The Upper Galilee Regional Council has announced a plan to build a promenade from where the Snir (Hasbani River) and Hermon (Banias) streams meet until the Pekak Bridge. The promenade will include parking garages, picnic tables, bike paths, small bridges, and entertainment infrastructure, and will cost 30 million NIS. Work will begin in 2017 and […]
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Middle EastLiberal group’s first conference of Trump era features Bernie Sanders, Saeb Erekat, Joint (Arab) List leader MK Ayman Odeh By Eric Cortellessa US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks as he debates with Democratic presidential candidates former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during their MSNBC Democratic Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire on February
One of the world”s smallest and most geographically isolated Jewish communities has united behind an effort to fulfill a Holocaust survivor”s last dying wish, and give her a proper Jewish burial in the Land of Israel. The Jewish community of the Canary Islands – an Atlantic archipelago under Spanish sovereignty west of Morocco – numbers
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastMore than 150 French lawmakers signed an open letter on Sunday urging outgoing President Francois Hollande to officially recognise the Palestinian Territories as a state. The move comes during a period of renewed international determination to revive the two-state solution, after the last talks brokered by then US secretary of state John Kerry collapsed back
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International, Middle EastCiting anonymous sources, Politico says US State Department ‘questions value’ of the UN body, which is ‘biased’ against Israel By Judah Ari Gross US United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at the Security Council meeting on February 21, 2017 at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR) The United States reportedly could
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International, Middle East, USALawmakers in the state of Montana on Saturday advanced a bill that pledges solidarity with Israel by refusing to do business with firms boycotting the Jewish state, reports The Associated Press. Republican House Speaker Austin Knudsen of Culbertson said his bill allows Montana to stand in solidarity with Israel. The bill, he added, “sends the
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Middle East, USAU.S. Vice President Mike Pence reiterated the Trump administration”s steadfast commitment to Israel while vowing that Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon. Pence”s comments were made on Friday as he addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition”s annual leadership conference, taking place in Las Vegas. “President Trump is personally invested in forging a lasting peace in
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Middle East, USAUS VP tweets ‘support for the Jewish people,’ but accidentally uses Central American county’s volcanoe, sun and rainbow flag By Times of Israel staff United States Vice President Mike Pence pauses before speaking during a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool) While his impulsive
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International, Middle East, USADemonstrators block roads, high schools cancel classes as judges decide whether to renew permit for hazardous facility By Times of Israel staff The ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry) Thousands of protesters filled the streets of Haifa Sunday morning demanding the closure of an ammonia storage tank
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Middle EastFormer Palestinian Authority official Ashraf al-Ajami participated on Saturday in Arab-Jewish “Shabatarbut” (Culture on the Sabbath, events planned to include the secular) event in Acre. The event was led by Arab MK Zouheir Bahloul (Zionist Union), and attended by Coalition Chairman David Bitan (Likud) who shook hands with al-Ajami and posed with him in a
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Middle EastGeneva (dpa) – The 18-month prison sentence for an Israeli soldier who killed a wounded Palestinian assailant was “excessively lenient” and continues Israel’s culture of ignoring such crimes, a UN human rights office spokeswoman said Friday in Geneva. Soldier Elor Azaria was found guilty of shooting 21-year-old Fatah al-Sharif as he lay on the ground,
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International, Middle EastIndia”s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the $2.5 billion purchase of an advanced Israeli-made anti-aircraft missile system for his country”s army, JNS.org reported Thursday. “In a meeting of the cabinet committee on security headed by the prime minister, the proposal for procuring the MR-SAM air defense system for the army was approved and these
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International, Middle EastDozens of Lebanese citizens protested on Saturday near the Lebanese-Israeli border. Some of them crossed the border with Israel near the Israeli village of Kibbutz Manara. IDF forces pushed the crowds back using tear gas and smoke grenades. On Wednesday, Arab media reported that IDF planes attacked Syrian army targets on the Lebanese border and
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Middle EastCairo (dpa) – Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi ordered the government on Saturday to take all necessary measures to help Christians who escaped northern Sinai after the Islamic State militia killed at least six of them over the past month. This is the first official response by the state to the attacks targeting Christians in
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