Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry is advancing a plan which would grant $1 million of emergency aid to Houston’s Jewish community, in an effort to help it recover from Hurricane Harvey. The Diaspora Affairs Ministry is headed by Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home). “The true test of a Jewish country is when our brothers around […]
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Middle East, USAThe U.S. government has returned an antique chess set which once belonged to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and was stolen during the 2003 invasion of the Iraq. The United States Embassy in Iraq shared the news on social media, saying the chess set had been returned to Iraqi officials in Baghdad Saturday. Read more:
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Middle East, USAIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara is expected to face criminal charges over fraud amounting to the equivalent of over $110,000 after, among other accusations, she is alleged to have used public funds to throw lavish dinner parties and hire private chefs. The indictment against Sara Netanyahu, anticipated in a matter of weeks, sees
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Middle EastMariano Gorbatt The first thing that caught my attention about Mohamed was his watch. It was a very old wristwatch, showing the exact 6 PM of a hot and heavily humid Tel Aviv Sunday afternoon. We were a group of sufficiently crazy Latino-Israelis gathered for the first time in our lives for a face to
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “On one side, you have the universalists, armed with their globalism, liberalism, and concerns for human rights. On the other, you have the nationalists, wielding their exceptionalism, isolationism, and often conservative religious values.” The above is taken from an article by Hanna Kozlowska that appeared on the Quartz website.
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International, Middle EastRabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, the leader of the Derech Chaim organization that placed a golden statue of Supreme Court President Miriam Naor last week in front of the Supreme Court building, sent a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu in light of the prime minister”s response to the placing of the statue. Last week, Derech Chaim had
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Middle EastAn American student and three other people linked to the U.S. – either citizens or permanent residents – have lost appeals against 10-year prison sentences they are serving for alleged espionage, Iranian authorities said Sunday. Princeton student Xiyue Wang was imprisoned last summer while conducting dissertation research in Iran. He was subsequently convicted of “collaborating
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Middle East, USAPoland’s rightwing premier said Sunday that her country would not be “blackmailed” by its “largest” EU partners into accepting thousands of asylum seekers under a quota system for spreading them throughout the bloc. “We cannot be blackmailed by the threat that part of our EU funds will be cut off as punishment, because we don’t
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International, Middle EastThe Palestinian Authority appoiiinted governor of the Hevron District, Kamal Hamid, disapproves of the Israeli government’s decision to grant the Hevron Jewish community authority to administer their own municipal affairs. Last Thursday, Central Command Chief Roni Numa signed an order regulating the municipal status of the Hevron Jewish community, the main result of which grants
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Middle EastFizzing with boyish exuberance, Saudi programmer Zainalabdin Tawfiq could be mistaken for a college freshman, but the popularity of his “honesty” app has shone a spotlight on the conservative kingdom’s nascent tech scene. Tawfiq catapulted to fame when he took time out of his day job as a business analyst last year to develop an
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Middle EastFacing a rising threat of terrorist attacks sponsored by Islamic State, Iran’s government is trying to improve relations with the country’s ethnic and religious minorities that have become a target for recruiting by the militant group. Those populations, concentrated in far-flung provinces, have long been alienated politically and economically from the rest of the country.
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France –Although we’re coming to the end of our vacation in France we have not been cut off from happenings in the rest of the world, specifically Israel and England. Summer in Israel is always hot and this year it seems to have been hotter than usual, at least according to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastIsrael on Friday welcomed the renewal of the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in neighbouring Lebanon amid US pressure for the blue berets to take action against Hezbollah militants. The text of the UN resolution on renewing for a year the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had been the subject
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International, Middle EastChristian Kern, Austria”s Social Democrat Chancellor, employed an Israeli campaign strategist who in the past worked for the Jewish Home and crafted right-wing ad campaigns targeting left-wing groups, German media outlets revealed recently. Moshe Klughaft, 37, served a number of Israeli clients in the past, including model-turned-MK Pnina Rosenblum (Likud), a group of reservist soldiers
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