Middle East

Report: Assassination attempt on Netanyahu thwarted

According to a report in the Kuwaiti-based Al Jarida newspaper, Kenyan security forces foiled an attack targeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s convoy during his visit to Kenya earlier this week. A senior security official told the paper that Kenyan police altered the convoy’s route just before its departure from the Nairobi airport. The change was […]

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International, Middle East

Rejecting US criticism, PM denies settlements are preventing peace

KIGALI, Rwanda — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected international criticism of his recent decision to build additional housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The US State Department, the UN and the European Union have harshly criticized those plans, which were announced after two Israelis — a 13-year-old girl and a father-of-10 —

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International, Middle East, USA

Despite heckles, pluralistic services at Western Wall pass ‘quietly’

Conservative and Reform Jews held a mixed-gender egalitarian service at the Western Wall plaza on Thursday amid jeering from a handful of protesters but few other disturbances. The organizers said they complied with an attorney general order not to pray at the site and held a singing and dancing service instead. “It passed totally quietly,”

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Rejecting Rabbi Lookstein, who converted Ivanka Trump, ‘delegitimizes’ Israel, says Sharansky at protest

Strains of the Israeli national anthem “Hatikvah” overpowered the sounds of morning rush hour as some 200 protesters demonstrated outside the Supreme Rabbinical Court at the entrance to Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. The protest was organized by former students of New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the former principal of the Ramaz High School and spiritual

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

Dad of Slain Arab Asks Court to Destroy Killers’ Homes

The parents of a Palestinian teenager beaten and burned to death in Jerusalem two years ago have petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice for the demolition of his three Jewish killers’ homes. On July 2, 2014, three Jewish men, led by 31-year-old Yosef Haim Ben-David, kidnapped 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir from an East Jerusalem neighborhood.

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Middle East

Tel Aviv study: Computer regimen can help prevent PTSD

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Computerized attention training may prevent the flare-up of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers exposed to combat, according to a new study from researchers at Tel Aviv University. Attention bias modification training (ABMT) — a computerized intervention — was used to help soldiers attend to pre-combat threats, reducing the risk of

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Haifa study learns how tree tobacco tricks sunbirds

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — What does a plant whose nectar is bitter do to make pollinators return to visit its flowers and thereby ensure the plant’s continued propagation? Apparently it may cause its pollinators to forget the bitter taste of the nectar. A new study by Dr. Shai Markman from the Department of Biology

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Online auction of Judaica set for July 14

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– The Jewish Jerusalem Fine Art Store, http://www.tjjfineartstore.com, will be holding an art auction, featuring the works of eight outstanding Jewish artists, at the Leonardo Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem on July 14, 2016. Proceeds of the auction will benefit Deaf youth in Israel through the International Young Israel Movement (IYIM) Judaic Heritage program

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Middle East Roundup: July 7, 2016

Germany says Iran violating UN missile resolutions (JNS.org) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Iran is violating United Nations Security Council regulations concerning its ballistic missile program. During remarks to the German Bundestag, Merkel said that Iran “continued unabated to develop its rocket program in conflict with the relevant provisions of the UN Security Council,”

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Middle East

Trump says he admired Saddam Hussein only for how he killed terrorists

Donald Trump defended his praise of Saddam Hussein at an Ohio rally where he spent nearly an hour heaping scorn on television networks for the way they have covered his presidential campaign. “I don’t love Saddam Hussein,” Trump said of the late Iraqi dictator on Wednesday. “I hate Saddam Hussein. But he was damn good

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Middle East, USA