Middle East

Fatah responds to Netanyahu: We’re proud of Barghouti

Tawfik Tirawi, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and former head of the Palestinian Authority intelligence services, on Tuesday evening dismissed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu”s condemnation of Fatah over its election of archterrorist Marwan Barghouti to its Central Committee. Tirawi said that the Palestinians are proud of Barghouti for being “a leader and a […]

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Middle East

Routine work calms during times of high stress

HAIFA (Press Release) — Work routine has a calming power during times of extreme stress, such as war, researchers at the University of Haifa have concluded. | Adhering to work routine during the Second Lebanon War (2006) contributed to a reduction in stress. The strongest effect was found among women and, surprisingly, among people who

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

‘Hate Spaces’ reveals toxic campus bigotry

  By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — On a November night in 2004, almost four hundred students at Columbia University sat crowded into the theater of the University’s Lerner Hall to watch a troubling 25-minute film that was finally being released to the public, “Columbia Unbecoming,” produced by Dr. Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser.

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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Interior Minister: No recognition for Reform Movement

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri addressed a special conference of 100 Sephardic rabbis from around the world in the Knesset Tuesday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein also participated in the conference. Deri criticized the Reform Movement during his speech. “I am asked, ‘Why fight for Jewish causes? Why don’t you make a

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

What are Obama’s intentions toward Israel?

By Edwin Black   Anxiety continues to roil through the pro-Israel world over a possible last-minute political move by the Obama administration that could permanently alter the Israeli-Palestinian geo-political landscape. Forty-eight hours after the November 8 election, I flew to South Florida for a series of lectures and briefings organized by StandWithUs, NOVA Southeast University

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Edwin Black, International, Middle East, USA

Israeli map reveals thousands of Hezbollah positions along border

Graphic released by army demonstrates Israeli intel capabilities, may point to potential targets in future conflict By Times of Israel staff View of Lebanon as seen from the Israeli side of the border, November 10, 2016. (Doron Horowitz/FLASH90) The Israeli military on Tuesday posted a map of southern Lebanon to Twitter, on which it marked

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Middle East

Netanyahu family affairs and politics are closely watched

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s interests, not personalities that is likely to determine what happens.. There may be no better demonstration than the persona and family of Benyamin Netanyahu and the political career of Israel’s Prime Minister. Just last week Sara spent 12 hours being questioned by the police about the management of the

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Netanyahu to Discuss ‘Bad’ Iran Deal With Trump

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the country’s government is acting as it wishes in its settlement policy in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, and that any pressure from the U.S. administration does not change this. Addressing a Washington conference via videolink from Jerusalem, Netanyahu, when asked if the U.S. election

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Middle East, USA

Netanyahu blasts Fatah for electing Barghouti to senior post

PM says appointing jailed terrorist to Central Committee ‘radicalizes the culture of incitement and terrorism’ By Times of Israel staff File photo: Marwan Barghouti appears in a Jerusalem court, January 25, 2012. (Flash90) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday lashed out at the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party, Fatah, for electing a jailed terrorist to a

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Middle East

Netanyahu’s real rival

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Is it an extraordinarily thick skin, an incurable addiction to power, or the conviction of being the one and only leader of the State of Israel in our time – or perhaps all this and much else – that keeps Binyamin Netanyahu in power as the longest consecutively serving

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Middle East, USA