Jewish Home leader Bennett announces plans to annex Ma’aleh Adumim (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett announced Monday that his party is planning to draft a bill to annex the Jerusalem suburb of Ma’aleh Adumim. The community is located east of Jerusalem, beyond the 1967 lines. Bennett’s announcement coincided with a Knesset […]
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — In the waning days of December, in its “great wisdom,” the UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2334. Yes, the US abstained, but that is the equivalent of “yes,” because the US Ambassador declined to veto what may be President Obama’s final assault on Prime Minister Netanyahu and
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Once a year Israel’s classical ballet comany puts on a performance of a traditional ballet. This is intended mainly for the entertainment of children during the Chanukah/Christmas holiday season. For me, however, this is a golden opportunity to enjoy a very special aesthetic and artistic treat. When I was growing
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIn the wake of Secretary of State John Kerry”s speech last week, in which he claimed that Israel”s presence in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem is an “obstacle to peace”, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee visited the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem in order to send Kerry a message that Israel is, indeed, both a Jewish
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Middle East, USAAttorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Monday evening released a statement with regards to the questioning of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The statement was released shortly after Netanyahu”s questioning by investigators from the National Fraud Unit concluded after three hours. In the statement, Mandelblit officially declared that the probe against Netanyahu has turned into an official
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Middle EastA drone with a video camera which crashed in a wooded area on Mount Hevron revealed a European Union (EU) espionage operation intended to spy on and gather intelligence about Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. The footage from the drone was retrieved after it crashed in view of residents of the town of Ma’on
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International, Middle EastThe funeral for the mother and four daughters who were found dead in their Jerusalem apartment Sunday will take place tonight at 10:30 PM at the Har Hamenuchot [Mount of Those who are Resting] cemetery. Police suspect that the mother strangled her daughters to death before setting fire to the room and committing suicide. It
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Middle EastBerlin (dpa) – German police have detained a 38-year-old Syrian asylum seeker for allegedly asking the extremist Islamic State for 180,000 euros (189,000 dollars) to help finance a potentially spectacular terrorist attack. The accused had used a middle man to ask for the money to buy, according to the daily Bild, eight vehicles stuffed with
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International, Middle EastIstanbul (dpa) – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim denies reports that the attacker of an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Eve was wearing a Santa costume. Such reports are false, he says on Sunday in Istanbul. “We know of an armed terrorist,” he says. The authorities are working non-stop to uncover the identity of the
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Middle EastCairo (dpa) – Several convicted terrorists escaped a prison in Bahrain on Sunday after an armed attack in which one policeman was killed, the Interior Ministry said. The attack, carried out by unknown gunmen, targeted Bahrain’s Jau Prison, the ministry said on Twitter. “Security agencies are intensifying search and investigation in order to arrest the
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Middle EastJewish Home leader says plan to extend Israeli sovereignty to Jerusalem-area settlement to be presented in Knesset after Trump inauguration By Tamar Pileggi and Times of Israel staff Education Minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett delivers a statement to the press in response to the UN vote against Israeli settlements, at the Western
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Middle East, USATwo businesspeople have admitted to investigators of the Israel Police Lahav 433 National Fraud Unit that on several occasions they gave gifts to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and to his son Yair, Walla! News reports. The two were questioned in the course of the inquiry into allegations against Netanyahu that became a criminal investigation last
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Middle EastIsrael on Sunday said it would stop handing over the bodies of Palestinians killed in attacks in an effort to force Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, to hand over the bodies of Israelis it has … The Israeli authorities said that the Palestinians’ bodies would be buried, rather than being handed over to their
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Middle EastTunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on Sunday said that his government suspects Israel of being behind the assassination of Hamas engineer Mohamed Zaouari, Haaretz reported. Zaouari, an aviation scientist, was shot to death outside his home in Sfax, Tunisia, on December 15. Hamas said two days after his death that he was a member of
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