Greece’s defense minister said on Sunday plans are being drawn up for joint air force drills with Cyprus, Israel, Egypt and other European countries as part of efforts to bolster stability in the eastern Mediterranean, The Associated Press reports. The remarks by Panos Kammenos came after a military parade in the Cypriot capital to commemorate […]
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International, Middle EastA Palestinian accused of killing a senior Israeli policeman and wounding his wife and nine-year-old child was sentenced on Monday to two life terms in prison, the military announced. Ziad Awad, who appeared before a military court in the West Bank, was found guilty of intentionally causing the death of Baruch Mizrahi by shooting at
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–San Diego lovers of Israel will have an opportunity to hear an Arab Israeli explain how he went from hating Israel to calling himself a Zionist. StandWithUs (SWU) educator Yahya Mahamid, 19, will share his journey at the SWU San Diego Festival of Lights “I Love Israel” gala on December 2 at
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Middle East, San Diego County, USAThe Foreign Ministry said on Sunday it’s reviewing the travel ban imposed on Israeli nuclear secret-spiller Mordechai Vanunu after Norway granted him permission to immigrate so he can be united with his wife. “Israel will continue to review updates of the situation in order to determine appropriate restrictions in accordance with security dangers posed by
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Middle EastIsraeli Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) blasted the Spanish government”s crackdown against a regional referendum in the province of Catalonia Sunday, which left nearly 500 people injured, most of them pro-independence demonstrators. Spanish security forces blocked polling stations across Catalonia, including the regional capital of Barcelona. Police broke into 319 voting stations, local
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International, Middle EastIn a rare move, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman approved a plan to shut off the West Bank and Gaza Strip for 11 days for the Sukkot holiday and the following Shabbat, his office said Sunday. An IDF spokesperson confirmed that this was the current decision. However, she stressed that the closure was subject to further
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Middle EastA man entered Yeshivat Hanegev in Netivot on the eve of Yom Kippur as the Kol Nidrei prayer was underway – drunk and holding a pistol in his hand. The three hundred students at the institute for Jewish religious study began to flee the scene, and police were alerted. Eyewitnesses said the attacker wore a
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Middle EastIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denied Turkish claims of covert involvement in Iraqi Kurdistan’s recent independence vote, reiterating however his “sympathy” for the Kurdish people. On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel’s intelligence agency played a role in the September 25 referendum, citing as proof the waving of Israeli flags during
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Middle EastFormer UK Prime Minister Tony Blair excoriated rock singer and guitarist Roger Waters late Saturday night after the Pink Floyd front man compared Israel to Nazi Germany, and warned of the dangers posed by the “extraordinarily powerful” Jewish lobby. A frequent critic of the Jewish state and a staunch supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
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By Jerry Klinger Roseburg, Oregon, is a city that logging money built. Far from the main urban center of Portland, rich with money and poor on cultural resources, Roseburg’s 19th and 20th century patricians deployed their monies to create a cultural oasis of music, theater, education and social optimism in the remoteness. Today, Roseburg
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International, Jerry Klinger, Middle East, Travel and Food, USAHamas has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a prisoner swap with Israel and is awaiting Jerusalem’s response to the offer, the terror group’s leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, said Thursday night, according to Channel 2 news. A report earlier this month in the Palestinian daily Al Quds quoted sources in Cairo as saying
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Middle EastPalestine Liberation Organization (PLO) secretary general Saeb Erekat on Friday blasted David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador in Israel, for saying in an interview that he believes Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are part of Israel. “Israel is internationally recognized as the occupying power over 100 percent of Palestine, including in and around occupied east
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Middle East, USAUS Jewish leaders have charged the UN Human Rights chief with abusing his authority by directly informing some 150 Israeli and international companies operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights that they could be blacklisted for their activities. In a statement Thursday, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — Eighteen Jewish Democrats in the US House of Representatives wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing disappointment in his rollback of religious pluralism reforms. “We write to express our profound concerns about recent decisions that seem to call into question the legitimacy and equal status of non-Orthodox Jews,” said the letter sent Thursday.
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