Nitsana Darshan-Leitner Never has the wisdom of the ancient rabbinical adage that showing mercy to the cruel would eventually result in dealing cruelly with the merciful been more apparent. The recent news that senior PLO official Saeb Erekat has asked to be placed on Israel’s waiting list for a lung transplant certainly raised a few […]
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Middle EastBy Ahmed Bani Mustafa – Aug 10,2017 – Last updated at Aug 10,2017 AMMAN (JT) — Some 11, 500 pilgrims are scheduled to start leaving Jordan to perform Hajj (the greater Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca) as of Wednesday, August 16, an official source said. The pilgrim number includes 7,000 Jordanians and around 4,500 Palestinians, Anas
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Middle EastOn same night, army demolishes three houses of Palestinians behind two separate terror attacks; seals another home By Judah Ari Gross Israeli security forces destroyed the homes of four Palestinian terrorists on Thursday morning involved in the killings of a Border Police officer and an Israeli soldier. Three of the attackers whose homes were demolished
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Middle EastBecause it was immune to ritual impurity, the use of stoneware was rife among Jews during the Roman era By Amanda Borschel-Dan Dr. Yonatan Adler on-site at the stone quarry and tool production center excavations at Reina in Lower Galilee. (Samuel Magal/IAA) Stone vessels unearthed inside the ancient workshop at the stone quarry and tool
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Middle EastSouthern Command chief says terror group is ‘deterred and restrained’ for now, but gearing up for war; construction of underground barrier proceeding on schedule By Judah Ari Gross A satellite image provided by the IDF that allegedly shows the location of a Hamas tunnel that was dug beneath an apartment building in northern Gaza. (Israel
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Middle EastNeda Amin, 32, who wrote regularly from Turkey for The Times of Israel’s Persian website, faced deportation, feared she would be sent back to Iran By Times of Israel staff Neda Amin is welcomed by Times of Israel’s David Horovitz at Ben-Gurion Airport, August 10, 2017 (Times of Israel staff) Neda Amin, a Turkey-based, Iranian-born
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Middle EastThe 2016 election may be long over but the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails related to the 2012 Benghazi attack has been given fresh life—by a federal judge appointed by President Barack Obama. U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled earlier this week that the State Department had not been sufficiently thorough when responding to
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) –A swastika was spray-painted on one of the buildings of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, which resides in Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus in Jerusalem. This is the second time in two weeks that swastikas have been found at the Hebrew University campus. Last week, students were shocked to discover
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Do you assume that adding a smiley to work-related emails can help you make a positive first impression? A new study has found that a smiley is not regarded the same way as a smile, and can actually have a negative impact on the initial impression created in formal work-related
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Between the lines, if not clearly in the lines of nearly every news broadcast is the question of how close are police investigators to the Prime Minister. Except for what seems to have been a temporary uptick in tensions about the Temple Mount, Jordan, and Jaffa, we’ve been dealing with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastAliza Lavie Last month saw a historic success in the fight against prostitution in Israel: the Knesset gave unanimous preliminary approval for a bill incriminating the clients of prostitution and providing rehabilitation services to survivors of prostitution. It was a bill I submitted along with colleagues from across party lines in the Knesset, which is
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Middle EastA week after Netanyahu took credit for African nation’s ostensible decision, its president says he has no say in foreign policy By Raphael Ahren Prime Minister Netanyahu (right) meeting with Cape Verde President Jorge Carlos Fonseca during a summit in Monrovia, July 4, 2017 (screen grab YouTube) Cape Verde on Tuesday denied that it had
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International, Middle EastUnder plea deal, servicemen will serve at least two years in prison, pay damages, be demoted to private By Judah Ari Gross Illustrative photo of an IDF soldier in military court (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90) An IDF serviceman pled guilty to raping a female soldier in his unit on Wednesday, a military official said. In May, Military
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Middle EastCourt decision comes two years after Yehoshua Elitzur was arrested in Sao Paulo, ending a decade-long manhunt By Jacob Magid Yehoshua Elitzur (screen capture: Channel 2) The Brazilian Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to extradite an Israeli settler convicted of killing a Palestinian taxi driver in 2004, local media reported. The decision came two years
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