President Reuven Rivlin said on Thursday that he is considering issuing a special pardon for prisoners to mark the Jewish state’s 70th anniversary, which Israel will celebrate next year. “I am considering the possibility of advancing a special process of pardons in honor of the country’s 70th year,” said Rivlin during a tour of the […]
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Middle EastDavid Friedman, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, said on Thursday that he believes Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are part of Israel. “I think the settlements are part of Israel,” Friedman said in an interview with the Hebrew-language Walla website. “I think that was always the expectation when Resolution 242 was adopted in 1967.
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Middle East, USAThe World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Wednesday condemned threats to blacklist 150 Israeli and international companies for doing business in “occupied Palestinian territories.” The condemnation followed reports in Haaretz of a letter sent two weeks ago by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra”ad al-Hussein warning the companies that they would be added to
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International, Middle EastThe IDF announced on Thursday that it will put in place a closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, ahead of the holiday of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, which starts Friday evening. The closure is expected to last until midnight on Saturday, “depending on a
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastNearly two months ago, 42-year-old Niv Nehemia was fighting for his life after an Arab terrorist stabbed him repeatedly at the Yavneh supermarket where he worked as deputy manager. After making a remarkable recovery, Nehemia confronted his would-be murderer Thursday in court, an appearance Nehemia said was important to show the terrorist that neither he
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Middle EastThe Bnei Brak municipality has threatened to cancel the Tel Aviv light-rail train project if work on the route takes place on the Yom Kippur holiday as planned. NTA Ltd, which has been contracted to build the Tel-Aviv light rail, first informed the Bnei Brak Municipality that they would be carrying out underground drilling work
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastHundreds of protesters gathered outside of the Qatari embassy in Washington Thursday to protest the Hamas terror group”s refusal to return the bodies of two slain IDF soldiers killed in 2014, and demand that the Qatari government pressure Hamas to release their bodies to Israel. Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul were killed during Operation Protective
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Middle East, USATen Knesset members from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu”s coalition government have called on the Prime Minister to back construction in Israeli towns across Judea and Samaria, including in Hevron”s Jewish community. The letter, penned by MK Sharren Haskel (Likud) to Netanyahu days after the Rosh Hashanah holiday and signed by nine other coalition MKs, called
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Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir Dear Mr. President, I have been in your country scores of times and developed close and friendly relations with many Turks from all walks of life, who all took pride in the incredible progress Turkey made under your leadership. During your first ten years as prime minister, you transformed Turkey economically, socially,
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Uncertainty. This is an appropriate theme in this season of Yom Kippur. While the conventional emphasis that day is personal atonement, we might also see its implication for thinking about our communities’ sins, accomplishments, and problems. Nothing is certain. The possibility of disease and accidents are close to all of
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAIraqi Kurds have voted overwhelmingly for independence in a contentious referendum, the High Elections and Referendum Commission announced Wednesday, a vote that has angered the government in Baghdad and regional heavyweights Turkey and Iran. Hendrin Mohammed, the head of the electoral commission, announced the official results at a press conference, saying the referendum passed with
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Middle EastThousands of Iranians called for Israel’s destruction at a funeral Wednesday for a young member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps beheaded by the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, a killing that has struck a nerve within the Islamic Republic as its forces continue to suffer casualties in Iraq and Syria. The slaying of
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Middle EastThe Turkish media machine has been warning of imminent dangers facing the region as a result of this week’s referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, reports Sayed Abdel-Meguid in Ankara Kurdish earthquake hits Turkey Commentators in Turkey this week were saying that the referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan from the rest of
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Middle EastB”nai Brith Canada is calling on the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) to remove a teacher from a classroom because of her continued support for two Middle Eastern terrorists, The Canadian Jewish News reported on Tuesday. In a September 13 complaint to the OCT, which licenses Ontario teachers, B”nai Brith stated that the teacher, Nadia
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