Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has called on President Donald Trump to put aside his hardline politics and offer assistance to Iran after the country was hit Sunday by what’s become the deadliest earthquake of the year. With casualties having reached at least 452 people dead and thousands more injured, mostly in Iran, according […]
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Middle East, USABy TOI staff In a heated Knesset session Monday called by the opposition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed criticisms of his conduct and leadership, saying the left had had it in for him from the start. At a special plenum session called by 40 MKs, opposition leaders censured the prime minister on issues ranging from
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Middle EastChairman of the Yesh Atid party, MK Yair Lapid, responded Tuesday to the statements of Zionist Union Chairman Avi Gabbay, according to which he would agree to be “Number 2” to Lapid if the move yields more seats. “If Gabbay chooses me, I will also turn to the Likud because the state needs a national
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Middle EastMore than 70 years after World War II ended, 45 Holocaust survivors in Israel finally got a chance to celebrate their bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for the first time yesterday, Monday morning, at the Western Wall, Judaism”s holiest site. The survivors reached bar or bat mitzvah age during the war or immediately afterwards, but
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastRutgers Hillel calls Syrian apologist on faculty a ‘national embarrassment’ Mazen Adi, adjunct professor at Rutgers, served in Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Suddenly, two New Jersey college campuses have become battlegrounds for two very different fights facing Jewish students when it comes to the fraught issue of Israel. One battle, at Princeton, is being
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPresident Reuven Rivlin met on Monday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. During the meeting, the two discussed the strong ties between Israel and the United States and the courageous connection between cities in Israel and Los Angeles. The president invited the mayor to visit Israel in order to better get to know Israeli society.
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Middle East, USAThe Jewish population in Judea and Samaria is on the brink of a period of major growth, and could top one million residents within 10 to 15 years, a veteran settlement leader said Tuesday morning. Ze”ev “Zambish” Haver, Secretary-General of the Amana settlement organization and a long-time activist in Judea and Samaria, addressed an Amana
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Middle EastBy TOI staff LOS ANGELES — The Jewish Federations of North America called on Israel to reverse its “divisive and damaging” steps to freeze an agreement on egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and its support of a bill that would grant a monopoly to Orthodox authorities in Israel over conversions to Judaism. The JFNA’s
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International, Middle East, USABy Judah Ari Gross Israeli forces arrested a top commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the West Bank early Monday morning, a day after Jerusalem warned the group amid rising tensions over Gaza The Shin Bet security service confirmed that Tariq Qa’adan was picked up by the Israel Defense Forces in Arrabeh,
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Israel announced on Monday it will not allow a group of European officials to visit Israel due to their efforts to promote boycotts of the Jewish state. Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announced in a statement that he will adopt the recommendation of Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan to deny entry to the
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International, Middle EastTEHRAN, Iran — Wailing survivors crowded hospital emergency rooms as rescue teams and sniffer dogs combed through rubble for bodies Monday following a powerful earthquake near the Iran-Iraq border that killed more than 400 people and left thousands injured, Iranian officials said. Behnam Saeedi, a spokesman for Iran’s crisis management headquarters, told state-run Channel 6
By Raphael Ahren Israel offered sympathy but no immediate assistance to Iran and Iraq to help the countries deal with the aftermath of a destructive earthquake Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon said Monday he was unaware of any aid offered to the two countries, neither of which have diplomatic ties with Israel. In fact,
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release)–Israeli Pres. Reuven Rivlin urged cooperation and mutual understanding in a speech Monday night to the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Los Angeles. Rivlin addressed major issues confronting Jews and Israel, including prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, regional security in the Middle East, and divisions in Israeli society. Rivlin took on
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Middle East, USABy Jacob Magid The leader of a Jewish extremist group will be indicted, pending a hearing, on charges of incitement to violence, racism and terrorism, the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. The allegations against Lehava head Bentzi Gopstein relate to a number of inflammatory public statements he made between 2012 and 2017. Gopstein’s far-right
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