Over 100 volunteers, police searching for Sivan Lavi whose 12-year-old died in a tragic accident two days ago By Times of Israel staff A picture of Sivan Lavi released by police on April 8, 2017. (Israel Police) Hundreds of volunteers and police were searching the Tel Aviv area for a woman who went missing Saturday, […]
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Middle EastA Syrian man who survived a Sarin gas attack that occurred in 2013 appeared on CNN with Brooke Baldwin Friday and praised President Donald Trump for striking a Syrian military airfield with Tomahawk missiles in response to a sarin gas attack, calling for him to take matters a step further against Bashar al-Assad. Kassem Eid’s
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Middle East, USATel Aviv – Israel planned to arrest former Palestinian President, the late Yasser Arafat, and deport him from the West Bank in 2002, a former high-ranking Israeli official revealed Friday. Former Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said he and then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had planned the arrest of Arafat under the “Operation of the
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Middle EastNew York/Washington (dpa) – The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, warned that the United States could follow up a military strike on a Syrian airbase with further action, in an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday. The US fired dozens of missiles at a Syrian airbase suspected of being the
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International, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — At Pesach, fifteen years ago, Netanya suffered what became known as the Passover Massacre when a Palestinian suicide bomber walked into the banqueting hall of the Park Hotel and blew himself up as citizens gathered for the Seder service which recalls the Jewish people’s liberation from cruelty and oppression
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Over the years I have attended many performances of Handel’s Messiah, but no matter where it was performed (England, America, France, Israel) it was always sung in English. George Frederick Handel wrote the oratorio using the text devised by Charles Jennens, based on the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsThere’s no chance Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered the chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday, former Republican congressman and three-time White House hopeful Ron Paul insisted afterwards. Mr. Paul raised doubts over the Syrian government’s role in this week’s deadly chemical weapons attack during a Wednesday taping of his YouTube show,
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Middle East, USAFirst there was panic, then bluster. The alert the U.S. military gave Russia on Thursday of an upcoming cruise missile strike was quickly circulated by Russian officials to their Syrian counterparts. Fearing the al-Shayrat air base might not be the only target, many fled Damascus or hustled their families out of the Syrian capital, according
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International, Middle East, USARep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-HI., who secretly met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a four-day trip to the war-stricken nation in January, condemned President Donald Trump’s airstrike on the regime’s airbases Thursday night, saying the “short-sighted” action will lead to “more dead civilians.” The representative told news outlets at the time she spoke with Assad
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Middle East, USASurprise attack on Syrian base is music to Jerusalem’s ears, which saw Obama’s failure to respond to Assad as emboldening Iran. But it also attests to US president’s unpredictability By Raphael Ahren From an Israeli perspective, US President Donald Trump corrected the course of history in ordering airstrikes against the Syrian regime late Thursday. The
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Middle East, USAIDF coordinator says Gaza’s terrorist rulers haven’t paid for fuel to run power plant, regrets that civilians will suffer By Times of Israel staff Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai in 2015 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90) Israel warned Hamas on Friday that the Gaza Strip may soon suffer blackouts unless the
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Middle EastIran, a staunch ally of Bashar al-Assad, was quick to slam Friday’s US missile attack on a Syrian government air base. In Tehran, worshippers chanted “death to America” and “death to Al Saud” – in reference to the ruling Saudi family, a key US ally in the Middle East. The senior Iranian cleric who led
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Middle EastVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a statement Friday following President Donald Trump’s missile strike in Syria Thursday night. Sanders expressed his concern over the airstrikes, calling them “disastrous” and urging peace and stability. “If there’s anything we should’ve learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which the lives of thousands of brave American
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal JERUSALEM — It took a passport check to remind us how many years it has been since we last visited Israel. To our surprise, it has been six years. We used to go about every two years. That changed when we had grandchildren! We gave up Israel for exotic locations such
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