By Hana Namrouqa – Aug 27,2017 – Last updated at Aug 27,2017 AMMAN — The World Future Council (WFC) has awarded Jordan the bronze Future Policy Award 2017 for its Updated Rangeland Strategy that enshrines the Middle East’s most widespread and longstanding indigenous traditional conservation institution “Hima” into law, according to its website. Hima is […]
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Middle East, The World We ShareThe leftist advocacy group J Street on Thursday attacked the Trump administration for refusing to endorse a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict. In a statement sent by email and quoted by Haaretz, J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami said that by taking up such a stance, the administration was hurting its own efforts to
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Middle East, USADespite the apparent cultural or religious differences, this Palestinian bus driver did not hesitate to return $10,000 in cash to the Jewish man who had lost it. The 35-year-old driver, Ramadan Jamjoum, was piloting the 422 line from Jerusalem to the Orthodox city of Bnei Brak when the incident occurred. Jamjoum told police officers that
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Middle EastMonths of competition, involving 500 players from across the city, culminate in a final, fateful throw By David Horovitz In the end, it all came down to one throw of the dice. If Itzik Yakobovitch, he of the snazzy white hat and the implausibly youthful dance moves, could manage double 2, 3, 4, 5 or
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Middle EastThis week’s revelation of two North Korean shipments suspected to be chemical weapons and intercepted on their way to Syria may be just the latest sign of Pyongyang’s hand in the Syrian regime’s chemical arsenal. According to a confidential United Nations report, first revealed by Reuters on Tuesday, the two shipments were intercepted at an
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International, Middle EastAn ancient Babylonian tablet whose purpose has been a longstanding mystery reveals that the ancient Mesopotamian civilization beat the Greeks to the discovery of trigonometry by more than 1,000 years, researchers say—and their methodology might even hold lessons for modern-day mathematicians. The tablet, Plimpton 322, was discovered in the early 1900s in present-day Iraq, according
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In his televised address on the future of American operations in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump took a sharp turn from his predecessors. I share [the American people’s] frustration over a foreign policy that has spent too much time, energy, money, and most importantly lives, trying to rebuild countries in our
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USASure, ranks and discipline are important in the military, says the air force’s Sgt. Ilan Regenbaum, but the culture should allow good ideas to circulate freely By Shoshanna Solomon A 26-year old immigrant from the United States and his commander in the Innovation Unit of the Israeli Air Force are undertaking the ambitious mission of
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release)—The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation has announced the winners of its worldwide competition for the pro-Israel memes. Over the course of 14 days, more than 110 people from a dozen countries on six continents submitted over 300 memes, which received over 16,000 votes during the weeklong voting period. The winners included
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Middle East, USAAfter 2016 trip to Jewish state, Amanda Hanna wrote on Facebook, ‘it turned out that I was wrong’ about enemy country By Times of Israel staff Illustrative: contestants pose at the 2016 Miss Lebanon Emigrant pageant. (Screen capture/YouTube) A Swedish-Lebanese beauty queen was stripped of her crown after pageant organizers discovered she visited Israel last
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International, Middle EastIn August 1938, during the Arab riots and pogroms, the British Authorities and police expelled the last remaining Yemenite Jewish families from their homes in the Jewish neighborhood of Shiloach. (Kfar Hateimanim) The pathetic British authorities were either unable or unwilling to protect the Jewish residents from the hostile, hate-filled, and marauding Arabs in the
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Middle East[youtube:2031898] Arutz Sheva spoke with twin brothers Even and Shay Goel, who left the comfort of their home in the US to join the IDF as foot soldiers. As their parents do not live in Israel, the twins are classified as “lone soldiers.” Lone soldiers are faced with the challenge of passing difficult army years
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — What to do about radical Islam? There ain’t much anybody can do. It’s one of our insoluble problems. For those of us outside areas of the Middle East and Africa where one or another radical movement established itself, the problem may grow with the defeat of the extremists in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAThe Shin Bet intelligence agency has gathered information about 20 Israelis who joined the ranks of the ISIS terrorist organization in Syria, Channel 2 News reported. The majority of the Israeli citizens who joined ISIS were Israeli Arabs. However, two of the terrorist group’s Israeli recruits were born Jewish. The two had immigrated to Israel
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