Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has renewed his efforts to convince opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog, head of the Zionist Union party, to join his coalition, Channel 2 News revealed Friday. According to the report, Netanyahu and Herzog met on Thursday in Caesarea for talks on the possibility of Zionist Union joining the coalition. Sources said […]
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Middle EastThe fans of Scottish football team Celtic defied Europe’s footballing body and police to make a political protest against their team’s Israeli opponents, Hapoel Beer Sheva FC, on Wednesday night, with hundreds flying the Palestinian flag. Sections of Celtic Park in Glasgow became a sea of green , red, black and white as the Scots
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly informed Egypt he is no longer opposed to participating in a regional or international peace summit in Cairo. According to a report on Israel Radio on Friday, the Palestinian leader told an Egyptian delegation in Ramallah that he was willing to attend such a conference, but stressed that
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Middle EastThe photographer who captured the haunting image of an injured 5-year-old Syrian boy that are shocking the world says he was in tears when he took the photo. His video footage and pictures show young Omran Daqneesh, sitting covered in dust with a streak of blood on one side of his face following an airstrike
LOS ANGELES — Actors gravitate toward passion projects, films they care deeply, even obsessively about, but the result is seldom as convincing as “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” a film of beautiful melancholy written, directed by and starring Natalie Portman. A Hebrew-language film based on the celebrated memoir by Israeli novelist Amos Oz, “Love
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MOSCOW (Press Release)– Limmud FSU, in partnership with the Shem Olam Institute and the Nativ organization, will host a rare photographic survey of the life of Elie Wiesel, from Aug. 24 until the end of September at the Israeli Cultural Center in Moscow. An array of VIPs will participate the opening of the exhibition, including the
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USACalifornia passes anti-BDS law (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli American Council marked a significant achievement this week when the California legislature passed a bill barring all state bodies, including universities, from maintaining ties with organizations that support anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions activities, Israel Hayom learned Thursday. The bill prohibits state bodies from investing
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Russia’s use of an Iranian air base to bomb rebel targets across Syria for the first time this week has allowed Moscow to show off sophisticated weaponry as it seeks to cement ties with Tehran and expand its influence in the Middle East. While the tactical effect was unclear, Russian President Vladimir Putin
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International, Middle EastA Palestinian girl whose bicycle was taken and broken by Border Police officers earlier this month received a new bicycle on Wednesday that had been donated by an Israeli man, peace activist Lonny Baskin told The Times of Israel. On August 2, two border guards were caught on film taking 8-year-old Anwar Burqan’s bicycle and
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Middle EastIstanbul (dpa) – A car bomb and a roadside explosion killed nine members of Turkey’s security forces on Thursday and injured more than 200, the Dogan news agency reported, as a wave of such attacks takes place across the restive south-east in recent days. The first attack, a car bomb in the eastern Elazig province
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Middle EastGermany’s Chancellor has said that refugees are not responsible for bringing terrorism to Germany. Angela Merkel says Islam is and will be part of German culture as long as it is practised in a way that respects the country’s constitution. More than a million migrants, fleeing war and poverty in conflict zones like the Middle
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International, Middle EastA Jewish woman was reunited this week with her family in the town of Patish in southern Israel after she fled northern Iraq, following threats by her husband to sell her into slavery with the ISIS terror organization. According to a report by Channel 2, the woman, a member of the Avrahami family, was married
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Middle EastPrior to his appointment to the Defense Ministry, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman boasted that if made Defense Minister, he would “crush the terror wave” and restore security to Israel. On Wednesday evening Liberman presented the first detailed plan towards that goal since assuming office in June. The outline follows a carrot-and-stick approach to terror
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Middle EastThe Obama administration has insisted that its $400 million transfer to Iran was unrelated to Tehran’s same-day freeing of Americans held by the Islamic republic. But detailed accounts of the payment from U.S. officials and others briefed on the operation who spoke to The Wall Street Journal tell a completely different story. Their accounts describe
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