By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s our problem, actually, and we’ve made it theirs. It is the West that simultaneously wants “the Arab Spring” and “stability.” Democracy and strong government control. Honest government and stable kleptocrats. Check out our split-brain reaction to the Palestinian Authority. By rights, the U.S. should have nothing to do with
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — On the face of it, it doesn’t look good. Israel seems to be under threat from its neighbors, its friends in the Diaspora and its own politicians. 1A. In the South, Islamic Jihad in Gaza, with Hamas turning a blind eye, appears to be planning retaliation for the devastating
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Middle EastBy TOI staff A labor court on Thursday gave a former worker in the Prime Minister’s Residence three weeks to refile her claim in an abuse lawsuit filed against Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister’s wife. Judge Eyal Avrahami said that for the case to proceed, the charges had to be presented afresh to the Jerusalem
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Middle EastIndependent 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