Yemen 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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International, Middle East, USATrader Joe’s is now selling Bamba, an Israeli snack that is long overdue for a triumphant entrance into the mainstream U.S. market. Bamba is “crunchy, airy, peanutty and highly craveable—kind of like a cheese puff without the cheese,” Trader Joe’s said in its announcement in late October. The snack is made with just four ingredients,
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Raphael Ahren The current Israeli government “has lost its way,” UK Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry said Thursday, citing the ongoing “occupation” and the “misery” of the Palestinians. In an exclusive interview with The Times of Israel, the woman who hopes to become Britain’s next top diplomat explained in great detail why she would
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International, Middle EastBy Tamar Pileggi Egypt’s ambassador to Israel on Thursday said his country’s 1979 peace agreement with Israel should serve as encouragement to Palestinians and other Arab states to reach their own peace agreements with the Jewish state. “We can say, ‘Look, we have reached peace, there is no reason why you cannot reach this peace
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Middle East[youtube:2034872] Actor, rapper, and film producer Will Smith was spotted at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem Thursday, in an unpublicized trip to the Holy Land. The 49-year-old star of the Men In Black film series, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Enemy of the State, and I Am Legend among others, made
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWell-known religious businessman David Hager and Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, held a conversation at the beginning of the week on the sidelines of the Israeli American Council (IAC) National Conference in Washington, DC. Hager, a cousin of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe and a well-known supporter of many Torah institutions as well
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International, Middle East, USAChuck Davidson Over the last number of years, the involvement of American Jewry in Israel has been hotly debated in the halls of a number of Israeli institutions, from the Knesset to a wide range of non-profit organizations. Indeed, many Israelis attempt to shut down the voices of American Jewry by claiming, “we serve in
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