The U.S. accepted more than 2,300 Syrian refugees in June alone, sending the fiscal year total soaring past the 5,000 mark and putting the government on track to surpass President Obama’s goal of 10,000 by the end of September, but raising questions about screening out potential terrorists. June’s numbers set a monthly record for the […]
By Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — One day not perhaps not far off, there will be another war between Israel and Hizballah, the Iranian terrorist proxy in Lebanon. One might assume that any future clash will be similar to past ones –– Israel struck by disruptive and occasionally lethal rocket attacks, and
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By Chana Miller PETACH TIKVAH, Israel – “Good morning” Simple words. We say them every day. Most people are hardly aware of the greeting by neighbors or fellow workers. But for a small group of women at Ezer Mizion, the words mean everything. They represent the Good Morning program, a visual art workshop for cancer
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIDF adopts new mobile phone for transferring classified information (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) After more than a decade in which the Mountain Rose served as the secure operational mobile network of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Israeli military is poised to adopt a new device from Motorola that will allow the transfer of
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By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada— It is a short hour and a half plane ride by EL Al from Tel Aviv to Cairo as we, four Calgarians, in the year 2010, leave the Israel part of our trip and embark upon our Egyptian adventure. To sail down the Nile, the longest river in the
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International, Middle EastCanada has lodged a formal complaint with the Palestinian Authority over its chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s recent accusations against Israel, The National Post reported. The move came after Abbas alleged in a speech to the European Parliament in Brussels last week that Israeli rabbis had plotted to murder Palestinians by poisoning their wells. “Just a week
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International, Middle EastTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday night blasted the IHH organization which was behind the May 2010 flotilla to Gaza that sparked the crisis between Israel and Turkey. “Did you ask me before you set sail? Did you ask my permission,” Erdogan said at Wednesday’s iftar meal, according to Haaretz. The attack came after
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Middle EastIsrael”s Mission to the United Nations on Wednesday called for the return of United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) peacekeepers to the Israel-Syrian border in the Golan Heights, amid fears Iran and the ISIS terror group are looking to gain a foothold on the Syrian side of the prized strategic area. The UNDOF force, which
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — The Anti-Defamation League commended the Democratic National Convention’s draft party platform Wednesday for opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel and supporting America’s commitment to Israel’s security and a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The draft platform rightly frames a negotiated two state solution as in the interests
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Middle East, USAThousands of mourners have gathered in the Judean town of Kiryat Arba near Hevron on Thursday afternoon, for the funeral of Hallel-Yaffa Ariel, the 13-year-old girl murdered in her sleep by an Arab terrorist. The funeral procession began with eulogies outside the Ariel family home in the Ramat Mamre “Charsina” neighborhood at the edge of
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Middle EastBritain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is in hot water again, this time over a speech in which he appeared to compare Israel to the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group. Ironically, Corbyn’s controversial remarks were made in an address concerning the party’s recent anti-Semitism saga, over which dozens of politicians were suspended for anti-Semitic
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International, Middle EastPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman held a security briefing following today’s terror attack in Kiryat Arba. The two approved a series of security measures following the murderous attack, including a lock-down on the village of Bani Na’im, where the terrorist was from. All work permits from members of the murderer’s clan
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Middle EastTurkey”s state-run news agency reported that police have detained at least 22 people in connection to the terror attack on Ataturk Airport. Officials identified three as ISIS fighters, originally from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Dagestan, a region in the south of Russia. Dagestan has been suffering from guerrila terror since 2000. All three areas are predominantly
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Middle EastInternational condolences and support flooded in in the wake of Hallel Uriel’s murder this morning. Hallel Uriel was stabbed multiple times in her bed by a 17 year-old terrorist, who was shot at the scene of the crime by security personnel. The US State Department declared, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the outrageous
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