Cairo (dpa) – Islamic State late Friday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a military checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in which at least 26 soldiers were killed, including a senior officer. The Amaaq News Agency, which is affiliated with Islamic State, said that as the army was getting ready to launch a […]
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Middle EastA growing movement is pressing to restore the right of Jews to pray at the sight of the biblical Jewish temples, currently barred by Israel By Andrew Tobin Liberal American Jews are feeling thwarted in their years-long campaign for the right to pray as they wish at the Western Wall. Long frustrated that the plaza
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBibliophiles in Iran, clear your weekend: The huge Book Garden center just opened in Tehran. Officials unveiled the Book Garden, a giant academic complex being called “the world’s largest bookstore,” on Wednesday. At roughly 65,000 square meters (about 700,000 square feet), the center has several movie theaters, science halls, classrooms, a restaurant, a prayer room
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastIsrael will now pay just $1.7 m to UN out of required $11.7m following 4 rounds of cuts since December; some funds to go toward building a museum showcasing Jewish heritage in Hebron, PMO says By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in
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International, Middle EastArtwork uncovered at Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq also shows building the Tower of Babel and a Greco-Roman calendar By Amanda Borschel-Dan Unprecedented depictions of the biblical Jonah and the whale have been found at a fifth-century Roman synagogue in Israel’s lower Galilee. In the recently discovered mosaic, Jonah’s legs are shown dangling from the mouth
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Jewish History, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — Stephen M. Greenberg, Chairman and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations issued the following statement: “We strongly condemn the adoption by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee of two more resolutions in the relentless Palestinian campaign to erase the more than 3,800-year Jewish
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International, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The history of the Herzog Hospital (formerly known as Ezrat Nashim) goes back to 1895 and the establishment of a society to provide care for the chronically ill. Since then the facility has expanded both in physical terms and in its medical scope. In the 1960s it moved to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationDuring 3 jam-packed days in Israel, the leader of the world’s second-largest Muslim population did not mention the two-state solution even once By Raphael Ahren There can be no doubt that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Israel this week was a major success. The first-ever visit from the leader of the country with
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International, Middle EastCome-from-behind win against American John Isner, ranked 21st in the world, propels the Israeli singles tennis champ to third round By Times of Israel staff and Justin Cohen Dudi Sela at Wimbledon on July 6, 2017. (screen capture: Sky News) Dudi Sela, Israel’s top-ranked men’s singles tennis player, has advanced to the third round of
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Trust, loyalty, and interdependence have been keywords in numerous complaints and rants over the last few days, since the government decided in favor of its ultra-Orthodox colleagues and against overseas Jews. There is no certainty in what comes next in this column, and it is not meant as a personal
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By Itzhak Brook MD WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the greatest challenges of a medical corps team member is to care for captured and wounded enemy soldiers. I served as an army medic during the 1967 Six Day War in the battle over Jerusalem and as a battalion physician in the 1973 Yom Kippur War
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationRooted in winter 2016 coalition talks, Tuesday’s primary vote was a fight between 3 candidates who have veered from their base, defected from their parties By Marissa Newman In retrospect, the late winter and early spring of 2016 may have proven fateful to the future of the Labor Party, setting off a chain of events
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Middle EastNew Delhi (dpa) – India and Israel have pledged to cooperate in a range of areas including space technology and combatting terrorism as the countries boost relations to a new level during a landmark visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi has held wide-ranging talks with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem during a
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International, Middle EastIn Byzantine tale combining religion, politics and real estate, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate sells prime property to private investors By Sue Surkes Bustling Rehavia (Shmuel Bar-Am) Some 1,500 owners of properties in Jerusalem’s wealthiest neighborhoods have discovered that the land on which their homes sit has been sold, in secret, to private real estate companies. They
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