One-month-old Sahar, her ribs protruding under translucent skin, breathed her last on Sunday in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, where a crushing regime siege has pushed hundreds of children to the brink of starvation. Only a trickle of humanitarian aid ever reaches this rebel-held region east of Damascus, under a tight blockade by Assad regime forces since […]
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Middle EastBy Stuart Winer Lord Roderick Balfour, a descendant of the UK foreign secretary who penned the 1917 Balfour Deceleration endorsing the establishment of Jewish state, said that Israel, by mistreating Palestinians, is failing to honor the terms of the document. Balfour, who has visited Israel several times in his capacity as a banker, spoke to
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International, Middle EastHamas has denied reports hinting that the Palestinian group is dissatisfied with the role of Qatar in the effort to reach econciliation with Fatah. Local news-media reports on the issue surfaced after Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar recently met youth groups in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, Hamas has said allegations of the rift are
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Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to appoint Yaron Blum as the new coordinator for issues concerning missing and captive Israelis. Blum was appointed to replace Lior Lotan, who stepped down in August after three years in which he voluntarily held the position. Arutz Sheva spoke to Rami Igra, former head of the Prisoners and
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Middle EastBy Tamar Pileggi Reports that the rockets fired over the Syrian border over the weekend may have been deliberate and not spillover fire from the civil war largely dominate Israel’s print media on Sunday. IDF officials tell the Yedioth Ahronoth daily that the five rockets launched at Israel early Saturday morning were “not what spillover
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Middle EastThe Trump administration is preparing to unveil its much-anticipated Middle East peace plan, one which is expected to include a radically different approach from other plans promoted by world leaders seeking to broker a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. According to a report by Channel 2 Sunday night which cited senior
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Middle East, USAInspectors from the Tel Aviv municipality ordered a Chabad rabbi to cease laying tefillin (phylacteries) on passersby and threatened to levy a fine if he would not consent. For many years, Chabad men have set up stands all over Israel, as well as in many other countries, offering to help Jewish men put on tefillin.
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastPalestinian movement Hamas said on Sunday that a visit by its delegation to Iran was a “rejection” of the Israeli conditions on reconciliation with rival faction Fatah. The two largest Palestinian groups have agreed a deal that is supposed to see Islamists Hamas hand over control of the Gaza Strip to the Fatah-dominated West Bank-based
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Middle EastAs yet another natural disaster takes its toll in America, Israeli wineries are reaching out to offer solace and support. “I would like to express my deepest condolences to those affected by the wildfires that have ravaged the historical wine region of California, a region close to my heart, which is currently reeling in devastation,”
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USAFor the first time in its history, the State of Israel will provide a solution for agunot (women who are unable to remarry because their husbands refuse to grant them a religious divorce), as well as men who find themselves in a similar situation, even if they are not Israeli citizens. Today, the Israeli government
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle EastIsraeli police have arrested 15 suspected Jewish extremists following an undercover investigation into a group accused of tracking down and threatening Arab men dating Jewish women, authorities said Sunday. Israeli radio said that among those taken in for questioning was Benzi Gopstein, a prominent leader of the extreme-right group Lehava, but police would not confirm
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Middle EastThe local planning and building committee in Jerusalem is set to approve construction of 176 housing units in the Nof Zion neighborhood, Channel 2 reported. Nof Zion is a Jewish neighborhood adjacent to the Jabal Mukaber neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. Nof Zion currently has 91 apartments in 7 buildings. The approval of 176 additional housing
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Middle EastBy TOI staff The Israeli army on Saturday launched a military strike on three Syrian-made artillery cannons across the border in the northern Golan Heights, hours after a pair of projectiles landed in an open field in Israeli territory as a result of spillover fire from the fighting in Syria. “Even if this is just
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Middle EastMK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) on Saturday slammed the Israeli government for approving new housing units in Judea and Samaria. “The settlements do not add to Israel’s security,” Livni said. “The State’s concept of security is based on soldiers protecting civilians, and not their protecting a family which goes to live on an isolated hilltop
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