Tens of thousands of people attended a memorial rally for slain Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin Saturday, with organisers banning political speeches and stressing a message of unity across political divides. “We want to hold the rally this year under a banner that unites rather than divides us,” said Darkenu, one of the organisers — a […]
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Middle EastIsraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delayed the vote on a proposal canceling the expulsion from northern Samaria communities destroyed as part of the 2005 “Disengagement” from Gaza. The Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation was scheduled to vote on the law on Sunday. If approved, the new law would allow Jews freedom of movement in the
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer Vanson MEVASERET ZION, Israel — The latest event on the world stage, the not-very-stellar re-election of Angela Merkel and rise of the AfD party in Germany, seems to fit into the pattern that has characterized elections all over the world in recent years, with the rise of right-wing parties. Some people think
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The Iraqi Kurds’ referendum that was conducted several weeks ago won an overwhelming majority in favor of independence, but was rejected by much of the international community, especially by the US and the Iraqi government. Self-determination, however, is unstoppable because it is a core of human rights. No power
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy Jessica Steinberg Jews are often known as the People of the Book, and now “Eretz Nehederet,” Keshet’s satire news show poking fun at anything Israeli, is taking on the Bible. Yes, that book. Comedian Shani Cohen is Sivan Rahav-Meir, a religious writer and speaker who is dressed modestly, with a wig and hairband. She
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastIsrael has offered to intervene on behalf of a Syrian village near the Israeli border, one of the few times the Jewish state has expressed a willingness to wade into Syrian civil war raging for the past six years on Israel”s northern border. The Israeli army said Friday that fighting has escalated in and around
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Middle EastIn May, 21-year-old Rotem Rabi was crowned Miss Israel 2017, making her Israel”s contestant for the Miss World beauty contest, to be held in China this December. A former Air Force medic and native Jerusalemite, Rabi now finds herself representing Israel in more ways than one since her arrival in China last week. Raised in
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International, Middle EastFormer Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Thursday vowed that the Palestinian Arabs will forcefully cancel the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which proclaimed Britain”s support for the establishment of a Jewish national home in then-Palestine. Speaking at a conference in Gaza, Mashaal attacked Britain for boasting of the “crime” of the Balfour Declaration instead of apologizing for
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International, Middle EastThe United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on Thursday marked the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration with an event focusing on its “impact on the Palestinian people.” Speaking at the event, Professor Rashid Khalidi, a former adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said, “For Palestinians,
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International, Middle EastA South Florida Jewish center’s planned celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration Thursday was canceled over a bomb threat from a local college student, the Miami Herald reported Thursday night. Police believe it was 21-year-old Florida International University student Oscar Aguayo who issued a threat against the Miami Beach-based Jewish Museum of
By Tamar Pileggi Hours after Israel allegedly struck Hezbollah targets in Syria, Lebanese President Michel Aoun warned that all the citizens of his country are willing to battle Israel in a future war. “All the Lebanese are prepared to fight against Israel,” Aoun told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai on Thursday. “Yes, we are a small country,
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Middle EastBy Dov Lieber Israel on Thursday said that until there is progress toward releasing Israeli citizens and remains of IDF soldiers held in Gaza by Hamas, it will not allow the terror group to retrieve the bodies of terrorists thought to have been buried under rubble when the military destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel on
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Middle EastThe ‘From Tunis to Djerba’ conference was held this week at the Dahan Center at Bar-Ilan University. A new study was presented at the event which revealed that the number of Tunisian Jews who perished in the Holocaust is tens of percentage points higher than previously thought and stands at close to 700 people. “When
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Jewish History, Middle EastThe Netzach Yehuda (Nahal Haredi) battalion returned to guard the Binyamin region on Wednesday after two months of training exercises. The battalion is responsible for the villages that lie just outside of northern Jerusalem, including Bet El, Ofra, and Kochav Yaakov. A platoon commander said that the battalion has looked forward to being deployed in
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