By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Temple Mount, Friday prayers, metal detectors, and the incitement of Muslim religious and political leaders were as exciting and worrying as we’ve seen for some time. Commentators and prominent officials were adding to the noise, with competing assessments of how we’ve gotten here, who was responsible, and what should […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Miriam Libicki, whose graphic memoir about life as a clerk in the Israel Defense Forces was on sale at the annual Comic-Con Convention, has been plunging into issues of personal identity: hers and those of Russian-born friends. She grew up in Ohio
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Shor M. MasoriJERUSALEM (Press Release) – On Friday night United Hatzalah volunteer EMS personnel left their families at their dinner tables and ran into, not away from, a terror attack that took place right next to their homes. Doron Mah Tov lives in the town of Halamish and was the first medical responder at the scene of the heinous
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Tensions between Palestinians and Israel have been building up for some time now. The confrontation could have come, and may still come, in the South along the Gaza border, As Hamas that rules Gaza is losing ground, partly because of closer relations between Israel and the Gulf States, it
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Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – A brother of the Palestinian man who stabbed to death three Israelis has been arrested after a raid on his home, according to Israeli and Palestinian media reports on Saturday. The 20-year-old Palestinian forced his way into a home in the West Bank settlement of Neve Tsuf, north-west of Ramallah, and
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Middle EastAt the Lions Gate where a deadly attack on July 14 prompted the latest escalation, Palestinians insist metal detectors are part of an Israeli Temple Mount power grab, to be resisted at all cost By Dov Lieber As if they were in a mosque, thousands of men and women sitting along the walls of the
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Middle EastCongress has reached a final deal on new Russia sanctions legislation, leaders announced Saturday, clearing the path for final approval of legislation that would codify penalties imposed by the Obama administration and would require President Trump to seek approval from Capitol Hill should he want to lift the sanctions. The bill has been stalled for
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International, Middle East, USAQatar’s Emir says the country remains open to dialogue with four Arab nations that have isolated it, but that any resolution to the crisis must respect his country’s sovereignty. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani made the comments in his first televised speech since a diplomatic dispute among the U.S. allies erupted more than a
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Middle EastThe escalating violence brings to mind the events of September 2000, after opposition leader Sharon visited the Mount, but with a few significant differences By Avi Issacharoff The decision taken overnight Thursday-Friday to leave the electronic metal detector gates at the entrances to the Temple Mount compound — placed there after the July 14 attack
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Middle EastWhen Capt. Libby Weiss grew up in the US, she never suspected she’d one day be working with international media in a war zone By Renee Ghert-Zand TEL AVIV — Capt. Libby Weiss spent most of the summer of 2014 in a Hamas tunnel, and she wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else. Israel’s military
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Middle East, USAOne cop, 8 Palestinians hurt in Wadi Joz as protesters throw rocks, water bottles and set off fireworks, police respond with tear gas; rioting at Qalandiya By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff Israeli security forces stand guard in front of Palestinian Muslim worshipers outside Lions Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 21,
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Middle EastPA president holds emergency meetings over rising tensions at Temple Mount; IDF arrests ten Fatah leaders overnight in bid to stave off protests By Times of Israel staff Muslim worshipers perform noon prayers by the Lions Gate, outside the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City, July 20, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
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Middle East, USACorpse of teen covered in bloodied white sheet seen being carried over wall in footage posted by Palestinian media By Times of Israel staff Screenshot from footage posted on Palestinian media showing what appears to be a body of a protester covered in a bloodied sheet being carried over a wall in East Jerusalem after
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Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — An investigation following the terrorist shooting on July 14 on the Temple Mount Complex in the Old City of Jerusalem revealed that an accomplice brought weapons into the compound in the early hours of the morning in readiness for the attack. In this attack two Druze police officers were shot
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Barry Shaw, Middle East