Despite recent polls showing Yair Lapid”s Yesh Atid party leading the Likud, voters still prefer incumbent Prime Minister Binymain Netanyahu over the former journalist and son of the late Justice Minister, Tommy Lapid. According to a Geocartography poll published by Channel 20, a plurality of Israelis believe Netanyahu is the most qualified to lead the […]
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Middle EastIsraeli Paralympic rower Moran Samuel won her country’s first medal at the 2016 Games, taking third place in women’s 1000-meter single sculls three days into the competition in Rio. The gold medal went to Great Britain’s Rachel Morris, who set a new Paralympic record time of 5:13.69. China’s Lili Wang took silver with 5:16.65. Samuel’s
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsTwo Israeli men suspected of pocketing over $600,000by running a major international hacking operation were arrested by police in Israel last week following a tip-off by the FBI. Itay Huri and Yarden Bidani, both 18, were released on bail to their homes in central Israel on Thursday, the financial daily The Marker reported over the
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Middle East, USAWhen bombs began falling on Donetsk two years ago, local businessman Nikolay Liskov barely had time to pack up his car and drive away with his wife, who was seven months pregnant. He left behind his home and his business, and even his winter clothes. Earlier that day, he was almost executed at a military
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International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The latest video that the office of Prime Minister Netanyahu has produced with him as the star is now all over the social media and has compelled the U.S. Administration to react strongly against it. The Americans assume that Netanyahu`s accusation that those who want to remove the Jewish
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An examination of Panim el Panim – Face to Face, with Love By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM – There is an expression in Hebrew used colloquially, “Wars of the Jews,” and it’s not referring to the seven volumes written by the historian Josephus in the first century of the modern era. Rather, it’s
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Toby Klein GreenwaldThe Gaza Strip, a 365 squared km sliver of Palestinian territory nestled, or more normally squeezed between Israel and Egypt has been out of the news this summer. And that should prompt a sigh of relief. It can also be considered something of a surprise. The regularity of flare-ups between Israel and Hamas, leading to
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International, Middle EastThe latest The Syrian government has reportedly given its assent to the US-Russia agreement signed in Geneva. The agreement was brokered by Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State, John Kerry. #BREAKING Syria government ‘approves’ US-Russia truce deal: state media— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 10, 2016 Meanwhile, fighting is reportedly raging
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International, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — In my most recent column, “Thinking Outside the Two – State Box” I pointed out the fundamental lack of overlap between the incompatible demands insisted on by Israelis and Palestinians. Without substantial agreement between the two parties, there is no possibility to reach a treaty for a viable
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Middle East, Steve KramerWashington on Friday fumed at comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video released online in which he accused the Palestinians of advocating ethnic cleansing of the Jewish population in the West Bank. US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters the administration is “engaging in direct conversations with the Israeli government” about
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Middle East, USAMoments of sudden clarity in political developments can strike anywhere and at any time, as I experienced in relation to the Palestine-Israel conflict while riding the F-train subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan Tuesday morning. Three separate stories I read in the press during that subway ride explain the sudden clarity I experienced on this complex
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump says he wants to end long U.S. military entanglements. But he has also repeatedly said the U.S. should have seized Iraq’s oil after the 2003 invasion — an undertaking that would have been illegal, required decades of occupation by hundreds of thousands of troops, increased the risk of casualties and probably
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By Jerry Klinger It‘s an unusual statement, “He did what no Jew could do.” Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel coined it. She coined it to recognize the special service of Rev. John Stanley Grauel to Israel. Rev. Grauel served as a secret Haganah Agent on the famed Holocaust Refugee ship the Exodus. Yet, Meir’s
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, USATEL AVIV, Israel — The Palestinian Supreme Court indefinitely postponed municipal elections scheduled for Oct. 8, a surprise move that reflects infighting in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, tension between Fatah and Islamic militants from Hamas and rising instability in Palestinian cities. The state-run WAFA news agency on Thursday reported that the high
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