Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and his wife, Nechama, held a state dinner Wednesday night for the President of the Slovak Republic, Andrei Kiske. President Kiske said, “When I was 27, I moved to the US. My wife stayed behind with the children, and when I did not find work as an engineer I found work […]
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International, Middle East, USAPrime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to cut $ 2 million from Israel’s payments to the UN, in light of the hostile proposals adopted by the UN Human Rights Council last week. This amount will be used to deepen and expand Israeli projects in the field of international
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International, Middle EastBy JT – Mar 29,2017 – Last updated at Mar 29,2017 AMMAN — A joint communiqué was issued on Tuesday on the occasion of Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s state visit to the Kingdom, upon an invitation from His Majesty King Abdullah. The following is an unofficial translation of the full communiqué issued
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Middle EastAfter UK threatens to vote against all rights council resolutions unless it drops anti-Israel bias, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson speaks against ‘profound absurdity’ of Golan Heights motion By Eric Cortellessa , Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and Times of Israel staff British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets with Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki in the West
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International, Middle East, USAIn crackdown on illegally manufactured weapons, army seizes machinery, gun parts in Hebron region; 6 Palestinians arrested overnight By Judah Ari Gross Israeli troops shut down three workshops believed to have been used to illegally manufacture guns in the Hebron region early Wednesday morning, as part of an ongoing crackdown on the weapons trade in
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Middle EastTamar Zandberg called ‘human trash’ and ‘filth’ over her participation in IfNotNow demonstration in Washington By Times of Israel staff Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg speaks at a rally in support of legalizing marijuana in Tel Aviv on February 4, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) A left-wing Israeli lawmaker invited to Washington by the pro-Israel lobby to participate
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Middle East, USABeirut says Jerusalem bid to legislate over area of sea with possible energy reserves is tantamount to a ‘declaration of war’ By Sue Surkes Buoys marking the border between Israel and Lebanon. CC BY Chadica, Flickr) Lebanon has appealed to the United Nations to intervene following moves by Israel to formalize a maritime border between
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International, Middle EastJobs on the line, workers’ and manufacturers’ unions join fray, slamming move made due to safety concerns in the bay city By Shoshanna Solomon Haifa Chemicals workers protesting ammonia tank closure in Tel Aviv (Courtesy: Tal Gimpel) Hundreds of Haifa Chemicals Ltd. workers protested in the streets of Tel Aviv Tuesday against the closing of
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Middle EastWashington (dpa) – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will confer with Turkish leaders on Syria and a host of other issues central to relations between the United States and Turkey when Tillerson travels to Ankara later this week, State Department officials said Monday. Tillerson will meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after arriving in
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Middle East, USABy JT – Mar 28,2017 – Last updated at Mar 28,2017 DEAD SEA — Concerns over the regional situation and its impact on Arab people dominated Arab officials’ speeches at the opening session of Monday’s foreign ministers’ preparatory meeting. Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who received presidency from his Mauritanian counterpart Isselkou Ould Ahmed Izid Bih,
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International, Middle EastMSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday compared Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s prominent roles in the White House to the power wielded by the late Saddam Hussein’s two eldest sons during his reign in Iraq. “Do you think this bothers the country to have sort of a Romanov royal family running the place?” the “Hardball”
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Middle East, USA‘That’s the next president’ said a man next to me, reflecting the adulation as Trump’s UN ambassador left the stage to the event’s biggest ovation by far By David Horovitz WASHINGTON — Fourteen minutes. That’s how long Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, spent in conversation with interviewer Dan Senor at AIPAC’s
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International, Middle East, USAPM hails ‘exceptionally warm meeting’ with Trump last month, thanks him for upholding Israel defense aid despite fiscal belt tightening By Times of Israel staff Following is the full transcript of an address given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the annual gathering of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC in Washington, March 27, 2017, as
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez took aim at President Donald Trump’s top White House aide as he criticized anti-Semitism before the annual Washington gathering of the leading pro-Israel lobby. Menendez pledged to use his position as a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee to call out the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement directed
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