A decade after being critically wounded in the second Lebanon war, Yonatan Levin visited President Reuven Rivlin at his residence today (Monday). Levin had contacted the President through his caregivers, speaking of his admiration for the President and his values, and saying that he’d be glad to come for a visit. The President happily greeted […]
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Middle EastBy Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO — It took just one “yold” driving a truck with a bomb into a crowd to do atrocious things, as happened last week in Nice, France. (Note: The word “yold” is specifically chosen since it is a Yiddish derogatory term loosely translated as “jerk.” (If I have hurt the “yold’s”
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International, Middle East, USARussian President Vladimir Putin phoned Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to voice his support following an attempted armed coup by a faction of the Turkish military over the weekend, the Kremlin reported. Putin and Erdogan put a seven-month-long rift behind them last month, when the Turkish leader apologised for his forces downing a Russian jet
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International, Middle EastTurkey has always had a little bit of a problem with the truth. For decades, the Turkish government has denied that it executed the first real genocide in modern times when it eliminated the Christian Armenian population that had been living within the territories of the Ottoman Empire. According to Samantha Power in her magisterial
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International, Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (WJC) –Hours before the lethal terrorist outrage in Nice, in a speech to the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, the European Commission’s coordinator on combating anti-Semitism, Katharina von Schnurbein, said that although there had been a spike of anti-Semitic incidents recently, especially in France, this
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International, Middle EastIt should come as little surprise that a failed coup in Israel’s new best friend Turkey over the weekend dominates the print media landscape in Hebrew Sunday morning, but what’s less obvious is that all three would essentially come away with the same story: The coup was doomed to fail and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Middle EastHundreds of people gathered at the Netzer Hazani synagogue Monday afternoon for the funeral of 20-year-old IDF Sergeant Shlomo Rindenow, a lone soldier from the US who died in a hand grenade explosion Sunday. Rindenow was killed along with First Sergeant Hussam Tapesh, who was buried earlier Sunday in his hometown of Beit Jan in
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Middle EastTurkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, the former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose followers Turkey blames for this weekend’s failed coup, said on Sunday that he would obey any extradition ruling from the United States. At the same time, reported Reuters, he repeated his previous assertions that Erdogan had staged the putsch. “I am not
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Middle East, USAPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday urged the African Union member states and its officials to support the French initiative to organize an international peace conference aimed at reaching a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Ma’an news agency reports. In a speech at the African Union”s 27th summit held in Kigali, Rwanda,
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International, Middle EastTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke down in tears at the funeral for his former campaign manager and others, killed in the violence during the foiled military coup attempted by a rogue group of soldiers, Turkish news agency Sozcu reports. A total of 265 people died during the attempted coup, 161 of whom were civilians
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Middle EastTurkey has arrested more than 6,000 during purges of the army and judiciary following the failed coup attempt over the weekend. More than 290 people were killed and some 1,400 wounded in the abortive uprising Friday night and Saturday. While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed an exiled Muslim cleric for inspiring the attempted overthrow
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Middle EastTwo people have been injured in a stabbing attack at El-Aroub Junction in the Gush Etzion region near Hevron. The victims are both Israeli men in their twenties, and were lightly wounded in the attack. Magen David Adom paramedics are on the scene, as are security forces. The terrorist was shot and seriously injured by
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Middle EastNetanyahu slams PA for condemning terror in France while encouraging it in Israel (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) of encouraging terrorism in Israel while condemning terrorism abroad. Speaking at the start of Israel’s weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that “like Israel, the Palestinian Authority extended condemnations and condolences”
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The naming of Boris Johnson as Britain’s Foreign Minister set off in his home country a storm of name-calling and hand-wringing that approximates the Democrat reaction to Donald Trump. Without wading into British politics, there is one specific incident that the Daily Mail called an impolitic “gaffe” that should be
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