Religious Netzah Yehuda battalion ambushes alleged terror cell as it prepared to firebomb roadway for third week in a row By Judah Ari Gross Soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda battalion catch a group of Palestinians allegedly preparing to attack a West Bank highway with rocks and Molotov cocktails on June 16, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit) […]
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Middle EastWhen Manal al-Sharif posted a video of herself driving in Saudi Arabia in 2011, she angered many in the deeply conservative kingdom. “The worst backlash was from the religious establishment,” she says. “They took the Friday sermons, and they called me things like a prostitute for just driving a car.” Author Manal al-Sharif. Credit: Courtesy
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Middle EastIn recognition of the life-saving treatment he received several months ago, an anonymous top Palestinian official has just made a massive donation of tens of thousands of shekels to an Israeli hospital. style=”display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-8420654331411867″ data-ad-slot=”1313712966″> The official of the Palestinian Authority, a man in his 40s known only as M, had been hospitalized at Rambam
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIsraeli minister says Modern Language Association’s vote is a ‘major blow’ to divestment efforts against Israel By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff A BDS protest against Israel in Barcelona, Spain, June 2014. (YouTube screenshot) The Modern Language Association ratified a resolution opposing academic boycotts of Israel in a vote by its members, drawing praise from
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USATEL AVIV (Press Release) — Patients with severe and end-stage heart failure have few treatment options available to them apart from transplants and “miraculous” stem cell therapy. But a new Tel Aviv University study finds that stem cell therapy may, in fact, harm heart disease patients. The research, led by Prof. Jonathan Leor of TAU’s Sackler
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israel is a wonderful country and I deem it a privilege to live here. I’m convinced that without this our Jewish state there wouldn’t be much of Judaism or Jewry today. Therefore, it pains me greatly to have to write that the country seems to be sliding toward fascism.
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Middle EastSongstress tells Arnon Giladi to mind his own business, after council member says event should be canceled over views he calls anti-Zionist By Jessica Steinberg Singer Achinoam Nini performs during a memorial ceremony for the late Yossi Sarid, on January 12, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) Singer Achinoam Nini, known for her outspoken support for a two-state
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The slippery subject of academic freedom has moved into our headlines with a draft code of ethics for universities and their personnel. It is the work of Professor Asa Kasher, a philosophy professor at Tel Aviv University, and the author of the IDF’s code of ethics. He prepared this code at
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationAfter US Secretary of State Tillerson said Ramallah intends to stop paying inmates and families, Jerusalem says it has seen no change By Raphael Ahren Security prisoners in the Ofer Prison facility near Ramallah, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90) Jerusalem on Wednesday said the Palestinians were continuing to pay salaries to incarcerated terrorists, rejecting US
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Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel –This may come as a shock but intense terror incitement is happening in Jerusalem and nobody is taking a bit of notice. Noise is being made about stopping Mahmoud Abbas paying salaries to jailed terrorists but nobody is addressing the source of the incitement, even when it is taking place
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBNEI BRAK, Israel — Maor Cohen is a highly sensitive man who is known at Ezer Mizion as Mr. Lego. He raises the spirits of both children and adults battling life-threatening diseases with his Lego Workshop in addition to his hospital visits to those who cannot attend the workshop. Many have asked how he manages
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationSANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Fifty Jewish, civil rights and education advocacy groups on Wednesday wrote to University of California Irvine (UCI) Chancellor Howard Gillman demanding he publicly address the latest in a slew of disruptions of pro-Israel events on campus within the framework of the UC Regents’ Statement of Principles Against Intolerance, which Chancellor Gillman had committed
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USANEW YORK, June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — AJC welcomed Secretary of State Tillerson’s comments today that the Palestinian Authority, responding to U.S. pressure, will end its longstanding practice of financially rewarding terrorists and their families. “Creating monetary incentives for terrorists is a key factor impeding the peace process and nurturing a Palestinian culture of violence
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