Rebbetzin Tova Eliyahu, wife of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the rabbi of the city of Safed, told Arutz Sheva about the Arab intrusion of the family’s home in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, which was undergoing renovations. “I received a phone call in the morning that someone broke into our apartment. Four Arab thugs entered, broke […]
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Middle EastA 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 EastJordan’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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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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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 EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — What’ll it take to get rid of Trump? It won’t be easy. It shouldn’t be, given his election. One should be careful of messing the aura of legitimacy, even for a boor who can’t express a sentence in his native language, has flirted with a government considered a serious antagonist
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAEntrepreneurs 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 EastSouth Africa has recently been attempting to impede the development and strengthening of ties between Israel and other nations on the African continent. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has made strengthening Israel’s ties with Africa a priority with the stated goal of breaking the automatic anti-Israel majority at the UN. A senior South African diplomat said
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International, Middle EastSuspect is one of a group that allegedly beat the pair, and a girl who was with them, when they mistook them for Arabs By Times of Israel staff Illustrative photo of an Israel Police patrol car. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90) Police arrested a 16-year-old youth on Sunday suspected of attacking three Jewish Israelis on Friday evening
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Middle EastIn a display of solidarity after Thursday’s Barcelona attack, Lebanese soldiers raised a Spanish flag alongside their own on a Syrian-Lebanese border hill seized from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). Lebanese military launched its operation in the Jurud Ras Baalbek and Jurud al-Qaa region early on Saturday on the country’s eastern border with Syria,
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International, Middle EastYaakov Menken President Trump was roundly criticized for failing to call out neo-Nazis or the KKK by name in his first statement on the tragic violence in Charlottesville last weekend. Even many others in the GOP, including Marco Rubio and Orrin Hatch, indicated that the President should have been specific. Yet the fact that the
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Middle EastHe was credited with bringing Benjamin Netanyahu to power for the first time in 1996 and a series of successful campaigns in the US and Israel By Times of Israel staff Arthur Finkelstein and Benjamin Netanyahu in March 10, 1999. (Flash 90) Arthur Finklestein, a conservative campaign strategist widely credited with bringing Prime Minister Benjamin
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USAThe Lebanese army says its destroyed 11 Islamic State positions along the border with Syria. On Saturday, the U.S.-backed army launched its biggest military operation yet against ISIS, since the group gained a foothold along the country’s border with Syria in 2014. During a news conference, Nazih Jreij, a spokesman for the Lebanese army, said
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Middle EastSpeaking in an interview on Israeli television, white nationalist Richard Spencer Wednesday said Jews were “overrepresented” when challenged on antisemitism, adding Jews and Israelis should respect him despite his supremacist views. Spencer, who has previously courted Israeli media, despite engaging in Holocaust denial and refusing to condemn Hitler, made the remarks while speaking to Israeli
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