Middle East

UN chief pulls support for Palestinian women’s center named after terrorist

Secretary-General Guterres says agency no longer affiliated with West Bank facility over its ‘glorification of terrorism’ By Times of Israel staff Palestinians hold posters showing Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre in which 38 Israelis were killed, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 16, 2008. (Issam […]

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International, Middle East

Netanyahu endorses Jewish lawmaker for reelection in France

PM says Meyer Habib an ‘engine’ developing France-Israel relations who continuously looks out for interests of French olim By Times of Israel staff French-Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in May 2017. (Screenshot) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw his weight this week behind the reelection campaign of French-Jewish lawmaker

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International, Middle East

Cannes and Cannes-not: Jews abound, but no Israeli films at the festival

While it was a dry year for cinema coming out of the Jewish state, the Tribe is heavily represented in this year’s screenings By Jordan Hoffman CANNES, France — Time to pack up, head home and not think about how many flaky, butter-drenched croissants I stuffed in my maw during my 12-day stay in the

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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Ending strike after 40 days, Barghouti is now Abbas’s undisputed heir

The prisoners’ protest was not entirely successful for the jailed Fatah leader and convicted terrorist. And only one of his demands was met. But he is now a Palestinian national symbol By Avi Issacharoff After 40 days and 40 nights of fasting, the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike came to an end just before dawn on

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Middle East

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt

MINYA, Egypt — Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus loaded with Coptic Christians the day before near the southern city of Minya, which officials said killed 29 people. “A security team of caliphate soldiers set up an ambush for dozens of Christians as they headed to the church of St. Samuel,”

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Middle East

Hillary Clinton cleared of Benghazi lawsuit brought by victims’ parents

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by relatives of two Americans killed during the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya. Mrs. Clinton neither enabled the Benghazi attack by using her now-infamous private email server nor defamed its victims’ parents afterwards, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman

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Middle East, USA

The complete timeline of awkward moments from Trump’s two days in Israel

From the moment Air Force One touched down on the runway at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, as well as their hosts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, provided Israelis with seemingly endless opportunities for giggles, laughs and snark. For most leaders, and in most countries, red

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Middle East, USA

Ground broken for major medical center in Samaria

SHA’AR BINYAMIN, Israel (Press Release) – This Thursday, the One Israel Fund held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Binyamin Medical Center (BMC), the first major medical facility in Samaria.  The BMC will address an unmet need for medical care for the more 75,000 Israelis living in 45 communities in the Binyamin region, and for tens of

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education