Suspected chemical attack in Syria kills at least 68, including 11 children (JNS.org) A suspected gas attack, carried out by either Syria’s government or Russian jets, killed at least 68 people—including 11 children—in the Syrian province of Idlib Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the gas attack caused dozens of people to […]
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Middle East‘Pnima’ says goal to mend Israel’s social fabric, bring ‘an end to the divisions, an end to the incitement, an end to the baseless hatred’ By Marissa Newman Mayor of Acre Shimon Lankri, Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi (2L), Shlomo Dovrat, former IDF Chief of staff Benny Gantz (standing) and former education minister
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Middle EastThe father of the Israeli teenager accused of sending the bulk of the bomb threats to Jewish institutions in the US and around the world apologized to US Jewry on Israeli television Monday night. More than 120 bomb threats had been sent to Jewish institutions across the US since January. The father of the suspect,
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump held private meetings Monday with one of the United States’ most important Arab allies, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, kicking off a week of high-stakes international diplomacy. El-Sissi arrived at the White House just before noon EDT. Trump emerged from the West Wing to greet the Egyptian leader — the first
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — On the eve of his inauguration, President Donald Trump turned to his daughter Ivanka and joked that he “sort of stole” her husband, Jared Kushner. With a trip to Iraq, announced on Monday following his arrival in Baghdad, it became clear that Kushner’s role in the Trump administration has only grown bigger since
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C.) has rejected efforts by the American Studies Association (ASA) to suppress a lawsuit filed against the Association by its own members challenging the ASA’s adoption of a boycott of all Israeli academic institutions. The judge ruled in favor of the
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Middle East, USAWith Passover in mind, Jerusalem security bolstered after attacks (JNS.org) Following two Palestinian stabbing attacks in Jerusalem’s Old City within a week, a senior officer from the Israel Police has warned of a possible increase in terror attacks during the upcoming Passover holiday. Tens of thousands of people are expected to visit Jerusalem during Passover,
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s no surprise that Americans vote their interests. Most likely, citizens of all countries with a meaningful right to vote are parochial, i.e., most concerned about what’s close to them. For many, national political matters are less important that what they get from local authorities– whether their streets and parks are
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USANegotiations said put on ice after Netanyahu, Greenblatt fail to agree on formula; comes days after Israel announces self-imposed restrictions By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s special representative for international negotiations, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, March 13, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy
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Middle East, USADefense minister says ‘Hamas is known for its internal assassinations — let them look there’ By Sue Surkes Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at the inauguration ceremony for a new Elbit defense electronics factory in the southern Israeli town of Arad. April 02, 2017. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday
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Middle EastBen-Gurion University researchers predict the snake-like, ingestible device will revolutionize colonoscopy tests By Times of Israel staff A depiction of the SAW (single actuator wave-like robot) designed by Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University. (Screen capture/YouTube) A tiny ingestible robot designed by Israeli scientists may one day have the capacity to slither its way through
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationJust prior to Pesach (Passover), the National Library of Israel revealed that it had acquired the velum Prague Haggadah two months ago, when the library purchased the famed Valmadonna Collection of Judaica. The Haggadah was printed in Prague in 1556. A previous Haggadah was printed in 1526, but no copy survived. Several elements of the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastNablus shop believed used to make explosives by Hamas terror cell busted in December; army raids Jerusalem stabber’s Sebastia home By Judah Ari Gross The Israel Defense Forces welded shut a bookstore in the northern West Bank on Sunday that was suspected of being used to manufacture explosives for a Hamas cell broken up late
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) – Late Saturday night on April 1st, two EMTs, Dvir Adani and Moshe Mizrachi, decided that they would play an April Fool’s joke on their friends. The pair of United Hatzalah volunteers were driving past Ben Gurion airport on their way to buff calls in the center of the country when they
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