Middle East

New Palestinian Group Claims Jerusalem Truck Attack

A previously unknown Palestinian group has claimed responsibility for the truck attack in Jerusalem that left four Israeli soldiers dead Sunday. The faction, identifying itself as “the Martyr of Baha Aylan Collective,” named after a Palestinian attacker who killed three Israelis in Jerusalem in 2015, said it had acted on “political motives” and claimed to

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Israel baseball team helps dedicate ambucycle

JERUSALEM (Press Release)- Jeff Aeder, owner of Chicago’s restaurant Milt’s BBQ for the Perplexed, and founder of the Jewish Baseball Museum, donated an ambucycle to United Hatzalah in honor of his late father Arthur Aeder. Jeff said that his father was a true Zionist, a lover of the Jewish people. The date of the ambucycle

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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions

Paris leaders to call on Netanyahu to disassociate from Bennett

The State of Israel is preparing for a new diplomatic battle, this time in Paris. In less than a week the Paris International Conference will convene with participation of delegates from 70 countries but without Israel or the PA. Participants at the conference will call on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to disassociate from Jewish Home

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International, Middle East, USA

Op-Ed: Kerry gives terrorists an excuse to attack Jews

By Morton A. Klein NEW YORK –During an interview with David Martin of CBS on Friday January 6, 2017, outgoing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry again vented his hatred towards Israel, and incited and legitimized anti-Jewish, anti-Israel violence throughout the Arab world.   Kerry threatened that moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem would cause “an

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Middle East, USA

Mourners attend funeral of former Iranian leader Rafsanjani

Hundreds of thousands of mourners led by Iran’s supreme leader gathered at Tehran University early on Tuesday for the funeral of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Iran is holding an hours-long ceremony for the veteran politician, who died on Sunday at the age of 82. Authorities have declared Tuesday a public holiday so that Iranians

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Large theater detected at Sussita dig site

SUSSITA, Israel (Press Release) — The University of Haifa’s excavations at the Hippos (Sussita) site have uncovered the location of a large Roman theater. However, the theater’s location outside the city walls supports the hypothesis that the facility was used mainly for religious ceremonies rather than shows for the masses. Dr. Michael Eisenberg of the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Middle East Roundup: January 10, 2017

Poll: majority of Israelis support settlement building, believe Obama ‘unfriendly’ to Israel (JNS.org) A new survey published in the aftermath of the United Nations Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements, which passed after the Obama administration refused to veto the measure, says that 62 percent of Israeli Jews support continued settlement building and 57 percent

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Middle East

Smartphone App can analyze sleep disorders

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have developed a new system to assess obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity while a patient is awake and analyze sleep-wake activity, using his or her smartphone. According to the American Sleep Apnea Association, it is estimated that 22 million Americans suffer from the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Paris conference to ask Israel and PA to commit to two states

The countries that will attend the Middle East peace conference in Paris on Sunday are expected to call on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas to publicly renew their commitment to the two-state solution, and to renounce officials in their respective governments who oppose it, Haaretz reported on Monday. The

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Syria’s Assad ‘ready to negotiate everything’, if conditions are met

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the government is ready to negotiate on everything, including his position as president. However, he insisted this would have to be decided by all Syrians, by way of a referendum on the constitution. “Yeah, but my position is related to the constitution,” he said in an interview with various

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