By TOI staff and Raoul Wootliff A former worker in the Prime Minister’s Residence, who filed an abuse lawsuit recently against Sara Netanyahu, said she feared for her safety while working for the prime minister’s wife. “I do not know what would have happened if I had stayed there another minute,” Shira Raban said in […]
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Middle EastPresident Reuven Rivlin departed on Saturday night for Los Angeles, where he will deliver on Monday night the keynote address at the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), at the invitation of the organization”s leadership. Rivlin”s address at the General Assembly, to be held in Los Angeles on November 12-14,
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Middle East, USA35,000 Jews spent Shabbat (Sabbath) in Hevron, commemorating the Torah reading this Sabbath which relates how the Patriarch Avraham bought Me’arat Hamachpela (the Cave of the Patriarchs) from Ephron the Hittite for 400 coins. The streets of Kiryat Arba and Hevron filled with tents and portable caravans, and over 3,000 Jews enjoyed Shabbat meals at
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastHezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah raised the stakes in the growing war of words between Iran and Saudi Arabia on Friday, saying Riyadh efforts to upend the balance of power in Lebanon was effectively a declaration of war against the terror group and its Iranian backers. Mr. Nasrallah said Beirut did not recognize nor accept the
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — The U.S. is nearing agreement with Russia on establishing additional cease-fire zones in Syria, a key step to finally resolving that country’s brutal civil war. Some officials had suggested agreement could be announced in a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the margins of Friday’s Asia summit in
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Middle East, USABy TOI staff Israeli high schools will be closed on Sunday as teachers stage a one-day strike demanding higher salaries, the teachers’ union announced Friday. “The Union of Secondary School Teachers announces that due to the procrastination and lack of progress being made by the Finance and Education Ministries in the negotiations on the wage
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationYemen is dealing with famine and disease of biblical proportions, according to the United Nations. The World Food Programme estimates some 7 million people in Yemen are facing famine-like conditions and rely entirely on food aid to survive. In six weeks, the food supplies to feed them will be exhausted. More than 2 million children
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International, Middle EastSpecial counsel Robert Mueller has begun investigating an alleged plot by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to kidnap a Turkish opposition leader living in the U.S. Multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation confirmed the direction of Mueller’s probe to The Wall Street Journal Friday. Four sources also confirmed it to NBC News. The
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Middle East, USAThis coming Sunday will be the 16th anniversary of the murder of Hadas Abutbul in a terrorist shooting attack while driving from her work at the Shaked nursery school to her home in the Mevo Dotan in Samaria. Her husband, Yitzhak, is preparing to hold the memorial ceremony for Hadas on the sidewalk opposite the
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Middle EastUNESCO member states on Friday overwhelmingly approved the nomination of France’s former culture minister Audrey Azoulay to head the embattled cultural agency. They confirmed the nomination by the agency’s board last month of Azoulay, 45, who becomes UNESCO’s second woman director general. “The unity you have shown in this vote is a good omen for
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – Masa Israel Journey, the global leader in long-term international career development and leadership experiences in Israel for young adults from around the world, has hit record numbers for participation in school year 2017-18. Some 13,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 30 are anticipated to participate in Masa
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USADozens more people have been taken into custody by Saudi authorities, the kingdom said Thursday, bringing to 201 the number detained in a sweep that investigators say has uncovered at least $100 billion in corruption. Saudi critics and experts have called the unprecedented purge of top princes and businessmen a bold and risky move by
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Middle EastThe longstanding cooperation between the two regimes seems to have intensified during Syria’s war, with troubling implications for future missile, chemical, and even nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. North Korea’s decades-old military alliance with the Assad regime is stoking fears inside the Trump administration that Kim Jong-un is not only profiting from Syria’s six-year
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International, Middle East, USABy Judah Ari Gross OVDA AIR BASE – Way down, down in the Negev Desert — or, more accurately, in the skies above it — the countries of Falcon Land and Nowhere Land are waging a vicious aerial war, with dozens of fighter jets dogfighting and bombing each other’s infrastructure. So far there have been
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