts called Arab Spring was collectively the equivalent of a Holocaust, albeit well-meant. American and allied deaths were in the tens of thousands, and others in the

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Argentina moves to designate memorial day for Israeli embassy attack

November 19, 2017

By Raphael Ahren The lower house of Argentina’s parliament last week overwhelmingly voted in favor of creating a national day to commemorate the deadly 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. In a November 8 vote, 186 MPs supported the proposal, with one no vote and one abstention. If confirmed by the Senate,

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International, Middle East

President commutes sentence of man convicted of killing his rapist

November 19, 2017

By TOI staff President Rivlin on Sunday commuted part of the sentence of a man convicted of killing his rapist and sentenced in 2013 to 20 years in prison. Yonatan Heilo, who has long fought for early release, will be able to ask the parole board for immediate release in the next couple of weeks,

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Middle East

22 arrested as ultra-Orthodox block roads after military jails draft dodgers

November 19, 2017

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff Twenty-two ultra-Orthodox protesters were arrested Sunday, during demonstrations that blocked key junctions in Jerusalem and other cities, after the Jaffa Military Court sentenced 12 draft dodgers to jail sentences ranging from 40 to 90 days. In response to the jail sentences, the Committee for Saving the Torah World, which

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Middle East

Liberman to Arab leaders: Follow Sadat’s example

November 19, 2017

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Saturday urged Arab leaders to follow in the footsteps of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who visited Israel 40 years ago, and work to achieve peace agreements with Israel. Sadat became the first Arab leader to hold an official visit to Israel, when he met with then-Prime

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Middle East

Steinitz: We have ties with ‘many’ Arab states

November 19, 2017

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz revealed on Sunday that Israel had covert ties with “many” Arab and Muslim states, but added it is obliged not to name them at the other sides’ request. “We have ties, some of them secret, with many Arab and Muslim states,” Steinitz told Army Radio. “Usually the one who wants those

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Middle East

Israeli Jews hold rare prayers at West Bank holy site

November 19, 2017

Hundreds of Israeli Jews held a rare prayers session by a mosque in a Palestinian village on the occupied West Bank early Sunday, an AFP photographer said. The Israeli army accompanied busses carrying over 300 ultra-Orthodox men, mostly from the Breslov Hassidic sect, to Younis mosque in Halhul, north of Hebron, where according to Jewish

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Rabbi Chaim Amsalem leaves Jewish Home party

November 19, 2017

The chairman of the Am Shalem movement, former Knesset Member Rabbi Chaim Amsalem, decided to resign from the Jewish Home Party and not to run for the party’s primaries. Rabbi Amsalem began his political career in the haredi Shas party, but left to found his own movement due to disagreements on conversion, army and related

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Middle East

IsraAID helps set up science and tech center in South Sudan

‘The smiles have been wiped off the Palestinians’ faces’

Strengthening the bond between the US and Israel

This is where Jewish dialogue will happen

Turkey ‘poop’ a good energy source

Jewish progressive movements ‘blackmail’ Israel

The U.S. Mideast peace effort faces pitfalls

Argentina moves to designate memorial day for Israeli embassy attack

President commutes sentence of man convicted of killing his rapist

22 arrested as ultra-Orthodox block roads after military jails draft dodgers

Liberman to Arab leaders: Follow Sadat’s example

Steinitz: We have ties with ‘many’ Arab states

Israeli Jews hold rare prayers at West Bank holy site

Rabbi Chaim Amsalem leaves Jewish Home party

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