Middle East

26-year-old from Atlanta wants the Israeli army to innovate like Google

Sure, 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 East

Lebanese beauty queen stripped of title over Israel visit

After 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 East

Returning Home – Torah dedication in Shiloach Yemenite Village

In 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

UK lawyer: ‘Zionists should all be shot, Jewish refugees bombed’

A partner at a British law office has been fined after calling for the murder of Jewish refugees and “Israeli Zionists”. Forty-year-old Majid Mahmood, director of Liberty Law Solicitors and a partner at the City Law Chambers in Luton was fined 25,000 pounds ($32,100) by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over several social media comments he

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International, Middle East

Turkey, Jordan call for ‘serious’ Mideast peace talks

Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Monday for new “serious and effective” peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the royal palace said. Meeting in Amman, they urged “the resumption of serious and effective negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel to end the conflict on the basis of a

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Middle East, USA

JNF holds a pre- inauguration for Lizerbram

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—An outdoor party at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel on Monday night celebrated San Diegan Sol Lizerbram’s approaching inauguration in November as national president of Jewish National Fund.  The organization, noted Russell Robinson, its executive director, is 115 years old and going strong.  In fact, it is in the middle of

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County

Former Jerusalem police commander tells of hard decisions involving suicide bombings

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Members of local law enforcement, always concerned about the possibility of terrorism, are meeting on Tuesday with Israeli experts on the subject at a one-day conference sponsored jointly by the San Diego Sheriff’s Department and the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). One of the

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Middle East

Israeli contest seeks Vietnamese startups as fresh link in bilateral ties

Entrepreneurs in Far Eastern nation invited to participate in competition that will bring them to Jerusalem for 5 days of tech immersion By Times of Israel staff President Reuven Rivlin (c) oversees the signing of an Education agreement in Vietnam (Koby Gideon /GPO) As Israel and Vietnam negotiate a free trade agreement, the Israeli Embassy

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International, Middle East