By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — One of Iran’s leaders recently predicted that Israel will cease to exist in the next 25 years. He may have had in mind that his country coming ominously close to Israel’s northern border: It’s in Syria as Islamic State is being defeated and Assad’s grip on the country is tightening. […]
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International, Middle EastIt was the end of Ramadan, a few days before Eid al-Fitr, a time of feasts and family. But the housewives shopping in a Gaza City market were buying just a few handfuls of vegetables and small pieces of meat. “Nobody can use their refrigerators,” one vendor explains; the power is out for much of
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Middle East, USAIsrael’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman denounced unauthorised Jewish outposts in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a day after the prime minister vowed not to uproot settlements in the territory. International law sees all Israel’s West Bank settlements as illegal, but Israel distinguishes between those it sanctions and those it does not. Such outposts “have
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International, Middle EastLebanon has called for a UN peacekeeping force’s mandate to be renewed without changes after Washington accused its commander of being “blind” to the flow of weapons to Iran-backed Hezbollah. The peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL, which patrols Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, is up for renewal when its mandate expires on August 31. Israel
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I’m not an expert on Iran. I don’t speak the language, and my visit there was long ago. However, one cannot live here for more than 40 years without being exposed to a great deal of media reports and commentary, as well as a number of individuals with Persian backgrounds and
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) –the Israel Rescue Coalition (IRC) mobilized Wednesday to dispatch a team comprised of elite members of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit to Houston, Texas, in order to provide mental and emotional stabilization to people who need it. The team includes psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists and will be arriving in
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Middle East, USAIn TV interview, Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi blames Palestinians for ‘holding back developmental progress in the Arab world’; Hamas denounces his comments By Times of Israel staff Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi, Sudan’s minister for investment, is interviewed on Sudanese television. (Screen capture: YouTube) A Sudanese minister said any possible normalization of ties between Sudan and Israel would
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Middle EastTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Israel of undermining the efforts to reach a two-state solution, calling on the Jewish state to end such actions. “To find a solution and provide peace is not only in Palestinians” favor but also that of Israel,” he said during a meeting in Ankara with Palestinian Authority
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Middle EastUN Secretary-General H.E. António Guterres arrived on Monday to the the Grove of Nations in Jerusalem, as a guest of KKL-JNF World Chairman, Mr. Daniel Atar. Together with Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and Atar, Guterres planted a tree in a formal ceremony. This marks the first visit of Secretary General Guterres
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International, Middle EastAyelet Shaked says she plans to amend ruling preventing state from indefinitely detaining asylum seekers who refuse deportation By Times of Israel staff Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Justice Conference of the Israeli Bar Association in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90) Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked accused the High Court of
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Middle EastDefense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday approved granting official status to the Jewish community of Hevron. The move will unite the Jewish residents from a municipal perspective so that they will not be reliant on the Palestinian Authority’s Hevron municipality, as as stipulated in the Hevron agreement of 1997. Among other things, it was decided
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Middle EastThe Coalition for Jewish Values, a public policy institute representing hundreds of Orthodox Rabbis, today rebuked Jewish clergy who publicly announced their refusal to participate in an annual conference call with the President preceding the Jewish High Holy Days. Rabbis from four non-Orthodox Jewish organizations said last Wednesday they would not hold the annual call
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Middle East, USAIsraeli security establishment split over whether restricting privileges of inmates from Gaza could spark a new round of violence By Avi Issacharoff Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin and Avraham Mengistu. (Flash90/The Times of Israel) A senior Hamas official has denied a report that the terror group is demanding the release of thousands of prisoners held by
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Middle EastLior Lotan, who was in charge of efforts to return IDF soldiers’ bodies held by Hamas, says in recording he wants to play ‘with a full hand’ in talks By Alexander Fulbright Lior Lotan speaking to Channel 2 television in 2011. (screen capture:Channel 2) A former official appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oversee
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