Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister and senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh denied on Friday reports that the Hamas regime in Gaza had opened negotiations with Israel over the return of the bodies of two IDF soldiers murdered in 2014. The bodies of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, who were killed by Hamas terrorists in 2014, […]
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Middle EastA tunnel collapse in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed a member of the terror group Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, it said, in the latest in a series of such incidents. The collapse occurred in the northern Gaza Strip, the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement, without providing further details. It identified the terrorist killed
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Several aspiring politicians who’d like to replace Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister are assuming/hoping that the present coalition won’t last its full term. Despite the recent addition of Avigdor Lieberman and his party in order to strengthen the government majority (from 61-59 to 66-54) things remain unstable. The issue over non-Orthodox
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Middle EastA defiant Iran declared on Saturday it will continue its ballistic missile program, even after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that the missile tests are not in the spirit of the country’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers, The Associated Press reports. “Iran will strongly continue its missile program based on its own defense and
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International, Middle East, USAAn elderly Jewish couple in Morocco were murdered in their Casablanca home last week. The killer then dismembered their bodies and disposed of the parts in different areas across the city. According to Moroccan media, the couple’s gardener was arrested by police and has confessed to the crime, which he said he committed due to
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Middle EastBUCHAREST, Romania (Press Release) — An American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation just completed a two-day trip to Romania. The group, led by AJC Chief Executive Officer David Harris, had in-depth meetings with President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos, Foreign Minister Lazar Comănescu, and the U.S. and Israeli Ambassadors. The delegation also visited the foreign and
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International, Middle East, USAExcavations at a late-Roman era synagogue in the Galilee have unearthed more staggering mosaics depicting biblical scenes, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced this week. The ongoing dig at the 5th-century CE Huqoq Synagogue has previously uncovered brilliant floors featuring people, beasts and heroes from antiquity never before seen in ancient Jewish
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe sole Ethiopia-born member of Israel’s parliament has said he was left “disappointed” by Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the Horn of Africa country, after the Israeli prime minister failed to solidify plans to reunite 9,000 Ethiopian Jews with their families in Israel. Avraham Neguise, a member of the Israeli Knesset from Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party,
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International, Middle EastSmoke, explosions, rubble, screams, blood. Down in the south of Israel, a residential building in Safed was hit by a missile with a half-ton warhead. There was no immediate body count, but videos surfaced on social media of people trapped in collapsed building and under cars. Not really, of course. This was a search and
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Middle EastBAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — The Islamic State group extremists attacked a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad, killing 30 people, just days after one of the deadliest ever bombings in the country, a security spokesman said Friday. The overnight attack on the Sayyid Mohammed shrine in Balad, which involved suicide bombers and gun and mortar fire,
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — the House of Representatives on Thursday night easily passed two amendments authored by U.S. Representative Peter J. Roskam to block the controversial sales of both Boeing and Airbus aircraft to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The amendments to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act passed by voice vote,
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Middle East, USANetanyahu held talks with Muslim leader during Africa tour (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he held a phone conversation with a leader of a Muslim nation in Africa during his four state tour of the continent this week. “There are a lot these contacts. He is not the only Muslim leader who
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Middle East“The fiercest arguments we have in parliament are over Israel.” These words, spoken by the chairman of the Dutch Foreign Affairs Committee, startled me. But they failed to faze the other committee members from the both the left and right. On the contrary, they all readily agreed. In the end, only I displayed surprise. “Let
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Africa was in Israeli headlines this week, with the emphasis on the 40th anniversary of Entebbe and the Prime Minister’s visits to Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia. It was more bombast than substance, and not all of the bombast positive. Uganda’s President repeatedly referred to the ties between his country
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