The 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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International, Middle East, Travel and Food, USAA Los Angeles man was nearly prevented from taking part in his own wedding in England on Monday when he was arrested and eventually deported after being denied a special marriage visa. The diplomatic intervention of senior Israeli officials and the British ambassador, however, helped turn what could have been a wedding disaster into a
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International, Middle East, Travel and Food, USAEmily Thornberry, a British politician from the Labour party, said on Monday that the British government should mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration by formally recognizing a Palestinian state. Speaking to the Middle East Eye news website, Thornberry opined that the time was now right to do this. “I don”t think we celebrate
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International, Middle EastLeaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday commended Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan for signing executive orders prohibiting discriminatory boycotts of Israel in their respective states” contracts. Walker on Friday signed an executive order that prohibits state agencies from entering into contracts with companies that
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Middle East, USABy Robert Philpot LONDON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flies to London this week as support for Israel in Britain rises to a seven-year high, according to a new poll. The survey for the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM), a UK-based think tank, also shows a drop in backing for the BDS movement,
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International, Middle EastJewish Home chief and Education Minister Naftali Bennett defended the killing of a dozen Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists during an operation Monday to destroy a terror tunnel extending from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. At least twelve terrorists were killed when the IDF Southern Command destroyed a network of terror tunnels found near
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