By Jacob Magid Billboards announcing the upcoming memorial service for slain far-right activist Meir Kahane were removed from a pair of hotels at the entrance to Jerusalem on Wednesday following pressure from left-wing lawmakers and NGOs. The signs — which also included a message of support for recently detained activist Bentzi Gopstein — were hung […]
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Middle East, USABy Judah Ari Gross The Israel Defense Forces suspended construction on the underground barrier being built around the Gaza Strip on Wednesday out of concern that workers might come under attack by a Palestinian terror group in Gaza whose tunnel was destroyed in an Israeli detonation on Monday, according to a senior IDF officer. “The
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Middle EastHamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip’s borders with Egypt and Israel to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday in the first key test of a landmark Palestinian reconciliation accord agreed last month. Nazmi Muhanna, the Palestinian Authority’s top official for border crossings, formally received control of the Rafah crossing with Egypt from his Hamas
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called for the ongoing crisis in Spain to be resolved “quickly and peacefully,” in the first comments from Jerusalem on Catalonia’s bid for independence. The Foreign Ministry appeared to side with Spain, saying in a statement the two countries “share longstanding, strong and friendly relations, rooted in
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International, Middle EastBy Raphael Ahren With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to London to celebrate the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas lamented the document, accusing it of setting in motion a process that led to a century of Palestinian suffering, and urging the British government to take steps to remedy it. In
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International, Middle EastThe center-left bloc is strengthening, and if elections were to be held today, Binyamin Netanyahu would have trouble establishing a government, according to a poll which was published Wednesday on Channel 12 and Channel 13. The Likud party would win 24 seats, the Zionist Union would achieve 21 seats and the Yesh Atid party would
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Middle EastBy Dov Lieber It took Asfahan Bahloul, a leading Arab Israeli researcher of the Holocaust, quite some time to formulate how she feels when she sees Israeli jets soaring over Auschwitz. She had to think about it for weeks. And then a few more days. She finally sent her answer by email, to which this
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationAgriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish House) today (Wednesday) visited the protest tent in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence which was set up by bereaved families and mayors from Judea and Samaria to demand funding for security and paving bypass roads in Judea and Samaria. Minister Ariel met with the head of the Samaria Regional
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Middle EastIsraeli leaders marked on Wednesday the 22nd anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, with President Reuven Rivlin calling his murder one of the Jewish people’s lowest points. Rabin was gunned down in Tel Aviv after a peace rally on November 4, 1995 by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir who opposed the Oslo Accords.
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Middle EastBy Robert Philpot LONDON — Deep beneath the main London road of Whitehall lie the cabinet war rooms. From this bunker, surrounded by a military and civilian staff who rarely saw daylight for the five years of World War II, Winston Churchill commanded Britain’s war effort. Now a museum to the country’s wartime savior, this
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastBy TOI staff Tempers flared at a Wednesday meeting of the Knesset’s Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee, with lawmakers and American Jewish leaders exchanging heated snipes over the government’s decision to freeze a plan for a permanent pluralistic prayer pavilion at the Western Wall. “When we go to various different places abroad, we automatically
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International, Middle East, USARutgers condemns hate, launches inquiry of two faculty members An anti-Semitic cartoon taken from the Facebook page of Prof. Michael Chikindas. Image courtesy JTA Scarlet Knights for Israel president Miriam Waghalter said it was urgent for Rutgers to suspend Chikindas. Rutgers Prof. Michael Chikindas is under fire after anti-Semitic posts made on Facebook went viral.
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Judging a country is not easy or free of controversy. Political perspective and the norms of the person doing the judgment are likely to be involved. However, their influence can be limited by the range and nature of criteria employed, and especially by the breadth of comparison. There can be no
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Charles Bronfman Prize on Wednesday announced the call for nominations from around the world for its 2018 award. Each year, the Prize celebrates the vision and endeavors of an individual or team under the age of 50 whose innovative humanitarian work, informed by Jewish values, contributes to the betterment
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