A 20-year old Arab man was charged with publishing anti-Semitic materials on his Facebook page. After the murder of 13-year child Hallel Yaffa Ariel in June the suspect praised the terror attack, writing that “The elimination of the Zionist child is essential.” Haled Ibrahim Muasi, a 20-year-old resident of the Arab town of Aablin, was
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Middle EastSome 200 Muslim pilgrims returning from the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia were stranded Friday at the Allenby border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan. Israel Radio said that the pilgrims were turned back due to a dispute over work hours between Israel’s Interior Ministry and its Administration of Border Crossings, Population and
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Middle EastFormer president Shimon Peres’s condition unchanged, Peres’s bureau said Saturday evening, as the Jewish Sabbath ended. He is in serious but stable condition at the ICU in Sheba Hospital, at Tel Hashomer, in central Israel. On Sunday morning, he will undergo a CT scan, as doctors assess how to proceed with his treatment. He is
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Middle EastThe United States will not be limited by the new $38 billion 10-year “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) in determining whether and how to increase security aid to Israel, Donald Trump”s Israel advisor told the Jewish Insider website on Thursday. “Under a Trump administration, the level of strategic and tactical cooperation between the two countries will
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Middle East, USAA group of sailors from the South, including some who had been expelled from Gush Katif, are a planning a flotilla in reaction to the “Women”s Flotilla” of left-wing activists to depart this week from Barcelona, Spain for Gaza. The pro-Arab flotilla includes two boats on which hundreds of kilograms of humanitarian aid are packed.
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Middle EastRepublican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who oversees the U.S. foreign aid budget, opined on Friday that Israel made a mistake by signing a new $38 billion security agreement with the Obama administration, The Associated Press reported. Graham said Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could have gotten a better deal if he had waited until President
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Middle East, USAThey say revenge is a dish best served cold. It’s clear that President Obama got his revenge on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Netanyahu was forced to hail the new memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Washington and Jerusalem as a historic achievement for Israel. It is nominally the largest commitment of aid
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Middle East, USARenowned human rights lawyer Amal Clooney criticized the United Nations for failing to act on behalf of the persecuted Yazidi minority group, thousands of whom remain enslaved by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). Clooney spoke during a ceremony for Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman who was kept as an ISIS sex
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International, Middle EastISTANBUL — The U.S. military acknowledged Saturday that it carried out a bombing run in eastern Syria that may have inadvertently killed 60 Syrian soldiers, prompting bitter denunciations from Damascus and its Russian allies, who accused the U.S. of siding with Islamic State. The Russian Defense Ministry said the attack, which took place after 5
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International, Middle East, USAFormer prime minister Ehud Barak tore into Benjamin Netanyahu and his current Israeli government in a cutting op-ed in The Washington Post on Thursday, accusing the prime minster of “reckless conduct” that has damaged Israel’s strategic position and threatens its very existence. Writing a day after US and Israeli officials signed a massive new military
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Middle East, USAA gold coin with a profile of the Roman Emperor Nero has been discovered near Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The coin dates to 56 CE, and says, “NERO CAESAR AVC IMP.” These coins are extremely rare, and are mostly found in private collections. Nero’s likeness testifies to the Roman presence in this area during that
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday sent a personal letter to Israel”s former President Shimon Peres, wishing him a speedy recovery from the stroke he suffered earlier this week. “Melania and I join well-wishers from around the globe in wishing you a swift recovery. You are among the last of a generation of leaders
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International, Middle East, USAThe Orthodox Jewish community of Berlin celebrated a welcoming of a Torah Scroll into the local synagogue at the beginning of the week. During the ceremony, led by Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, rabbi of the Jewish community of Berlin, torches were held by children of the local Jewish community and by Syrian refugee children. “We seek
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International, Middle EastIsraeli swimmer Inbal Pezaro won the country’s third bronze medal at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics on Wednesday, coming in third in the 200-meter freestyle swim. The 29-year-old veteran swimmer completed the race in 3:38.20 minutes. Pezaro, from Kibbutz Yizrael in Israel’s north, became paralyzed in her lower torso in childhood. On Sunday, Israeli rower
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