A few hours after a Chabad man in Herzliya was fined 730 shekels for helping passersby put on tefillin, a Sderot resident received a fine for activating “Shabbat sirens” near the city’s “Ha’ari Hakadosh” synagogue. “Shabbat sirens” are either music or an actual siren, sounded twenty minutes and five minutes before the start of Shabbat
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastJustice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) took part Monday in the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism”s (ICT) 17th annual international conference, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, and addressed the long-term security and geopolitical challenges faced by Israel. Among the chief security issues confronting the Jewish state, Shaked stated, are the Hamas terror group in Gaza
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Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu”s son, Yair Netanyahu, on Sunday deleted a post from his Facebook account which included a caricature claimed by the left to be anti-Semitic. The Prime Minister’s son had sparked a storm when he posted the meme which was full of anti-Semitic overtones. The meme, titled “food chain”, showed Jewish billionaire George
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Middle EastDavid Breakstone The Conservative (Masorti) and Reform movements together with Women of the Wall rallying for a pluralistic Israel (Courtesy) Rabbi David Stav is not a Reform Jew. How dare anyone accuse him of that! Several days ago, a tape was leaked to Israeli television in which Aryeh Deri, head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party,
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Middle EastIsrael’s Counter-terrorism Bureau issued a general travel warning “to present the public with an up-to-date picture of the situation.” The warning comes two weeks before the Jewish holidays. “Every year, the Tishrei holidays may be an attractive target for carrying out terror attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets,” the warning said. Tishrei is the Hebrew
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Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu arrived in Argentina Monday, following a 20 hour flight from Ben Gurion airport. Netanyahu will begin his four day visit to Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico with a visit to the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which was destroyed in a terrorist bombing in 1992. The Prime Minister will participate in a
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International, Middle EastNorth Korea is suspected of working with Syria on its chemical weapons and ballistic missile programs in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, a U.N. panel of experts has said. The eight-member panel tasked with monitoring sanctions implementation against Pyongyang made the observation in a 111-page report published online on Saturday, two days before the
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Internet provides insight into the range of opinions expressed by overseas Jews about Israel. It also raises the question about the nature of Israel’s relations with the Jewish Diaspora. Do overseas Irish, Germans, Italians, Indians, Sri Lankans et al demonstrate the same concern for a “homeland” as do Jews
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his family are embroiled in numerous scandals. Recent court documents show that the Prime Minister is a suspect in two investigations of “fraud, breach of trust and bribes,” with the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom saying on its front page recently that his indictment is imminent.
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Binyamin Netanyahu is the most American prime minister that Israel has ever had. He lived in the United States for many years and at some point even made his surname more pronounceable for Americans. He seems to have learnt there more than impeccable English. One has sometimes a feeling that he
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Middle East, USAThe Daily Stormer neo-Nazi website published an article supporting Yair Netanyahu for publishing a meme on his private Facebook account that appeared to be inspired by anti-Semitic overtones. “Yair Netanyahu is a total bro,” wrote Daily Stormer reporter Andrew Eglin, who went on to say that “this is one of those things that is just
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Middle East, USASecretary of State Rex Tillerson is weighing a plan to pressure Israel to return tens of millions of dollars in military aid allocated by Congress for the Jewish state, claiming the funds violate an agreement signed during the Obama administration. According to a report in the Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration is mulling an
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Middle East, USA[youtube:2032659] An Israeli singer and his family were attacked by an Arab lynch mob in eastern Jerusalem Saturday night, following a concert at a hotel near the Mount of Olives. Avi Miller, a haredi singer who performed for guests at the Seven Arches Hotel Saturday evening, says he and his family were attacked by a
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Middle EastA member of the Saudi royal family visited Israel during a secret trip last week, despite his country”s refusal to recognize the Jewish state. According to a report by the Israel Broadcasting Corporation, a senior member of the Saudi royal family held high-level talks with Israeli officials during a clandestine trip to the Jewish state.
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