Jihadi group’s Egyptian affiliate says it fired missile that hit Negev greenhouse; Israel ramps up warnings of terror attack from the peninsula By Judah Ari Gross The remains of a rocket fired from Sinai that struck an Israeli greenhouse in the village of Yuval in the Eshkol region. (Israel Police) The Islamic State affiliate in […]
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Middle EastRachel Miller is grating horseradish in preparation for her Seder — the Passover meal — as Mizgin, her husband Adris, and their three children — ages 12, 9 and 5 — watch her work. The family are refugees from Syria and they’re spending the year living with Rachel and her husband in a Boston suburb.
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Middle East, USAIsrael closed its border with Egypt Monday and called on Israeli citizens to leave the Sinai peninsula over fears of an “imminent” terror attack on the eve of the Jewish Passover holiday. The Israeli government barred its citizens from crossing to Egypt via the Taba crossing—but nationals were allowed to return—just a day after the
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Middle EastAfter meeting with IDF soldiers on Sunday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited the Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, and met with the medical staff. Also present at the meeting were Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar Siman Tov, and Galilee Medical Center General Director, Dr. Masad Barhoum. Since March 2013, more than 1,500 of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBOSTON (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee-New England was dismayed to learn that the night before the Passover holiday, the Tufts Community Union Senate (Tufts Senate) approved a resolution calling for divestment from four companies doing business with Israel. The resolution was proposed only this past Thursday and brought to a vote at the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sunday that the Trump’s administration is “partially to blame” for Syria’s chemical attack last week, which killed about 80 civilians and was apparently orchestrated by President Bashar al-Assad. “I think it probably was partially to blame,” McCain said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday. “And Secretary [of State Rex] Tillerson
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Middle East, USAPope Francis will visit Egypt as planned in late April despite two bomb blasts at Coptic Christian churches over the weekend that killed at least 44 people, a Vatican official said Monday. The Islamic State militant group (ISIS), whose affiliate Sinai Province is waging an insurgency against the Egyptian state, claimed the April 9 bombing
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International, Middle EastPresident Donald Trump might want to carefully consider his next steps to deal with the crisis in Syria. A new poll Monday found most Americans approved of Trump’s recent authorization of airstrikes in the country, but most were also unconvinced the president should take any further action. Related: Despite Trump Criticism, U.S. Navy Pursues Expensive
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International, Middle East, USAIsrael slams Marine Le Pen for denying French responsibility in Holocaust roundup (JNS.org) The Israeli government condemned French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for comments absolving France of responsibility for the roundup of thousands of Jews who were deported to the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust. Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — An anti-Semitic social media trolling campaign aimed at presidential advisor Jared Kushner has escalated from a series of tweets into a full-bore assault perpetrated primarily by white supremacists and anti-Semites of various stripes, according to an online analysis by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The campaign of anti-Semitic messages has
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International, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The goal of American foreign policy should be to make our friends more secure and our adversaries less secure. The balance of countries then have to decide how they want to position themselves. A successful policy will have tactical goals that fit into a larger strategic picture. The American
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I awoke Friday morning to the news of a significant American attack on Assad’s forces. It recalled the first bulletins about 9-11, George W. Bush talking about the fall of Saddam, pictures of the Libyan crowd killing Qaddafi, Barack Obama announcing the end of Osama bin Laden, and.watching John Kennedy
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAPresident Reuven Rivlin made a condolence Sunday evening to the family of Sgt. Elhai Taharlev, the 20-year old IDF soldier murdered in a car ramming terror attack outside of Ofra, in Samaria, last Thursday. Elhai”s family told the president of their son”s pride at being recruited into the Golani Brigade and his plans to train
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Middle EastU.K. Defense Secretary of State Michael Fallon has claimed Saturday, writing in the Sunday Times that Russia is responsible for the “barbaric chemical gas attack” in Syria Tuesday that claimed the lives of almost 100 people and left 300 wounded. Fallon wrote that the Russian president was responsible “by proxy” for the chemical attack, as
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