Members of the Jewish community of Yemen who were arrested earlier this year over the spiriting of a Torah scroll to Israel along with the recent aliyah of Yemenite Jews have all been released from custody. The news was reported to Deputy Minister for Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara (Likud) by Yemenite olim who were part […]
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Middle EastPalestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas called on the UN Security Council on Wednesday to reject a key report by the diplomatic Quartet that condemned both Israeli building in Judea and Samaria, and Palestinian incitement to violence. The report published last Friday by the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States was criticised
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International, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— NASA’s Juno spacecraft went into orbit around Jupiter on July 4 after a five-year trip covering nearly 2 billion miles in outer space — and Prof. Ravit Helled of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Geosciences played a major role in getting it there. “It’s really fun and exciting! It’s great to
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Middle East, USADonald Trump has come under fire from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign for praising Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq who was captured by U.S. forces in 2003 and executed by the Iraqi government in 2006. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, during a Tuesday rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, praised the late Iraqi
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Middle East, USASir John Chilcot’s report into the Iraq war was a long time coming. But his dispassionate analysis of events leading up to the war and its aftermath have been well worth waiting for. Chilcot’s criticisms are penetrating and, in some cases, devastating. Most of the facts were known one way or another, but in drawing
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International, Middle EastThe most audacious speech Tony Blair ever made as Britain’s prime minister was in Chicago in April 1999, before he knew that George W. Bush would become U.S. president and long before 9/11 changed the course of his premiership. The doctrine of liberal intervention that he laid out became the siren song that led him
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International, Middle East, USAAfter more than a decade of war in Iraq, the country’s religious and ethnic minority groups are on the verge of disappearing, according to a new report. The report documents how several thousand people belonging to minority communities in Iraq have been abducted, maimed or murdered since June 2014, when the Islamic State (ISIS) militant
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Middle EastSevgi Akarçeşme made sure she arrived at work early on the day her Istanbul office was swarmed by riot police. “[President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan had made it clear he was going after us,” says the former editor of Today’s Zaman, an English-language newspaper that had been highly critical of Turkey’s president and his ruling Justice
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Middle EastThe Syrian military declared a three-day ceasefire across the country on Wednesday in concurrence with the start of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holidays at the end of Ramadan, according to state media. The truce is to end at midnight on Friday in what the military called a “regime of calm” that began from 01:00am local
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Middle EastIn Rwanda, Netanyahu notes similarities between Holocaust and country’s genocide (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Rwanda on Wednesday where he toured a memorial to the more than 800,000 victims of the country’s 1994 genocide. “We are deeply moved by this memorial to the victims of one of history’s greatest crimes and
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Middle EastIsraeli Remedies for a Longer Life By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — Israelis have the 8th longest life-expectancy in world according to the latest World Health Organization figures. Israeli medical treatments and devices are extending lives all over the world. Here are some of the recent Israeli news items relating just to the areas of
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Despite frequent protestations to the contrary (perhaps more often by the Americans than by the Israelis) that the relationship between the United States and the Jewish state is stronger than ever, the general impression here is different. This may be due to the widespread impression that President Obama and
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International, Middle East, USAGONDAR, Ethiopia — When the congregation at the HaTikvah Synagogue in this northern Ethiopian town rises to sing Israel’s national anthem at the end of every service, the mournful melody is transformed into a rousing chant, a determined shout to the heavens — and to the doors of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset — that their
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International, Middle EastOn its own initiative, the Magic Sunrise Hotel in Eilat, part of the Fattal Hotel Management Ltd. chain, is calling Jewish customers scheduled to vacation at the hotel this weekend, informing them that there will be “many Arabs” in the hotel on the weekend, and suggesting that they cancel or postpone their vacation at no
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