As my traveling companion and I trudged up a hill on a sweltering summer’s day, we passed the kibbutz swimming pool, a dusty industrial zone, and a cowshed. We then walked past an abandoned social hall with weeds growing out of its cracks until we finally entered a modest stucco concert venue. Inside, a man
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re taught to honor principles, and there is merit to that principle. But they are also the traps in which disappear decency and good sense. Those who think and express themselves in absolutes and reject dispute from those who doubt the value of the principles being promoted risk a lonesome life
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastThe Ninth President Shimon Peres hosted the professional football player Eran Zahavi on Sunday, 28.8, at the Peres Center for Peace, on his first visit back to Israel since joining the Gwangju RP China football team. The ceremony was attended by Ninth President Shimon Peres, Eran Zahavi, and the Chinese Ambassador to Israel Zhan Yongxin.
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsIslamic State group fighters are reportedly eager for Republican Donald Trump to win the White House so that they can use his rhetoric against Muslims to win over new followers. Foreign Affairs magazine analyzed Twitter users’ comments and interviewed people who recruit for the militant group also known as ISIS and found they overwhelmingly believe
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Middle East, USAA female singer was asked to leave the stage at a government-sponsored music festival on an Israeli beach on Friday because she was wearing a bikini top. Concert organizers in the coastal city of Ashdod demanded that she button a shirt she was wearing over the top, and when she refused they ended the performance,
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Middle EastThere’s the Galilee, and then there’s the Western Galilee. For decades, Israelis and tourists have flocked to the towns, villages and cities surrounding the Sea of Galilee, to the tzimmer guest cabins and hotels of that northern region. But then the Western Galilee beckoned. Bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, it’s anchored by the port city
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Middle East, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Dr. Oded Brosh, a leading expert on nuclear politics, will serve as the Jewish Studies Program’s Visiting Israeli Professor in Fall 2016 and Spring 2017. Dr. Brosh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy and Director of M.A. Specialization in Diplomacy and Conflict Studies at the Lauder
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International, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USANearly two dozen doctors from around the world have penned an open letter to President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Angela Merkel other heads of state calling for an immediate stop to attacks on medical facilities and health professionals in Syria. The letter, which includes the signatures of two Nobel Prize winners, comes
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International, Middle East, USADonald Trump may like to criticize Hillary Clinton for her family’s acceptance of donations from foreign governments while serving as secretary of state but a Saudi prince is alleging that the Republican front-runner has taken foreign money himself to get out of tight binds. Prince Al-Waheed Bin Talal told Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper that he has
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Middle East, USAPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been warned that Hamas is about to win local elections in Judea and Samaria in a landslide and urged to cancel them, Israel”s Channel 2 News reported Friday. But despite those warnings, Abbas is determined to go through with the elections, according to the report. The local elections
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Middle EastIran on Friday denied American accusations it has delivered missiles to Yemeni rebels, retorting it was U.S. support for a Saudi-led coalition backing the government that had prolonged the conflict, AFP reported. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the comments by Secretary of State John Kerry on a visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday were
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Middle East, USAActions by Iranian vessels in several encounters with U.S. warships in the Gulf this week are cause for concern and increase risks of miscalculation, the White House said on Friday, according to Reuters. On Thursday, it was revealed that a U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship fired three warning shots at an Iranian ship that sailed
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Middle East, USAI was walking along a beach in northern Istanbul just recently, after the July 15 coup attempt, when I was jarred by a Cold War image. Wedged into the sandstone cliffs lining the beach were two abandoned gun emplacements, which silently spoke of how this golden stretch of sand was once part of NATO’s first
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International, Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu averted a brewing coalition crisis Friday morning, settling a government dispute over infrastructure work by Israel”s train system on Shabbat. The haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, had issued an ultimatum Thursday evening, demanding the Prime Minister restrict work by the state-owned rail company during the Jewish holy day. Giving
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