Middle East

High school students challenged by the Technion to build Rube Goldberg machine

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)– Calling all high school students! The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology challenges the most innovative and inspired students to build their own Earth Day-themed Rube Goldberg Machines. The Challenge is a great opportunity for High School students interested in STEM to tap into their creative side and have some fun. Also, the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Preempting Knesset vote, Joint List MK forgoes immunity

Basel Ghattas paves way for likely arrest over accusation he smuggled phones to Palestinian security prisoners By Raoul Wootliff MK Basel Ghattas arrives at the Lahav 433 police investigation unit in Lod, December 20, 2016. (Roy Alima/Flash90) Joint (Arab) List MK Basel Ghattas announced Thursday he would waive his parliamentary immunity, hours before a planned

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Middle East

Jewish community brings Yazidis fleeing IS brutality to Canada

Winnipeg’s Operation Ezra privately sponsors refugee families who have been chased from their homes By Emily Rose Two Yazidi families being greeted by local volunteers after a privately sponsored mission called Operation Ezra brought them to Winnipeg, Manitoba on December 20, 2016 (Nafiya Naso) After suffering at the hands of Islamic State group militants and

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International, Middle East

What Trump, Friedman may auger for Israel, Palestine

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Trump’s choice of David Friedman as Ambassador to Israel appears to be an excellent decision. It has already brought howls of protest from people invested heavily in the Oslo and subsequent accords, the “peace process” and the concept of the United States as an “evenhanded” broker between Israelis

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

COP urges Obama to support Israel in next U.N. battle

NEW YORK (Press Release) …Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday, Dec. 21, called on the United States to “unequivocally affirm” that it would veto any one-sided condemnatory United Nations Security Council resolution on the Palestinian-Israeli issue if it is presented to the Council for a vote. Stephen M.

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International, Middle East, USA

Erekat threatens: PLO will cancel its ‘recognition of Israel’

Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), is threatening that the PLO will revoke all its previously signed agreements with Israel as well as its 1993 “recognition of Israel” if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Speaking at a

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Middle East, USA

UN warns Palestinian population will double to 9.5 million by 2050

New report says projection should be ‘wake-up call’ to Israel, international community as crises surrounding faltering economy, infrastructure, electricity persist, especially in Gaza By Fares Akram Palestinian children and teachers hold placards during a protest against the reduction of educational programs given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency at the Rafah refugee camp

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Middle East

Putin proclaims slain ambassador a hero of Russia

Moscow (dpa) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has posthumously honoured the ambassador to Turkey with the award of Hero of the Russian Federation for his “great contribution to conducting foreign policy,” the Kremlin said Wednesday. Ambassador Andrey Karlov, a career diplomat who had served for decades in North and South Korea before assuming the post

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International, Middle East

Hezbollah using US-supplied weapons in Syria, says Israeli official

Tel Aviv (dpa) – The radical Islamist Hezbollah group is fighting in war-torn Syria with armoured transport vehicles from the US intended for the Lebanese army, an Israeli army official said on Wednesday. The senior military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it was unclear how Hezbollah had managed to obtain the vehicles

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Middle East, USA