Ten 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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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationPart of the of the roof of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher collapsed Friday as hundreds of worshippers visited the site. The church, one of the holiest locations in the Christian faith, had to be closed in the wake of the collapse while officials made sure it was safe for the congregation to return.
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Middle EastIsraeli security forces early Wednesday mapped the home of a terrorist who on Tuesday shot dead three Israeli guards at Har Adar ahead of its demolition. In addition to mapping Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jamal’s home in the Palestinian village of Bayt Surik, security forces dismantled a mourning tent for him, and also arrested a number
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Middle EastThe European Jewish Congress (EJC) decried the Palestinian Authority”s acceptances to membership in the Interpol international police organization, saying that the move “is likely to only exacerbate difficulties in international cooperation in the critical fight against terror.” “It is unconscionable that the Palestinian Authority, only a day after a major terrorist attack in Israel, is
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International, Middle EastMembers of a New York synagogue will visit the Arab country of Bahrain at the invitation of its monarch. The Hampton Synagogue on Long Island will stop in the Middle East island nation on the way to a congregational mission to Israel early next year, its rabbi, Marc Schneier, announced during High Holidays services. Get
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Middle East, USAHAR ADAR, Israel (Press Release) –The Muslim volunteer EMT who was the first responder at Tuesday’s terror attack in Har Adar recognized one of the slain as being someone whom he had treated for a stab wound at a different terror attack a year prior. Moshir Abu Katish is a father of three and lives
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Divisions between Jews are wide, as are divisions between many other groups of people all over the globe. In Israel, among the Jews there are four basic groupings: secular, traditional, religious, haredi (ultra-Orthodox). There is friction among them, especially between the Reform and Conservative movements and the haredi political
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USATen Years By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — When I made Aliya from the UK 10 years ago, Israel was far different from where it is today. It suffered from lack of water, few energy resources, a weak economy, high unemployment, low currency reserves, low tech and international isolation. Now Israel has built desalination plants,
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