By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I’ll indicate in advance that this is a personal and rambling note, promoted by several responses to what I wrote about the recent decision of the UN Security Council. And it is by no means the first time I’ve been provoked by what I’ve received from my Internet friends. Several
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAJewish 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 EastA group of Hollywood television stars are touring Israel in an attempt to strengthen ties between the US and the Jewish state, as well as to bolster the struggle against the BDS movement. The trip is organized by America’s “Voices in Israel” group (Conference of Presidents) in cooperation with the Israeli Ministry for Strategic Affairs
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASources say PM considering traveling to Washington for swearing-in ceremony of US president-elect; Trump says Jewish state ‘very, very important’ to him By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President-elect Donald Trump meeting at Trump Tower in New York, September 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO) US president-elect’s White House transition team has been
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Middle East, USALike most Sabras, graphic designer Avi Dunkelman grew up on soccer. But through a huge project for Canada Post, he now plays a pivotal position in home delivering Canada’s passion — hockey By Robert Sarner TORONTO — Growing up in Israel, long before the country had its first ice rink, Avi Dunkelman had little notion
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Many in Israel find it hard to know what the Obama administration really had in mind when it didn’t veto the Security Council resolution that condemns Israel’s settlement expansion and when it let Kerry make the speech that even Britain’s prime minister condemned. All official comments that I’ve seen
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International, Middle East, USATwo bombs exploded at a busy market in central Baghdad on Saturday killing at least 27 people and wounding more than 50 others, security officials and medics said. The attacks took place early Saturday morning in al-Sinaq, a busy market selling car accessories, food and clothes as well as agricultural seeds and machinery. Details were
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Middle EastTurkish airstrikes in Syria killed two Islamic State group emirs this week amid ongoing international negotiations over how to end the five-year-old Syrian civil war and halt the militant group also known as ISIS. Abu Ansari and Ebu Hussein Tunusi were both killed in separate airstrikes carried out by the government in Ankara, Turkish media
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Middle East‘Obama doesn’t deal in revenge. It’s not how he makes decisions,’ Dan Shapiro tells Israeli TV By Joshua Davidovich Dan Shapiro speaking in Jerusalem on November 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster /Flash90) The American ambassador to Israel vociferously denied Thursday that the US decision to allow an anti-settlement resolution to pass the United Nations Security Council
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Great heat has been generated by the recent American decision to abstain at the UN Security Council on Israel’s settlements in the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria, as some of us Jews call the area). I have strong mixed feelings about the matter except in one category:
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Middle East, USAArmy to set up initiatives to train and integrate minority groups, increase numbers of Arab-speaking soldiers By Times of Israel staff Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman visits the IDF Bedouin Desert Reconnaissance Battalion army base on July 26, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense) In recent months the Israel Defense Forces has stepped up efforts
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Middle EastRebuking the Obama administration’s non-veto, powerful lobby asks people to encourage their representatives to come out against the move By Eric Cortellessa American Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Shmuley Boteach speaks on December 28, 2016 as people take part in a protest calling on the US to ‘defund the UN’ in the wake of the December 23
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Friday, Dec. 30, called on President Hollande of France to cancel or, at least, postpone the international meeting on Middle East Peace scheduled for January 15, 2017 in Paris, calling it ill-conceived, poorly timed and damaging to prospects
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International, Middle EastIsraeli security forces prevent stabbing attack near Jerusalem (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli security forces at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem foiled a terrorist attack Friday morning. The terrorist was arrested and there were no injuries reported among the Israeli troops. According to available details, a Palestinian woman who arrived at the checkpoint on
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