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JERUSALEM (Press Release) – Fourteen U.S. Baptist leaders returned from Israel this week after learning about the Jewish state beyond the headlines and building Christian-Jewish bridges, in a mission, Feb. 13-20, organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship). The Baptist leaders toured Christian and Jewish holy sites including the Western (Wailing) Wall and […]

Sissi tells Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations that solving Israeli-Palestinian conflict will remove impetus for terror By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during a press conference, at the State House in Nairobi, February 18, 2017. (AFP/SIMON MAINA) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told a delegation from an

Move comes amid statement by Likud minister Ayoub Kara that Netanyahu, Trump will push for Palestinian state in peninsula By Times of Israel staff Human rights lawyer Khaled Ali (l) speaks at Tweet Nadwa 2011 (CC BY Lilian Wagdy, Flickr via Wikimedia commons) A group of prominent Egyptian lawyers have filed a lawsuit against the

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Who is the real Donald Trump? Who the hell knows? His responses to questions from picked journalists at the highly staged “press conference” with Benyamin Netanyahu left the impression of a man who was not focused. He wandered around the subjects asked, managed to repeat his doubtful assertions about the

Hardly historical bedfellows, Saudi Arabia and Israel both lashed out at Iran on Sunday – signalling a growing alignment in their interests. At the Munich Security Conference, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman slammed the Iran nuclear deal. “The Iranian deal…it’s copy paste what we had with North Korea. And we see the results in North