Malaysia has decided it would rather not host the 67th FIFA Congress next year, as it means hosting an Israeli delegation as part of it. Malaysia was scheduled to host the Congress in its capital city of Kuala Lumpur on May 11-12, 2017. It refused to issue visas to Israeli delegates, and therefore had to
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsNew photos released over the weekend show Islamic State forces fleeing the Syrian city of Manbij last week, as they surround themselves with human shields to prevent air strikes on the convoy. IS fighters had controlled the key city in northern Syria since early 2014, and the city had become a vital waypoint for the
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Middle EastHezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah denied on Friday that he has been hiding in an underground bunker for the past decade, since the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Speaking to Hezbollah”s television network, Al-Manar, Nasrallah also said that his group would defeat Israel if it were to start another war. “After the war I visited the Bekaa
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Middle EastThe Turkish parliament has ratified a deal made earlier this year between Turkey and Israel ending their six-year long freeze in relations. Officially referred to as the Mavi Marmara Compensation Bill, it normalises ties that were broken when 10 Turks died after Israeli security forces stormed a ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists in 2010. “I don’t
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Middle EastThe Foreign Ministry’s director general, Dore Gold, on Thursday banned all Israeli diplomats in Israel and abroad from holding contacts with Israeli journalists, in the wake of a Haaretz report that Arab states would not seek a vote regarding Israel’s nuclear arms at next month’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting in Vienna. Speaking on
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Middle EastWorld-renowned Armenian artist Marie Balian spent months preparing an original mural as a gift for the people of Jerusalem. Six meters tall and four meters wide, her fabulous artwork contains close to 1,000 colored tiles. Balian’s unique method involved sketching in charcoal on the tiles, designing and painting them and then burning them in the
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and FoodIstanbul (dpa) – Turkey’s prime minister said Saturday he wants the United States to place Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed for plotting a coup, under “temporary arrest,” ahead of a visit by Vice President Joe Biden next week. Gulen, a one-time ally turned rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denies the charges that he
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Middle East, USAPrime 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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